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Information About Shaligram's From Hari Bhakti Vilas
Information About Shaligram's From Hari Bhakti Vilas
Information about Shaligram's from Hari Bhakti Vilas - Gaudiya Vaishnava Smiti.
Any person, if he has even taken one drop of water which has washed Salagram
Shila, he will not have to suck a mother's breast again in the future.
BHAKTYA BHUNAKTI NAIVEDYAM SALAGRAMA SILARPITAM
KOTIM MAKHASYA LABHATE PHALAM SATA SAHASRASAH
(HARI BHAKTI VILASA 9/395 from SKANDA PURANA)
One who eats food after offering it to Shalagram Shila, he achieves the results
of performing one hundred times one thousand times one million fire sacrifices
Any person who has drank the water which has bathed Shalagram Shila, what is
the need for them to drink thousand and thousands of times pancagavya?
(Pancagavya is made from five auspicious products of a cow offered to the Lord.)
Shila. One should not even suggest a price to be paid for Shalagram Shila. No
one should find faults in Him or explain some mistakes in Him. All of these
persons must go to the hellish planets and live there until the complete
annihilation.
SALAGRAMA SILAYANTU PRATISTHA NAIVA VIDYATE
MAHA PUJANTU KRTVADAU PUJAYET TAM TATO BUDHAH
(HARI BHAKTI VILASA, 5/438 from SKANDA PURANA)
There is no installation process for Shalagram Shila. The learned and purified
souls have recommended a grand worship of Him and then regular worship
thereafter.
SALAGRAMA SILAYANTU SAKSAT SRI KRSNA SEVANAM
NITYAM SANNIHITAS TATRA VASUDEVO JAGAD GURUH
(HARI BHAKTI VILASA 5/444 from PADMA PURANA)
The worship of Shalagram Shila is the worship of Lord Hari directly. Jagat
Guru, the spiritual master of the universe, Lord Vasudeva, eternally resides
within Shalagram Shila.
STRIYO VA YADI VA SUDRA BRAHMANAH KSATRIYADAYAH
PUJAYITVA SILA CAKRA LABHANTE SASVATAM PADAM
(HARI BHAKTI VILASA 5/452 from SKANDA PURANA conversation between Lord Brahma
and Narada Muni)
Worship of Salagram Sila can be done by women, sudras (low caste), brahmanas
(twice born), kshatriyas (administrators), etc. and they can all achieve the
eternal abode of Lord Krsna perfectly.
About the many foms of the Shaligram - from Vaishnavism Thru' the Ages
The Story of Tulasi
Tulasi Shaligram Vivaha
An article about Jaya Tirtha Charan dasa's Shaligrams
Tulasi & Shaligram Jala Dana
The Benefits of rendering service to Tulasi
Blessings of the Shaligram from the story of Tulasi
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