The Holy Basil

      "Tulasi is auspicious in all respects. Simply by seeing, simply by touching, simply by remembering, simply by praying to, simply by bowing before, simply by hearing about, or simply by sowing this tree, there is always auspiciousness. Anyone who comes in touch with the tulasi tree in above mentioned ways lives eternally in the spiritual world."

The holy basil was well known as tulasi has a significant role in Hindu religion. It has it's roots on India, Nepal, Srilanka and many other Eastern countries. According to Hindu scriptures there was a famous story on the birth of tulasi plant. Tulasi was an incarnation of goddess Lakshmi wife of Hindu god Vishnu.  

There are so many medicinal usages of basil. It has given importance in Vedic texts and Puranas. Thousand years ego the Indian scientists well known as acharyas and rushis found the medicinal properties of tulasi.

They taught the medicinal benefits of basil to people in religious way, because the indian people follow the methods of puja that described in Vedas. So, with in a short span of time the significance of tulasi expanded in the country.

• Through out the centuries Indian people following those methods of usage of tulasi in Ayurveda. tulasi heals us from many diseases. It will be helpful to us if we chew the leaves or drink the extract of leaves.

• Tulasi bath protect our skins from many bacteria. The leaves of tulasi plucked and mixed in warm water for a while. The tulasi leaves gives the anti-bacterial properties to bath water.

• Chewing of tulasi leaves freshens our mouth and kill harmful bacteria that causes cavities,tartar,bad breath. It also make the gums stronger.

• It helps in curing respiratory disorders.

• Tulasi was used in treatment of astama.

• It can control headache, cough and cold.

It was advised that to plant a tulasi in home. It can purify the surrounding air. The most important thing is it gives us the spiritual development. Hindu religion always surrounded with science unlike any other. It taught us importance of every plant and tree in our daily life. To bring us close to those plants and trees our Vedas and Puranas treated those trees as gods/goddess.

In present days people unaware of those things. Mostly in many houses there was no tulasi . This tree not bring us luck nor good-deed, it will give us health that leads to wealth and happiness in family.

     "We need to respect our Vedas and Purans, and also it is necessary to learn such texts. Because those are not novels nor the books that entertain us, they give us enormous amount of knowledge and spiritual way of living which connects us to nature, the mother of everything."