He wrote this book under the directions of Hanuman. The most famous book is his Ramayan- Ram-charit-manas-in Hindi. Accordingly, Tulsidas met Hanuman, and through His grace, had Darshan or vision of Lord Rama. There Hanuman comes in the guise of a leper to hear the Ramayan as the first hearer and leaves the place last of all. The spirit said, 'Go to the Hanuman temple. Tulsidas replied, 'Let me have Darshan of Lord Rama'. The spirit said, 'O man! Get a boon from me'. The spirit was very much pleased with Tulsidas. While returning from answering the calls of nature, Tulsidas used to throw the water that was left in his water-pot at the roots of a tree which a spirit was occupying. He spent fourteen years in visiting the various sacred places of pilgrimage.
These words pierced the heart of Tulsidas like an arrow. If you would develop for Lord Rama even half the love that you have for my filthy body, you would certainly cross the ocean of Samsara and attain immortality and eternal bliss'. She said to Tulsidas, 'My body is but a network of flesh and bones.
This produced a sense of shame in Buddhimati. Tulsidas stealthily went to see her at night at his father-in-law’s house. One day his wife went to her father’s house without informing her husband. He could not bear even a day’s separation from her. Tulsidas was passionately attached to his wife. Tulsidas’s wife’s name was Buddhimati (Ratnavali). Over a passage of time, Ramayana did not remain confined to just being a grand epic, it became a powerful symbol of India's social and cultural fabric. Contained in 24,000 verses, this epic narrates Lord Ram of Ayodhya and his ayan (journey of life).
India was under the reign of Mughal emperor Akbar (1556-1605 CE) during this period. Ramcharitmanas was composed at Ayodhya, Varanasi & Chitrakoot. The exact date is stated within the poem as being the ninth day of the month of Chaitra, which is the birthday of Rama, Rama Navami. Tulsidas began writing the Ramcharitmanas in Ayodhya in Vikram Samvat 1631 (1574 CE).In childhood his name was Tulsiram or Ram Bola. He was born with all the thirty-two teeth intact. Tulsidas did not cry at the time of his birth. His father’s name was Atmaram Shukla Dube and his mother’s name Hulsi. He was a Sarayuparina Brahmin by birth and is regarded as an incarnation of Valmiki, the author of Ramayana written in Sanskrit. Tulsidas was born in Rajpur, in the district of Banda in Uttar Pradesh, in Samvat 1589 or 1532 A.D.