Skandapurana 5.248

Vāṇī said: / By whichever householder the highly fruitful tulasī is planted, / in his house poverty does not arise; there is no doubt about this.

By the mere sight of tulasī, a heap of sins is averted. / Born from a drop of nectar for prosperity, tulasī is beloved of Hari.

For living beings who drink its pleasing juice, it removes sins. / Lakṣmī, born from the ocean, dwells in her form, in the trunk;

Śrī constantly resides in the leaves, Kamalā herself in the branches; / Indirā is always in the flowers, and the one born of the ocean of milk in the fruit.

Tulasī, whose form pervades the universe, resides in the dried wood; / she who dwells in the lotus is in the marrow, and the beloved of Hari is in the barks.

Having all forms, the sovereign mistress of all, bestowing supreme bliss— / the mortal who consumes tulasī does not go to the realm of Yama.

He on whose head tulasī is placed is not perceived by the minions of Yama; / tulasī in the mouth bestows the state of nirvāṇa.

He in whose hand tulasī is placed is freed from the threefold suffering; / and tulasī placed upon the heart grants all desires to living beings.

He on whose shoulder tulasī rests is not tainted by sins; / he on whose neck tulasī rests is indeed forever liberated while alive.

A man who constantly carries a leaf born of tulasī / undoubtedly attains the perfection conceived in his mind.

A man who sprinkles tulasī daily—which accomplishes all goals of the body and wards off wickedness— / does not go to the abode of Yama.

Especially during Cāturmāsya, even when merely greeted, it bestows liberation. / Knowing Nārāyaṇa to be in the water, and likewise in the tree,

out of compassion for living beings Lakṣmī has taken resort in the tulasī plant. / When Cāturmāsya arrives, if tulasī is served,

their thousands of sins are perpetually dispersed in a thousand ways. / Constant remembrance of Govinda and tending of the tulasī grove,

and the watering of tulasī with milk during Cāturmāsya are extremely hard to attain. / If a human being should nurture a tulasī with faith,

the entire family is purified through gifts of water in its basin. / Just as Śrī residing in the tulasī indeed ever grows,

so also does the householder's increase of desires come to be. / The student, the householder, the forest-dweller, and likewise the ascetic,

as well as all the subjects, if engaged in serving tulasī / with faith, Hari does not cause them suffering.

One Hari, having entered into every tree, shines forth, His form indeed permeated with diverse essences; / and the goddess Kamalā, the destroyer of sorrow and the like, though merely remembered constantly, came to abide in trees. 19

Thus ends the two hundred and forty-ninth chapter, entitled 'The Description of the Greatness of Tulasī' in the Story of Paijavana, in the Greatness of Cāturmāsya, in the Dialogue of Brahmā and Nārada, in the Story of the One Reclining on Śeṣa, in the Greatness of Hāṭakeśvara Sacred Field, in the sixth Nāgarakhaṇḍa, in the Skandamahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses. 249