Hanuman
The devoted servant, son of the windThe wind-god's son, the great devotee of Rama, Hanuman is strength made perfect in service. He leapt an ocean for another's sake, and the tradition loves him as the model of what devotion can do.
A quick reference entry. For the full account, follow the guides below.
Guides and journal
- Who is Hanuman? Deities
And Hanuman grows until he fills the sky, takes the whole ocean in a single bound, and carries the hope of the story across the water on his back.
- The New Year and the Avatara Treatise
The son of the wind Close after Rama in the Chaitra sky comes the one who served him, and in much of India Hanuman Jayanti falls on the full moon of the same month.
- What is the Ramayana? Scriptures
Rama, searching for her, allies with the monkey prince Sugriva and with Hanuman , the monkey hero whose devotion and strength become the engine of the rescue.
- The city of Rama Treatise
To this day the tradition credits him also with the Hanuman Chalisa , the forty-verse hymn to Hanuman that is very likely the most recited devotional poem in all of India, though that attribution is traditional…
- What is the Hanuman Chalisa? Worship
It is called the Hanuman Chalisa , and to understand why it holds the place it holds, you have to look at what it is, who made it, and what it actually says — line by line — including the one verse that the int…