Tulasi – Well now… this is weird.
Something really weird just happened to me.
Ok, for the past 13 years or so, hardly a day has gone by when I didn’t wear a Tulasi necklace of some kind. They’re commonly called “neck beads” and they’re made from the wood of the Tulasi tree (pronounced “Tul-see”). Devotees consider the Tulasi plant as sacred and the wood from Tulasi is made into beads. Some are used for chanting, some are used for neckbeads.
I was sitting at my desk when I felt something moving, sliding down my shirt, against my skin. At first I thought it was a bug. I hate bugs, especially bugs that get under my clothes. Ew. So I slowly and hesitantly lifted up my shirt and behold there was a medium sized Tulasi bead.
The first thing I thought was “dammit, I broke another strand of neckbeads!” Neck beads, like any other necklace, break from time to time. I felt up around my neck. Nope… beads still there.
So then I figured that the bead cracked and the came off the cord. Nope. The bead is whole, no cracks, no nuthin.
I took off the necklace to take a closer look. There were no beads missing. Not only that, the loose bead was a bit bigger, a different color and longer than the beads on the strand of neck beads.
Ok then. If the neck beads didn’t break, and the bead wasn’t cracked… where did it come from? It’s not like I just changed neck beads, I’ve had these on for well over a year now. And it’s not like I’ve got a bunch (or any) loose beads just floating around. I don’t live near other devotees and as far as I know, no devotee has been up under my shirt. So where did it come from?
I’m really baffled by this.
