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Glories of Srimati
Tulasi Devi
By Krsna Caitanya Das
Submitted by Hardik
** Last weekend was the marriage of
Srimati Tulasi Devi & Salagrama.
Glories of Tulasi Devi
By Krsna Caitanya Das
Submitted by Hardik
Tulasi is the essence of all devotional activities. The leaves, flowers, roots , bark, branches, trunk and shade of Tulasi Devi are all spiritual.
One who puts mud from the base of the Tulasi tree on his body and worships the Diety of lord Krsna gets the result of one hundred days worship each day.
One who sees or comes near a house or garden where the Tulasi plant is present gets rid of all his sinful reactions, including that of killing a brahmana.
Lord Krsna happily lives in the house , town, or forest where Tulasi Devi is present.
Lord Krsna and all the Demigods live in the house where mud from the base of the Tulasi tree is found.
One who worships Lord Krsna with Tulasi leaves releases all his ancestors from the realm of birth and death.
One who puts into his mouth or on his head Tulasi leaves that have been offered to Lord Krsna attains Lord Krsna's abode.
In Kali Yuga, one who worships, remembers , pants keeps or performs kirtana before Tulasi burns up all sinful reactions and quickly attains Lord Krsna's abode.
One who remembers the glories of Tulasi or tells others about them will never take birth again.
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Srila Prabhupada on Tulasi
Devi
Submitted by Manoj:
Tulasi Devi is a pure devotee of Krishna and she should be treated with the same respect given to all Krishna's pure devotees. Simply by worshiping her faithfully, a devotee can get himself free of from all material miseries. In the Nectar of Devotion I have given two verses from the Skanda Purana, one of which is: "Tulasi is auspicious in all respects. Simply by seeing, simply by touching, simply by remembering, simply by praying to, simply by bowing before, simply by hearing about, or simply by sowing the tree, there is always auspiciousness. Anyone who comes in touch with the Tulasi tree in the above mentioned ways lives eternally in the Vaikuntha world" [Nectar of Devotion]. So from this verse we can understand how pure is the service which Tulasi offers to Sri Krishna. So we should always endeavor after becoming servant of Tulasi Devi. She is a pure devotee and thus she has appeared on this planet to render service to Krishna by being offered in all temples throughout the world by being offered up to the lotus feet of Krishna.
… Srila Prabhupada in a letter. Bombay - Jan 6, 1972
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