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Sudarshana Om Jai Jagdish Hare Aarti: four-armed Lord Vishnu with Lakshmi on a lotus as a family performs the evening aarti
The evening aarti before Vishnu and Lakshmi
Mantra · Shardha Ram Phillauri's c.1870 Hindi aarti to Vishnu as Jagadisha

Om Jai Jagdish Hare Aarti

ॐ जय जगदीश हरे, स्वामी जय जगदीश हरे । भक्त जनों के संकट, क्षण में दूर करे ॥

Also known as Om Jai Jagadish Hare

In Devanagari, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and English — with the meaning of every word, and the one syllable most people pronounce wrongly.

What the Om Jai Jagdish Hare Aarti is

Om Jai Jagdish Hare is a Hindi aarti, a song for the waving of the lamp, addressed to Vishnu as Jagadisha, Lord of the world, and Hari. It was written around 1870 in Punjab by Pandit Shardha Ram Phillauri. The form printed here is a refrain and eight short stanzas, with the refrain sung again after each one. The stanzas move in a clear line. The first states what comes to the one who meditates on the Lord. The second calls him mother and father, and the third names him Paramatma, Antaryami and Parabrahma. The fourth sets his ocean of compassion against the singer, who calls themselves foolish, wicked and full of desire. The fifth asks how one so poor in understanding can reach a Lord beyond the senses. The sixth lies at his door, the seventh asks for faith and service of the saints, and the eighth hands body, mind and wealth back to their owner.

A Phillaur pandit's hymn, revived by film

Shardha Ram was born in September 1837 at Phillaur, in Punjab under Ranjit Singh, to a Brahmin family; his father Jai Dyalu was an astrologer and hereditary priest. He had no formal schooling, yet by ten he had studied Hindi, Sanskrit, Persian, astrology and music, and later read the Vedas and Upanishads at Rishikesh. He worked as a language tutor and translator for the American Presbyterian Mission at Ludhiana, lectured in the streets on the Mahabharata, and in 1865 was sent out of Phillaur by the British on a charge of preaching against the government. In Ludhiana he helped found a Hindu school and the Hindu Dharm Prakashik Sabha, which ran its own press. He also wrote Bhagyawati, counted among the first Hindi novels. The aarti dates from about 1870; nothing reliable is recorded about the day or reason he wrote it. He died in Lahore on 24 June 1881, aged 43. For a century the hymn stayed modest in reach. In 1970 Manoj Kumar's film Purab Aur Paschim used it, sung by Mahendra Kapoor with others to music by Kalyanji-Anandji, and from there it entered temple worship. Scholars have since recorded it in New Delhi, Toledo in Ohio and Leicester, sung before Krishna, Ganesha and Murugan as well as Vishnu.

The mantra, in six scripts

DevanagariSanskrit & Hindiॐ जय जगदीश हरे, स्वामी जय जगदीश हरे । भक्त जनों के संकट, क्षण में दूर करे ॥
Tamilௐ ஜய ஜகதீஶ ஹரே, ஸ்வாமீ ஜய ஜகதீஶ ஹரே । பக்த ஜநோம் கே ஸம்கட, க்ஷண மேம் தூர கரே ॥
Teluguఓం జయ జగదీశ హరే, స్వామీ జయ జగదీశ హరే । భక్త జనోం కే సంకట, క్షణ మేం దూర కరే ॥
Kannadaಓಂ ಜಯ ಜಗದೀಶ ಹರೇ, ಸ್ವಾಮೀ ಜಯ ಜಗದೀಶ ಹರೇ । ಭಕ್ತ ಜನೋಂ ಕೇ ಸಂಕಟ, ಕ್ಷಣ ಮೇಂ ದೂರ ಕರೇ ॥
Malayalamഓം ജയ ജഗദീശ ഹരേ, സ്വാമീ ജയ ജഗദീശ ഹരേ । ഭക്ത ജനോം കേ സംകട, ക്ഷണ മേം ദൂര കരേ ॥
EnglishRoman transliterationoṃ jaya jagadīśa hare, svāmī jaya jagadīśa hare | bhakta janoṃ ke saṃkaṭa, kṣaṇa meṃ dūra kare ||
“Om, victory to you, Jagadish, Hari, Lord of the universe; victory, O Master. You remove the troubles of your devotees in an instant.”
ॐ
oṃ — Om
जय
jaya — victory
जगदीश
jagadīśa — O Lord of the world
हरे
hare — O Hari
स्वामी
svāmī — O Master
जय
jaya — victory
जगदीश
jagadīśa — O Lord of the world
हरे
hare — O Hari
भक्त
bhakta — devoted
जनों
janoṃ — people
के
ke — of
संकट
saṃkaṭa — troubles
क्षण
kṣaṇa — an instant
में
meṃ — in
दूर
dūra — away
करे
kare — removes

Om Jai Jagdish Hare lyrics in full

All 9 verses, in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and English, each with its meaning. Choose a script:

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Refrain

ॐ जय जगदीश हरे, स्वामी जय जगदीश हरे ।
भक्त जनों के संकट, क्षण में दूर करे ॥

Om, victory to you, Jagadish, Hari, Lord of the universe; victory, O Master. You remove the troubles of your devotees in an instant.

