Holy Rudraksha and other Holy Items

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Pranaams Sri DDji,

 

This is so true what you've said. You've answered those questions so

well.

 

Even in India and Nepal, families have to pay for holy items. Bare

basics such as puja powder, cotton wicks, ghee lamp-holders, kum

kum, sandal powder, puja utensils and all, we all have to pay to

obtain for worship at home.

 

When going to temple, we pay for archana or puja as well. Even at

temples, nothing is free. The priests need living expenses. Temples

need maintenance expenses.

 

The person who posted those questions to you, should do some re-

thinking or go to India or Nepal to see for himself. Experience for

himself is the best way to learn, maybe.

 

I wonder if he has himself given away holy items for free all his

life.

 

Unless he is super wealthy and unconditional philanthropist,

probably not Even people with super wealth are not uncondtional

givers in this world. Most have agendas, be it business or

political.

 

Its the anonymous philanthropists who are unconditional as they

don't need name, fame and happily share their fortune with the

impoverished.

 

A.G.

 

 

, rudracenter

<no_reply wrote:

>

> Dear Friends

>

> Just deleted a message that came in from one of our newer members

> however I thought some of the issues in the message needed to be

> addressed as every once in awhile these same types of questions

are

> directed to group site and there really is no need to call

attention

> to the new group member who asked them.........as you read some of

> this it will be evident that there will be same information that

has

> been repeated from past

>

> Question was asked if a list of Rudraksha Sellers could be posted

on

> the group site who sold Rudraksha........answer would have been

why

> not go to internet and place word Rudraksha in search area.....the

> result would be in the thousands........difficulty here is there

are

> so many who sell which one does one choose.......another answer

> would be to go to our Rudra Center Website and click on

Distributor

> Section and there will be found other Rudraksha Sellers

> Internationaly

>

> another question that was asked.......... and that I had never

heard

> before was does anyone know the average price of

> Rudraksha..........since there are so many different Mukhis and so

> many different wholesale and retail outlets with different costs

of

> doing business due to different supply lines this is almost an

> impossible task to come up with an average price

>

> As we have seen a lot depends on authenticity and quality of each

> individual Rudraksha Beads and a lot depends on supply and demand

> and trying to get the nepal beads past the Maoists Guerillas in

> Nepal who exact payments for their cause in the Bhandars

> there......The Maoist Guerillas in Nepal control most all the

> Bhandars there and if someone is doing business in Nepal they have

> to pay for that..............another example of strange priceing

is

> the internet company in UK that is online as astrologymantra.com

and

> sells the round 5 Mukhi Nepal Rudraksha for about $100 the last

time

> I looked at their site

>

> Since our Rudra Center home office in Mumbai sells the same Bead

for

> $1 with Blessings from Hindu Temple in name of client the average

> price if compareing only these two would be $50 each for 5 Mukhi

and

> this is rediculous to even consider

>

> When I asked astrologymantra.com whey the dramatic increase in

price

> their answer was that their Blessings Ceremony that created the

> extra Blessings from God were better than others so therefore a

bead

> that retails for about US $1 in India is retailed for $100 at

> astrologymantra.com in UK.........I mentioned to them that

Blessings

> from God were understood to be unconditional and that there really

> was not one Blessing that was better than another when Almighty

Gods

> Blessings were concerned.........if you are Blessed.......then you

> are simply Blessed and that should be enough.......they had no

> answer for my comment

>

> another question asked was why the different prices and high

prices

> from internet companies as it is much more less expensive to

operate

> an internet company than a storefront......this question only

shows

> the individual asking the question doesnt have an education in the

> cost of internet advertiseing or webbuilding or changeing webpages

> on a regular basis or employing artisan families to build the Mala

> designs so they can have a better standard of liveing gained from

> their daily work efforts........... or cost of advertiseing in

> newspapers internatinaly so that Hindu Families in other countries

> are able to find the best Holy Items from home even though they

are

> NRI liveing in other countries

>

> and then the question that I have not heard of in a really long

time

> was an original........ why are Holy Items sold at

> all.........should they not be without a price tag and certainly

not

> some of the extreme prices seen on the internet

>

> Answer would be that times have changed since the Holy Books were

> written for a nation of people concentrated mainly on one

> contenent....and yet times have not changed all that much

>

> In the old days traveling Gurus would exchange Knowledge and Holy

> Items like Rudraksha Beads for a nights stay at a village along

his

> path....today is mostly the same.....with a couple of exceptions

>

> Hindu Holy Items originate mostly in India and Himalayas and when

a

> community of Hindus in the US or the UK would like to have these

> Holy Items of choice for worship....... then a system has to be

set

> up so that the people who collect the Holy Items are fed each day

> and clothed each day so they can spend their day arrangeing to

> collect and send Holy Items to their country men and women around

> the world........this is called service to the mankind and

womankind

> in the Spiritual Sense adn in the Material World is called cost of

> doing business in the business world

>

> It costs money to keep the collector families alive each day so

they

> can provide the items that are being ordered by freinds and

> relatives and their friends all over the world until the time

comes

> when all of a sudden a family is known for collecting a specific

> Holy Item........... and then it becomes a 24 hour 7 day a week

job

> trying to keep up with supply and demand.....this is a form of

> Bhakti and it has a price for all parties......one of the prices

> paid is effort and the one of the prices paid is money

>

> The Internet really helped with this entire process of demand and

> supply as now we are truly a world community however the question

of

> why Holy Items cost money and why arent they free is kind of a

mute

> point

>

> If anyone looks around in their community they will see that one

of

> the main issues of Life is to learn to balance the material world

> with the Spiritual world so that both can be enjoyed.......this is

> implied plainly in Dharma Artha Kama and Moksha

>

> Sometimes it takes some persons a long time to understand that to

> get what they want they have to make specific arrangements to pay

> the price whether that means a trek to the Arun Valley in Nepal

from

> the UK or the US to obtain the Rudraksha Beads of their choice

> directly from the collector families.......or a trip to the

Narmada

> River to obtain the Linga of choice........only difficlty with

this

> is that its about a US $1000 plane fare to India or nepal and then

> the expenses of travel to the Holy Sites to obtain a Holy Item

that

> is available from Rudra Centers website at a fraction of the cost

>

> So general answer here for this question is that a person born

into

> this world has to learn to manage their income at the same time as

> they are learning to manage their Spiritual Path............and it

> simply seems a lot easier and less expensive to buy Holy Items

> needed in the most intelligent manner possible......in todays

world

> this is accomplished through internet websites and fedex shipping

to

> countries in world where items were ordered from........to set up

a

> system so that all can have what they are needing and this takes

> money in this age to accomplish this task

>

> Always wonder why some people ask these kind of questions about

the

> cost of Holy Items however dont have any questions or difficulty

> with paying the companies who ship the Holy Items like fedex and

ups

> worldwide

>

> So will keep this message short as the topics raised by our new

> memeber could be book length......hope this helps explain cost of

> doing business...demand and supply..........international

> need......supporting others for their work......and the concept

not

> discussed......... of not owning the money earned from sales of

Holy

> Items......no body owns any of he money they earn.....the money is

> always passed on to others so they can improve their standard of

> liveing and quality of life......thats just the way the world

> is..........Rudra Center is always most appreciative of the

> purchases from our many clients as the money goes to supporting

> Indian and Nepalese Families to make their lives better and the

> other reward is to see that the Holy Items are placed in the care

of

> all those who request them worldwide

>

> hope this helps

>

> Wishing all the Best

>

> Rudra Center India and America

>

> DharmaDev Arya

>