Brindavan Top Thulasi Maadam

Description

About Thulasi Maadam

Every part of the Thulasi plant is revered and considered sacred. Even the soil around the plant and Stone Pot are sacred. In Sri-mad Bhagavatam, the significance of the Thulasi over other plants is described as:

                  “Although flowering plants like the mandāra, kunda, kurabaka, utpala, campaka, arṇa, punnāga, nāgakeśara, bakula, lily and pārijāta are full of transcendental fragrance, they are still conscious of the austerities performed by tulasī, for tulasī is given special preference by the Lord, who garlands Himself with tulasī leaves” — Srimad Bhagavatam, Canto 4, Chapter 15, Verse 19[22]

If a Thulasi stick is used to burn a lamp for Vishnu, it is like offering the gods lakhs of lamps.

If one makes a paste of dried Thulasi wood (from a plant that died naturally) and smears it over his body and worships Vishnu, it is worth several ordinary pujas and lakhs of Gho-dhanam (donation of holy cows). Water mixed with the Thulasi leaves is given to the dying to raise their departing souls to heaven.