Place Where Tulsi Did Penance

Tulsi gave up all her royal comfort and went to Badrinath to perform penance to gain Vishnu as her husband.
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Why are tulsi leaves used while offering naivēdya

http://www.forumforhinduawakening.org/understanding/why-are-tulsi-leaves-used-while-offering-naivedya

Quantum

http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2011/08/quantum-plant-tulsi-capt-ajit-vadakayil.html

Hanuman

http://completepersonality.blogspot.com/2012/11/tulsi-general.html

Miracles

http://voices.yahoo.com/tulsi-miracle-plant-2467724.html
http://backtogodhead.in/the-miracle-of-tulasi-devi-by-vraja-vihari-dasa/

War Begins - Righteously

War Between Lord Shiva's Army and Sankhacuda (Tulsi's Husband) Army

The fight between the demigods and demons began, and both sides fought righteously.

1. Indra fought with Vrsaparvan, 
2. Bhaskara (the sun god) with Vipracitti, 
3. Nisakara (the moon god) with Dambha, 
4. Fire with Gokarna, 
5. Kuvera with Kalakeya, and 
6. Visvakarma with Maya. 
7. Mrtyu (the death god) battled with Bhayamkara, 
8. Yama with Sambara, 
9. Vayu with Bala, 
10. Varuna with Vikamka, 
11. Budha with Dhritapristha, 
12. Sani with Raktaksa, 
13. Jayanta with Ratnasara, 
14. Vasus with the groups of Varchasas, 
15. Two Asvini Kumaras with the two Diptimans, 
16. Nala-kuvara with Dhuma, and 
17. Dharma with Dhurandhara. 
18. Mangala contended with Ganakaksa, 
19. Vaisvana with Sobhakara, 
20. Mammatha with Pipita, 
21. Twelve sun gods with Gokamukha, Curna, Khadga, Dhumra, Samhala, Visva and Palasa. 
22. Eleven Rudras fought with eleven terrible and powerful asuras, 
23. Mahamani fought with Ugracanda and others, and 
24. Nandisvara and the rest fought with the leading demons.

Lord Shiva Quotes Sun and Moon to Explain Ever Changing Time

Lord Shiva to Sankhacuda (Tulsi's Husband)

Sun

"Consider the sun: in the summer its light is very intense; but not so in the winter. At noon, the sun is very hot; but not so in the morning and evening. In time, the sun rises; in time, it becomes powerful; and in time, it sets. By the working of time, it is obscured by clouds.

Moon

In the bright fortnight it waxes daily, but in the dark fortnight it wanes daily. In the bright fortnight, the moon looks healthy and rich but in the dark fortnight it looks decreasingly thinner, as if afflicted by consumption. Thus at one time the moon looks powerful and at another time it looks weak and pale.

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Couple Discuss the Eternal Time

Couple => Tulsi and Her Husband Sankhacuda

"O my queen, when it is time to reap the results of one's past acts, one experiences good and evil, pleasure and pain, fear and sorrow. 

1. In time, trees grow, branches develop, flowers blossom and fruits appear. In time, the fruitful tree decays. 
2. Similarly, in time, human beings grow and decline. 
3. In time, the creator creates, the preserver preserves and the destroyer destroys. This is the law of creation, preservation and destruction. All things, from Lord Brahma down to a blade of grass, are artificial and temporary. 
4. In time, they grow and decay. Thus it would be better for you to adore Radha's consort, Lord Krsna, who is distinct from the three modes of material nature, who is the Supersoul within all and the Lord of all.
5. Seek the Supreme Krsna, who is the death of death, the time of time, the creator of the creator, the preserver of the preserver and the destroyer of the destroyer. 

Take shelter of Krsna, for it is by His command that the wind blows swiftly, the sun radiates heat, Indra pours rain, death visits human beings, fire burns, and the moon travels through the sky. 

Couple in Fusion with Nature's Delight

 Sankhacuda and Tulasi left the hermitage and began to travel to various places. They went to different 

1. mountains, 
2. flower gardens, 
3. caves, 
4. beaches, 
5. riversides and 
6. forests. 

Wherever they went, they enjoyed each other's company with great satisfaction, never tiring of one another. Sankhacuda then brought Tulasi to his own kingdom and there they continued to delight in each other's company.

Couple's Mutual Gifts

Sankhacuda then married Tulasi by the Gandharva rite. Glorifying the marriage, the demigods sounded their drums and showered flowers on them from the sky.

Sometimes the newly married couple would go to a flower grove and at other times to a river bank. There they would sleep on flower beds smeared with sandal paste and enjoy marital pleasures. Tulasi easily stole the heart of her husband, and Sankhacuda also attracted Tulasi's heart. After Tulasi 

1. garlanded her husband with parijata flowers, which prevent disease and old age, 
2. she placed a precious jeweled ring on his finger and 
3. offered him rare beautiful gems. 

