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By Vipramukhya Swami
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Ljubljana, Slovenia– I just read Bhaktavatsala's article "Krsna Is Not a Fossil" which was written in response to my Pilgrim's Diary story where I told a security guard at the Port Authority Bus terminal in New York that my Salagrams were "fossils."
Bhaktavatsala, writing from New Zealand, says, "All due respects, but after reading Vipramukhya Swami's account of the Port Authority bus terminal, and the intensive security, I was sorry to note that he felt it necessary to refer to his worshipful deities as 'fossils.'"
Perhaps Bhaktavatsala does not know that the chakras on the Salagram Silas are said to be formed by a special kind of river worm called Vajra-keeta. The scriptures tell us the teeth and nails of this worm are harder than granite stone. Therefore, the description of the sastras in the creation of the Salagrams is not wholly inconsistent with what archeologists think of as a fossil, except that we say the worm that creates the Salagram is empowered by Visnu. You can find more information about this by visiting Jayatirtha Charan's website: http://www.salagram.net/sstp-info.html
Hare Krishna.
© CHAKRA 1 April 2002
