He also conveys through these shlokas the reason why Bhagwan Hanuman should be worshipped and how worshipping him will save us from multiple difficulties while making us stronger. Further, in the main part of the shloka, Goswami Tulsidas ji talks about the various attributes and conquests of the incomparable Bhagwan. In the introductory couplets, we pray to our Guru and ask Bhagwan Hanuman to give us the smarts and power to recite and internalize the Hanuman Chalisa. The Hanuman Chalisa consists of forty dohas (couplets) along with two introductory and one concluding couplet. This is not a literary analysis of the Chalisa but a mere set of observations rooted in personal experience. During this write-up, I shall be talking about the different verses of the Hanuman Chalisa and how they teach you different qualities of Bhagwan Hanuman. The Hanuman Chalisa is a mantra (despite being in Awadhi) and has been composed by one of the foremost Bhakti Saints, Goswami Tulsidas ji. And one of his most popular hymns is the Hanuman Chalisa. One such popular Ishta Devata is Bhagwan Hanuman. I further view it as a way of getting a role model who you can follow to assuage your multiple traumatic experiences across lifetimes. The concept of the Ishta Devata, as Dr Sargam further states, is a way of creating a personalized trauma management response. The reason for the existence of such varied Darshanas/Margas is to be able to customize systems to manage the traumatic experiences faced by the soul over many lifetimes, as claimed in an article by Dr Madhulika Sargam. The different Darshanas/Margas are just ways in which this reality can be understood by living beings. In the Indic tradition, god is said to be the great pure soul who resides within all of us.

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