Vande Mataram! Sujalam, suphalam, malayaja shitalam, Shasyashyamalam, Mataram! Shubhrajyothsna pulakitayaminim Phullakusumita drumadala shobinim Suhasinim sumadhura bhashinim, Sukhadam varadam, Mataram!

Sri Aurobindo Ghosh's English translation of the song I bow to thee, Mother, richly-watered, richly-fruited cool with the winds of the south, dark with the crops of the harvests, The Mother! Her nights rejoicing in the glory of the moonlight her lands clothed beautifully with her trees in flowering bloom sweet of laughter, sweet of speech The Mother, giver of boons, giver of bliss!