Tulasi Maadam with Lotus Top ( Deepam Maadam + 3 Sides Plain)

Tulasi Maadam

About Tulasi Maadam

Every part of the Tulasi plant is revered and considered sacred. Even the soil around the plant and Stone Pot are  Holy.

-In Sri-mad Bhagavatam, the significance of the Tulsi over other plants is described as:

Although flowering plants like the mandāra, kunda, kurabaka, utpala, campaka, arṇa, punnāga, nāgakeśara, bakula, lily and pārijāta are full of transcendental fragrance, they are still conscious of the austerities performed by tulasī, for tulasī is given special preference by the Lord, who garlands Himself with tulasī leaves

 — Srimad Bhagavatam, Canto 4, Chapter 15, Verse 19[22]

If a Tulsi stick is used to burn a lamp for Vishnu, it is like offering the gods lakhs of lamps.

If one makes a paste of dried Tulsi wood (from a plant that died naturally) and smears it over his body and worships Vishnu, it is worth several ordinary pujas and lakhs of Godan (donation of cows). Water mixed with the Tulsi leaves is given to the dying to raise their departing souls to heaven.