VALLABHACHARYA

His devotion was so great that Lord Krishna appeared before him as Bala Krishna several times.

From then on he preached the worship of Bala Krishna as the easiest way of reaching God.

Once he saw a man worshipping both an image of God and a saligrama. Saligrama is a sacred stone. God Vishnu is said to live in it. That man believed that the saligrama was superior rot he other images.

The Acharya tried gently to put him right: "You should make no difference between God-forms," he said.

The man did not heed what the Acharya said. One night he kept the Saligrama on top of the idol and went to sleep.

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