Sant Tulsidas Maharaj

Pranams at the lotus feet of Tulsidas Maharaj!

Chapter – 5

Tulsidas Maharaj proceeded to the mountains of Chithrakoota at the instruction of Lord Hanuman and lived in an Ashram in Ramghat.  Once he was performing the Parikrama of the Moutain,  he saw two youths with great effulgence, attired in a marvelous garment, one has blue and other one has fair complexion respectively, traveling on horseback in the dense wood.  Tulsidas Maharaj looked at the youths but could not recognize it was Ram and Lakshman, later Hanuman enquired Tulsidas Maharaj about the youths and introduced them as Ram and Lakshman.  Tulsidas Maharaj was extremely dejected, at the thought that he could not recognize his favorite Lord even after appeared before him; he cursed the eyes that mislead the appearance of Lord Ramachandra.  On the next day morning, while he was preparing sandalwood paste for the worship of Lord Rama, there appeared a small boy asking for sandalwood paste for Tilak/symbolic mark on a forehead.  Lord Hanuman gave a hint to Tulsidas Maharaj about the presence of Lord Rama in the form of a child, thus Tulsidas Maharaj had the Dharshan of Rama and he immersed in a state of ecstasy, ultimately he forgot to fulfill the desire of the child.  Lord Rama took the sandal paste and applied the Tilak on his forehead and Tulsidas Maharaj, soon disappeared from the view.  Thus Tulsidas Maharaj's long-cherished wish to witness his favorite Lord Ramachandra was fulfilled.  Further, Tulsidas Maharaj had the Dharshan of Sage Yajjnavalkya and Sage Bharadhwaja while living in Prayag.