Sri Tulasi Pranama

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Dear Devotees,

 

here i am sending you the tulasi pranam , Sri Tulasi

Pradaksina Mantra, & Asta-Nama-Stava from the Padma Purana.

 

 

Sri Tulasi Pranama

 

vrndayai tulasi-devyai

priyayai kesavasya ca

krsna-bhakti-prade devi

satyavatyai namo namah

 

 

vrndayai--unto Vrnda; tulasi-devyai--unto Tulasi-devi; priyayai-- who

is dear; kesavasya--to Lord Kesava; ca-and; krsna-bhakti-- devotional

service to Lord Krsna, prade--who bestows; devi--O goddess; satya-

vatyai--unto Satyavati; namah namah--repeated obeisances.

 

 

I offer my repeated obeisances unto Vrnda, Srimati Tulasi-devi, who

is very dear to Lord Kesava. O goddess, you bestow devotional service

to Lord Krsna and possess the highest truth.

 

Sri Tulasi Pradaksina Mantra

 

 

yani kani ca papani

brahma-hatyadikani ca

tani tani pranasyanti

pradaksinah pade pade

 

 

yani kani--whatever; ca--and; papani--sins; brahma-hatya--killing of

a brahmana; adikani--and so on; ca--also, tani tani--all of them;

pranasyanti--are destroyed; pradaksinah--(by) the circumambulation

(of Tulasi-devi); pade pade--at every step.

 

 

By the circumambulation of Srimati Tulasi-devi all the sins that one

may have committed are destroyed at every step, even the sin of

killing a brahmana.

 

 

Asta-Nama-Stava from the Padma Purana The Eight Names of Vrinda-devi

 

 

Vrindavani, vrinda, visvapujita, pushpasara, nandini, Krishna-jivani,

visva-pavani, tulasi

 

 

VRINDAVANI - One who first manifested in Vrindavan.

VRINDA - The goddess of all plant and trees ( even if one Tulasi

plant is present in a forest it can be called Vrindavana.)

VISHVAPUJITA - One whom the whole universe worships.

PUSHPASARA - The topmost of all flowers, without whom Krishna does

not like to look upon other flowers.

NANDINI - Seeing whom gives unlimited bliss to the devotees.

KRISHNA-JIVANI - The life of Sri Krishna.

VISHVA-PAVANI - One who purifies the three worlds.

TULASI - One who has no comparison.

 

Anyone while worshiping Tulasi-devi chants these eight names will get

the same results as one who performs the Ashvamedha sacrifice. And

one who on the full-moon day of Kartika (Tulasi-devi's appearance

day) worships Her with this Mantra will break free from the bonds of

this miserable world of birth and death, and very quickly attains

Goloka Vrndavan. On the full moon-day of Kartik Lord Sri Krishna

Himself worships Srimati Tulasi-devi with this Mantra.

 

 

One who remembers this Mantra will very quickly attain devotion to

Lord Krishna's Transcendental Lotus Feet.

 

Hare Krishna

May Tulasi Devi bless all of us.

 

 

Soumya