NA TAATO NA MAATAA NA BANDHUR NA BHRATA
NA PUTRO NA PUTRI NA BHRTYO NA BHARTA
NA JAYA NA VIDYA NA VRTTIR-MAMAIVA
GATISTVAM GATISTVAM TVAMEKAA BHAVANI
No father, no mother, no kin, no brothers,
No son, no daughter, no servants, no mentor,
No bride, no knowledge, no pursuits have I, –
Only You are my refuge, You are my refuge, You are the Only One, O Bhavani!
BHAVABDHA-VAPARE MAHADUH-KHABHIRUH
PRAPANNAH PRAKAMI PRALOBHI PRAMATTAH
KUSAMSARA – PASHA – PRABANDHAH SADAHAM
GATISTVAM GATISTVAM TVAMEKA BHAVANI
Into this world, a boundless ocean brimming with great suffering, –
I have been cast, full of desire, full of envy, full of delusion,
Caught forever in the net of wrong deeds.
Only You are my refuge, You are my refuge, You are the Only One, O Bhavani!
NA JANAMI DANAM NA CHA DHYANA-YOGAM
NA JANAMI TANTRAM NA CHA STOTRA-MANTRAM.
NA JANAMI PUJAM NA CHA NYASA-YOGAM
GATISTVAM GATISTVAM TVAMEKA BHAVANI
I know neither charity, nor meditation, nor yoga,
I know neither Tantra, nor hymns, nor mantras,
I know neither puja nor the order of nyasa, –
Only You are my refuge, You are my refuge, You are the Only One, O Bhavani!
NA JANAMI PUNYAM NA JANAMI TIRTHAM
NA JANAMI MUKTIM LAYAM VA KADACHIT
NA JANAMI BHAKTIM VRATAM VA PI MATAR
GATISTVAM GATISTVAM TVAMEKA BHAVANI
I know no virtue, I know no pilgrimage,
I know neither liberation nor union with the Supreme,
I know no devotion, I know no vows of austerity, O Mother, –
Only You are my refuge, You are my refuge, You are the Only One, O Bhavani!
KUKARMI KUSANGI KUBUDDHIH KUDASAH
KULACHARA – HINAH KUDACHARA-LINAH
KUDRISHTIH KUVAKYA – PRABANDHAH SADAHAM
GATISTVAM GATISTVAM TVAMEKA BHAVANI
I do evil, I keep company with sinners, I think wicked thoughts, I am a poor servant,
Lacking knowledge of Kulachara and given to bad habits,
I always see everything wrongly and speak wrongly, –
Only You are my refuge, You are my refuge, You are the Only One, O Bhavani!
PRAJESHAM RAMESHAM MAHESHAM SURESHAM
DINESHAM NISHITHESHVARAM VA KADACHIT
NA JANAMI CHANYAM SADAHAM SHARANYE
GATISTVAM GATISTVAM TVAMEKA BHAVANI
Brahma, Lord of creatures; Vishnu, Lord of Lakshmi; Shiva, the Great Lord;
Indra, Lord of the gods; Surya, Lord of the day; and Soma, Lord of the night –
I know not in which of them to find protection, –
Only You are my refuge, You are my refuge, You are the Only One, O Bhavani!
VIVADE VISHADE PRAMADE PRAVASE
JALE CHANALE PARVATE SHATRUMADHYE
ARANYE SHARANYE SADA MAM PRAPAHI
GATISTVAM GATISTVAM TVAMEKA BHAVANI
In dispute and in struggle, in trouble, in every other plight,
In water and in fire, in the mountains and among enemies,
In the forest, wherever I seek protection, I pray, help me! –
Only You are my refuge, You are my refuge, You are the Only One, O Bhavani!
ANATHO DARIDRO JARA-ROGA-YUKTO
MAHAKSHINA-DINAH SADA JADYA-VAKTRAH
VIPATTAU PRAVISHTAH SADA HAM
GATISTVAM GATISTVAM TVAMEKA BHAVANI
Without patron or protector, in want, ever stricken by old age and illness,
utterly destitute, ever humbled and powerless, I am completely broken.
Only You are my refuge, You are my refuge, You are the Only One, O Bhavani!