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Vishnu Satyanarayan Aarti: King Tungadhvaja kneeling with cowherd boys at their forest worship as Satyanarayana and Lakshmi appear above
King Tungadhvaja kneels with the cowherd boys at their forest worship as Satyanarayana and Lakshmi appear above
Mantra · Hindi lamp song that retells the Satyanarayan katha in eight stanzas

Satyanarayan Aarti

जय लक्ष्मी रमणा, स्वामी जय लक्ष्मी रमणा । सत्यनारायण स्वामी, जन पातक हरणा ॥

Also known as Om Jai Lakshmi Ramana

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

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What the Satyanarayan Aarti is

The Satyanarayan Aarti, sung as 'Om Jai Lakshmi Ramana' and called Satyanarayan ji ki aarti in Hindi-speaking homes, is the lamp song that closes the Satyanarayan vrat katha. It addresses Vishnu as Satyanarayana, the Lord of Truth, under the name Lakshmi Ramana, the one in whom Lakshmi delights, and the refrain calls him the remover of the people's sins. The text is a traditional Hindi folk aarti with no known author: a refrain and eight short stanzas. The first stanza sets a heavenly scene, with Narada waving the lamp before a jewelled throne. Stanzas two to six then retell the katha in miniature, naming in turn the old Brahmin, the Bhil woodcutter, King Chandrachuda, the merchant who abandoned his vow, and the king who worshipped with cowherd boys. Stanza seven lists the offerings, and stanza eight carries the phala line. One family of the text closes instead with the signature 'kahat Shivanand Swami'; who that was has not been established.

The whole katha folded into stanzas

The aarti assumes its singers have just heard the Satyanarayan katha, so each stanza works as a one-line reminder of an episode. Most printed katha books present that story as five chapters of the Reva Khanda of the Skanda Purana, yet the chapters appear in the Bengali printings of that Purana and not in the Bombay edition, and Haraprasad Shastri judged them a late addition; a fuller form of the legend sits in the Pratisarga Parva of the Bhavishya Purana. According to the katha, Vishnu came to a poor Brahmin of Kashi in the guise of an old Brahmin and taught him the vrat, which stanza two compresses into the old Brahmin and the golden palace. A Bhil who carried firewood saw that worship and took it up: the 'durbal Bhil' of stanza three. The same stanza names King Chandrachuda, who follows the Bhavishya Purana, where a king of that name, beaten in the Vindhya hills, learns the rite and regains his throne; the Hindi katha books name other kings at this point, Ulkamukha and Chandraketu. Stanza four is the merchant who was granted a daughter, forgot his promise and suffered until he returned to the rite. Stanza six is King Tungadhvaja, who scorned the prasad of cowherds under a forest banyan, lost his fortune, and went back to worship beside them.

The mantra, in six scripts

DevanagariSanskrit & Hindiजय लक्ष्मी रमणा, स्वामी जय लक्ष्मी रमणा । सत्यनारायण स्वामी, जन पातक हरणा ॥
Tamilஜய லக்ஷ்மீ ரமணா, ஸ்வாமீ ஜய லக்ஷ்மீ ரமணா । ஸத்யநாராயண ஸ்வாமீ, ஜந பாதக ஹரணா ॥
Teluguజయ లక్ష్మీ రమణా, స్వామీ జయ లక్ష్మీ రమణా । సత్యనారాయణ స్వామీ, జన పాతక హరణా ॥
Kannadaಜಯ ಲಕ್ಷ್ಮೀ ರಮಣಾ, ಸ್ವಾಮೀ ಜಯ ಲಕ್ಷ್ಮೀ ರಮಣಾ । ಸತ್ಯನಾರಾಯಣ ಸ್ವಾಮೀ, ಜನ ಪಾತಕ ಹರಣಾ ॥
Malayalamജയ ലക്ഷ്മീ രമണാ, സ്വാമീ ജയ ലക്ഷ്മീ രമണാ । സത്യനാരായണ സ്വാമീ, ജന പാതക ഹരണാ ॥
EnglishRoman transliterationjaya lakṣmī ramaṇā, svāmī jaya lakṣmī ramaṇā | satyanārāyaṇa svāmī, jana pātaka haraṇā ||
“Victory to the beloved of Lakshmi, O Lord, victory to the beloved of Lakshmi. O Lord Satyanarayana, remover of the sins of the people.”
जय
jaya — victory
लक्ष्मी
lakṣmī — Lakshmi
रमणा
ramaṇā — beloved, delighter of
स्वामी
svāmī — O Lord
जय
jaya — victory
लक्ष्मी
lakṣmī — Lakshmi
रमणा
ramaṇā — beloved, delighter of
सत्यनारायण
satyanārāyaṇa — Narayana, Lord of Truth
स्वामी
svāmī — O Lord
जन
jana — of the people
पातक
pātaka — sins
हरणा
haraṇā — remover

Satyanarayan Aarti lyrics in full

A refrain and eight stanzas. The line 'Om Jai Lakshmi Ramana, Swami Jai Lakshmi Ramana' is sung after every stanza, and the full refrain again at the close.

