The benefits of chanting a manthra, and doing
upasana to sandhya vary with the place
where the upasaka seats himself.
Yajnavalkya smriti says.
अग्न्यागारे
जलान्ते वा जपेद् देवालयेऽपि वा।
पुण्यतीर्थे गवां
गोष्ठे सिद्धक्षेत्रेऽथव गृहे॥
गृहेत्वेकगुणं
प्रोक्तं नद्यादौ द्विगुणम् स्मृतं।
गवां गोष्ठे
दशगुणं अग्न्यागारे शताधिकं॥
सिद्धक्षेत्रेषु
तीर्थेषु देवतायाश्च सन्निधौ।
सहस्रं शतकोटीनां
अनन्तम् विष्णुसन्निधौ॥
याज्ञवल्क्य
स्मृत्यां
agnyāgāre jalānte vā japed devālaye'pi vā|
puṇyatīrthe gavāṁ goṣṭhe siddhakṣetre'thava gṛhe||
gṛhetvekaguṇaṁ proktaṁ nadyādau dviguṇam smṛtaṁ|
gavāṁ goṣṭhe daśaguṇaṁ agnyāgāre śatādhikaṁ||
siddhakṣetreṣu tīrtheṣu devatāyāśca sannidhau|
sahasraṁ śatakoṭīnāṁ anantam viṣṇusannidhau||
yājñavalkya smṛtyāṁ
and Sankha echoes the same ideas.
If a man doing the upasana in his house gets one
unit of benefit, it he performs the same in the banks of a river or a pond or
seashore he gets double benefit. If the
same is done in the stable of a cow he
gets tenfold benefit. If it is done in
a place where agnikarmas like agnihotra are performed and the aahavaneeya agni
is kept, the effects will be hundred times.
If it is performed in the
hermitages of recluses and sages, or in pilgrimage
ghats or in the temples of Gods, the effect will be one lakh million times and
the effect will be beyond measure and infinite if the karmas as performed in
the presence of Lord Vishnu. Think of
Gaya Sraadhdham.. its greatness is
because it is performed in the presence of Lord Janardhana.
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