Hanuman Chalisa Study and Chant

The Hanuman Chalisa is a devotional hymn of forty verses, composed in the 16th century by Tulsīdās, an ardent saintly devotee poet of the deities Rāma, Sita, and Hanumān. To reach the masses, Tulsīdās composed both the popular Sri Rāmacharitamanasa, a vernacular version of the Sanskrit Rāmayāna epic, and the Hanumān Chālīsā hymn of 40 verses in the common rural dialect of Āwadhi, related to modern Hindi. It was originally and always written “For The People”; the common people.

(Tulsīdās’s introduction to the Chalisa)

“We chant the hanuman Chalisa to get a taste of what immersion in complete divine unconditional love might feel like. Out of our darkness we call for the light, never really imagining that it will come. We keep calling with all our hearts and then, finally, just when we think we can’t take any more, the the first rays of the dawn’s light reach our hungry…