Auspicious Muhurta for worshipping

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Dear Bhaktarupa prabhu.

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 

> PS. Aren't all these kinds of pious benefits already included in nam

> sankirtan?

 

Thank you for pointing this out. I don't know about others, but I felt

uneasy with certain overenthusiasm regarding worshiping Tulasi-devi for

'great pious benefits'. Thank you.

 

your servant Giri-nayaka das

 

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> > > As stated in Hari Bhakti Vilasa by Sanatana Goswami: Text 180

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> > > kim ca skande vasistha-mandhatr-samvade

> > >

> > > sukla-pakse yada rajan, trtiya budha-samyuta

> > > sravanena maha-bhaga, tulasi cati-punyada. iti.

> > >

> > > kim- ca-furthermore; skande vasistha-mandhatr"-samvade-in the

> > > Skanda

> > > Purana, Vasistha Muni tells King Mandhata; sukla-pakse-on the sukla

> > > paksa; yada-when; rajan-O king; trtiya-third; budha-samyuta-with

> > > mercury; sravanena-with Sravana; maha-bhaga-O very fortunate one;

> > > tulasi-Tulasi; ca-an; ati--punyada-giving great piety; iti-thus.

> > >

> > > In the Skanda Purana, Vasistha Muni tells King Mandhata:

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> > > "O very fortunate king, Tulasi-devi gives great pious benefits to

> > > anyone who worships her on a third tithi of the sukla-paksa when

> > > Mercury is conjoined with the star Sravana."