Goddess Ganga

गंगामाईची आरती

(Gamgamaici Arati)

Also known as gangamai aarti mate darshanmatra marathi

The Marathi āratī of Gaṅgā, sung with the refrain jaya devī jaya devī jaya Gaṅgābāī, and unusual in this cluster for being almost entirely confession rather than praise. Mother, by the mere sight of you a creature is lifted up; you take away sin and make the whole world pure — and then immediately: I have piled up heaps of sins by wrong deeds, and now, remembering, what will become of my understanding? The second stanza continues in the same voice, saying that circumstances came and he acted accordingly, that he was caught in the delusion of the senses and took pleasure there, and drowned in an ocean of his own bad acts. The third asks her to guard him at the hour when the pitiless messengers of Yama come, and to wipe out the balance standing in Yamadharma's ledger — an image from accountancy, and the sharpest line in the piece.

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Script: Devanagari (देवनागरी) — also the script of Hindi, Marathi, Nepali and Konkani.

जय देवी जय देवी जय गंगाबाई।
पावन करि मज सत्वर विश्वाचे आई॥
माते दर्शनमात्रं प्राणी उद्धरिसी।
हरिसी पातक अवघे जग पावन करिसी॥
दुष्कर्मी मी रचिल्या पापांच्या राशी।
हर हर आतां स्मरतों मति होईल कैसी॥१॥
पडले प्रसंग तैशी कर्मे आचरलों।
विषयांचे मोहानें त्यातचि रत झालों॥
त्याचे योगे दुष्कृत सिंधूत बुडालों।
त्यांतुनि मजला तारिसि ह्या हेतूनें आलों॥२॥
निर्दय यमदुत नेती त्या समयीं राखीं।
क्षाळीं यमधर्माच्या खात्यातील बाकी॥
मत्संगति जन अवघे तारियले त्वां की।
उरलो पाहें एकचि मी पतितांपैकी॥३॥
अघहरणे जय करुणे विनवितसे भावें।
नोपेक्षी मज आतां त्वत्पात्रीं घ्यावें॥
केला पदर पुढे मी मज इतकें द्यावें।
जीवे त्या विष्णूच्या परमात्मनि व्हावें॥४॥
॥ इति संपूर्णंम् ॥

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