Stanza 1

जो ध्यावे फल पावे, दुःख विनसे मन का ।
सुख सम्पत्ति घर आवे, कष्ट मिटे तन का ॥

Whoever meditates on you gains the fruit and the sorrow of the mind fades. The verse says happiness and wealth come into the home and the body's suffering ends.

Stanza 2

मात-पिता तुम मेरे, शरण गहूँ मैं किसकी ।
तुम बिन और न दूजा, आस करूँ जिसकी ॥

You are my mother and father; whose shelter should I seek but yours? Apart from you there is no other in whom I could place my hope.

Stanza 3

तुम पूरण परमात्मा, तुम अन्तर्यामी ।
पारब्रह्म परमेश्वर, तुम सबके स्वामी ॥

You are the complete Supreme Self, the one who dwells within and knows every heart. You are the transcendent Brahman, the Supreme Lord, the master of all.

Stanza 4

तुम करुणा के सागर, तुम पालन-कर्ता ।
मैं मूरख खल कामी, कृपा करो भर्ता ॥

You are the ocean of compassion and the sustainer of all. I am foolish, wicked and full of desire; show me your grace, O Upholder.

Stanza 5

तुम हो एक अगोचर, सबके प्राणपति ।
किस विधि मिलूँ दयामय, तुमको मैं कुमति ॥

You are the One beyond the reach of the senses, the lord of every life-breath. O merciful one, by what means can I, so poor in understanding, come to meet you?

Stanza 6

दीनबन्धु दुखहर्ता, तुम ठाकुर मेरे ।
अपने हाथ उठाओ, द्वार पड़ा तेरे ॥

Friend of the lowly and remover of sorrow, you are my Lord. Raise your hand to bless me; I lie at your door.

Stanza 7

विषय-विकार मिटाओ, पाप हरो देवा ।
श्रद्धा-भक्ति बढ़ाओ, सन्तन की सेवा ॥

Wipe away the cravings and distortions born of the senses, and take away my sins, O God. Increase my faith and devotion, and my service to the saints.

Stanza 8

तन-मन-धन सब कुछ है तेरा ।
तेरा तुझको अर्पण, क्या लागे मेरा ॥

Body, mind and wealth, everything is yours. I offer you only what is already yours; what of it is mine?

The syllable people get wrong

In jagadīśa (जगदीश), the third syllable has a long ī and ends in the palatal ś, so it rhymes with 'leash': jug-the-EESH, or jug-DEESH as it is sung. Saying 'Jag-dish' with the short i of the English word 'dish' shortens the very vowel the refrain holds.

When the Om Jai Jagdish Hare Aarti is chanted

Weekday. Thursday

Festival. Closing aarti of the Satyanarayan Puja

Questions

It was written around 1870 by Pandit Shardha Ram Phillauri (Shraddha Ram Sharma, 1837 to 1881) of Phillaur in Punjab, a scholar of Hindi, Sanskrit, Punjabi and Urdu who also wrote the early Hindi novel Bhagyawati. Encyclopedias and his biographers name him as the author. One film song listing for Purab Aur Paschim describes the lyric as traditional and attributed to Tulsidas, but the reference works on the aarti itself credit Phillauri.
Many printed editions add a closing stanza that names Shivanand Swami and says that whoever sings the aarti of Shri Jagdish Ji gains happiness and wealth. That stanza is the signature of the Shiva aarti Om Jai Shiv Omkara, carried over with the deity's name changed; some printings even keep the Shiva aarti's phrase about the heart's wish. It names Shivanand, not Phillauri, so it is not printed on this page.
The line closes the eighth stanza, which begins by saying that body, mind and wealth all belong to the Lord. It then says: what is yours I offer to you, so what of it is mine? The offering is presented not as a gift from the singer but as a return of something that was never theirs. Not every edition carries this stanza, though most printings include it.
The text addresses Vishnu: Jagadisha means Lord of the world, Hari is one of his names, and the third stanza calls him Paramatma and Parabrahma. In practice it has become a general closing aarti. Researchers have found it sung before Krishna, Ganesha and Murugan, and it is used at the end of the Satyanarayan Puja, where Satyanarayan is worshipped as a form of Vishnu.
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