Black Dust in Rudraksha's

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Dear Andrew Ji

 

Namaskar and thank you for your message...........another thing is

that there may be some remaining of the dried fruit in the smallest

of crevice on the bead......the oil would only enhance this to

eyesight.........is a nice contrast ......... to make sure take a 10

power magnifying glass and look into the widest crevice to see what

is actually there.......take a wooden toothpick to see if it move

around and if soft...... if it is so dried on it will not move then

to place in water that has been boiled and removed from stove for

about an hour should soften up whatever it is you are seeing

 

Is not something to worry about as I think the darker color in the

crevices gives the Holy Rudraksha a good contrasting look to their

outer surface

 

hope this helps

 

Rudra Center India and America

 

DD

 

, narasimhaye

<no_reply wrote:

>

> Namaste Andrew, boiling water is safe to use on genuine rudraksh

> beads. Without seeing a pic of your beads, its difficult to

conclude

> whether its oil or resin.

>

> Perhaps Sri Dharma Dev Arya and other friends here may be able to

> tell us more as I haven't experienced something similar to what

> you've described. All beads that I got from Rudra Centre are of

> pristine condition and high quality.

>

> Ommmmm

>

>

> , "andrewngmm"

> <andrewngmm@> wrote:

> >

> > Hi,

> >

> > Is boiling safe? I think the recesses that have dark areas are

oil

> > that are not absorbed and have hardened up. The oil gets stuck

in

> the

> > small fiber areas and don't drip off.

> >

> > They aren't removed by scrubbing with a toothbrush with soap for

> some

> > reason.

> >

> > One of the 3 beads that came with the Lashmi Puja package, the

> Ganesh

> > one, also has a lot of dark areas, looks like a resin or

something

> > that is resistant to scrubbing. Came that way.

> >

> > Using boiling water maybe loosen them up, though seems a little

> > punishing. Wanted comments being I tried dipping them into

boiling

> water.

> >

> > Andrew

>