Some interesting information related to Tulsidas
According to most scholars, Tulsidas is believed to have been born in Rajapur and Soron Sukshetra.
Tulsidas's father was an eminent Brahmin and his mother was a homemaker.
According to various scholars, when Goswami Tulsidas was born, his mouth teeth started appearing.
He first pronounced the word "Ram" with his mouth, due to which his father named Tulsidas "Rambola".
Tulsidas's childhood was spent in a lot of suffering, because his mother died two days after his birth. Then his father considers Tulsidas to be inauspicious and gives him to a woman named Chuniya.
When Tulsidas was five and a half years old, Chuniya also died. Tulsidas then roamed around like orphans.
He started begging and collecting food for his living and started living in a Hanuman temple in the village.
With the inspiration of Lord Shankarji, Shri Narhari Baba of Ramshail met the boy Rambola. He then duly changed the name of Rambola to "Tulsidas" and took Tulsidas with him to Ayodhya (Uttar Pradesh).
He had his "Yajnopaveet-Sanskar" in Ayodhya, in which he pronounced the Gayatri Mantra without being taught by anyone. Seeing which everyone was surprised.
After that Narhari Baba performed the five rites of the Vaishnavas and initiated Rama-mantra to Tulsidas, where he also did Vidyadhyayana.
At the age of 29, Tulsidas was married to Kanya Ratnavali of Bharadwaj gotra of a village near Yamuna, a little away from Rajapur.
Shortly after marriage he moved to Kashi with his mentor.
One day Tulsidas remembered his wife very much and took permission from his guru to meet him and after crossing the Yamuna in the dark night, Tulsidas Rajapur went to his wife's chamber. Ratnavali was stunned to see Tulsidas in her room at night. When Tulsidas asked his wife to go back home, Ratnavali said through a couplet, "Asti tan mai deh yeh, taason such a love! Neku who would have been with Rama, then why would you live? " Tulsidas returned to his home as soon as he heard the couplet and his father also died in his absence.
After some time, Tulsidas went to Kashi again after residing in Rajapur and started narrating Rama-Katha to the people there.
One day Tulsidas got a ghost in the guise of man, who told him the address of Hanumanji. After that Tulsidas left his village to meet Hanumanji and finally saw Hanuman ji. Then he requested Hanuman ji to have darshan of Shri Raghunathji. Then Hanumanji said- "You will see Raghunathji in Chitrakoot." On hearing this, Tulsidas ji started towards Chitrakoot. Sri Tulsi Janma kutir temple
He started the creation of Ramcharitmanas in the morning on the day of Ramnavami (i.e. Ram-birth based on Tretayuga). It took two years, seven months and twenty-six days to complete this great book. shreeramcharitmanas
In 1680, Tulsidas died on Saturday, chanting "Ram-Ram".
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| Postage stamps of Tulsidas |
On 1 October 1952, a postage stamp was issued by the Government of India honoring Goswami Tulsidas as a great poet.
Tulsidas was a awesome poet
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