Hi,

I woke up a few days ago with a very auspicious dream, like Tulasi Devi was telling me in this dream that she was doing allright.

First a little background story :

Tulasi Devi came from Goloka Vrindavan, that is Krishna's planet, situated above the Heavenly planets.
Tulasi was cursed by Krishna's closest female counterpart, Radharani. She had to take birth on earth again and Tulasi begane to practise austerities, like meditating for 10.000 years in the blazing sun, surrounded by blazing fires, or meditating in the winter in the icy cold waters for 10.000 years (in those times people lived a little longer than now).
Her only wish was to get Krishna as her husband.
Now after some things happened (Shiva in war alongside with Kali against a multy million army and so forth, Tulasi tricked by Vishnu etc...), after that she was somewhat granted her wish, she became a plant, Krishna's favorite plant, never to be separated from him again.
Our beads are made out of Tulasi wood and the Tulasi plant is daily worshiped in all temples around the world.
Now we offer Tulasi leaves to Krishna and Radharani always and those leaves we eat, well, i don't like the taste of them, but it is auspicious.

Oke, i have a nice picture of Krishna surounded with his transcendental girlfriends, Gopi's, on the wall, just above my desk here in my room in the castle.
I have sticked a Tulasi leaf on the left upper corner of the picture, sticked it with this sticky tag. This i did a few days ago and magicly it curved itself towards the middlle of the picture, towards Krishna, when it dried up, like the leaf wanted to be as close as possible to Krishna.
Now i was puzzled by this and the day before yesterday i sticked another Tulasi leaf to the picture, now on the right upper corner, just to see if it will also curve towards Krishna. And the day before yesterday, in my prayers, i payed some attention to this desire of me, i was hopefull.
This was the dream i woke up with a few days ago :

- januari 16th 2007, 04.15, Radhadesh, Belgium :

.....I walked around town and wanted to buy a jacket, but in the stores there were only dull brown leather jackets and i don't like them. But somewhat later i walked around with a denim jacket, too cold for the season, but i walked further.
Then i found myself in a bus and the same poster as i have hanging above my desk was sticked to a window of the bus. Both the Tulasi leaves were present, the dried curved one in the left upper corner and the new one in the right upper corner.
But the new Tulasi leaf had changed into a beautifull small Tulasi plant, light eminated from the inside of this little plant and the original leaf was very happily curved towards Krishna. There were little branches and leaves growing towards the top of the bus. There was a soothing shining sun rising on the background, brightening the scene somewhat more.
There were some school children in the bus and one of them asccidentely bumped into the dried Tulasi leaf and it fell on the ground, now i don't clearly remember the school boy trapped on the leaf or not, but i picked it up and sticked it back to it's place.
Then my attention was again directed towards this magic looking happy small Tulasi plant, but now it felt like i was in a moving train.
But it was such a mystic scene that i wanted to take a picture of it.
But a man behind me warned me that the picture would't turn out oke, because of the shining sun behind the window.
I agreed and took a last look at this little plant, eminating happiness......

So i think this leaf on the right upper corner will not curve towards Krishna, that was the message of this dream, and the leaf is already happy enough to be sticked on the picture, close enough to Krishna.
I am quite happy with this dream, for me the leaf doesn't have to curve anymore, i know it is happy.
Cool, Tulasi Devi Ki Jay !!

So if you're interested in the story of Tulasi Devi, here is the link :

url-salagram.net/parishad95.htm

For the Krishna picture :

url-krishna.com/cgi-bin/ImageFolio31/imageFolio.cgi?action=view&link=Krishna_Gal
lery&image=TA44.jpg&img=80&tt=


Cheers,

Erik.