Tulsi Aradana

After cursing him to become black and be separated from his wife, she killed herself.

The gods transferred her soul to a plant, and it became basil.

- Tulsi Vivah, Wikipedia.

awakening from slumber

A touch, a kiss! the charm was snapt,

There rose a noise of striking clocks,

And feet that ran, and doors that clapt,

And barking dogs and crowing cocks;

A fuller light illumined all

A breeze through all the garden swept,

A sudden hubub shook the hall,

And sixty feet the fountain leapt.

- The Sleeping Beauty 

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

emergence of Lakshmi

Lakshmi is always portrayed as personification of beauty.

She is Shri -  joy in a thing of beauty.

Taken in the context of the mind,
is love beautiful, or hate?
is compassion beautiful or violence?

To bring home lakshmi is to bring in fresh flowers.

When love, devotion stirs in you, know that in the home of your heart, Lakshmi has arrived.

 - Amrit Varsha    September 23,  2017