Sant Tulsidas Maharaj

Pranams at the lotus feet of Tulsidas Maharaj!

Chapter – 3

Sant Tulsidas Maharaj arrived in Prayag, and embraced Sanyasashrama, conducted spiritual journeys to Ayodhya, Chitrakoot, Badrinath,  Dwaraka,  Puri, Rameshwaram and Himalaya, he  composed several verses praising the Lord.  He arrived in Kashi and started giving lectures on Lord Rama.  While living in Varanasi, he used to go for early morning ablutions with a wooden vessel on hand, walking through the dense wood, while returning from bathing he used to pour out the Gangajal on a particular tree.   Tulsidas continued the practice for quite some, the spirit lived on the tree was quite pleased with this act, and got relieved from thirst.  The spirit appeared before Tulsidas and advised to meet Lord Hanuman who is always present in the place where the myths of Lord Rama are recited, he would be the first one to arrive in the place of the audience and the last one to leave.    He could fulfill the desire of Tulsidas to witness Lord Ramachandra.  

Once Tulsidas Maharaj was giving lectures on Ramayan, there arrived Hanuman disguised in the form of a leper first in the audience, and the last one to leave.  One day Tulsidas Maharaj followed the leper and attained the  Dharshan of Lord Hanuman, he prostrated before Lord Hanuman, revealed his yearning to witness Lord Ramachandra.  Lord Hanuman advised Tulsidas Maharaj that he could attain the Dharshan of Lord Ramachandra in the hills of Chitrakoot.  It was in the year 1607 on a Wednesday of Moni Amavasya, Tulsidas Maharaj had the Dharshan of Lord Sri Ramachandra in Chitrakoot.

In the year 1631 on a Ramnavami day Tulsidas Maharaj started the composition of illustrious Sri Ramacharitha Manas, it took nearly two years, seven months and twenty-six days to finish this great work.  In the year 1633, Marghasheersh Shuklapaksha on the  day  of Ramvivah, he has completed Ramacharitha Manas, and became famously known as Sant Tulsidas.   Sri Ramacharitha Manas is one of the sacred scripture worshiped as any other Hindu religious text.