Today's Daily Sloka
శనివారం — Saturday, 24 October 2026
Sanskrit (Devanagari)
त्वमेव माता च पिता त्वमेव । त्वमेव बन्धुश्च सखा त्वमेव । त्वमेव विद्या द्रविणं त्वमेव । त्वमेव सर्वं मम देव देव ॥
Transliteration (IAST)
Tvam eva mātā ca pitā tvam eva / Tvam eva bandhuś ca sakhā tvam eva / Tvam eva vidyā draviṇaṃ tvam eva / Tvam eva sarvaṃ mama deva deva
English Translation
You alone are my mother and my father. You alone are my kinsman and my friend. You alone are my knowledge and my wealth. You alone are everything to me, O God of gods.
Context & Significance
The supreme prayer of total surrender — declaring the Divine as the totality of one's relationships, knowledge, and wealth. Often recited at the close of Vishnu/Krishna worship.
A Daily Practice
A different sloka appears each day, drawn from a rotation of 13 verses. Recite it at sunrise, and commit one to memory each week: you will know the whole rotation in 13 weeks — a foundation for life-long contemplation.
Every Sloka in the Rotation
These are the 13 verses this page cycles through, with the text each is drawn from. Six are from the Bhagavad Gita and link to the chapter they belong to; the rest are Upanishadic invocations and traditional slokas.
- Bhagavad Gita 2.47 — Sankhya Yoga
- Bhagavad Gita 4.7 — Jnana Yoga
- Bhagavad Gita 9.22 — Rajavidya Rajaguhya Yoga
- Bhagavad Gita 18.66 — Moksha Sannyasa Yoga
- Bhagavad Gita 12.13-14 — Bhakti Yoga
- Vishnu Sahasranama (Opening Sloka) — Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram, Dhyana Slokas
- Purnamadah Shanti Mantra — Isha Upanishad, opening invocation
- Saha Navavatu Shanti Mantra — Krishna Yajurveda, Taittiriya Upanishad
- Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu — Traditional concluding mantra (closing of pujas, satsangs, and spiritual events)
- Asato Ma Sadgamaya — Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 1.3.28
- Twameva Mata Cha Pita Twameva — Pandava Gita (Sloka attributed to King Pandu); also Vishnu Stuti (today)
- Bhagavad Gita 7.7 — Jnana Vijnana Yoga
- Vakratunda Mahakaya (Ganesha Mangala Sloka) — Traditional Ganesha invocation (Ganesha Stuti)