Sant Tulsidas Maharaj

Pranams at the lotus feet of Tulsidas Maharaj!

Chapter – 4

It was believed that Sant Tulsidas Maharaj was an incarnation of Sage Valmiki.  In Bhavishyoththara Purana Lord Shiva describes Goddess Parvathi about the reincarnation of Sage Valmiki who got an exemplary boon from Lord Hanuman to sing in praise of Lord Ramachandra in the Kali era.

There is interesting myth which was unheard, Lord Hanuman approached Sage Valmiki several times requesting him to sing in praise of Lord Ramachandra from his great epic Srimad Ramayan, but every time Sage Valmiki refused to recite the Ramayan for Lord Hanuman thinking that it is not worthy to recite the great epic to a monkey who does not even know the supremacy of Lord Rama.  After the battle of Rama with the demon Ravana, Hanuman left to Mount Himalaya and conducted Tapasya for several years.  During this period, Hanuman composed a drama praising the glories of Lord Rama, which was meticulously engraved with his sharp nails on the rocks where he was undertaking Tapasya.  Later, Sage Valmiki found the inscriptions on the rock and felt his composition is inferior to the work of Hanuman.  Lord Hanuman understood the state of mind of Sage Valmiki, he graciously took the rock engraved by him and set down deep into the ocean.  Later, he instructed Sage Valmiki to take birth in Kali Yuga and compose Ramayan in couplets of his own language Awadhi.