Tulsidas (Miracles)

Tulsidas was the great author of Ramcharitmanas, a poetic composition on Ramayana. Valmiki had first authored Ramayana in the Sanskrit language. The common man could not understand this language at that time. Thus, Tulsidas decided to rewrite Ramayana in the simple language of Awadhi in the late sixteenth century.

Such was the power of Tulsidas’s bhakti that he performed various miracles unintentionally. Miracles lay a foundation for reinserting trust in God. Thus, knowing about these miracles helps us increase our faith on God. So, those of you who don’t know already, I want to describe some of these miracles via this post.

Once Tulsidas was walking by, where he came across a man being taken for cremation. Finding Tulsidas, the widow of the man fell on his feet. Tulsidas blessed her with the ashirwad  (blessing) of always remaining wedded. Hearing this the relatives protested. They said, how being such a great Brahmin, he could give this blessing to a widow. Tulsidas said that he just said what Lord Ram made him say. He asked everyone to chant Lord Ram and close his or her eyes. Upon doing so, the man came back to life.

Hearing about this miracle, the Emperor of Delhi, Akbar invited Tulsidas to his court. He asked Tulsidas to perform some miracle. Tulsidas denied saying he has never performed miracles, Lord Ram is the one who does so. Akbar became very angry and imprisoned Tulsidas.  It was then Tulsidas composed the powerful Hanuman Chalisa in jail.  It is said he recited the Hanuman Chalisa hundreds of times. Upon doing so, a large hoard of uncontrollable monkeys laid siege on the jail in which Tulsidas was imprisoned. Akbar’s forces failed to control the monkeys who had created havoc in the prison as well as in the royal palace.  Akbar’s advisors informed him that this was because of capturing the great Brahmin, Tulsidas and his bhakti towards Lord Hanuman.  Immediately, Akbar apologized to Tulsidas and released him. When this happened, monkeys stopped their chaos and went out of the city. Such is the power in Hanuman Chalisa.

I will talk about more of his miracles in some other blog post.  For now this is good! 🙂

Hope you enjoyed this post. More, later!

-Prachi