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

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Refrain

जय लक्ष्मी रमणा, स्वामी जय लक्ष्मी रमणा ।
सत्यनारायण स्वामी, जन पातक हरणा ॥

Victory to the beloved of Lakshmi, O Lord, victory to the beloved of Lakshmi. O Lord Satyanarayana, remover of the sins of the people.

Stanza 1

रत्न जड़ित सिंहासन, अद्भुत छवि राजै ।
नारद करत निराजन, घण्टा ध्वनि बाजै ॥

On a throne set with jewels your wondrous form shines. Narada waves the lamp before you and the sound of the bell rings out.

Stanza 2

प्रकट भये कलि कारण, द्विज को दर्श दियो ।
बूढ़ा ब्राह्मण बनकर, कंचन महल कियो ॥

You appeared for the sake of the Kali age and gave your sight to a Brahmin. Taking the form of an old Brahmin, you turned his home into a golden palace.

Stanza 3

दुर्बल भील कठारो, जिन पर कृपा करी ।
चन्द्रचूड़ एक राजा, तिनकी विपत्ति हरी ॥

You showed grace to the poor woodcutter of the Bhil people. You took away the misfortune of a king named Chandrachuda.

Stanza 4

वैश्य मनोरथ पायो, श्रद्धा तज दीन्ही ।
सो फल भोग्यो प्रभुजी, फिर स्तुति कीन्हीं ॥

The merchant gained his wish, then gave up his faith. He suffered the result of that, O Lord, and then sang your praise again.

Stanza 5

भाव भक्ति के कारण, छिन-छिन रूप धरयो ।
श्रद्धा धारण कीन्हीं, तिनको काज सरयो ॥

For the sake of heartfelt devotion you took on form after form, moment by moment. Those who held to faith had their work fulfilled.

Stanza 6

ग्वाल-बाल संग राजा, वन में भक्ति करी ।
मनवांछित फल दीन्हों, दीनदयाल हरी ॥

A king worshipped you in the forest together with the cowherd boys. Hari, kind to the lowly, gave him the fruit his heart desired.

Stanza 7

चढ़त प्रसाद सवायो, कदली फल, मेवा ।
धूप दीप तुलसी से, राजी सत्यदेवा ॥

Prasad is offered in a measure and a quarter, with bananas and dried fruits. With incense, lamp and tulasi, the Lord of Truth is pleased.

Stanza 8

श्री सत्यनारायण जी की आरती, जो कोई नर गावै ।
ऋद्धि-सिद्धि सुख-संपत्ति, सहज रूप पावे ॥

Whoever sings this aarti of Shri Satyanarayana - the verse says that person easily gains prosperity, success, happiness and wealth.

The syllable people get wrong

In stanza 3, kaṭhāro (कठारो), the woodcutter, has an aspirated retroflex ṭh: curl the tongue back and release a puff of air, ka-THAA-ro. Saying it with the soft dental th of kathā (story) turns the Bhil woodcutter into a word about storytelling.

When the Satyanarayan Aarti is chanted

Weekday. Thursday

Festival. Purnima Satyanarayan vrat katha

Questions

Its author is unknown; it is a traditional Hindi folk aarti that grew up alongside the katha and has been passed on by singing rather than from a signed manuscript. One family of the text ends with the line 'kahat Shivanand Swami', a signature of the kind poets placed in a closing line, but nothing reliable records who this Shivanand Swami was, and the version printed here does not carry that line.
Stanza three names Chandrachuda as a king whose misfortune Satyanarayana removed. The name matches the Bhavishya Purana form of the legend, in which Chandrachuda is a king defeated in the Vindhya mountains who learns the vrat from the Brahmin Shatananda and wins back his kingdom. The katha read from the Skanda Purana form calls the kings in its middle chapters Ulkamukha and Chandraketu instead, so the aarti preserves a detail many listeners will not hear in the katha itself.
It means the prasad is offered 'by a quarter more', that is, in a measure and a quarter. This recalls the katha's instruction that the offering be made in the sapada measure: one and a quarter units of each ingredient, or multiples of it. The stanza then names bananas and dried fruits, and says the Lord of Truth is pleased with incense, a lamp and tulasi leaves, which is why the sweet prasad of this rite is often called sapada.
The last line circulates in three families. One reads 'riddhi-siddhi sukh-sampatti, sahaj roop pave', saying whoever sings it gains prosperity and success with ease. A second reads 'kahat Shivanand Swami, manvanchhit phal pave', adding a signature. A third reads 'tan-man-sukh-sampatti manvanchhit phal pave'. The three are not mixed within one book, and the meaning of the phala line is the same in each: the verse says the singer receives what the heart desires.
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