Sant Tulsidas Maharaj

Pranams at the lotus feet of Tulsidas Maharaj!

Chapter – 6

Tulsidas Maharaj wrote verses in Sanskrit while living in Varanasi,  he wrote several verses  praising Lord Ramachandra in Sanskrit spending hours sitting in Prahladghat during the day, all those verses would get disappeared by night and this practice continued for eight days in a row.  On the eighth day Tulsidas Maharaj had the Dharshan of Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvathi in his dream, Lord instructed Tulsidas Maharaj to go to Ayodhya and write the verses in Awadhi language,  and blessed that those verses would be considered as equivalent to Sama Veda.

Tulsidas Maharaj wrote many spectacular verses of life lessons,  and the most popular one among is “Do not visit the place where there is people are unpleasant or not welcoming, do not stay with the people who have no compassion or affection in their eyes for you, even if the place is enriched with the mountain of gold.”

In the year 1633, Tulsidas Maharaj completed the composition of the illustrious work Sri Ramacharitha Manas, he returned to Varanasi and recited the couplets before Lord of Varanasi.  Those days the Bhramins scholars have considered Sanskrit as supreme language and the rest of them are inferior, therefore they decided to put the composition of Tulsidas Maharaj to a test.  They piled up all the scriptures of Sanskrit on top of Sri Ramacharitha Manas and kept it inside the sanctum of the Lord Vishwanatha and kept it locked.  On the next day, the priests could see the Sri Ramacharitha Manas on the top of the pile of Sanskrit scriptures that was holding the inscription ‘Sathyam Shivam Sundaram’ / The eternal truth is auspicious and beautiful, signed by Lord Shiva.

Some of the Bhramin scholars of Varanasi were not convinced with the above incident, they have appointed thieves to steal the manuscript of Sri Ramacharitha Manas from the hermitage of Tulsidas.  On that night, the thieves could witness two young men one in blue complexion and another one in fair, holding bow and arrow guarding the hermitage of Sant Tulsidas.  They were horrified and left the place, on the next morning the thieves met Sant Tulsidas Maharaj and enquired about the whereabouts of the two men who were guarding the hermitage.  At once, Sant Tulasidas Maharaj recognized it was none other than his beloved Lord Rama and Lakshman, Maharaj shed tears over the thought of the boundless mercy of his beloved Lord who took great care of him.  Later, the manuscript of Sri Ramacharitha Manas was sent for safekeeping to Todarmal who was the finance minister in the court of Akbar.  Afterward, the thieves became fervent devotees of Lord Rama.

In the year 1680, Sant Tulsidas Maharaj at the age of 126,  on a Shravan Shukla Sapthami, Saturday, uttering the sacred names of Lord Ramachandra left his mortal coil in Assi Ghat, Varanasi.