Spiritual Significance of Amla

Amla or the Indian Gooseberry is a sour fruit available all the year around and is among the most significant fruits used in ayurvedic medicines.

Today, I will share a special article on the spiritual significance of Amla.
Everything that I am going to share ahead is a fact and it is mentioned in padma puran.

Once, Lord Kartikeya asked his father Lord Shiva - O Jagadeshwar, I want to know about different kinds of fruits and their sacredness. Kindly tell me, for the sake of well-being of this world, what kinds of fruits are the best?

Lord Shiva said - Son! Among all the fruits that exist, Amla is the purest and the most sacred fruit.
By touching it, both men and women become free from the cycle of birth and death.
By eating just one amla, a man gets rid of all the sins he may have done in life.
The person who eats Amla is very dear to Lord Vishnu.
By eating Amla daily, a person's life span increases manifold.
By drinking amla juice,  a person develops dharmic nature.
By bathing with amla juice, a person gets rid of  all kinds of poverty and gets all kinds of aishwarya.
Kartikeya! Daityas and rakshasas do not enter the house where amla fruit is present.
Kartikeya! On the day of ekadashi, if a person finds even 1 amla, then ganga, gaya, kashi, pushkar are nothing in front of that fruit.
The person who baths with amla juice of the 2 ekadashis of a month gets freedom from all sins and gets immense fame and respect in vishnu loka.
O Shadanan( 6 headed i.e. Lord Kartikeya)! the person who always washes his hair with amla juice will not have to drink mother's milk again.
By doing darshan, touching and reciting the name of Amla, The humble and /kind-hearted Lord Vishnu gets easily pleased.
The house in which there is amla, there Lord Brahma, Narayan and Stable lakshmi always reside.
That is why every person must keep amla in his house.
The person who offers the naivedya of amla extract to Lord Vishnu gets the benefit which would not have been earned by doing hundreds of yagyas.


O Skanda! Whatever kind of mukti i achieved by yogis, munis and gyaanis, is achieved by the person who eats amla daily.
Whatever punya is achieved by living in tirth and doing tirth yatra, by doing various vrats,etc. that same is achieved by eating amla daily.
Skanda! On a Sunday, saptami tithi, sankranti, friday, the pratipada tithi, shashthi tithi, navami tithi and amaavasya one must abandon amla from far away. i.e. one must not go even near to amla on these days.


The dead or the dying  person who has amla fruit in his mouth,nose,ears or hairs goes to vishnu loka after death without any doubt.
By just touching the amla on a dead person's body, the person reaches bhagvat dhaam i.e. Home of Lord Krishna.
The person who baths with amla juice gets the punya of ashwamedh at each and every step that he takes on earth.
The mere darshan of Amla removes all the kinds of vikar and adharmic nature and all grahas run away from the person.

 Using amla even a chandala can go to Vishnu loka then what can be said about those who are dharmic and religious in nature.

Readers, this was some rare information on amlas which I extracted and put forth in front of you.
For some, this may be doubtful as to how can a simple fruit like amla have so much benefits.
This is very true that majority of the people are unaware of the significance of amla.
But by down turning such facts, one only digs his own grave. Because keep in mind, that just because I say that Sun and Moon doesn't exist doesn't mean that they will stop existing.

One more special thing i would like to share today is that readers, no matter what someone is, whether rich or poor, healthy or diseased, beggar or king, a human or a yogi, there is one thing that will never leave you and that is your karmas.
Your karmas, whether good or bad, will always stay with you. They do not care about whether you are a king or pauper, a beggar who lives on just 1 morsel of food or a king who eats 10 different kinds of cuisines a day, your karmas will show the results they are meant to show.
Good karmas only bring pleasure to us.

But the kind of results and the timing at which bad karmas show their results is unbelievable and difficult to bare.

When the planetary positions are favourable, a person becomes world leader even though he may have used unfair means. But the moment the person's graha position changes, his downfall is bound to come.
Similarly, a person may, out of the pride think that no body can harm him, or that nothing will happen to him no matter what kind of bad act he does onto others. But that bad karma will come back, when you will least expect it and in that moment one will realize that "someday, the bad karma or the good karma will come back".
hence, do good to others and stay humble about whatever you are. Some people may think that in present corrupt world, following the good path is not possible. Which is not true.
In Ramayan, Lord Shiva said to parvati, that the sole reason why Lord Rama is going to go trough all these troubles for 14 years is to show, that even in the difficult times, Dharma can be protected and that the person who works towards protecting dharma, such a person gets support of all the worlds, all the birds,animals,nature and all the gods,

There is a hindu saying "dharm rakshito rakshitah"
meaning- the person who protects dharma, dharma(god) protects him.

Lord Buddha says, that what we imagine, we create.
 If we do good for others when they need it the most, it will come back to you when you will need it the most.


Jay Shree Ram
Jay Veer Hanuman