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All-mineral beautiful “paint” to decorate the Lord 
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I’ve been looking for something to use to decorate the Deity that is natural, easy to use, and allows for painting very fine designs. I’ve found something wonderful and thought I’d share the information.

By Urmila Devi Dasi

Please accept my obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

I got some pure mineral colored powder that is sold as women’s make-up. It only contains minerals. Of course, we know that the Lord and His associates love to decorate themselves with the natural minerals of the forest. One mixes a small quantity of the powder with a very small amount of water, and uses a brush. Some of the colors are full of “sparkle” and “glitter” and are exceptionally beautiful.

They can be easily removed with water and a cloth. If you are removing the mineral paint from a rough-surfaced sila, you might want to first massage the Lord with a small amount of fragrant oil.

I use the inside of the lid to mix the powder with water. Whatever I don’t use that day I allow to dry on the inside of the lid (which it does quickly) and then a tiny drop or two of water another day is enough.

Unlike colored tilaka, it needs very little water, mixes quickly and easily, is not messy or “goopy”, goes on smoothly, allows for extremely fine work, and a little goes a long way. And who knows what toxic ingredients may be in that colored tilaka! It is also a good substitute, in a dry form, for modern so-called kumkum or sindur which is nowadays made from toxic chemicals. Many pujaris have used sindur as a blush for Radharani, but these minerals would be far superior.

I’m attaching a photo of a Govardhana sila decorated with these mineral paints. The company ships worldwide, and their prices are reasonable. One can also get small sizes which are easy to travel with.

Ingredients: Mica, Titanium Dioxide, Zinc Oxide. Iron Oxides, Manganese , Ultramarines.

website: http://www.everydayminerals.com

I would suggest the eye colors, blushes and face colors.

Your servant, Urmila devi dasi
(Neither I nor anyone I know is involved with this company.)

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NOTE: This site doesn't sell Shaligrams at all

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We have now got a second complementary site based in Kathmandu providing a Nepali - Tibetan style of puja paraphernalia, and offering the same kind of "gifting system" to devotees who purchase from them http://www.nepalirudraksha.com/ Mukunda Khatiwada prabhu has out of popular demand lauched his own site about Saligrams, and selling puja paraphernalia on his site here too.
Please check it out. 

A new site has recently appeared some of you may have already had the pleasure to have visited http://www.shaligram.com/ who have some of the most rare, amazing and wonderful Shaligrams available for a donation. The owner of the site assures me that he is not selling Shaligrams but is accepting donations to cover his expenses in hiring persons to find the Silas, for porters, their lodging and fooding etc., and to then make Them available to all of us. To me it sounds fair, some may still object, I leave it to you to decide.

Yet another site has emerged who is associated with the above sites as a supplier of the others. Again the site has many wonderful features, articles and amazing pictures. This is another site that states that it is making Shaligrams available for a donation. It also has a very nice article helping us to become aware of fake silas and imposter silas from local rivers in the Kathmandu valley  http://www.shaligram.org

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