The Great Saint-poet Tulsidas



TULSIDAS:   
Tulsidas was born in Rajapur, which is in Uttar Pradesh.

In Samwat 1589 or 1532 A.D. He was a brahmina by birth and is regarded as an incarnation of Valmiki.the author of the Ramayana. ... Tulsidas conceived of god in the form of Rama.

He was the composer of original Ramayana in Sanskrit language. It is believed that Tulsidas was the reincarnation of Valmiki. According to the Hindu scripture Bhavishyottar Purana, Lord Shiva had described to his wife Parvati that how Valmiki will incarnate in the Kal Yuga.

Tulsidas meet the Hanuman at his own Katha, he fell at the Hanuman’s feet and shouting that I know who you are so you cannot get away leaving me. Then, the Hanuman blessed him a lot. Tulsidas had expressed his feeling in front of Hanuman that he want to see Rama confronting each other. Hanuman guided him and told that go to the Chitrakuta where you would really see the Rama.

After getting instructed with the Hanuman, he pursued the instructions of Hanuman and started to live in the Ashram at Ramghat in Chitrakuta. One day when he went for making the Parikrama of the Kamadgiri Mountain, he saw the two princes on the horsebacks. But he could not distinguish them. Later when he acknowledged that they were Rama and Lakshman by the Hanuman, he got disappointed. All these events are described by himself in his writing Gitavali. On the next morning, he met Rama again when he was making sandalwood paste. Rama came to him and asked for a Tilaka with sandalwood paste, in this way he had a full sight of the Rama. Tulsidas was so happy and he forgot about the sandalwood paste, then Rama took tilak himself and applied on his forehead and also on the Tulsidas‘s forehead.
In the Vinayapatrika, Tulsidas had mentioned the miracles at Chitrakuta and lot of thanks to the Rama. He got darshan of the Yajnavalkya (speaker) and Bharadvaja (listener) in the Magha Mela under a banyan tree.

The great saint-poet of Hindi  has spoken very reverently of this place in all his books, like RAMACHARIT MANAS, KAVITAWALI, DOHAWALI AND VINAYPATRIKA.

And his last mentioned work contains many verses which show a deep personal bond between Tulsidas and Chitrakoot.He spent a much part of his life here worshiping Ram and Craving his Darshan. He said that he had to remember that movement when he had got the Darshan of his beloved Lord Ram at the intercession of Hanumanji. His eminent friend, the noted Hindi poet Rahim (i.e. Abdur Rahim Khankhana, the soldier-statesmen-saint-scholar-poet who was among the Nav-Ratnas of Akbar) also spent some time here, when he had fallen from favour with Akbar's son Emperor Jahangir.

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