An "Arti" is a song of praise for the Beloved from his lover / devotee.

 

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GUJERATI   ARTI

Baba wrote this arti "Bujawe Naar Jallatani" otherwise known as  "Gujerati Arti" on the 11th January 1926.

 

 

Oh God command that the fire of our ignorance be extinguished
Your lovers yearn for You to bestow upon them the Light of Faith
Oh Murshed Meher Baba we (your lovers) lay our heads at your Feet
Oh Meher Baba, You have made yourself perfectly aware of your Godhood.
You are the Lord of Truth, You are the Lover and the Beloved in One.
Being the torrent of infinite Knowledge, You are the Ocean of Oneness,
Oh Master, bestow upon us, the wayfarers, the Knowledge of Ezad (the only One worthy of worhsip)
For You, Oh Paramatma are Omniscient and are Divine Knowledge Itself.
Give us to drink of the cup of God's Love that we become intoxicated.
Oh Saki, we offer our lives in sacrifice to You, give us this draught.
Only is You steer our ship while in mid ocean can we remain afloat
Oh Meher Baba, the Captain of our ship, You are our Protector.
Oh Meher Baba, the Captain of our ship, You are our Protector.

Meheru, Mani and Mehera singing the Bujaawe Arti at Meherabad - Photo courtesy of MN Publications
Meheru, Mani and Mehera singing the Bujaawe Arti at Meherabad - Photo courtesy of MN Publications

JANE ( BROWN ) MOSSMAN SINGS HER VERSION OF THE GUJERATI ARTI

To hear Jane Brown’s exquisite Western-style version (arranged by Raphael Rudd), please visit JaiBaba.com.

The following MP3 files feature Richard Slavich performing 7 classical variations / interpretations / styles on the Gujarati Arti music.

Check Richard Slavich's web page.

 

RICHARD SLAVICH
GUJARATI ARTI - 1st interpretation
02 Track 2.mp3
MP3 Audio File 831.9 KB
RICHARD SLAVICH
GUJARATI ARTI - 2nd interpretation
03 Track 3.mp3
MP3 Audio File 891.7 KB
RICHARD SLAVICH
GUJARATI ARTI - 3rd interpretation
04 Track 4.mp3
MP3 Audio File 735.3 KB
RICHARD SLAVICH
GUJARATI ARTI - 4th interpretation
05 Track 5.mp3
MP3 Audio File 1.4 MB
RICHARD SLAVICH
GUJARATI ARTI - 5th interpretation
06 Track 6.mp3
MP3 Audio File 762.6 KB
RICHARD SLAVICH
GUJARATI ARTI - 6th interpretation
07 Track 7.mp3
MP3 Audio File 760.6 KB
RICHARD SLAVICH
GUJARATI ARTI - 7th interpretation
08 Track 8.mp3
MP3 Audio File 1.3 MB

MEHER BABA'S FIRST AARTI - BY MOHAN SHAHANE (1922-24) - VOICE MEERA AND NIKITA KALE

This is the earliest Aarti of Meher Baba. It was composed somewhere around 1922-24 by Moreshwer Gyaneshwer Shahane or popularly known as Mohan Shahane. His father Dyneshwar Ramchandra Shahane popularly known as Kaka Shahane and mother Manu Tai (Mrs. Kaka Shahane). became residents of Meherabad, in early twenties. This Aarti would be sung before Baba in Meherabad every evening by His early disciples or Mandali, and it was composed even before Meher Baba began His Silence or Baba wrote Gujarati Aarti "Bujhawe Naar" in 1926.

 

Courtesy of Meher Trust

AMERICAN  ARTI

 

Music and lyrics by Henry S. Mindlin

© 1967 Sufism Reoriented

      

 

1. How can one fathom Your fathomless being?

How can we know You, we see with gross eyes?

A glimpse of Your Shadow has blinded our seeing;

How could Your Glory e’er be realized?

 

REFRAIN: (sing after each verse)

          Consumed is my mind in Your fire and flame,

          Accept it, oh Meher, in Oneness.

          Consumed is my heart in the sound of Your Name,

          Accept, oh Meher, my Arti;

          Accept, oh Meher, my song.

