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Vitthal Kakad Aarti (Phalale Bhagya Majhe)

Vitthal Kakad Aarti (Phalale Bhagya Majhe): Text, Transliteration and Meaning

Aarti · 6 verses · original in Marathi

About Vitthal Kakad Aarti (Phalale Bhagya Majhe)

A Kakad aarti (sung at dawn) from the Marathi Varkari tradition. The devotee tells how, by the grace of the Sadguru, he saw Pandharpur and Vitthal within himself, how his sense of "I" fell away, and how an aarti of Vitthal blazed inside him so bright that the sun and moon faded in it.

Text: Nivritti (the name in the closing line) (pre-1911 (in the book's first edition))

Meanings and summaries are editorial, written for this library from the cited edition.

Text and meaning

Stanza 1

फळलें भाग्य माझें । धन्य झालों संसारीं । सद्गुरु भेटले हो । त्यानीं धरियेलें करीं । पश्चिमे चालवीलें । आत्मा तेथें निर्धारी । त्रिकुटावरी नांदे | देखियेली पंढरी ॥ १॥

phaḷaleṃ bhāgya mājheṃ | dhanya jhāloṃ saṃsārīṃ | sadguru bheṭale ho | tyānīṃ dhariyeleṃ karīṃ | paścime cālavīleṃ | ātmā tetheṃ nirdhārī | trikuṭāvarī nāṃde | dekhiyelī paṃḍharī || 1||

My fortune has borne fruit; I am blessed in this worldly life. I met the Sadguru, and he took me by the hand. He led me along the western path (the inner path of yoga), where the Self surely is. Dwelling at Trikuta (the point between the brows), I saw Pandhari.

Source: Nityanemavali (comp. R. D. Ranade), 12th ed., Academy of Comparative Philosophy and Religion, Belgaum, 1987, p. 5 (PDF p. 41), Marathi Wikisource, revision 224157, Kakad aarti no. 5, stanza 1 (book p. 5)

Refrain

तें सुख काय सांगूं । वाचें बोलता नये । आरतीचेनि योगें । गेलें मीपण माये ॥ धृ०॥

teṃ sukha kāya sāṃgūṃ | vāceṃ bolatā naye | āratīceni yogeṃ | geleṃ mīpaṇa māye || dhṛ0||

How can I describe that joy? Words cannot tell it. Through this aarti, mother, my sense of "I" has gone.

Stanza 2

राउळामाजीं जातां । राहे देह-अवस्था | मन हें उन्मन झालें । नसे बद्धतेची वार्ता । हेंतु हा मावळला | शब्दा आली निःशब्द्वता | तटस्थ होउनि ठेलें । निजरूप पाहतां ॥२॥

rāuḷāmājīṃ jātāṃ | rāhe deha-avasthā | mana heṃ unmana jhāleṃ | nase baddhatecī vārtā | heṃtu hā māvaḷalā | śabdā ālī niḥśabdvatā | taṭastha houni ṭheleṃ | nijarūpa pāhatāṃ ||2||

As I went into the temple, awareness of the body stopped. The mind passed beyond mind; there was no more talk of bondage. Every motive set like the sun, words fell into silence; seeing my true form, I stood still.

Stanza 3

त्रिगुण गुण बाई । पूर्ण उजळल्या वाती । नवलाव अविनाश । न जाये स्वयंज्योती । लावितां लक्ष तेथें । हालूं विसरलीं पातीं । नातुडे मन माझें । न कळे दिवसराती ॥३॥

triguṇa guṇa bāī | pūrṇa ujaḷalyā vātī | navalāva avināśa | na jāye svayaṃjyotī | lāvitāṃ lakṣa tetheṃ | hālūṃ visaralīṃ pātīṃ | nātuḍe mana mājheṃ | na kaḷe divasarātī ||3||

Friend, the three gunas became wicks and blazed in full. This wondrous, undying, self-lit flame does not go out. Fixing my attention there, my eyelids forgot to blink; my mind cannot be caught, and I no longer know day from night.

Source: Nityanemavali (comp. R. D. Ranade), 12th ed., Academy of Comparative Philosophy and Religion, Belgaum, 1987, p. 6 (PDF p. 42), Marathi Wikisource, revision 225152, Kakad aarti no. 5, stanza 3 (book p. 6)

Stanza 4

आरती विठ्ठलाची । पूर्ण उजळली अंतरीं । प्रकाश थोर झाला । सांठवेना अंबरीं । रविशशि मावळले । तया तेजामाझारीं । वाजतीं दिव्यवाद्ये । अनहत गजरीं ॥४॥

āratī viṭhṭhalācī | pūrṇa ujaḷalī aṃtarīṃ | prakāśa thora jhālā | sāṃṭhavenā aṃbarīṃ | raviśaśi māvaḷale | tayā tejāmājhārīṃ | vājatīṃ divyavādye | anahata gajarīṃ ||4||

The aarti of Vitthal blazed fully within. So great a light arose that the sky could not hold it. The sun and moon set within that radiance, and divine instruments played in the roar of the unstruck sound (anahata).

Stanza 5

आनंदसागरांत । प्रेमें बुडी दिधली । लाधलें सौख्य मोठें । नये बोलतां बोलीं सद्गुरूचेनि संगें । ऐसी आरती केली । निवृत्ति आनंदांत । तेथें वृत्ति निमाली ॥५॥

ānaṃdasāgarāṃta | premeṃ buḍī didhalī | lādhaleṃ saukhya moṭheṃ | naye bolatāṃ bolīṃ sadgurūceni saṃgeṃ | aisī āratī kelī | nivṛtti ānaṃdāṃta | tetheṃ vṛtti nimālī ||5||

With love I plunged into the ocean of bliss and found a happiness too great to put into words. In the company of the Sadguru such an aarti was performed. Nivritti is in bliss; there every movement of the mind came to rest.

Sources and licence

Nityanemavali (comp. R. D. Ranade), 12th ed., Academy of Comparative Philosophy and Religion, Belgaum, 1987, p. 5 (PDF p. 41), Marathi Wikisource, revision 224157. CC BY-SA 4.0 (edition relicensed by its publisher, Wikimedia VRT ticket 2023060210002841; Marathi Wikisource transcription)
Nityanemavali (comp. R. D. Ranade), 12th ed., Academy of Comparative Philosophy and Religion, Belgaum, 1987, p. 6 (PDF p. 42), Marathi Wikisource, revision 225152. CC BY-SA 4.0 (edition relicensed by its publisher, Wikimedia VRT ticket 2023060210002841; Marathi Wikisource transcription)

The text is copied character for character from the Marathi Wikisource transcription of "Nityanemavali" (compiled by Gurudev R. D. Ranade; 12th edition, 1987, Academy of Comparative Philosophy and Religion, Belgaum), which its publisher has released under CC BY-SA 4.0. The printed spelling is kept as is. This is the book's Kakad aarti no. 5 (pp. 5–6); the first-edition preface (1911) shows the Kakad aarti was in the book from the start. The book names no author; the closing line contains the name "Nivritti". The printed lines are kept; only the alignment spaces before stanza numbers are reduced to one. Spellings such as "हेंतु" and "निःशब्द्वता" are the printed text's. The closing name-chant "विठ्ठल, विठ्ठल..." is not included. IAST is generated by a fixed rule and is not a guide to Marathi pronunciation.