Importance of wearing Tulsi Neck Beads
When a person leaves its body, there are always some persons that come to escort them to their next body. If one has bad karma, the Yamadutas come. Although they are servants of Lord Yamaraj (The lord of death who keeps track of everyone’s karma) and part of the Vedic system. They look like monsters and are extremely fearful. They literally pull the soul in the subtle material body out of the gross material body and drag the soul to Yamaloka.
Srimad Bhagavatam has a section where the hellish planets are described, along with a list of which sinful activities and their punishment. One planet is said to be like a red hot copper disc that you are dropped onto, with full senses to feel pain, but no way to stop or relieve it since the material body has already died. You just remain there and bounce around trying to get away from the pain and suffering until the Yamadutas come back to take you to whatever is next.
The Yamadutas have ordered by Lord Yamaraj not to touch anyone who has Tulsi Neck Beads and tilak on them, no matter what their karma is. Instead, the Vishnudutas come to that person and escort them. The next birth depends either in a devotee family or a wealthy family where they can take up their spiritual journey right where they left off.
Shashtra says
Yat Kanthe Tulasi Nashti, Te Janash Mudha Manasaha,
Annam Bistha, Jalam Mutram, Amritam Rudhiram Bhavet.
Tulsi Neck Beads
The Benefits of wearing Tulsi Neck Beads :
- Destroys the greatest of sins (Maha Pataka Samhantrim) – Skanda Purana: HBV: 4.3182.
- Sri Hari is always with you (Deha sada Harih) – Garuda Purana: HBV 4.3353.
- You get a million times benefit from Punya karmas, Pitru or Devata puja. – Garuda Purana: HBV: 4.3364.
- Yamaraja stays far away. (Preta raja dutakah drstva nashyanti durena) – Garuda Purana: HBV: 4.3375.
- Gives full protection from bad dreams, accidents, attack by weapons, and the Yamaduttas (Duhsvapnam
- Durnimittam Bhayam Shastrajam) – Garuda Purana: HBV: 4.338.
What Hari Bhakti Vilasa teaches us:
*A person who wears tulasī neck beads all the time obtains the result of living in Dvārakā.
*There is no need to perform the atonement for a person who wears tulasī neck beads. Factually, he does not become contaminated at any stage in his life. Śrī Hari resides in the body of a person whose neck is decorated with tulasī mala.
*Just by seeing the tulasī beads on a person’s neck, the Yamadūtas flee to a distant place. A person who wanders here and thereafter putting on tulasī neck beads has nothing to fear from an accident, bad dreams, or weapons.