 

2. Thought cannot reach You and word cannot speak You,

Infinite Ocean of unending bliss.

Though we beseech You, how can we seek You?

How can the finite know Limitlessness?

 

3. At Your command suns and stars give their light,

What in the worlds can I offer as mine?

Even my gift of love would be naught in Your sight

But veiled reflection of Your love divine

 

4. You are the Ancient One, Lord of Creation,

How can we measure Your true majesty?

You are the Christ, the Divine Incarnation;

Dear Lord, please don’t be indifferent to me.

 

5. You are beginning and end of all things,

’Tis You alone Who assumes every role;

Sinners and saints, beggars and kings,

You are the Source and You are the Goal.

 

6. (repeat first verse)

 

(This is the correct version reviewed and approved by Meher Baba in 1968 and performed at Guruprasad at the darshan program in April 1969. The song was composed at the suggestion of Murshida Ivy Duce and the lyrics are based on Adi K. Irani’s English translation of Madhusudan’s Hindi arti. - hm)

Hank Mindlin
Hank Mindlin
1969, Guruprasad, Poona, India - Henry Mindlin - photo cropped
1969, Guruprasad, Poona, India - Henry Mindlin - photo cropped

AUSTRALIAN  ARTI

O glorious, eternal Ancient One
your face is a bright, transcendental sun -
lighten this dark world and the tears I weep;
my heart, Meher, I give to you to keep.


Creator, yet creationless you are -
truth and Truth's Body, divine Avatar
who, through compassion the three worlds maintains -
destroy this ignorance that life sustains.


These five lights are the whirling spokes of breath
of the world-wheel that bears me on to death
unless you, who are infinitely kind
break the wheel's hub which is conditioned mind.


This incense is my love, these fruits my art
which to please you I have shaped from my heart;
accept them as you would a simple flower
that has no use beyond it's shining hour.


You are my Self. I sing to you in praise
and beg your love to bear me through the days
till you, the Everlasting Perfect One,
illume by darkness with your shining sun.

 

Words & Music by : Francis Brabazon

 

 


Francis Brabazon - Feb. 1954 : Andhra, India - Courtesy of MN Collection
Francis Brabazon - Feb. 1954 : Andhra, India - Courtesy of MN Collection
Australian Arti sung by Raine Eastman-Gannett
Australian Arti.mp3
MP3 Audio File 3.7 MB

ENGLISH  ARTI

English Arti written by Fred Marks. Courtesy of Sue Chapman.
English Arti written by Fred Marks. Courtesy of Sue Chapman.

SPANISH - LATIN  AMERICAN  ARTI

 

The American Arti was composed for Avatar Meher Baba by Henry MIndlin in 1967. Meher Baba heard it and approved it. Arsenio Rodriguez rendered Henry's lyric in Spanish and set it to the original melody. Mischa Rutenberg sings it here accompanied with a track by Randy Hammon. The original music, lyric, performance, and video are ©Sufism Reoriented 2016.

THE SPANISH ARTI is a translation of the American Arti (aka the Western Arti), English words and music by Henry (Hank) Mindlin, © 1967 by Sufism Reoriented. Words translated into Spanish by Arsenio Rodriguez, who performs it here, open the link and click the start ob the sound file.
 
¿Como podré yo sondear tu grandeza?
¿Como veré yo tu invisible Ser?
La luz de tu sombra me ha deslumbrado
¿Como podré yo llegar hasta ti?
 
[chorus]
Tu amor me consumió
En su fuego y calor
Acepta O Meher mi canto
Tu amor me consumió
Y me abrió la corazón
Acepta O Meher mi canto
Acepta O Meher mi amor
 
Los pensamientos hasta ti no llegan
Ni las palabras describen tu Ser
Tu eres el Mar del Amor Infinito
¿Como podré yo ahogarme en ti?
 
