The sanctifying Tulasi tree will grow in Goloka, on the coast
of the Viraja River, on the rasa-dance site, in the forests of
Vrindavana, Bhandira, Champaka, Chandana, and in the groves of
Madhavi, Ketaki, Kunda, Mallika and Malati.
You will live in sacred places and bestow the highest
religious merit.
All the holy spots will converge and reside at the root of the
Tulasi tree, and thus spiritual merits will accrue to all.
O fair one, all the demigods and I will wait there to gather
the falling Tulasi leaves.
Whoever will be moistened or anointed with the water that has
been sanctified by Tulasi leaves, will reap the benefits of having
bathed in all the sacred rivers and performed all kinds of
sacrifices.
Lord Hari will not be as pleased with the gift of a thousand
jars of honey as with one Tulasi leaf.
Offering one such leaf as a gift will bring the same reward
obtained by offering millions of cows.
If one offers Tulasi leaves during the month of Kartika, he
gets the same rewards as those just mentioned.
If, at the time of death, one drinks or gets the Tulasi-leaf
water, one will be freed of all his sins and proceed to
Vaikuntha.
Whoever drinks the Tulasi-leaf water daily will be redeemed in
his lifetime and receive the benefit of a dip in the Ganges.
Whoever plucks a Tulasi leaf, keeps it on his person, and then
leaves his body in a holy place, will go to Visnuloka.
Anyone who worships Me with this leaf daily will reap the
blessings of a hundred thousand horse sacrifices.
Anyone who leaves his body holding a Tulasi leaf in his hands
will be saved from all sins.
Anyone who wears a necklace composed of Tulasi wood, will
surely, at every step, get the reward of a horse sacrifice.
Whoever breaks his promise while holding the Tulasi leaf will
go to the Kalsutra hell for as long as the sun and moon last.
Anyone who gives false evidence in the presence of the Tulasi
leaf, will go to the Kumbhipaka hell for as long as the lifespans
of fourteen Indras.
Whoever at the time of death drinks or gets a little
Tulasi-leaf water will certainly proceed to Vaikuntha, leaving in a
jeweled airplane.
Lord Hari will decapitate that person who, on the day of the
new moon or the full moon, or on the twelfth or last day of the
lunar month, or after being anointed with oil just before taking a
bath, or at noon, night, daybreak or sundown, or in a state of
impurity or in one's night dress--will cull or pluck the Tulasi
leaf.
O chaste one, even if such a leaf is kept for three nights and
becomes dry, it can still be employed in connection with funeral
ceremonies, vows, gifts, consecration of temples and the worship of
demigods.
If Tulasi leaves that were offered to Lord Visnu have fallen
on the ground or on water are then properly washed, they may still
be used for other sacred purposes.
You will always be the presiding deity of Earth, and at the
same time you will always sport with Sri Krsna in solitude in
Goloka. You will also be the presiding deity of the Gandaki River,
and thereby shower Bharatvarsha with religious merit.
You will further be the wife of the ocean of salt, which is My
partial expansion. O chaste goddess, you will always remain
personally by My side and enjoy My company, as Laksmi does
