Hanuman
Hanuman mantra
ॐ श्री हनुमते नमः
Simple reading
Om shree ha-nu-ma-te na-mah
Oṁ Śrī Hanumate Namaḥ
About this mantra
Salutation to Hanuman, chanted for resolve, discipline, and freedom from fear.
Meaning
Om, salutations to Shri Hanuman. His name is read from hanu, the jaw the thunderbolt struck, a mark of the day heaven itself had to reckon with his force. Yet the mantra bows to what he did with that force: placed it, whole, at Rama's feet. The reciter asks for the same conversion: strength that ends in service, courage that knows how to kneel.
Learn it by heart
Say the first line until it comes without reading, then add the next line and say both, until the whole mantra comes on its own.
Whole mantra
This mantra is a single line. Learn it whole, then add it to your review deck so it comes back for a check.
ॐ श्री हनुमते नमः
Oṁ Śrī Hanumate Namaḥ
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Aim for eleven. Stop reading as soon as the whole mantra comes on its own.
Progress stays on this device.
When to recite it
Tuesdays and Saturdays, Hanuman's days, and before anything requiring nerve: interviews, competitions, confrontation, night travel. Often counted alongside Chalisa recitation.
Word by word
- ॐoṁ
- the primordial sound
- श्रीśrī
- revered, auspicious
- हनुमतेhanumate
- to Hanuman
- नमःnamaḥ
- I bow, salutations
Source: Traditional nāma-mantra of the Hanuman devotional corpus