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Hope you all had a wonderful Sri Tulasi Pooje at home. After almost two decades, we did the pooje at our apartment in North Carolina. Definitely missed our Maryland home where I would light rows of Deepa.
We also visited the SKV temple in the morning at 6 AM for Tulasi Ksheerabhdi Seva. Will share video. We also finished pooje at home and attended the evening Tulasi vivaha at the SKV temple. Will share video as well. It was just awesome witnessing the Pooje done by our Acharyaru Sri Narendra Udupa Avaru.
I am sharing a small video of our home pooje. Sri Tulasi Bless us all.
During one of our Hari Kathamrutha Sara recital, the group had shared a PDF during Shri Narashima Jayanthi on references of Lord Narashima in Hari Kathamrutha Sara. I was thinking of searching Goddess Lakshmi and it just occurred to me to search for Tulasi as well.
From the book I have ( image all the way at the bottom), I searched for references of Tulasi Devi and compiled a list.
ಹಲವು ಕರ್ಮವ ಮಾಡಿ ದೇಹವ | ಬಳಲಿಸದೆ ದಿನ ದಿನದಿ ಹೃದಯಾ | ಮಲ ಸದನದಿ ವಿರಾಜಿಸುವ ಹರಿ ಮೂರ್ತಿಯನೆ ಭಜಿಸು || ತಿಳಿಯದೀ ಪೂಜಾ ಪ್ರಕರಣವ | ಫಲ ಸುಪುಷ್ಪಾ ಗ್ರ್ಯೋದ್ಕ ಕ ಶ್ರೀ ತುಳಸಿಗಳನ ರ್ಪಿಸಲು ಒಪ್ಪನು ವಾಸುದೇವ ಸದಾ|| 13 – 21 ||
ಮಂದನಾದರು ಸರಿಯೆ ಗೋಪೀ | ಚಂದನ ಶ್ರೀ ಮುದ್ರೆಗಳ ನಲಿ | ವಿಂದ ಧರಿಸುತ ಶ್ರೀ ತುಳಸಿ ಪದ್ಮಾಕ್ಷ ಸರಗಳನು || ಕಂಧರದ ಮಧ್ಯದಲಿ ಧರಿಸಿ ಮು | ಕುಂದ ಶ್ರೀ ಭೂರಮಣ ತ್ರಿಜಗ | ದ್ವಂದ್ಯ ಸರ್ವ ಸ್ವಾಮಿ ಮಮ ಕುಲ ದೈವ ವೆನೆ ಪೊರೆವ|| 16 – 20 ||
ನೇಮದಿಂದ ಶ್ವತ್ಥ ತುಳಸೀ | ಸೋಮಧರನಲಿ ವಿಮಲ ಸಾಲ | ಗ್ರಾಮಗಳನಿಟ್ಟಭಿನಮಿಪ ನರ ಮುಕ್ತಿಯೋಗ್ಯ ಸದಾ || ಭೂಮಿಯೊಳು ಧರ್ಮಾರ್ಥ ಮುಕ್ತಿ ಸು |ಕಾಮ ಪೇಕ್ಷೆಗಳಿಂದ ಸಾಲ | ಗ್ರಾಮಗಳ ವ್ಯತಿರಿಕ್ತ ವಂದಿಸೆ ದುಃಖವೈದುವನು || 30 – 6 ||
ಶೈವ ಶೂದ್ರ ಕರಾರ್ಚಿತ ಮಹಾ | ದೇವ ವಾಯು ಹರಿ ಪ್ರತಿಮೆ ವೃಂ | ದಾವನದಿ ಮಾಸದ್ವಯದೊಳಿಹ ತುಳಸಿ ಅಪ್ರಸವ || ಗೋ ವಿವಾಹವರ್ಜಿ ತಾಶ್ವ | ತ್ಥಾ ವಿಟಪಿಗಳ ಭಕ್ತಿ ಪೂರ್ವಕ | ಸೇವಿಸುವ ನರ ನಿತ್ಯ ಶಾಶ್ವತ ದುಃಖ ವೈದುವನು|| 30 – 8 ||
ತುಲಸೀ ಹಬ್ಬವಿವಾಹ ಉತ್ವಾನ ದ್ವಾದಶಿ – Uthwana Dwadashi/Tulasi Habba – November 5th Saturday in USA and in India. Last year’s pictures:
Close up of our little Tulasi Plant:
Uthwana Dwadashi – Tulasi Habba or Tulasi Pooje is celebrated a fortnight after Deepavali. It signifies the day Tulasi married Lord Vishnu. On this day, Tulasi katte is decorated like a bride. Amla trees are planted along with the tulsi plant.
Pooje to be done in the evening.
What’s Tulasi?
In most Hindu homes, you find a Tulasi plant growing out of a Tulasi katte . Tulasi is considered to be a holy plant and is worshiped every morning. Tulasi has medicinal value and is often used as a herb in curing the common cold and cough.
So what’s Tulasi Habba? Tulasi came out of the ocean during Amrita Manthan as a younger sister of Lakshmi. She too was devoted to Lord Vishnu and wanted to marry him. But Lakshmi who was already married to him did not like the idea and cursed her to become a plant. Thus the tulasi plant was born. But the all merciful Lord Vishnu took pity and fulfilling her wish declared that when he will be in the form of a saligrama, found in most temples and madhwa houses, she will remain close to him in the form of a tulasi leaf. Therefore even today a saligrama will have a tulsi leaf along with it. In front of every Hindu home there will be a tulasi katte in which a plant grows round the year. Although the prayers are offered to Tulasi everyday by watering the plant in the morning and lighting an oil lamp before it in the evening, on Kartik Shukla Dwadashi there will be an annual Tulasi Pooja in the evening when the tulasi katte will be beautifully decorated with clay lamps.
Attached below is a screen shot of the Tulasi Vivaha Slokas and Procedure as printed in the Uttaradi Matta Panchanga. If you click on the image a bigger picture will display which has the words very very clear.
Here is the link for all the Tulasi slokas and songs I have recorded.
ಇಲ್ಲದಿದ್ದರೆ, ಬೇರು, ಮಣ್ಣು ಇಲ್ಲದಿರೆ, ತುಳಸಿ ತುಳಸಿ ಎಂದು ಕೂಗಿದರೆ ಸಾಕು
ಇಲ್ಲದಿರೆ, ಪುರಂದರವಿಠಲಯ್ಯ ಎಲ್ಲ ವಸ್ತುಗಳ ಈಡ್ಯಾಡುವ
Ugābhōga – 2
Śrītulasi illadire, śrīkr̥ṣṇatuḷasi
tuḷasidaḷa illadire, tuḷasikāṣṭha
illadire, tuḷasi śuṣka adu haḷetādare ēnu
avanigarpisabahudu
illadire, cigurutuḷasi illadire, muguḷutene
illadiddare, bēru, maṇṇu
illadire, tuḷasi tuḷasi endu kūgidare sāku
illadire, purandaraviṭhalayya ella vastugaḷa īḍyāḍuva
The meaning of the two: one should worship the Lord with Tulasi in whatever form available, be it Sri Tulasi, be it Krishna Tulasi, Tulasi seed, or even if that is not available the root of Tulasi, or even the soil in which seeds are grown, if none of the above Tulasi is available, just by reciting Tulasi Tulasi is sufficient to Lord Vittala.
A slight variation in both Ugabhoga but the gist is the same.
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