Bhadra Kali Vishwamata Jagatsrotkarini
Shivapatni Papahartri Sarvabhuta Tarini
Skandamata Shiva Shiva Sarvasrishti Dharini
Namah Namah Mahamaya! Himalaya-Nandini ॥ 1 ॥
Narinam Cha Shankhinyapi Hastini Va Chitrini
Padmagandha Pushparupa Sammohini Padmini
Matr -Putri -Bhagni -Bharya Sarvarupa Bhavani
Namah Namah Mahamaya! Bhavabhaya-Khandini ॥ 2 ॥
Papa- Tapa- Bhava- Bhaya Bhuteshwari Kamini
Tava-Kripa- Sarvakshaya Sarvajanah- Vandini
Prema- Priti -Lajja- Nyaya Narinam Cha Mohini
Namah Namah Mahamaya! Rundamala-Dharini ॥ 3 ॥
Kharga -Chakra -Hastedhari Shankhini- Sunadini
Sammohana -Rupa- Nari Hridaya-Vidarini
Ahankara- Kamarupa- Bhuvana-Vilasini
Namah Namah Mahamaya! Jagat-Prakashini ॥ 4 ॥
Lahva -Lahva- Tava -Jihva Papasura Mardini
Khanda- Ganda- Munda -Sprha Shobhakanti Vardhini
Anga- Bhanga -Ranga -Kaya Mayachhanda Chandini
Namah Namah Mahamaya! Dukhshoka Nashini ॥ 5 ॥
Dhana- Jana- Tana -Mana Rupena Tvam Samsthita
Kama -Krodha- Lobha -Moha Mada Vapi Mudhata
Nidrahar -Kama -Bhaya Pashutulya Jivanat
Namah Namah Mahamaya! Kuru Mukta Bandhanat ॥ 6 ॥
Maitri -Daya -Lakshmi -Vrtti- Ante Jiva Lakshana
Lajja-Chhaya-Trishna-Kshudha Bandhanasya-Karana
Tushti-Buddhi-Shraddha-Bhakti Sada Mukti Dayika
Shanti-Bhranti-Klanti-Kshanti Tava Rupa Aneka
Priti-Smrti-Jati-Shakti-Rupa Maya Abhedya
Namah Namah Mahamaya! Namastvam Mahavidya ॥ 7 ॥
Navadurga Mahakali Sarvangabhushavrittam
Bhuvaneshwari -Matangi Hantu Madhukaitabham
Vimala Tara Shodashi Haste Khadga Dharini
Dhumavati -Ma -Bagala Mahishasura Mardini
Balatripurasundari Tribhuvana Mohini
Namah Namah Mahamaya! Sarvadukha Harini ॥ 8 ॥
Mama Mata Loke Martya Krishnadasah Tava Bhrtya
Yada Tada Yatha Tatha Maya Chhinna Mokshakatha
Sada Sada Tava Bhiksha Kripa Dine Bhava Raksha
Namah Namah Mahamaya Krishnadase Tava Daya ॥ 0 ॥
|| Iti Shri Krishnadasah Virachitam Mahamaya Ashtakam Yah Pathati Sah Bhava Sagara Nistarati ||
Reciting the Mahamaya Ashtakam daily brings immense blessings, offering relief from domestic and workplace challenges. It helps restore balance, alleviating financial, physical, and mental struggles. Devotion to this powerful hymn can pave the way for career advancement, securing promotions, and overcoming business difficulties. With regular chanting, one can experience profound spiritual and material harmony.
Auspicious Kali Devi Maa Bhadrakali, Mother of the world, you are the source of the universe. Wife of Shiva, destroyer of sins, protector of all creatures, savior of all beings, mother of Skanda, O Shiva, supporter of the universe, you hold the whole creation, O Mahamaya, daughter of Himalaya, I salute you, I bow down to you. ।।1।।
Among women, like a beautiful lotus-fragrant flower in hands, you take the form of Sankhini, Hastini, Chitrini, fragrance of lotus, the one who captivates all, Padmini. O all-pervading mother- Bhavani, you appear in the form of mother, daughter, sister-wife. O great power Mahamaya, who destroys the fear of the world, I bow down to you, I bow down to you. ।।2।।
O Bhuteshwari, O Kamini, O worshipper of all, by your grace, sins-mental or physical pain-fear-fear all vanish. O Mahamaya, who captivates everyone in the form of a woman, who appears in the form of love, affection, modesty, justice, and who wears a garland of skulls!
I salute you, I bow to you. ।।3।।
Who holds a sword, a discus, a conch in her hands, who is the embodiment of sound, who fascinates everyone, who in the form of a woman tears apart hearts, joins and breaks, who rips apart, who enjoys the world in the form of ego and desires, who gives light to this world, O Mahamaya, I salute you, I bow to you. ।।4।।
O Mother. Your tongue comes out and crushes the sinful demons by drinking their blood with it, while destroying the demons, the garland of severed skulls is enhancing your beauty. And it enhances your beauty and radiance.
You are the one who makes everyone dance in the rhythm of Maya with your body posture and colour, and who destroys sorrow and grief. O Mahamaya, I bow to you, I salute you. ।।5।।
You are situated in the form of wealth, world, body and honour. You are bound in life by living in the foolishness of lust, anger, greed, attachment and intoxication, by being involved in night, food, desire, fear, all these animal instincts. Kindly free me from such bondages. O Mahamaya, I bow to you, I salute you. ।।6।।
Friendship, kindness, wealth, attitude, which generate all these attachments in the living beings, and shame, shadow, thirst and hunger which are the reasons of bondage, contentment, wisdom, faith and devotion which are always the reasons of liberation, peace, confusion, tiredness, forgiveness and many other different states which liberate, then love, memory, caste, power etc. in impenetrable different forms, all are your forms only. O Mahavidya, O Mahamaya, I salute you, I bow down to you. ।।7।।
O Navdurga, who wears ornaments all over her body, Mahakali, who killed Madhukaitabh, who holds a sword in her hand, who killed Mahishasura, who captivates the three worlds, Mother Bhuvaneshwari, Matangi, Vimala Tara, Shodashi, Dhumavati, Bagla, BalaTripurSundari, who takes away all sorrows, O Mahamaya, I salute you, I bow down to you.
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O my mother. In this mortal world, Krishnadas is your servant, your slave, who thinks of attaining salvation by breaking the illusion everywhere, in every form. This poor man is begging that O Mother, please save me from this ocean of existence and may your mercy always remain on Krishnadas. O Mahamaya, I bow to you, I bow to you again and again. ।।0।।
One who recites this Mahamaya Ashtakam composed by Shri Krishnadas without any desire will cross the ocean of existence.