acaryavan puruso veda
This adage is from chandogya upanisad, spiritual master is the personification of vedas. Living vedas, his actions are in terms of sastra, closely observe the activities of divine spiritual master, you will realise that each of his behaviour has a reason. Once I saw my Guru Mahārāja was touching the earth at the tulasi plant after our tulasi arati while watering Tulasi devi. I did follow, later when I was reading Hari Bhakti vilasa, I came across glories of earth beneath the tulasi plant. (Tulasi mula mittika) The Glories of Tulasé's Wood and Earth In the Skanda Puräëa it is said: "Touching the earth at Tulasé's roots is equal to ten million pilgrimages. One should carefully keep some of this earth in his home. "A person who at his death is anointed with Tulasé earth is invisible to Yamaräja. Yamaräja cannot even see him, even if he has committed a hundred sins. "When a person places Tulasé earth on his head, all obstacles that trouble him perish. All the plan...