Sant Tulsidas Maharaj

Pranams at the lotus feet of Tulsidas Maharaj!

Chapter – 2

Tulsidas Maharaj returned to his birthplace but there was no one in the family was alive.  He meticulously performed ancestral rites and continued to stay in the village giving lectures on scriptures.  Once, father of Rathnavali met Swamiji Narharyananda and expressed his desire to listen to the lectures on Lord Ramachandra.  Tulsidas narrated the story of Lord Rama beautifully; Rathnavali’s father highly appreciated the handsome youth for his talent and knowledge.  He expressed his desire to give his daughter Rathnavali in marriage to Tulsidas who is a favorite disciple of Swamiji Narharyanand.   

In the year 1583, he got married to a young beautiful and intelligent girl  Rathnavali.  He was madly in love with his wife, he can’t bear even a moment of separation from her, eventually, it has created less interest in spiritual life for him.   One day she had to return to her village with her brother, Tulsidas could not tolerate the grief of separation from his wife.  He went to meet his beloved wife, crossed the river which was brimming with water; he reached the home of his wife at midnight.  It was starch dark, he entered the chamber of his wife, and she felt so shameful.  She advised him to return home immediately.  Tulsidas expressed his desire to take her back with him.  She answered her thought in a few verses/Doha,/couplets, which removed his ignorance and opened the eyes of Tulsidas.  This incident transformed a simple Bhramin man into a great Saint Tulsidas.  Her couplets were “ You do not have shame to visit during these wee hours to your wife if you have shown half of this love at the lotus feet of Lord Ramachandra, it could liberate you from the worldly existence.”    These verses hit hard on his intellect; he did not stay even a second and left the place immediately.  Afterward, his life was wholly devoted to the path of spirituality,  full of love and thirst to witness  Lord Ramachandra.