[chorus]
 
Tu ya es la tierra, el sol, las estrellas
Nada en el mundo puedo darte a ti
Aun mi regalo de amor no sería
Sino un reflejo de tu gran amor
 
[chorus]
 
Tu eres el Antiguo, Señor de lo Creado
¿Como podré yo medir tu majestad?
Tu eres el Cristo, el Divino Amado
O buen Senor no te olvides de mí
 
[chorus]
 
Tu eres principio y final de las cosas
Eres tu solo el único actor
Buenos y malos, pobres y ricos,
Todo en ti nace y muere en ti
 
[chorus]

 

http://www.mischievouspeeps.com/media/spanish-arti/

 

 

HINDI  ARTI

Aadi Sachaytana shaanti nikaytana
namo Brahmo aao
Meher Prabhu arati apanaao
Meher Prabhu arati apanaao

Prema deepa may Diay jalaavoo
Nibida andhayraa mitataa paavoo
Apanaa suba koocha toomhay chadhaavoo
Tooma moojhko sarsaao
Meher Prabhu arati apanaao
Meher Prabhu arati apanaao

Jivana Ki hara saansa hamaari
Bana jaa-ay Prabhu gati toomhaari
Hay karoonaakara leelee-dhaari
Tooma kaaroonaa barsaao
Meher Prabhu arati apanaao
Meher Prabhu arati apanaao

Banay arati jeevana mayraa
Aadi anta-kaa laga ho ghayraa
Khoolay nayana aur dikhay savayraa
Tooma moojmay chaa jaao
Meher Prabhu arati apanaao
Meher Prabhu arati apanaao

Aadi Sachaytana shaanti nikaytana
namo Brahmo aao
Meher Prabhu arati apanaao
Meher Prabhu arati apanaao

Translation


He, from Whose Whim sprang up the universe, How can intellect fathom His Divinity.

Primordial, life-giving consciousness, heaven of peace, Salutations, Oh Brahma come, Lord Meher accept my Arti.

Light the lamp of love in my heart and annihilate this intense darkness offering everything to you and be blissful in Your Love: Oh Lord Meher, accept my Arti.

May every breath of my life become the flow of Your Will, Oh Compassionate One; Oh Master of the Divine game; shower Your Mercy upon me; Oh Lord Meher, accept my Arti.

May your Arti become my very life, that the round of births and deaths end forever. May my eyes be opened to the light of the dawn and you pervade in me; Oh Lord Meher, accept my Arti.

Original Hindi Arti

Attached is the mp3 file of the original Hindi Arti of Beloved Baba written and sung by Madhusudan Pund in his mellifluous voice accompanied by Srirangapatnam Centre party singers (Karnataka State, India). It is recorded in 2 parts reflecting two sides of the one single record with a short silent interval between 1st and the 2nd part.
The sheer simplicity and beauty of this rendering in a very low key (with no pretensions whatsoever) makes it a treasure for all times.
From what I understand from Pratap Ahir of the Poona Baba Centre, Beloved Baba had asked His secretary Adi K. Irani to take Madhusudan to the recording studio of His Master’s Voice and get copies of the arti cut in the old 78rpm records (I believe, 100 copies).  Some Baba devotees may still be owning and holding this 78 rpm record today.

During the 4 days of November 1962 East West Gathering Madhusudan’s Arti was sung at the close of each day’s program.

Click on the music note logo to play the original recording of the Arti.

Madhusudan's Hindi arti of Avatar Meher
MP3 Audio File 8.9 MB

Gaate Chalo -Arti


Pratap Ahir ( with grey hair ) is seen playing the harmonium on the above video the "original Hindi Arti" during the Amartithi celebrations.

He also seen in the below photograph playing the harmonium taken in 1959, Guruprasad, Pune, India. Meher Baba is officiating at Madhusudan ( front left ) and Subhadra  ( lady seated next to Baba ) their wedding ceremony. Madhusudan wrote the original Hindi Arti.


Bhau Kalchuri’s Hindi arti 


Bhau's version was much later adapted as the Hindi Arti.

MARATHI ARTI

ALOBA'S  ARTI

 

 ALOBA'S ARTI-FARSI HANDWRITING BY MAHMOUD AJANG
ALOBA'S ARTI-FARSI HANDWRITING BY MAHMOUD AJANG

Avatar Meher Baba's 50th Amartithi 2019 Baba Hu

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