{"id":217,"date":"2019-01-23T06:38:23","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T06:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gurukulgalaxy.com\/blog\/?p=217"},"modified":"2021-02-23T08:34:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T08:34:50","slug":"why-do-we-worship-tulsi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gurukulgalaxy.com\/blog\/why-do-we-worship-tulsi\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do we worship Tulsi ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\nSignificance of Tulsi Pooja: For Hindus, Tulsi is considered the most sacred plant. In fact it is known to be the only thing used in worship, which, once used, can be washed and reused in Puja, as tulsi is regarded self \u2013purifying. All offering are considered incomplete without the inclusion of the tulsi leaf-hence, we use it in worship.&nbsp;<br>Tulsi also symbolizes Goddess Lakshmi, the consort of shri Vishnu. Women worship the tulsi plant for happy married life.&nbsp;<br>The tulsi leaf has great medicinal value and is used to cure various ailment, including the common cold.&nbsp;<br>We should offer water to the tulsi everyday and do either one or four parikrama of the plant. This removes the evil effects of the sins<br>Tulsi mantra while doing Parikrama<br>\u201cYanikanicha papani brahma hatya adikanicha<br>Tatsarvam vilayam yati tulsi tvat pradakshinath\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tulsi Pranam mantra<br>\u201cMahaprasad janani sarvasowbhagya vardhini<br>Adhivyadhi haree nityam tulsi tvam namosthute\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tulsi mantra while plucking the leaves<br>\u201cKrishnaya Vasudevaya Devaki Nandanayacha<br>Nandgop kumaraya Govindaya namonamah\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Significance of Tulsi Pooja: For Hindus, Tulsi is considered the most sacred plant. In fact it is known to be&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[201,200],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-festival","tag-tulsi","tag-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gurukulgalaxy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gurukulgalaxy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gurukulgalaxy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gurukulgalaxy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gurukulgalaxy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gurukulgalaxy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"http:\/\/gurukulgalaxy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gurukulgalaxy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gurukulgalaxy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gurukulgalaxy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}