Shubham Karoti Kalyanam — Evening Lamp Prayer — Benefits & How to Chant
शुभं करोति कल्याणम् — दीप प्रार्थना
Complete guide to chanting correctly for maximum benefit
Benefits of Chanting Shubham Karoti Kalyanam — Evening Lamp Prayer
The traditional verse recited while lighting the evening lamp (sandhya deepa) before the household shrine.
Salutes the lamp's light as the bringer of auspiciousness, well-being, health and prosperity, and the remover of negativity and ill-will.
Marks the sacred transition of dusk (sandhya), inviting Lakshmi and light into the home as darkness falls.
Cultivates a daily rhythm of devotion
a prayer at the lighting of the lamp, as natural as the morning kara-darshan.
Short and easily learnt; taught to children as they light the evening diya.
How to Chant Shubham Karoti Kalyanam — Evening Lamp Prayer
Instructions
As you light the evening lamp, fold your hands before its flame and recite the verse, welcoming light, auspiciousness and Lakshmi into the home and dispelling the darkness and negativity of the day. It is often followed by 'Deepa Lakshmi namostute' or the evening aarti.
Spiritual Significance
It is said that where the lamp is lit each evening with this prayer, Lakshmi never departs — for light reverently welcomed becomes the abode of auspiciousness, and darkness and ill-will cannot remain.
Origin & History
Source: Traditional deepa-darshana (evening lamp) shloka
Author: Traditional
This is the verse with which Hindu households traditionally light the evening lamp. As dusk falls, the lamp is lit before the shrine or the tulsi and saluted as Deepa Jyoti — the light that brings auspiciousness, health and wealth and drives away negativity. Together with the morning kara-darshan, it frames the day in devotion: light welcomed at dawn in the palms, and at dusk in the flame.