Namo Namah Tulasi Maharani
Śrī Tulasī-ārati — by Candraśekhara Kavi
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O Tulasī Mahārāṇī! O Vṛndā! O mother of devotion! O Nārāyaṇi, I offer my obeisances to you again and again.
One who sees you or even touches you has all his sins destroyed. The Vedas and Purāṇas describe your glories.
Your leaves and soft new blossoms are entwined at the lotus feet of Nārāyaṇa, the Lord of Lakṣmī. O blessed mother Tulasī, you performed successful austerities and have thus become the chief consort and queen of Śrī Śālagrāma-śilā.
You engladden and shower your rain of mercy upon one who offers you some incense, a ghee lamp, edibles, and ārati. The Lord does not care for even one of fifty-six varieties of cooked food or thirty-six different curries offered without tulasī leaves.
Lord Śiva, Śukadeva Gosvāmī, Devarṣi Nārada, and all the jñānīs and great munis, headed by Lord Brahmā, are circumambulating you. O mother! O Mahārāṇī, Candraśekhara thus sings your glories. Please bestow upon him the gift of pure devotion.