Salagrams Need a Home

[mathuradasksb 0]

Dear Prabhus,

 

Pamo. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 

I have a very limited number of salagrams to gift to sincere sevakas. I ask that you be an initiated brahmana who is strictly following under the guidance of a spiritual master. Only one sila will be sent to a devotee. As all silas are equally potent, please do not request a specific form.

 

Requests can be directed to:

 

bhaktipada108@

 

I hope this finds you well.

 

Ys,

Mathura das

[Guest guest]

could you please tell

how you acquired these and

how the original source acquired them?

 

thanks.

 

jai sri krishna!

- madhav

 

[mathuradasksb 0]

Hare Krishna. They were given to me by a friend in Nepal. He got them from the Gandaki. Not sure the exact location on the river.

 

Ys,

Mathura das

 

P.S. please send requests via email

[Guest guest]

Haribol Prabhu, what is a Salagram?

[Guest guest]

ulness it is picked up from gandaki river by a vaishanv aacharya and given by the aacharya to his disciple, it is no different than a stone.

 

by accepting a shaligram one committs to worship it faithfully and without fail every day. it is a constant reminder of god and guru, and unfailing dedication of worshipping both every day with love.

 

it is a token by the aacharya of his love for god and his disciples. it is a reminder that an aacharya gve it in person to one, and then it could be passd down to generations. each generation need to worship it.

 

if one does not worship an inherited shaligram, then it needs to be passed to any one who would worship it.

 

it is a krishan moorti, but mostly looks like a marble.

 

jai sri krishna! -madhav

 

 

[Guest guest]

Salagramam represents the formless nature of His Supreme. It is beleived that Shreeman Narayana in His different form is present in it along with Shree Laxmi Devi. The mythological story associated with Salagram is that Vrinda who prayed to Lord Narayana to marry Her cursed Lord Himself when He cheated her taking the form of her husband. She did not realise that she prayed to Lord to marry her in her previous birth. Vrinda's husband was Jalunder who was born out of sweat droplet of Lord Shiva while churning the Parkadal. So he claimed authority over the Amritham and hence took the blessings of lord that he will not have end. To kill Jalundher (Vrinda's husband) Lord took form as him and appeared in front of Vrinda. Lord Shiva blessed himthat until his patni Vrinda remains chaste he will not have end. When he was capturing all the lokas the Lord to make an end to it appeared as julunder in front of Vrinda when she heard the news that her husband died in the fight between Devas and Asuras. Vrinda on seeing her husband after hearing the death news went and hugged him out of which Julunder lost his power and got killed. Vrinda immediately realised that its Lord and cursed Him to become stone. Lord explained to her about the purpose of her birth and as He was pleased with her chastity and Bhakthi He made her immortal by keeping her soul in Tulsi which is the sacred plant and by always wearing on Him.

Vrinda during Krishna's time appeared as Rukmini Devi and married Shree Krishna. While Satyabhama was tryng to weigh Krishna by all her material wealth, Rukmini placed a leaf of Tulsi and won over the mind of Lord. Basically the principle behind these stories are that Lord can be reached by sincere devotion. Tulsi, Vrinda, Rukmini are all forms of Lakshmi Devi and for the world to realise the essence of true Devotion these are Lord's past times.

Salagram is kept in almost all brahmins houses in south India to my knowledge and like the Shiva Linga it represents the formless God. These sacred stones are found in Kandaki River in Nepal and the Lord in that place is Suyambu (oringated naturally and not man made). Worshiping Salagram is equivalent to worshiping Lord Vishnu/Narayana who is the Supreme and took manny avathar (including Krishna avathar) to establish religion and morals in human society.

[Guest guest]

Dear Mathura Prabhu,

 

I suggest you go to

http://www.salagram.net/

 

and ask the devotees who visit there if anyone is prepared to accept these salagrama Deities as their worshipable Deities.

 

A salagram is a salagram, no matter if I receive it from the hand of a butcher. But we must do the worship properly, as described in Haribhaktivilasa etc..

 

-- Muralidhar das

 

 

[stonehearted 0]

I concur in Muralidhara prabhu's recommendation. Jayatirtha-carana can help find devotees who will happily give Them the worship They deserve.

 

Babhru das

[Guest guest]

thanks for sharing the puranic story.

 

jai sri krishna! -madhav

 

[Guest guest]

I HAVE GONE THRUOGH YR MSG. MY NAME IS HK GOKULRANJAN SARMABOLONGS TO SRI VAISHNAVA FAMILY .DOING VISHNU PUJA REGULARLY . NOW I REQUIRED A SALAGRAMAM. IF POSSIBLE CAN U HELP? MY E MAIL IS hkgr@sify.com

THANKING U

WITH RGDS

HKGR

[Guest guest]

Haribol.

I am worshipping sri sudarshana saligrama moorthy at home.

We usually do abhisek early in morning on sundays, as during the week I have to work. I was wondering if there is anything specific that saligrama moorthy likes being bathed with.

We currently use 3 itms

[1] Milk

[2] Water

[3] Rose Water

 

Sometimes we also use sugar water and yoghurt when doing 5 item abishek. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[Guest guest]

Hare Krishna and all glories to Srila Prabhupada!

 

if one is still available, kindly email me at dayar@mail.com

 

Haribol