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| {{terms|"3 times round the plant both morning and evening"}} | | {{terms|"3 times round the plant both morning and evening"|"circumambulate that tulasi plant"|"circumambulate the tulasi tree"|"circumambulating the tulasi plant"|"circumambulating three times repeating the mantras"|"mantra for circumambulating the Tulasi tree"}} |
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| [[Category:Time]] | | [[Category:Circumambulating|2]] |
| [[Category:Round]] | | [[Category:Tulasi|2]] |
| [[Category:Plant]] | | [[Category:Plants|2]] |
| [[Category:Morning]] | | </div> |
| [[Category:Evening]] | | <div id="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" class="section" sec_index="2" parent="compilation" text="Sri Caitanya-caritamrta"><h2>Sri Caitanya-caritamrta</h2> |
| [[Category:Tulasi Plant]] | | </div> |
| [[Category:Tulasi]]
| | <div id="CC_Madhya-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Madhya-lila"><h3>CC Madhya-lila</h3> |
| [[Category:Tulasi Puja]]
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| | <div id="CCMadhya24261_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5577" link="CC Madhya 24.261" link_text="CC Madhya 24.261"> |
| | <div class="heading">“"After planting the tulasī tree before your house, you should daily circumambulate that tulasī plant, serve her by giving her water and other things, and continuously chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra."”. |
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| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 24.261|CC Madhya 24.261, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">""After planting the tulasī tree before your house, you should daily circumambulate that tulasī plant, serve her by giving her water and other things, and continuously chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra.""</p> |
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| | <div class="purport text"><p>This is the beginning of spiritual life. After leaving householder life, one may go to a holy place, such as the bank of the Ganges or Yamunā, and erect a small cottage. A small cottage can be constructed without any expenditure. Four logs serving as pillars can be secured by any man from the forest. The roof can be covered with leaves, and one can cleanse the inside. Thus one can live very peacefully. In any condition, any man can live in a small cottage, plant a tulasī tree, water it in the morning, offer it prayers, and continuously chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra. Thus one can make vigorous spiritual advancement. This is not at all difficult. One simply has to follow the instructions of the spiritual master strictly. Then everything will be successful in due course of time. As far as eating is concerned, there is no problem. If Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, supplies everyone with eatables, why should He not supply His devotee? Sometimes a devotee will not even bother to construct a cottage. He will simply go to live in a mountain cave. One may live in a cave, in a cottage beside a river, in a palace or in a big city like New York or London. In any case, a devotee can follow the instructions of his spiritual master and engage in devotional service by watering the tulasī plant and chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra. Taking the advice of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and our spiritual master, Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Mahārāja, one can go to any part of the world and instruct people to become devotees of the Lord by following the regulative principles, worshiping the tulasī plant and continuously chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra.</p> |
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| | <div id="CC_Antya-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Antya-lila"><h3>CC Antya-lila</h3> |
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| | <div id="CCAntya3234_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="622" link="CC Antya 3.234" link_text="CC Antya 3.234"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 3.234|CC Antya 3.234, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">After coming there, the woman offered obeisances to the tulasī plant, and after circumambulating the tulasī plant she came to the door of the cave where Haridāsa Ṭhākura was sitting.</p> |
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| | </div> |
| | <div id="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" class="section" sec_index="3" parent="compilation" text="Other Books by Srila Prabhupada"><h2>Other Books by Srila Prabhupada</h2> |
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| | <div id="Teachings_of_Lord_Caitanya" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" text="Teachings of Lord Caitanya"><h3>Teachings of Lord Caitanya</h3> |
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| | <div id="TLC16_0" class="quote" parent="Teachings_of_Lord_Caitanya" book="OB" index="22" link="TLC 16" link_text="Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 16"> |
| | <div class="heading">Construct a small thatched house on the river bank and sow a tulasī plant by that house. Just circumambulate the tulasī tree, and every day taste one fallen leaf. |
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| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:TLC 16|Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 16]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Although the hunter was very sinful, his heart became softened, and he became afraid of his sins by virtue of his association with a great devotee like Nārada. Those who are grossly sinful are not at all afraid of committing sins, but here we can see that because his purification began in the association of a great devotee like Nārada, the hunter became afraid of his sinful activities. The hunter therefore replied: "My dear sir, from my very childhood I have been taught to kill animals in this way. Please tell me how I can get rid of all the offenses and sinful activities which I have accumulated. I am surrendering unto your feet. Please save me from all the reactions of my sinful activities which I have committed in the past, and please direct me to the proper path so that I can be free."</p> |
