Tulasi Vivah 2025 – Date, Rituals, Significance, and How to Celebrate the Holy Wedding

In 2025, Tulasi Vivah will be celebrated on Sunday, 2nd November, falling on Dwadashi tithi, the day after Prabodhini Ekadashi.

Tulasi Vivah 2025 – Date and Muhurat

• Date: Sunday, 2nd November 2025
• Dwadashi Tithi Begins: 2nd November at 1:55 AM
• Dwadashi Tithi Ends: 3rd November at 11:38 PM
• Best Muhurat for Vivah:
  • Morning: 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
  • Evening: 5:00 PM to 7:30 PM IST (consult local panchang for regional adjustments)

Spiritual Significance of Tulasi Vivah

• Tulasi Devi is believed to be an incarnation of Goddess Lakshmi
• Shaligram is a sacred form of Lord Vishnu, representing the eternal masculine divine
• Their wedding signifies the union of devotion (Bhakti) and divinity (Purusha)
• Performing Tulasi Vivah is equivalent to performing a kanyadaan, believed to grant immense spiritual merit (punya)
• This marks the restart of auspicious activities like weddings, griha pravesh, and religious ceremonies

Tulasi Vivah Puja Vidhi – Step-by-Step Rituals

1. Mandap Setup

• Clean the Tulasi platform or place the Tulasi pot on a decorated rangoli base
• Decorate with banana leaves, mango leaves, flowers, and lamps
• On the other side of the mandap, place Shaligram, or an idol of Lord Krishna/Vishnu, dressed as a groom

2. Dressing Tulasi as the Bride

• The Tulasi plant is bathed and dressed in a small saree or red cloth
• Apply kumkum, haldi, and flowers
• Tie sacred thread (mauli) to her branches and place a sugarcane stick as symbolic support

3. Wedding Ritual

• Recite Mangalashtakam and chant Tulasi Vivah Katha
• Perform garland exchange, tie a sacred thread between Tulasi and Shaligram
• Offer panchamrit, laddoos, thekua, jaggery, and coconut as prasad
• Conclude with aarti and deep daan

Fasting and Tulasi Vivah Vrat

• Devotees observe fasting or light satvik diet on Dwadashi
• Women often keep the Tulasi Vivah Vrat, praying for marital bliss, fertility, and peace
• The vrat is broken after completing the wedding ceremony and distributing prasad

Regional Observances in India

North India (Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh)

• Full-scale wedding style Tulasi Vivah with family celebrations, music, and shehnai
• Brides and grooms sometimes participate as symbolic witnesses

Maharashtra & Gujarat

• Celebrated with sugarcane mandaps, turmeric decorations, and traditional wedding songs (laavni)
• Community Tulasi Vivah is common in housing societies and temples

South India (Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh)

• Performed in Vaishnavite homes and temples, often with pongal, curd rice, and deepa alankara
• Vishnu Sahasranama and Tulasi Ashtottara are chanted

Benefits of Performing Tulasi Vivah

• Removes doshas and blocks in marriage, relationships, or finances
• Purifies home energies, invites Lakshmi-Narayan blessings
• Ensures family harmony, spiritual growth, and ancestral peace
• Grants punya equal to multiple yajnas and tirtha yatras when done with devotion

How to Celebrate Tulasi Vivah at Home

• Wake up early, bathe, and clean the puja space
• Set up a mandap with flowers, diya, and rangoli
• Dress the Tulasi plant as a bride, and place Lord Krishna or Shaligram as the groom
• Invite family and neighbors to witness the wedding
• Distribute prasad like dry fruits, sweet pongal, jaggery sweets, or makhana laddoos
• Offer deep daan to Tulasi and chant “Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya”

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