Custom of saying Ram’s name Satya Hai behind the deceased
There was a time when Tulsidas lived in his village. He was always engaged in devotion to Ram. His family members and the villagers threw him out of the house calling him an impostor, so Tulsidas started living on the banks of river Ganga. He started worshiping the Lord.
When Tulsidas was starting the composition of Ramcharitmanas, on the same day a boy got married in his village, and the boy came to his home with his new bride. Due to some reason that boy died in the night. The boy’s family started crying. When morning came, everyone started taking the boy to the crematorium after arranging it on the bier, then the boy’s wife also started following her husband’s bier with the desire to commit Sati.People were going on the same route on which Tulsidas ji lived. When people were leaving, the boy’s wife’s eyes fell on Tulsidas ji. The newlywed bride thought that she is going to commit sati with her husband, once she bows down to this Brahmin deity, the newlywed bride did not know that this was Tulsidas ji. .
She immediately touched Tulsidas’s feet and saluted him. Tulsidas blessed him with unbroken good fortune. Then everyone started laughing and said – Tulsidas, we used to think that you are a hypocrite, but you are also a very foolish person. This girl’s husband is dead. Is. How can this unbroken Saubhagyavati be… Everyone started saying, you are also a liar, your Ram is also a liar.
Tulsidas ji said, we may be a liar, but my Ram can never be a liar. Everyone said: Then give proof.
Tulsidas ji got the bier kept, and went to the dead boy and whispered in his ear – Ram’s name is true. Once he said this the boy started moving. For the second time Tulsidas ji spoke in the boy’s ear – Ram’s name is true. The boy became a little conscious. Tulsidas ji again spoke in the boy’s ear for the third time – Ram’s name is true, then the deceased boy got up from the bier and sat down.
Everyone was astonished as to how the dead could be alive. Everyone accepted Tulsi Das as a perfect saint. He prostrated himself at the feet of Tulsidas ji and started apologizing.
Tulsidas ji said, if you people did not go here through this route, then how would I get the proof of the name of Ram being true. This is all our Ram’s leela. From that day onwards, the practice of saying Ram’s name is true behind the deceased started. .!!