Many if us know about Tulsi vivas which usually happens in the month of Karthik. It is usually celebrated by North Indians on either Ekadashi day or New Moon day (Purnima).
The legend of Tulsi marriage goes like this. Once there lived a king called Jalandar. He was married to Vrinda, a very pious and devote lady. He had acquired a boon that until his wife doesn't lose her chastity, he would live. As he had acquired this boon he had become very arrogant and he started torturing and tormenting the humans and other demi-Gods. All the demigods approached Lord Vishnu for a solution.
Lord Vishnu approached Vrinda in the guise of Jalandar when King Jalandar was out on a war and started leading a life with her. King Jalandar got killed in the war and as the news reached Vrinda she got furious over Lord Vishnu and cursed him to change into a black stone. Thus, came the Saligrama. But, it is said that in the previous birth Vrinda wanted to get married to Lord Krishna. Though, Lord Krishna accepted her as Manasiga Pathni like Radha he told her that he wouldn't be able to marry her in that birth and promised to marry her in the next. As, Vrinda felt her chastity was affected Lord Vishnu changed her into a Thulsi plant and gave her a boon that she would be always pious and chaste and no pooja of his would be complete without the presence of Thulsi or Basil leaves.
Thus, marriage exists between Thulsi and Lord Vishnu in the form of Saligram. In many families if they don't keep Saligram, they keep Krishna statue and decorate Thulsi plant as a woman and get it married.
The legend of Tulsi marriage goes like this. Once there lived a king called Jalandar. He was married to Vrinda, a very pious and devote lady. He had acquired a boon that until his wife doesn't lose her chastity, he would live. As he had acquired this boon he had become very arrogant and he started torturing and tormenting the humans and other demi-Gods. All the demigods approached Lord Vishnu for a solution.
Lord Vishnu approached Vrinda in the guise of Jalandar when King Jalandar was out on a war and started leading a life with her. King Jalandar got killed in the war and as the news reached Vrinda she got furious over Lord Vishnu and cursed him to change into a black stone. Thus, came the Saligrama. But, it is said that in the previous birth Vrinda wanted to get married to Lord Krishna. Though, Lord Krishna accepted her as Manasiga Pathni like Radha he told her that he wouldn't be able to marry her in that birth and promised to marry her in the next. As, Vrinda felt her chastity was affected Lord Vishnu changed her into a Thulsi plant and gave her a boon that she would be always pious and chaste and no pooja of his would be complete without the presence of Thulsi or Basil leaves.Thus, marriage exists between Thulsi and Lord Vishnu in the form of Saligram. In many families if they don't keep Saligram, they keep Krishna statue and decorate Thulsi plant as a woman and get it married.
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