sarvadeva kṛta śrī lakṣmī stotram

Forgive, O Blessed Mother, O you whose very nature is forbearance, higher than the highest; whose form is pure goodness, free of anger and all such passions.

O likeness of all virtuous women, worshipped among goddesses by the gods! Without you the whole world is as dead and barren. You are the very form of all prosperity, and of all beings the form of all. You are the presiding goddess of the rāsa; all women are portions of you.

On Kailāsa you are Pārvatī; in the ocean of milk, the daughter of the sea; in heaven you are Svarga-Lakṣmī, and upon the earth the Lakṣmī of mortals.

In Vaikuṇṭha you are Mahālakṣmī; you are Sarasvatī, goddess of the gods; you are Gaṅgā and Tulasī; and from the world of Brahmā, Sāvitrī.

You are the presiding deity of Kṛṣṇa’s very life-breath; in Goloka you are Rādhikā herself. In the rāsa you are its mistress, and in the grove of Vṛndāvana you are Vṛndā.

In Bhāṇḍīra you are Kṛṣṇa’s beloved; in the sandal grove, Candrā; in the campaka grove, Virajā; and on Śataśṛṅga, Sundarī. In the lotus grove you are Padmāvatī; in the mālatī grove, Mālatī; in the kunda grove, Kundadantī; and in the ketakī grove, Suśīlā.

In the kadamba grove too you are the Goddess Kadamba-mālā; in the king’s house you are Rājalakṣmī, and in every home the Gṛhalakṣmī.

Having spoken thus, all the deities, and the sages and the Manus, wept with downcast faces, their throats and lips and palates gone dry.

Thus is the holy and auspicious hymn of praise to Lakṣmī, made by all the gods. Whoever rises at dawn and recites it assuredly obtains everything.

The wifeless obtains a wife — modest, bearing good children, chaste; well-conducted, beautiful, lovely, and most pleasant of speech —

— possessed of sons and grandsons, pure, well-born, gentle and excellent. The sonless obtains a son, devoted to Viṣṇu and long of life —

— endowed with supreme lordship, learned and renowned. He who has lost his kingdom regains his kingdom; he who has lost his fortune regains his fortune.

He whose kinsmen are slain regains kinsmen; he who has lost his wealth obtains wealth. He who has lost his fame obtains fame, and surely obtains honour besides.

This hymn bestows every auspiciousness and destroys grief and affliction; it brings gladness and delight, and is ever the friendly abode of dharma and of liberation.