Jai Sriman Narayana !!
Tulsidas was born to Hulsi and
Atmaram Dubey in the year 1947, a Saryupareen Brahmin couple lived in a village
called Rajapur/Chitrakuta located on the river banks of Yamuna, Uttar Pradesh.
After residing in mother’s womb for 12 months Tulsidas was born on the
seventh day of bright half of Lunar day/Shravan Shukla Paksha. Shortly, his mother passed away. There was a belief existed in those days that
the child born on this day would bring bad luck to the family, soon he was
abandoned by his father. Later, he was
well taken care by a Chuniya/Muniya, a female servant of Hulsi from Haripur and he
was lived with her up to 5 1/2years till her death. After the demise of his foster mother
Rambola/Tulsidas was left alone, he wandered aimlessly begging for food. In these days Goddess Sri Parvati assumed the
form of a Brahmin woman and fed him.
The major turn in the miserable life of the child, Rambola/Tulsidas
was when Narharidas, a passionate devotee of Lord Rama and a Sanskrit scholar had a
dream in that Lord Rama commanded him to adopt this abandoned child Rambola and
teach him the glories of Lord Rama.
Narharidas conducted meticulous search for the child immediately spotted
the Rambola of 3 years who was wandering aimlessly. He took Tulsiram with
him to Ayodhya and performed the naming ceremony of the boy and fondly
addressed him Tulsiram, keeping in memory of the significance of Tulsi leaves used for the
scared thread ceremony. In due course Narharidas performed the sacred thread
ceremony /Brahmopadhesham for Tulsiram, later came to known as Tulsidas.
They lived in Ayodhya for ten months, during these periods Tulsidas learnt
profound knowledge in Vedas and scriptural texts. Further, they moved to
the convergent point of the scared river Sarayu with Ghaghara, Tulsidas
attentively listened to the lectures of Naraharidas about the glories of Lord
Rama, it enthused an unfaltering devotion in Tulsidas.
Tulsidas met Shesha Santhana, a scholar and followed him to the
sacrosanct place Varanasi, there he learned Sanskrit and attained insightful
knowledge in the Sutra of Panini, an ancient Indian Sankrit Grammarian.
Tulsidas had the finest grasping power and gained profound knowledge in
Sanskrit and his compositions were the perfect examples for his good command over
Sanskrit.
Jai Sriman Narayana !!
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