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Hi again

 

Found this at

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6893//shprudraxa.htm

 

 

skanda purANam (3) details the glory of this great ornament, rudraksha

 

> "Hearing or reading the glory of rudrAxam can drive away the sins of

> anybody. Be devoted or not, scholar or illiterate, whomsoever it be one who

> wears the rudrAxa will surely get rid of all the bad deeds. Philosophers

> call this as mahAvrata. There is no deed more virtuous than wearing

> rudrAxa. One who gets adorned in a sincere and proper way with thausand

> rudrAxas, all the divines will salute that person. If thausands are not

> available sixteen each in both the hands, one at the head top, each hand

> twelve, in the neck thirty-two, six each in the ears shall be worn. One who

> wears like that is worshipped by others as if they are Lord rudra. One who

> wears rudrAxas with pearl, ruby, spaTikam crystals, silver, gold, vaiDUryam

> (lapis lazuli), that person is rudra Himself ! One who wears the emblem of

> Lord rudra, the rudrAxam, them the sins do not approach as the darkness

> cannot approach the sun. The chanting (japa) with rudrAxa mala will yield

> lots of good result. The japa done without that will give the fruit only to

> the extent of its own glory. Thus very virtuous rudrAxa is not worn by

> anybody, their life gets wasted like that of the one who does not wear Holy

> Ash (2). The wise who keeps the rudrAxa at the head and bathes, gets the

> benefits of bathing in ganges, this is beyond doubt. Such rudrAxas even if

> only one beed is worn that person gets rid of the sin did in many births.

> One who anoints rudrAxa gets the benefit of anointing shiva linga (1). One,

> five and fourteen faced rudrAxas are adorable in all the worlds. Human who

> worships rudrAxa, even if he/she is very poor, will get all the wealth."