Lalita Tripura Sundari Chalisa

Victory again and again to Mother Lalita. Her virtues and her glory are spoken of everywhere across the worlds.

You are the beautiful goddess Tripureshwari. Divine beings, people and ascetics alike offer their service at your feet.

You bring welfare and clear away troubles. You give happiness and carry off calamity.

You dissolve delusion and destroy demonic forces. Tender toward your devotees, you fill their path with inner light.

You are the first energy and the very form of Sri Vidya. Mistress of the sacred Sri Chakra, your form has no equal.

Living within the hearts of your devotees, you ferry them across difficulty and crush the many kinds of trouble they face.

The ten Mahavidyas are all forms of you. You are honoured as Chandreshwari and are dear to sacred places of pilgrimage.

You appear as Dhumavati, Bagalamukhi, Bhairavi and Tara, and also as Bhuvaneshwari and Kamala, spreading yourself across every form.

You are worshipped as Shodashi, Chhinnamasta and Matangi. Every current of the divine feminine belongs to your power, O Lalita.

O Lalita, your brilliance shines out clearly, and you tend to the tasks and needs of those who love you.

Whenever heavy dangers have come, you have shielded your devotees and carried them safely through.

Whoever has received your grace finds that things fall into place for them in every way.

Mother, please take away the serious troubles we carry. Your devotees rest all their hope in you.

Tripureshwari, daughter of the mountain, Bhavani — victory again and again to you, the great queen of Shiva.

By your grace yogis reach their spiritual accomplishments, and those who live amid worldly comforts enjoy them fully.

Mother, once a person wins your grace, their whole life turns into one filled with happiness.

You have taken the grieving as your own. Only the deeply misguided, who never come to your shelter, remain untouched by your care.

On whomever you cast your kind glance, that person gains prosperity and the essence of true happiness.

Hail to the primal energy, beloved Tripura. Victory to the great power who takes away fear.

You are the yogini of the sacred lineage and the very form of the Kundalini. Your divine play, O Lalita, is beyond compare.

Great Maheshwari, grant us great strength. Tripura Sundari, grant us devotion that never fades.

Source of the highest bliss and of all welfare, you grant even the voiceless the gift of speech and wisdom.

One who comes to share in your powers of will, knowledge and action turns into a loving and devoted servant.

Whoever sings of your qualities, O Lalita, is no longer tormented by any sorrow.

Bringer of every blessing, garlanded with flame, you are the one who directs and moves all powers.

Mother, whoever takes refuge in you finds that you completely lift away every one of their misfortunes.

You draw hearts through your name and draw away worry. Enchanting all, you rain down every kind of happiness.

Your greatness is famous throughout the world. You are the compassionate mother of the whole universe.

O Lalita, you grant every good fortune. You are the giver of joy, formed wholly of compassion.

You bestow bliss, comfort and abundance, and you take away even the most frightening of sufferings.

Whoever meditates on you with a settled mind quickly obtains the very thing their heart desires.

You are Lakshmi, Durga and Kali. You are Sharada as well, and the one who bears the skull upon the sacred chakra.

Victory to you who reside in the Muladhara at the base. Victory, Mother, to you who rise all the way to the crown Sahasrara.

You are the one who pierces through the six chakras of the subtle body, and you keep watch over and protect everyone.

The yogi, the pleasure-seeker, the angry and the craving — all of them are your servants and all follow you.

Mother, you carry everyone across to safety. Mother, you show your compassion to one and all.

You are Hemavati, daughter of the Himalayas, and also Uma and Brahmani. The undoing of the demon Bhandasura stands as the sign of your power.

For the person who remembers and meditates on you, what suffering could possibly remain? It simply cannot stay.

O Lalita, great queen of the three realms, moon-faced devotees worship you with knowing reverence.

Whoever recites this Chalisa of forty verses finds that spiritual attainments arise and their wishes come to pass.