| | <p>"If you actually want to follow my directions, I can tell you the real path by which you can be freed from sinful reactions."</p> |
| | <p>"I shall follow whatever you say without hesitation," the hunter agreed.</p> |
| | <p>Nārada then told him to first break his bow; only then would he disclose the path of liberation.</p> |
| | <p>"You are asking me to break my bow," the hunter protested, "but if I break it, what will be the means of my livelihood?"</p> |
| | <p>"Don't worry about your livelihood," Nārada said. "I shall send you sufficient grains in order to live.',</p> |
| | <p>The hunter then broke his bow and fell down at the feet of Nārada. Nārada got him to stand up, and he instructed him: "Just go to your home and distribute whatever money and valuables you have to the devotees and the brāhmaṇas. Then just come out and follow me wearing only one cloth. Construct a small thatched house on the river bank and sow a tulasī plant by that house. Just circumambulate the tulasī tree, and every day taste one fallen leaf. Above all, always chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare. As far as your livelihood is concerned, I shall send you grains, but you will only accept as much grain as you require for yourself and your wife."</p> |
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| <div id="Correspondence" class="section" sec_index="6" parent="compilation" text="Correspondence"><h2>Correspondence</h2> | | <div id="Correspondence" class="section" sec_index="6" parent="compilation" text="Correspondence"><h2>Correspondence</h2> |
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| <div id="1970_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="5" parent="Correspondence" text="1970 Correspondence"><h3>1970 Correspondence</h3> | | <div id="1970_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="5" parent="Correspondence" text="1970 Correspondence"><h3>1970 Correspondence</h3> |
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| <div id="LettertoGovindaLosAngeles7April1970_1" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="220" link="Letter to Govinda -- Los Angeles 7 April, 1970" link_text="Letter to Govinda -- Los Angeles 7 April, 1970"> | | <div id="LettertoGovindaLosAngeles7April1970_0" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="220" link="Letter to Govinda -- Los Angeles 7 April, 1970" link_text="Letter to Govinda -- Los Angeles 7 April, 1970"> |
| <div class="heading">So there are three mantras, one for bowing down, one for circumambulating,* and one for collecting the leaves. The collecting of leaves should be done once in the morning for worshiping and for putting on the plates of foodstuff to be offered. On each bowl or plate there should be at lest one leaf. So you follow and practice these Tulasi affairs and you try to distribute your experience to all the other centers, that will be a new chapter in the history of Krsna Consciousness Movement. *3 times round the plant both morning and evening. | | <div class="heading">So there are three mantras, one for bowing down, one for circumambulating,* and one for collecting the leaves. The collecting of leaves should be done once in the morning for worshiping and for putting on the plates of foodstuff to be offered. On each bowl or plate there should be at lest one leaf. So you follow and practice these Tulasi affairs and you try to distribute your experience to all the other centers, that will be a new chapter in the history of Krsna Consciousness Movement. *3 times round the plant both morning and evening. |
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| :tulasya mrta janmasi sada tvam kesavapriya | | :tulasya mrta janmasi sada tvam kesavapriya |
| :kesavarthi cinomi tvam barada bhava sobhine | | :kesavarthi cinomi tvam barada bhava sobhine |
| :Then the mantra for circumambulating the Tulasi tree.
| | Then the mantra for circumambulating the Tulasi tree. |
| :yani kani ca papani brahmahatya dikani ca | | :yani kani ca papani brahmahatya dikani ca |
| :tani tani pranasyanti pradaksinah pade pade | | :tani tani pranasyanti pradaksinah pade pade |
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| <p>A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami</p> | | <p>A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami</p> |
| <p>*3 times round the plant both morning and evening.</p> | | <p>*3 times round the plant both morning and evening.</p> |
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| | <div id="LettertoKarandharaBombay30November1970_1" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="627" link="Letter to Karandhara -- Bombay 30 November, 1970" link_text="Letter to Karandhara -- Bombay 30 November, 1970"> |
| | <div class="heading">Regarding worship of Tulasi, it is not very much important. Simply all the devotees may offer a little water every morning and in the evening offer obeisances and ghee lamp (one wick) and circumambulating three times repeating the mantras that I have given you. The plant may remain in the garden. |
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| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Karandhara -- Bombay 30 November, 1970|Letter to Karandhara -- Bombay 30 November, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Regarding worship of Tulasi, it is not very much important. Simply all the devotees may offer a little water every morning and in the evening offer obeisances and ghee lamp (one wick) and circumambulating three times repeating the mantras that I have given you. The plant may remain in the garden.</p> |
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