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[Sadhguru] Now, this rudraksh has many other benefits.
For example, let's say this water.
See, sadhus and sanyasis used it like this:suppose, you are walking in the forest.
There's little water, you want to drink it.
Now, if you hold the rudraksh, it will tell you whether you should drink the water or not.
In nature also, water could get poisoned with gases and certain things.
It could either cripple you or even kill you. Now, you hold this over this water.
If it's good water, it will go in clockwise directions.
If it is poisoned, it will go in anti-clockwise direction.
Even if you put a minute drop of poison in this - kind of poison that you can neither taste nor smell --
you put it and hold the rudraksh
This water is good.
Similarly, with different aspects for example, see we are holding yogamudra.
I have been telling you, only the mudra should be tight, rest of the arm should be loose and relaxed.
You just watch this, if I hold the mudra properly, it will go clockwise.
If I create tension in my whole arm, it will go anticlockwise.
Okay?
You see that?
So, that's why the mudra. Only this must be tight.
If you create tension in the body, you are creating negative situation in the system.
There' are various other benefits from a rudraksh. One thing is --
many of you might have noticed this - in certain places, not in every place,
in certain places, a new place, if you go to... even if you're physically exhausted,
you are unable to sleep. Have you noticed this in certain places?
Even though you are physically exhausted, you are just not able to sleep
in a certain new place where you have been.
This is simply because your own energy may be used to a certain atmosphere.
Suppose you go to a new place where the energies are not
conducive to your kind of thing, then your body cannot settle.
So, for a traveling person, one thing about the spiritual life then was,
you never stay in one place. You keep moving all the time.
So, for a person who eats and sleeps in different places on a daily basis,
for him rudraksh is a great boon because it creates a cocoon of your own energy.
Outside energies will not influence you.
Wherever you go, you carry your home with you. That's how it is.
This also is a kind of protection.
You know, people use negative energies to affect other people's lives.
You are aware of this? What you call that here? Yes.
Billi shoonyam, the black magic, or whatever you call it. There are various kinds of arts.
One Veda - out of the four Vedas, one Veda is dedicated towards this.
The "Atharvana Veda "is all about how to manipulate energies to your benefit and somebody's detriment.
If you wear rudraksh, it also protects you against that kind of negative situations.
Many times, these things could happen to people even though they are not directed towards them.
Right now, let's say somebody is doing some black magic to me, but I am not receptive to it.
You are sitting here, you may get it. It is not necessary it must be aimed at you.
If you are susceptible at a certain moment, you will get it.
So, many, many times people may go through bad patches and things like that, don't ascribe this.
I don't want to create fear in your mind, but many times we have seen people
being influenced by certain things, not knowing what's happening,
blaming all kinds of things, not knowing what exactly is happening with themselves.
Wearing a simple mala gives a certain level of protection for that person.
Like this, there are so many other aspects to it.
Everybody can wear panchamukhis or five-faced rudraksh.
Other rudraksh if you want to wear, somebody who knows what it is must choose and give it to you.
Just buying some rudraksh from a shop and wearing it would not be a good thing to do.