10.What is the significance of śālagrāma pūja?
There are special stones that hold energy and radiate it for long time. They are like batteries. When we do not get electricity, we use batteries. In the same way, when you are not able to go to temples, when you are not able to visit the energy centers, you can use these batteries in your home, to recharge yourself.
They are actually techniques, methods to recharge your self. Śālagrāma and bāṇalinga are called healing stones. They hold energy and radiate it for long periods. I have seen this many a time, especially the stones available in Omkareshwar (a holy city in Bharat), called bāṇalinga. If you have knee pain, headache or back pain, iust keep the spot for two to three minutes and the pain will disappear.
I have experimented with hundreds of cases, not just once or twice. I have brought back lot of stones to the ashram from there. I used to give it to people very simply their pain would be removed. Even arthritis, so many cases have been healed. I do not know the mystery behind it. but it does work, I do not know how to explain, but one thing is sure; it works. All I can say is it works. These stones are filled with energy and you can use them to heal your self, or to relate with higher energy. That is the reason; we worship śālagrāma, bāṇalinga and several other stones. All these stones that we worship are from different rivers.
The other day I was talking to you about the messages from water experiments. Have you heard how water responds to sacred words?
A scientist did a beautiful research: he kept ten glasses of water in ten different rooms. All the ten glasses were of the same type and the water in the glasses was from the same source. He would go to one room and use beautiful, nice words; words like peace, silence, bliss; all positive words. Corresponding positive type of waves were created in that room. Then he would go to the next room and shout terrorism, and violence and war: all negative words, which created corresponding type of waves. In the third room, he chanted some ślokas from the Dharmapadha. In each room, he used different emotions thus creating various types of vibrations. After doing this, he froze the glasses of water and photographed the ice.
There is a beautiful movie released, 'What the bleep do we know', where they have beautifully described the whole research. He says he got amazing results. The water to which he related very positively showed characteristics of a diamond. The picture of the water, exposed to negativity showed like a devil! The water to which he related with words from the Dharmapadha showed like a Buddhist temple. The picture it presented was like a Buddhist temple!
It is amazing how water can respond to your energy. Understand if water responds in this manner, what vibrations an ordinary doctor can create, in 15 minutes. Imagine thousands of ṛiṣhis and sanyāsīs standing in a river and continuously repeating the mantras, what will happen to that river. It becomes living energy. Imagine, what will happen to those stones, they become healing stones! They can help you relate with the higher energy.
One more thing, when the British people used to come from London to Calcutta, they would bring water with them, in the ship. The water would spoil half way through the journey. On their return iourney, they would take water back with them, from Calcutta and that water would not spoil. Even after reaching London, it would be okay. They did a research on this, thinking 'how could this happen?' Then they understood; the Ganga (sacred river) water has a beautiful quality of purifying itself continuously. It has a quality, a special energy that purifies it continuously.
With so much of mantra, so much worship, not only its water, even the stones vibrate with this high energy. That is why I sav Bharat is a spiritual incubator.