Tulasi-puja is relatively simple, consisting of only three articles: incense, a ghee lamp, and flowers. Sooner or later, you will get an opportunity to offer puja to Tulasi, so here are the steps that you need to know:

1. Acamana (purification)

• Take the spoon from the acamana cup and purify both hands by sprinkling water onto them.
• A spoon full into your right palm, chant om keshavaya namah, and sip.
• A spoon full into your right palm, chant om narayanaya namah, and sip.
• A spoon full into your right palm, chant om madhavaya namah, and sip.

2. Offering the incense

• Purify (sprinkle with a spoon full of water) the bell and the incense holder.
• Light the incense.
• Pick up the bell in the left hand; ring the bell throughout the puja.
• Pick up the incense holder in the right hand and offer the incense to Tulasi with seven circles around her whole form.
• Offer to Srila Prabhupada and then all the devotees.

3. Offering the ghee lamp:

• Purify the ghee lamp (sprinkle with a spoon full of water).
• Light it.
• Offer it to Tulasi: Four circles to the base, two to the middle, three to the top, and seven to the whole.
• Offer to Srila Prabhupada and then all the devotees.

4. Offering the Flowers:

• Purify the flowers (sprinkle with a spoon full of water).
• Offer them to Tulasi with seven circles to the whole form.
• Place one at her base (optional).
• Offer them Srila Prabhupada and then all the devotees.

Now the puja is complete and you can serve the devotees by assisting them to purify their hands before each devotee sprinkles a little water from a spoon onto Tulasi's roots.

Planting, watering, protecting, maintaining, circumambulating, seeing, bowing down to, praying to, and glorifying are all ways of serving and worshiping Tulasi and are highly beneficial.

Shri Tulasi Pradaksina Mantra

yani kani ca papani
brahma-hatyadikani ca
tani tani pranasyanti
pradaksinah pade pade

Translation: "By the circumambulation of Srimati Tulasi Devi all the sins that one may have committed are destroyed at every step, even the sin of killing a brahmana."

Shri Tulasi Pranama

vrndayai tulasi-devyai
priyayai kesavasya ca
visnu-bhakti-prade devi
satyavatyai namo namah

Translation: "I offer my repeated obeisances unto Vrnda, Srimati Tulasi Devi, who is very dear to Lord Kesava. O goddess, you bestow devotional service to Lord Krishna and possess the highest truth."

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