Question: In Tulasi prayers we sing that those who take her shelter, their desires are fulfilled. In the prayers we also ask her to make us followers of the gopis in Vraja. So question first, what type of practical services can we do to please Tulasi maharani and get her shelter?

Jayapataka Swami: Tulasi maharani, we can bow down, pay our prostrate obeisances, we can bow to her, we can perform arati to her, we can chant kirtan to her, we can chant japa to her and we can circumambulate her, what more do you want? You can offer her leaves and...