Bowing down to his feet with devotion, she repeatedly said, "I am at your service!"

1. Sankhacuda smiled. He then presented Tulasi with 
2. clothes he had obtained from Lord Varuna's house; 
3. he also gave her a precious necklace of jewels, 
4. an armlet he had gotten from Svaha (Agni's wife), 
5. armlets from Chhaya (the sun god's wife), 
6. earrings from Rohini (the moon god's wife), 
7. finger rings from Rati (Cupid's wife), 
8. conch ornaments from Visvakarma, 
9. as well as excellent bedding adorned with pearls and jewels. 

After further adorning her, he placed her feet on his chest and said, "I am your servant."

Couple Compared to Best

After Sankhacuda and Tulasi offered him their respects, Lord Brahma said, 

As you are a gem among males, she is a gem among females. When a clever couple marry the union is very happy, just as 

1. Laksmi is married to Narayana, 
2. Radhika to Krsna, 
3. my Savitri to me, 
4. Saci to Indra and 
5. Aditi to Kasyapa  Marry each other. 

Couple Discuss on Women

Sankhacuda sat down and said to tulasi, 

"O beautiful girl, whose daughter are you? And how have you come to this forest? You look most fortunate and blessed. Indeed, you are the personification of heavenly joy--the best of women! You are a model of loveliness and can certainly bewilder even the saints!"

When Tulasi gave no reply, he asked, "O gracious one, why don't you speak? I am your servant, so please greet me with the melody of your speech."

Her head lowered, her face smiling, the beautiful-eyed Tulasi said, "I am the daughter of King Dharmadhvaja and have been practicing asceticism here. But who are you? And why are you talking to me? If a noble man sees a virtuous woman alone, he does not talk to her. So go away--wherever you please."

But Sankhacuda did not move.

Tulasi continued. "The sastras say that only a degraded man desires a woman. At first a woman is sweet to a man, but later proves fatal. Though her mouth rains honey, her heart is like a jar of poison. She uses sweet words but her heart is sharp like a razor. To achieve her own selfish ends she is submissive to her husband; otherwise, she is unsubmissive. While her face looks cheerful, her heart is dirty. Even the Vedas and the Puranas cannot fathom her character. A wise man never trusts a base woman. She has no friend or enemy; for all she wants are new lovers. When a woman sees a well-dressed man, she inwardly desires him, but outwardly she appears chaste and modest. She is naturally passionate, attracts men's minds, and eagerly engages in sex. Though outwardly she hides her lust and appears modest, when she meets her lover in secret, she is ready to swallow him up. When she does not have sex with him, she feels offended, her body burns with anger, and she begins to quarrel. When her passions are fully satisfied, she becomes cheerful; when unsatisfied, morose.

"A woman likes a good lover more than sweet foods or refreshing drinks; she likes him even more than her own son; he is dearer to her than her life. But if the lover becomes impotent or aged, she regards him as an enemy. Quarrels and anger ensue. Then she devours him as a snake eats a rat. She is rashness personified and a mine of vices. A woman is hypocritical, obstinate and unfaithful. Even Lord Brahma and other gods are deluded by her. She is a hindrance on the path of austerity, an obstacle to liberation, an impediment to developing faith in Lord Hari, a refuge of all delusion and a living chain that binds men to the world. She is like a magician and is as false as dreams. She appears to be very beautiful, but is she is a bucket of stool, urine, gas and blood. When God created her, he arranged that she should become the spirit of delusion to the deluded and poison to those who desire liberation. Thus, on no account should a woman be desired, and by all means she should be avoided."

Sankhacuda smiled and then answered, "O goddess, what you have said is not completely false. It is partly true and partly false. From the Creator have come chaste and unchaste women. One is praiseworthy, the other isn't. Examples of chaste women are Laksmi, Sarasvati, Durga, Savitri and Radha. Women who are expansions of them are auspicious, glorious and very commendable, such as Satarupa, Devahuti, Svadha, Svaha, Daksina, Anasuya, Ganga, Diti, Aditi, Vedavati, etc. In every yuga cycle these women are excellent. The heavenly prostitutes are also expansions and partial expansions of the above women, but they are not praiseworthy because they are unchaste.

Women who are in the mode of goodness are virtuous and pure. The sages declare them to be excellent. But those who are in the modes of passion and ignorance are not so praiseworthy. The passionate ones are fond of sense pleasures, indulge in them, and always want to fulfill their selfish goals. Such women are usually insincere, deluded and irreligious. Generally, they are unchaste. But woman in the mode of ignorance are considered the worst. They are irresistible.

