In plain words
In worldly life its meaning is different. While the child is in the mother's womb it receives its breath and its food through the mother alone. The moment it is born, the people attending the birth cut its tie to the mother's cord. So even its breathing in and breathing out becomes somewhat difficult. When these two do not go on, the blood does not flow properly. So when the child cries, by that crying, by that breath, the body's nine openings open as well. Its face and its mouth too are full of many kinds of fluid. By this crying its breathing in and out goes on properly. Then the blood circulation too goes on properly. So that it may cry, the nurses hold by the legs a child who does not cry at birth, let it hang upside down and slap it hard. By that, ordinary breathing in and out begins. But Tulasīdās did not cry the moment he was born.
When the women around him looked at his form, they saw that he seemed to be in some deep samādhi. Because he was born in this way, the people round about, and some of the women, began to whisper. They went on saying in many ways that the star under which this child was born was not good, that the birth was not a good one. As if to fit it, some worldly ill-omens began. On the fourth day the mother fell ill with a high fever. Tulasīdās was born on the seventh day of the lunar fortnight. On the Ekādaśī, that is on the fourth day, Tulasī died. But there were only three days between, poor woman. As soon as the mother died, the father's mind was somewhat troubled, thinking, as people had been saying, that this boy had been born with some ill-omened signs and had caused his mother's death. Now there was no one in that house to look after the infant. Right next door there lived a mother who had no children. Her name was Chuliyā. Seeing this child, she asked, poor woman, "Sir, let me bring him up." He gladly handed him over to her. Chuliyā brought this child up with great tenderness, poor woman. She too died by the time he reached his tenth year.
Since he now had no support left behind her either, the people round about, thinking someone might well be able to bring up this child, inquired, and in a neighbouring village there was the Rāmaśīla āśram.