Question Re Tulasi Maharani's Seva

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Prabujis/ Matajis

 

Please accept my humble obeisances.

 

We grew a baby Tulasi Maharani and now she is about 3 ft tall and 2.5 ft in

diameter.

We live in a small 1-Room apartment and have very little space to accomodate

such a wonderful Tulasi Maharani inside the apartment during winter time

when it freezes here.

 

I have the following questions re Tulasi Maharanis' service:

 

1) Can we prune the old dried Manjaris and branches on Tulasi maharani

during winter time?

If so can we use scissor?

 

2) What is the minimum temperature that Tualsi Maharani can be kept in

without suffering damage?

 

3) What is the maximum life of a Tualsi Maharani plant? WHen should we plan

to get a new one?

 

I will be very grateful on any guidance any one of you Vasihnavas can

provide.

 

Youe servant

 

Bhaskar Joshi

 

 

 

 

 

 

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>Types of prayers

>Sun, 2 Nov 2003 00:39 +0100

>

>Types of prayers

>(from Gaudiya Vaisnava Abhidhana)

>

>

>1. Samprarthanatmika - direct prayer glorifying the Lord. We have many

>examples of this type of prayer in Narottama Dasa's Prarthana.

>

>2. Svadhainyabodhika - expressing humility and embarrassment, informing

>the Lord: I am very fallen.

>

>3. Manah-siksa - examples are Bhajahu Re Mana by Govinda das or

>Manah-siksa by Raghunatha das Gosvami. In this type of prayer the mind

>becomes a disciple and we teach it how to deal with the senses and relate

>to

>intelligence. We consider the mind a separate entity and tell it: Pull

>yourself together! Meditate on Krsna! The challenging spirit of

>intelligence

>becomes manifest. One function of the intelligence is to challenge the

>mind.

>

>4. Vilapatmika - statements of supreme lamentation. This may be

>confusing;

>we hear the devotees are always happy, so how can a devotee lament? But

>this

>kind of lamentation is a type of devotional ecstasy - it draws a devotee

>closer to Krsna.

>

>5. Vaisnava Mahimaprakasika - revealing the greatness of the Vaisnavas.

>Krsna doesn't want to be considered separately from the Vaisnavas,

>therefore

>we can please Him by glorifying them.

>

>6. Sri-Guru-Vaisnava-vijnapti-rupa - statements of submission and

>glorification of the Vaisnavas, especially of the guru. The example is

>Bhaktivinoda Thakura's Ohe! Vaisnava Thakura.

>

>7. Sridhama-vase-lipsatmika - expressing the desire to live in the holy

>places. There are many prayers of this kind, composed by Prabodhananda

>Sarasvati, glorifying Sri Vrndavana. In one of them he says: Anyone who

>desires to leave Vrndavana I consider to be a madman.

>

>8. Sadhaka-dehe-lalasa-sucika - expressing the desire to practice

>devotional service.

>

>9. Siddha-dehe-lalasamayi - desire to attain siddha-deha and serve Krsna

>in this spiritual body.

>

>10. Aksepabodhika - lamentation again: extreme grief and sorrow that we

>have fallen to this material world.

>

>

> We can see that out of the ten types of prayers listed, three

>express feeling "bad." So these feelings are not useless. They can be

>incorporated into devotional service. We shouldn't think: First let me

>become a pure devotee, free from all lamentation, no problems - then I can

>come before the Lord and offer nice prayers. No. A pure devotee feels his

>deficiency so he comes before the Lord and prays.

>

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