"A virtuous man would never court another man's wife in either public or private. But I have come to you by Lord Brahma's command--to marry you according to the Gandharva rite. (In this, the bride and bridegroom meet each other of their own accord and consummate their meeting in sexual union. No sacred rituals are necessary.

Sankhacuda stopped talking. Then Tulasi smiled and cheerfully said, 

"Persons like you are famous in this world and good women desire such husbands. You have defeated me in argument. A man who is conquered by a woman is very impure and condemned by people in general. The forefathers and the demigods regard men who are conquered by women as low and contemptible. Even their fathers and mothers mentally despise them.

Physical Beauty of the Couple

Tulasi saw Sankhacuda approaching in his jeweled airplane and noticed that 

he was in the prime of his youth. He was handsome like Cupid, white-complexioned like the Champaka flower and decorated with gems. His face resembled the full moon of autumn, his eyes looked like lotuses in full bloom, and his cheeks flashed with the glow of his earrings. A Parijata flower garlanded his neck, musk and saffron anointed his body, and sandal paste perfumed his person.

As he came closer, Tulasi hid her face in her shawl and smiled at him with sidelong glances. Blushing at the thought of this first meeting, she bowed her head nervously and eagerly drank in with her eyes the lotus of his face.

Sankhacuda also gazed at Tulasi, seated as she was on a lovely bed strewn with flowers and sandalwood. Her teeth shown like pearls, her lips were like Bimba fruit, her nose was graceful and her complexion golden. She resembled the autumnal moon. Adding to her grace, just below the parting of her hair, was the mark of sandal paste and musk; and, just below them, a mark of vermilion. She had a low yet deep navel, and below it, three lovely abdominal folds. Her palms were reddish, her fingernails were glowing, and her feet were radiant and crimson, colored with lac-dye. Her glowing toenails surpassed the glow of the autumn moon, giving her an unrivaled beauty.

Tulasi was adorned with lovely jingling ornaments, and the knot of hair at the back of her head was decorated with a jasmine wreath. Shark-shaped earrings adorned her cheeks while a diamond necklace beautified her breast. She wore gorgeous bangles of conch on her arms and wrists, as well as precious jewels on her fingers.

Gayan(Knowledge) and Vairagya (Renunciation)

As Bhakti(Tulsi) Devi Serves Krishna Surrounded by Four Veda Gopis - Two Sons Gayan(Knowledge) and Vairagya (Renunciation) are Born

Her Disciples and Guru

Vrinda Devi has a yellow parrot on her left hand. This parrot is said to fly around Vrindavana and on returning tells Vrinda Devi what is happening there. The parrot is named Daksa and has one lakh (100,000) disciples. Vrinda Devi arranges the pastimes in Vrindavana. Tulasi is an expansion of Vrinda Devi. Paurnamasi is the guru of Vrinda Devi.

Kedarnath / Vrindavan Manifest

Kedarnath is named in honor of King Kedar who ruled in the Satya Yuga. He had a daughter named Vrinda who was a partial incarnation of Goddess Lakshmi.Millions of years before the descent of Sri Krishna, Vrinda devi had appeared as the daughter of the pious Emperor Kedera. Then she performed penances for sixty thousand years. Pleased by her penances, Lord Vishnu gave the benediction that any austerities performed in Vrindavana would be very potent. Thus Vrinda devi sanctified the place and it got the name Vrindavana.

Later Vrinda devi once again descended here as Tulasi devi, the daughter of King Kushadvaja to perform penances and attain perfection here.

Sanctifies the three worlds

http://vedabase.com/sb/1/19/6/en2

Sacred Tree / shrub worshipped throught the Universe including Bhuloka, Swargaloka and Pataalalokas; Vishnu further said that ‘Abhisheka’with Tulasi leaves to Narayana would provide the same effect as ‘Sampurna Snaanas’ or baths in all hallowed places including Sarva Kshetras; performing several Yagnas; satisfying Shri Hari with thousands of Abhishekas of holy waters along with ‘Tulasi Dalaas’; thousnad ‘godaanas’ to equate a Tulasi patra daan; serving tulasi water at the time of a death; any puja with Tulasi to any Deity as good as lakhs of Ashwanmedha Yagnas or death with a tulasi on hand resulting in access to Vaikuntha. If a person swears with a Tulasi on hand, his pledge is considered to be an unquestioned belief and breaking the vow with a Tulasi would attract Kalasutra and Kubhipaaka Narakas.

Source Brahma Vaivarta Purana

Puja / Video

http://harekrishnatemple.com/tulasipuja.html

Mantra and Namashtakam

Legend of Uppiliappan Temple

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uppiliappan_Temple#Legend