Bagalamukhi Chalisa

Victory again and again to you, Shri Bagala Mata. You are the primordial power and the guardian of the whole world.

O Mother, your face resembles that of a crane, and it is from this likeness that your well-known name, Bagalamukhi, arose.

The moon shines on your forehead and your earrings glow with a beauty all their own. Gods, men and women alike sing your praises.

Yellow garments grace your form, and in your hands a mace and club are held in splendour.

You bear three eyes and a garland of champak flowers at your throat, while boundless radiance streams from your brow.

Your jewel-set lion throne is a thing of beauty, and all who behold your grandeur are drawn to you.

Seated upon a yellow seat, O great queen, you are the giver of boons to those devoted to you.

Adorned with yellow ornaments and yellow sandal paste, you receive the homage of gods, humans and serpents alike.

Whoever holds this form of yours in the heart and meditates on it is glorified, so declare the Vedas, the Puranas and the saints.

Now I set out the method of your worship, the doing of which brings every sorrow to an end.

First a yellow banner is raised, and the Goddess is then robed in yellow garments.

Vermilion, unbroken rice, modak, gram flour, abir and gulal powders, betel nut and sandalwood are offered.

After presenting garlands, turmeric, fruit and betel leaf, one should meditate on you with a steady heart.

With incense, lamp and a wick of camphor, the devotee then performs your aarti in love.

With both hands joined I offer my praise. Fulfil my heart's wishes, O Mother.

O Mother, devotion to you is the wellspring of all happiness. Show me your grace and count me as your own.

Undo the three kinds of suffering and every grief. Clear the darkness of ignorance and let wisdom grow in me.

Time and again I make my plea to you. Grant me unbroken devotion and true knowledge.

One who completes the worship with a fire offering receives the fruit their heart has longed for.

Whoever offers a homa with mustard seeds brings the entire moving and unmoving world within their influence.

One who blends sesame, rice and milk and performs the fire offering with love and devotion gains your favour.

Sorrow and poverty no longer touch such a person; happiness and prosperity surely come to them.

One who performs the fire offering with ashoka blossoms finds their home filled with comfort and wealth.

When the homa is made with the fruit of the silk-cotton tree, the worshipper's enemies are surely worn away.

One who offers guggul resin and ghee in the fire can bring even a king under their sway.

One who offers guggul together with sesame in the fire finds every binding difficulty cut away.

Those who recite the seed syllables and pronounce your beej mantra draw near to your power.

One who repeats your mantra by night for a full month sees all their torment dissolve.

Wherever there is clean ground within the house, the practitioner should sit there to perform the japa.

Such a one surely obtains the fruit they desire, with no room left for any doubt.

Or the practitioner may go to a river bank and perform the japa there with a focused mind.

One who completes ten thousand repetitions finds every undertaking carried through to success.

One who repeats the mantra a hundred thousand times sees their good name spread far and wide.

One who chants your name with a steady mind overcomes even great adversaries in a short while.

One who chants your name across seven nights finds all their aims fulfilled.

One who performs the japa for nine days gains a body freed from disease.

A childless woman who meditates on you receives the four blessings, a child among them.

One who recites this chalisa in the morning has their misfortunes turned aside.

One who recites it at dusk is relieved of all the distress weighing on the mind.

One who recites it daily as a steady practice finds all their affairs set in good order.