Tulasi Is Still Keeping Me Busy

Well Tulasi Devi sure is still keeping me busy.I had no idea that she'd be allowing me to serve her like this. I wasn't doing much in the beginning but somehow or other Srimate Radharani or Krishna Himself must have seen my desire to serve their pure devotee Tulasi Devi.

Today I had spent nearly 5 hours in her green house in the sweltering heat. But service needed to be done for her. I have so many baby Tulasis to care for and I transplanted 19 of them today because they were too big for the seedling container. I needed to wash her pots and then add fresh soil to them. I think she will grow a lot faster if she is in her own pot instead of all together in a seedling container. Most of the Baby Tulasis are getting ready to grow another set of leaves! Some of them are looking so pretty even now and Im finding myself very much attached to her becasue of how pretty she looks. She maybe tiny now but her leaves are looking big and beautiful. And she is only about three weeks old! She is growing quickly.

Just these past few days I had more baby Tulasis appear. After I had transplanted one of the bigger Tulasis, three more baby ones had appeared and I did not even plant these. I don't know how she got there. This Tulasi is hanging over on the side of teh pot so there was no way seeds could have fallen in there! Unless these seeds have been there but got lost in the soil and maybe somehow found their way near the top so that they could grow. So today i put them in their own pot as well so as not to get lost in the soil becasue they are so tiny. Then this morning when was nearly finished taking care of her I found yet ANOTHER baby Tulasi come up in the seedling container. I could have sworn she was done growing all her seeds. I was not expecting any more to pop up but apparently she is still linguiring in the soil somewhere still I think.

I always keep my guru Maharaj updated on how the baby Tulasis are doign and I always offer him a flower from Tulasi after I had offered it to her. He had told me to keep serving her and that she will take care of me. I also told him that I think Tulasi is trying to tell me something, and he said it's because she loves me but I don't deserve that kind of love from a pure devotee as I am still materially contaminated. Tulasi must be happy with the service I am doing for her at least I hope I am pleasing her because if she is pleased Krishna Himself is pleased.

I always go up to Tulasi's green house three times a day usually depending on how hot it is. I went up there three times today. I chant my rounds to her during japa in her greenhosue,,then after class I take care of her, and then later in the afternoon I try doing a little maha clean up in her greenhouse or I transplant her if she needs it or trim manjaris if I run out of time in the morning. When I clean her room though I still feel as though it's still not clean enough for her! I feel that there still is something to do in her greenhouse. Tulasi usually lets me know what she wants done. Other times I can figure it out myself what needs to be done.

My guru Maharaj will be going on his fourth walk across Canada soon. So I know I will keep busy withTulasi until he returns. He's been travelling so much nd I find myself missing him a lot but Tulasi helps ease the pain of separation from him because he instructed me to take care of her so when I take care of her I can feel my guru maharaj's presence while he's away.

All glories to Tulasi Maharani.