What is the real story of Tulsi Vivah, know the religious significance and story of this day.

Tulsi Marriage 2024: Tulsi Vivah is on 13 November 2024, on this day Shaligram ji and Mata Tulsi are married. In India this festival is celebrated as Diwali. On this day, by making a sugarcane pavilion, the marriage of Tulsi and Shaligram ji, the form of Lord Vishnu, is conducted with full rituals. Those who conduct Tulsi marriage get the blessings of Goddess Lakshmi, let us know why Lord Vishnu had to marry Tulsi Mata.

Tulsi Vivah Katha

According to the legend, Vrinda, the daughter of demon king Kalanemi, was married to Jalandhar. Jalandhar was a demon. Intoxicated with his power, he fought a war with the desire to gain access to Goddess Lakshmi, but because he was born from the sea, Goddess Lakshmi accepted him as her brother. Defeated from there, he went to Mount Kailash with the desire to find Goddess Parvati.

Lord Devadhidev took the form of Shiva and went near Mother Parvati, but the mother immediately recognized him with her power of yoga and vanished from there. Goddess Parvati got angry and narrated the whole story to Lord Vishnu. Jalandhar’s wife Vrinda was a very devoted woman. Due to the power of his patriotism, Jalandhar was neither killed nor defeated. Therefore, to destroy Jalandhar, it was very necessary to break Vrinda’s dharma of chastity.

For this reason, Lord Vishnu disguised himself as a sage and went to the forest, where Vrinda was traveling alone. There were two elusive demons along with the Lord, seeing whom Vrinda became frightened. The sage incinerated both of them in a moment in front of Vrinda. Seeing his power, Vrinda asked about her husband Jalandhar who was fighting with Mahadev on Mount Kailash. The sage revealed two monkeys from his web of illusion.

One monkey had Jalandhar’s head in his hand and the other had his torso. Seeing this condition of her husband, Vrinda fainted and fell down. After regaining consciousness, she requested God in the form of a sage to bring her husband back to life.

God again attached Jalandhar’s head to his body with his illusion and he himself entered the same body. Vrinda did not realize this deceit. Vrinda started behaving chastely with Lord Jalandhar, due to which her chastity was broken. As soon as this happened, Vrinda’s husband was defeated in the Jalandhar war.

When Vrinda came to know about all this leela, she got angry and cursed Lord Vishnu to become a heartless stone. Lord Vishnu accepted the curse of his devotee and Shaligram became stone. Due to the transformation of the sustainer of the universe into stone, there was a state of imbalance in the universe. Seeing this, all the gods and goddesses prayed to Vrinda to free Lord Vishnu from the curse.

Vrinda freed Lord Vishnu from the curse and committed suicide. Where Vrinda was burnt to ashes, the Tulsi plant grew. Lord Vishnu said to Vrinda: O Vrinda. Because of your chastity you have become more dear to me than Lakshmi. Now you will always be with me in the form of Tulsi. Whoever marries Tulsi with my Shaligram form will get immense fame in this world and the next world. It is believed that even the messengers of Yama cannot go to the house where Tulsi is present.

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