Astrology News Desk: Many festivals are celebrated in Sanatan Dharma and all have their own significance but Tulsi Vivah is considered very special which is celebrated with great pomp. According to the Hindu calendar, the holy festival of Tulsi Vivah is celebrated every year on the Dwadashi date of Shukla Paksha of Kartik month. On this day, Vrinda i.e. Tulsi is married to Shaligram.
According to religious beliefs, by performing Tulsi marriage one gets relief from the problems going on in marital life and married life remains happy and brings happiness and prosperity. Fasting is also observed on this day. Apart from this, Tulsi marriage ceremony is also organized in temples and homes. This year Tulsi Vivah is being celebrated on 13th November i.e. today, if the fast story of Tulsi Vivah is recited during the puja on this day, then the puja is considered successful and the seeker also gets its full results, so today we are Have brought the story of Tulsi Vivah Vrat.
Read the fast story of Tulsi Vivah here –
According to the legend, once Shiva had thrown his glory into the sea. A bright child was born from her womb. This child later became a powerful demon king named Jalandhar. The name of his kingdom was Jalandhar Nagar. Vrinda, daughter of demon king Kalnemi, was married to Jalandhar. Jalandhar was a great demon. He fought with the desire to attain Goddess Lakshmi for his bravery. But since he was born from the ocean, Goddess Lakshmi accepted him as her brother. After being defeated there, he went to Mount Kailash with the desire to find Goddess Parvati.
He took the form of Shankar and reached Goddess Parvati. But, immediately recognizing his penance and power, he disappeared. Goddess Parvati became angry and narrated the whole story to Lord Vishnu. Jalandhar’s wife Vrinda will be very religious. Jalandhar was not killed because of his chastity. To destroy Jalandhar, it was necessary to break Vrinda’s pativrata dharma. So Lord Vishnu took the incarnation of a sage and reached the forest. Vrinda was passing through that forest alone. Vishnu was accompanied by two demons, seeing whom she got scared. The sage immediately killed both of them in front of Vrinda. Seeing his power, Vrinda asked about her husband who was fighting with Mahadev on Mount Kailash. The sage revealed two monkeys from his web of illusion. One monkey had Jalandhar’s head in his hand and his torso in the other’s hand. Seeing this condition of her husband, Brinda fainted. After regaining consciousness, she prayed to Rishi Dev to bring her husband back to life.
Through his illusion, God again attached Jalandhar’s head to his body, but he himself also entered his body. Vrinda did not even realize this deception. Vrinda started treating God like a wife, due to which her chastity was destroyed. As soon as this happened, Vrinda’s husband was defeated in the Jalandhar war. When Vrinda came to know about all this leela, she got angry and cursed Lord Vishnu to become a merciless stone. Vishnu accepted the curse of his devotee and disappeared into the Shaligram rock. Due to the creator stone of the universe, a situation of imbalance had arisen in the universe. All the gods prayed to Lord Vishnu to free Vrinda from the curse. Vrinda freed Vishnu from the curse and committed suicide. Tulsi plant grew where Vrinda was burnt. Lord Vishnu said to Vrinda: O Vrinda. Because of your purity you have become more dear to me than Lakshmi. Now you will always be with me in the form of Tulsi. Since then, every year in the month of Kartik, the day of Dev-Uthani Ekadashi is celebrated as Tulsi Vivah. Whoever marries Tulsi with my Shaligram form, gets abundant success and immense fame in the next world.
