Sri Tulasi-pranama

Sri Tulasi-pranama

In the morning, after mangala-arati (and preferably also in the evening, before sandhya-arati), tulasi-devi should be worshiped. First we offer obeisances to Tulasi-devi with the tulasi-pranama-mantra, chanted three times:

(om) vrndayai tulasi-devyai priyayai kesavasya ca
Krishna-bhakti-prade devi satyavatyai namo nama?

I offer my repeated obeisances unto Vrnda, Srimati Tulasi-devi, who is very dear to Lord Keshava. O goddess, you bestow devotional service to Krishna and you possess
the highest truth.

Sri Tulasi-puja-kirtana

namo nama? tulasi Krishna-preyasi namo nama?
radha-Krishna-seva pabo ei abilasi

O Tulasi, beloved of Krishna, I bow before you again and again. My desire is to obtain the service of Sri Sri Radha and Krishna.

ye tomara sarana loy, tara vancha purna hoy
krpa kori' koro tare vrndavana-vasi

Whoever takes shelter of you has his wishes fulfilled. Bestowing your mercy on him, you make him a resident of Vrindavana.

mora ei abhilasa, vilasa kunje dio vasa
nayana heribo sada yugala-rupa-rasi

My desire is that you will also give me a residence in the pleasure groves of Sri Vrindavana-dhama. Thus within my vision I will always behold the beautiful pastimes of Radha and Krishna.

ei nivedana dhara, sakhira anugata koro
seva-adhikara diye koro nija dasi

I beg you to make me a follower of the cowherd damsels of Vraja. Please give me the privilege of devotional service and make me your own maidservant.

dina Krishna-dase koy, ei yena mora hoy
sri-radha-govinda-preme sada yena bhasi

This very fallen and lowly servant of Krishna prays, "May I always swim in the love of Sri Sri Radha and Govinda."


Sri Tulasi Pradakshina Mantra

While circumambulating tulasi-devi, we chant,

yani kani ca papani brahma-hatyadikani ca
tani tani pranasyanti pradaksina? pade pade

When a person circumambulates Srimati Tulasi-devi, all the sins he may have committed are destroyed at every step, even the sin of killing a brahmana.