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Jai Santoshi Mata Aarti

Jai Santoshi Mata - the aarti to Maa Santoshi, the goddess of contentment, sung especially on the sixteen-Friday (Shukravar) vrat.

जय सन्तोषी माता, मैया जय सन्तोषी माता।
अपने सेवक जन की, सुख सम्पति दाता॥ जय सन्तोषी माता॥

सुन्दर चीर सुनहरी, माँ धारण कीन्हो।
हीरा पन्ना दमके, तन शृंगार लीन्हो॥ जय सन्तोषी माता॥

गेरू लाल छटा छबि, बदन कमल सोहे।
मन्द हँसत करुणामयी, त्रिभुवन जन मोहे॥ जय सन्तोषी माता॥

स्वर्ण सिंहासन बैठीं, चँवर ढुरे प्यारे।
धूप, दीप, मधु, मेवा, भोग धरे न्यारे॥ जय सन्तोषी माता॥

गुड़ अरु चना परम प्रिय, तामें सन्तोष कियो।
सन्तोषी कहलाई, भक्तन वैभव दियो॥ जय सन्तोषी माता॥

शुक्रवार प्रिय मानत, आज दिवस सोही।
भक्त मण्डली छाई, कथा सुनत मोही॥ जय सन्तोषी माता॥

मन्दिर जग मग ज्योति, मंगल ध्वनि छाई।
विनय करें हम सेवक, चरनन सिर नाई॥ जय सन्तोषी माता॥

सन्तोषी माता की आरती, जो कोई जन गावे।
ऋद्धि सिद्धि सुख सम्पति, जी भर के पावे॥ जय सन्तोषी माता॥

Jai Santoshi Mata, Maiya Jai Santoshi Mata.
Apne sevak jan ki, sukh sampati data॥ Jai Santoshi Mata॥

Sundar cheer sunhari, maa dharan keenho.
Heera panna damke, tan shringar leenho॥ Jai Santoshi Mata॥

Geru laal chhata chhabi, badan kamal sohe.
Mand hansat karunamayi, tribhuvan jan mohe॥ Jai Santoshi Mata॥

Swarn sinhasan baithin, chanwar dhure pyare.
Dhoop, deep, madhu, meva, bhog dhare nyare॥ Jai Santoshi Mata॥

Gud aru chana param priy, taamein santosh kiyo.
Santoshi kahlai, bhaktan vaibhav diyo॥ Jai Santoshi Mata॥

Shukravar priy maanat, aaj divas sohi.
Bhakt mandali chhai, katha sunat mohi॥ Jai Santoshi Mata॥

Mandir jag mag jyoti, mangal dhvani chhai.
Vinay karein hum sevak, charnan sir nai॥ Jai Santoshi Mata॥

Santoshi Mata ki aarti, jo koi jan gave.
Riddhi siddhi sukh sampati, ji bhar ke pave॥ Jai Santoshi Mata॥

Frequently asked questions about Jai Santoshi Mata Aarti

When is this aarti sung?

On Fridays, at the close of the Santoshi Mata vrat puja - most of all during the sixteen consecutive Fridays that the vrat asks for. It is sung after the katha and before the gud-chana prasad is shared.

Who is Santoshi Mata?

The goddess of santosh, contentment, worshipped as the daughter of Ganesha in the vrat tradition that spread widely in the twentieth century. Her worship is deliberately plain - gud and chana, a red flower, a ghee lamp - and asks for a settled mind rather than abundance.

Why is nothing sour allowed?

Khatai is prohibited for the whole day of the vrat, and the household is asked not to eat or serve anything sour either - lemon, tamarind, curd, pickle. The katha turns on this point, and the observance is treated as the test of the vrat.

How is the sixteen-Friday vrat completed?

With the udyapan on the seventeenth Friday: sixteen boys are fed a meal of kheer-puri and chana, with no sour item anywhere in it, and dakshina given. The procedure is on the Santoshi Mata vrat vidhi page.

Should the katha be read before the aarti?

Yes - the Santoshi Mata Vrat Katha is read each Friday, then this aarti with the lamp, then the prasad. Listening to the katha is considered as much a part of the vrat as the fast.

About the Jai Santoshi Mata Aarti

Jai Santoshi Mata - the aarti to Maa Santoshi, the goddess of contentment, sung especially on the sixteen-Friday (Shukravar) vrat.

An aarti is a devotional song sung while waving a lit lamp (diya) before the deity, usually at the close of worship. The Jai Santoshi Mata Aarti above is given in both Hindi (Devanagari) and English (Hinglish, Roman script) so you can sing along in whichever script you are most comfortable with - switch between the two using the buttons above.

An aarti is the lamp-song at the close of puja. It is not a forty-verse chalisa and not a stotram. Browse every lamp-song on the Aarti index, or open a mantra for the same deity. Where the lamp sits in the sequence of worship is shown in Puja Vidhi.