Questioner: Namaskaram sadhguru
Saligramam is 
a special kind of stone;
they say you can consecrate it in a different
way.
Is there any specification,
like what kinds of materials we can use for
such kinds of practices
or consecrations
and what is the specific,
this thing, of saligram?
Sadhguru: Saligram,
generally what you find in the stores is
mostly an egg-shaped stone.
Children who could not buy marbles used to
pick stones in the rivers
and play games with it, you know.
Yes?
Children who can't buy glass marbles went
to the river
and picked up round shaped stones and started
playing with it
and somebody made the… a simple game a very
serious thing.
So, most of the saligram that you see are
just stones without any particular
they're just nice stones.
I hope people start… stop picking them from
the river beds
because at this rate
I was telling them when we went to Kailash,
everybody wants to pick up a stone.
There was a time when people were walking
from here,
from Tamil Nadu people walked all the way
to Kailash.
If ten people started off,
only two people came back.
At that time it was okay for those people
to bring two small pieces of stone
all the way because anyway they wouldn’t
bring this big (Gestures) stone
carrying… walking all the way back.
They brought two small stones
for the eight people that they left back there;
that was okay.
Now you're going in vehicles very comfortably
and you want to load up bagfuls of stones
and come home,
at this rate, I was just telling them, ‘If
this happens,
in a few years the whole of Kailash will be
in Tamil Nadu.’
(Laughter)
We're transporting the whole mountain piece
by piece (Laughter);
the number of people that are going
and we are planning to take thousands of people.
So, please leave the Kailash stones in Kailash,
it's no good for you.
(Laughs)
You want to carry some water, it's okay.
Water migrates without your permission.
Stones still don’t migrate.
So, wherever these stones are from, Ganga,
Yamuna, wherever,
if you’ve picked them up, please carry it
all the way back
and throw it back into the same river
because if the life in that river has to happen,
all these things are needed.
Saligram is particular kind of stone which
is extremely rare to find.
Generally ___ sea anemones are being sold
as saligrams.
Any piece of stone is being sold as saligram;
those are not saligrams.
Or people are molding them in various kind
of resins and selling them;
definitely that is not saligram.
Saligram is a rare piece of stone which
which is one in a billion if you manage to
pick it.
And even if you pick it,
you may not know the difference unless you're
of a certain kind.
And if you happen to pick a genuine saligram
If you do happen to pick a genuine saligram,
then you're in real trouble
because you should know how to manage this,
otherwise you'll be in lot of trouble.
It can also make your life if you know how
to use it.
It’s a great treasure if you know how to
use it,
otherwise it can be disastrous if you do not
know how to use it.
People who are living in family situations,
simple lives without much discipline,
without much focus,
without much awareness should never ever keep
a saligram in their home.
If they do they could go through any amount
of turmoil.
We have seen such families.
Somebody, you know,
two-three generations ago your grandmother,
grandfather,
somebody brought a saligram, they… they
made their life out of it
but after they died
the next generation do not know how to keep
it
and those families go through such turmoil
and such horrors
which are unimaginable
because they simply do not know how to manage
the energy.
It is like you have a powerhouse,
you have a power generating source in your
house
and you don’t know how to manage the energy
and you will be constantly in trouble, isn't
it?
Whatever you touch, you will be in trouble.
So, this is just like that; it's a tremendous
power store house of energy.
It is like a mini cosmos.
It is a micro cosmos in its own way
because it carries the same type of energy
as cosmos would in its magnified version.
So, this thing about seeking ekamukhi,
seeking saligrams,
please leave these things alone;
this is not genuine spiritual process,
this is souvenir collection,
you know, wherever you go you want to pick
up something
and think this is sacred, that is sacred.
Everybody wants a ekamukhi
you yourself have many faces.
(Laughter)
When you have many faces, if you wear a ekamukhi
you're asking for trouble.
If your whole life is just one pointed and
then you wear it,
it's a great thing.
Your life is going in different directions,
you're playing many roles,
you have different faces for different people
that you see in your life
don’t you?
Don’t you have many faces?
I'm asking.
When you have many faces, if you wear a ekamukhi
you're looking for trouble;
just like that.
Stop looking for these fanciful things.
There is something that you can do with this
one (Referring to oneself);
let's do that,
instead of going about looking for fancy pieces
of something in a riverbed
or on a tree or wherever else, leave them.
If you deserve such things, it will come to
you somehow,
but I don’t think you need them right now.
