Jagat Guru Rampal Ji Maharaj
Information about the Places of Pilgrimage (Teerth / Dhaam)
Information about the Places of Pilgrimage (Teerth / Dhaam)
Some worshipper sage did sadhna sitting at some place or near some water body, or exhibited his spiritual power. After making earnings of his bhakti, he took it with him and went to the lok of his favoured deity. That place of sadhna later became known as a Teerth or Dhaam (place of pilgrimage). Now if someone goes to see that place that here some worshipper used to live. He did welfare of many. Now there is no saint there who would give updesh. He has left after making his earnings.
Please think: - Please consider (Teerth/Dhaam) places of pilgrimage as mortar and pestle (a one and a half feet long bowlshaped vessel of iron with an approximately 9 inch diameter and a one and a half feet long rod of iron, 2 inches in diameter, which is used for grinding substances and medicines is known as mortar and pestle). A person borrowed a mortar and pestle from his neighbour. He ground the collected material for hawan and returned it after washing. The room in which the mortar and pestle was kept, a fragrance started coming in that room. The members of the family saw that from where is this fragrance coming, and found that it is coming from the mortar and pestle. They understood that the neighbour had borrowed it; he must have ground some aromatic substance. After a few days that fragrance also stopped coming.
Likewise, consider a Teerth/Dhaam as a mortar and pestle. Like, the person who ground the substance wiping all his material kept it with him. He returned the empty mortar and pestle. Now if someone just by smelling that mortar and pestle becomes contented, then it is his foolishness. He will also have to bring that collected material, then he will attain full benefit.
Similarly, a holy soul living at some Dhaam or place of pilgrimage after grinding the material of Ram-naam and wiping it off, took all his earnings with him. Later, if the ignorant devotees just by going to that place consider it their welfare, then it is the result of the baseless sadhna told by their guides (gurus). Welfare is possible only by doing sadhna of God like that great soul saint. For that on finding a Tattavdarshi Saint and taking updesh from him, by doing bhakti throughout life, one should attain liberation. Scripture-based true sadhna is available with me, this Das. Please obtain it free-ofcost.
How was Shri Amarnaath Dhaam Established?
God Shankar Ji had given updesh (initiation) to Parvati Ji in a solitary place. Because of which Mother Parvati Ji became this much liberated that until God Shiv Ji (Tamgun) will not die, even Uma Ji (Parvati) will not die. After the death of seven Brahma Ji (Rajogun), God Vishnu (Satogun) will die. After the death of seven Vishnu Ji, Shiv Ji will die. Then mother Parvati Ji will also die; did not attain complete salvation. Even then, whatever benefit Parvati Ji attained, that also she obtained after taking updesh-mantra from an authorised person. Later, devotees to keep the memory of that place, kept it safe and visitors started going there.
Like, this Das (Saint Rampal) goes to different-different places to do satsang. There kheer and halwa (sweet dishes) are also prepared. A devout soul, who obtains updesh, gets his welfare done. After the conclusion of the satsang, we removed all the tents and went to another place for satsang. Only left the oven and stove made from clay or brick in the previous place. Then if someone says to a man of that city that, come, I will show you that place where Saint Rampal Das Ji’s satsang was held and kheer was made. Later, the person, who goes to see those ovens, neither gets kheer, nor gets to hear the sacred speech of satsang, nor can obtain updesh by which welfare can be done. For that he will have to search for the saint; where the satsang is going on, there all the tasks will be accomplished.
Similarly, going to Teerths/Dhaams, the places of pilgrimage is like only seeing that memorial place-like oven. Because of not being mentioned in Holy Gita Ji, it is against the scriptures, by which there is no benefit (Evidence: Holy Gita Adhyay 16 Mantra 23, 24).
The devotees misled by the saints, mahants and aacharyas, who are devoid of Tattavgyan, go to Teerths and Dhaams for the sake of self-wellbeing. The devotees gone on the journey to Shri Amarnaath have succumbed three-four times by being buried under the snowstorm. Everytime the number of casualties used to be in thousands. It is a matter deserving consideration that had the visit to and worship of Shri Amarnaath Ji been beneficial, would God Shiv not have saved those devotees? Which means, God Shiv Ji is also not happy with the sadhna which is against the scriptures.
How was the Temple of Vaishno Devi Established?
When Sati Ji (Uma Devi) died on burning after jumping in the fire-pit of her father king Daksh, God Shiv Ji, out of affection, considering her skeleton as Sati Ji (Parvati Ji), keeping it on his shouder, kept wandering like a mad man for ten thousand years. God Vishnu Ji broke the skeleton of Sati Ji into pieces with the Sudarshan chakra. Where the trunk fell, there it was buried in the earth. To maintain the memory of this religious incident, a templelike monument was built over it so that in the coming times no one should say that it is written incorrectly in Purans. Kept a picture of a woman in that temple and started calling her Vaishno Devi. A noble man was appointed to look after it and to narrate the story of that place to the devout visitors. Other religious persons used to give him some wages. Later his descendents started taking gifts (donations) there and started saying that a man’s business had collapsed, he vowed 100 rupees to Mata and offered a coconut. He became very wealthy. There was childless couple. They vowed to offer 200 rupees, one sari, one gold necklace to Mata. They got a son.
In this way, innocent souls by becoming based on these baseless stories forgot their Gita Ji and Holy Vedas, in which all those sadhnas have been mentioned to be devoid of the injunctions of scriptures. Because of which neither is there any happiness, nor is any task accomplished, nor is supreme state i.e. liberation attained (Evidence: Holy Gita Adhyay 16 Shlok 23, 24). Likewise, where Devi’s eyes dropped, there Naina Devi temple and where tongue fell, there temple of Shri Jwala Ji and where trunk fell, there Vaishno Devi temple was established.
