Devotion Library: Chalisa, Mantra and Vrat Texts with Meaning and Sources

Aarti

• Hanuman Aarti: Aarti Kije Hanuman Lala Ki The best-known Hanuman aarti, usually sung after the Hanuman Chalisa.
• Ganesh Aarti: Ganpati Ki Seva Mangal Meva A traditional Ganesh aarti sung in North India, especially Rajasthan.
• Lakshmi Aarti: Jai Lakshmi Mata The aarti of Goddess Lakshmi, sung at the Diwali Lakshmi puja and on Fridays.
• Shiv Aarti: Jai Shiv Omkara The Shiva aarti sung on Mondays, Pradosh and Shivaratri.
• Aarti Jnanaraja (Aarti of Sant Jnaneshwar) The well-known Marathi aarti of Sant Jnaneshwar (Jnanadeva).
• Kabir's Aarti: Aisi Arati Tribhuvan Tarai A nirguna aarti by Sant Kabir in which the lamp, flowers and bell become inner practices: the senses are the flowers, knowledge is the lamp, the sound of the Word is the bell, and the aarti is offered to the formless, stainless God (Niranjan).
• Kakad Aarti of Sant Namdev (Uthoniya Pratahkali) An abhang for the dawn (Kakad) aarti of Vitthal of Pandharpur, whose closing line carries Sant Namdev's name, "Nama".
• Aarti: Om Jai Jagdish Hare The aarti that closes almost every puja in North India.
• Vitthal Kakad Aarti (Phalale Bhagya Majhe) A Kakad aarti (sung at dawn) from the Marathi Varkari tradition.

Vrat

• Ekadashi Vrat According to the Narada Purana, the Ekadashi vow is dear to Vishnu, and one should not eat on the Ekadashi of either fortnight (Shukla or Krishna).
• Pradosh Vrat Pradosh is the evening of the trayodashi (13th) tithi.
• Sankashti Chaturthi Sankashti Chaturthi is Ganesha's observance on the Chaturthi of the waning (Krishna) fortnight.

Mantra

• Gayatri Mantra Rigveda 3.62.10, a prayer to the god Savitr to inspire our understanding.
• Mahamrityunjaya Mantra Rigveda 7.59.12, addressed to Rudra (Tryambaka), asking release from the bond of death.

Chalisa

• Shri Hanuman Chalisa Tulsidas's hymn of forty chaupais praising Hanuman's strength, wisdom and devotion to Rama, framed by opening and closing dohas.

Stotra

• Kanda Sashti Kavacham (excerpt) A Tamil kavacham (protective hymn) to Lord Murugan (Skanda, Kartikeya), sung especially on Skanda Sashti and daily in many Tamil homes.

Pooja

• Maha Shivaratri Puja In the Koti Rudra Samhita of the Shiva Purana (ch.
• Satyanarayan Puja In the Pratisarga Parva of the Bhavishya Purana, Lord Vishnu tells Narada that in the Kali age Satyanarayana gives visible fruit, and describes his worship: a morning bath and vow; at dusk, a place decorated with banana stems and five kalashas, a Shaligram bathed in panchamrita, a prasada of wheat flour, chanting of the mantra, hearing the story and sharing out the prasada.

Katha

• Pradosh Vrat Katha The story from the Pradosh-mahatmya of the Skanda Purana: King Satyaratha of Vidarbha is killed in battle, and his queen gives birth to a son in the wilderness before a crocodile seizes her.
• Satyanarayan Vrat Katha In the Bhavishya Purana, Suta tells Shaunaka and the other sages the story of the Satyanarayana vow.
• Shivaratri Vrat Katha In the Shiva Purana, Suta tells the sages the story of Gurudruha, a Bhil hunter.

Texts without a verifiable public-domain edition are not included.