Sant Tulsidas Jayanthi on 13th August, 2013 !!



Jai Sriman Narayana !!
 
 
 
 


 
 
 
Sri Goswami Tulasi Das was born to a pious Sarayuparin Brahmin couple Hulsi Devi and Atmaram Dubey 0n a Shravan Shukla Paksha Sapthami  day in the year 1532 (16th Century) in Rajapur which is 200km east of Allahabad,  in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh.   Its believed that Sri Goswami Tulsidas was an incarnation of Maharishi Valmiki, composer of the great epic ‘ Srimad Ramayanam’.   ‘Sri Ramacharita Manas’ was written by Sant Tulsidas. 
 
 
As Sri Goswami Tulsidas was born in an inauspicious day of Shravan Shukla Paksha Saptami, there was an old belief existed in those days that the child born on this day would bring unexpected death to it parents.   The parents of Tulsidas were very poor, did not find any means to conduct the ‘Namakaran’/naming ceremony of the child.  Shortly, his mother passed away and his father abandoned the baby due to his irrational beliefs.    The baby boy was brought up by Chuniya, the female servant of Hulsa, till the age of five.  After the death of his foster mother Chuniya, unfortunate Tulsidas continued to wander here and there for food and occasionally taking shelter in a Hanuman Temple.
 




 
Jai Sriman Narayana !!
 

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