Boiling Rudraksha beads

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Hi,

 

Boiled the beads, got a lot of oil residue out from the Ganesh bead

that came free with my order. I boiled my other beads but they needed

less time in the water.

 

The contrast effect is now gone... It originally look was a like

silver jewellery with dark etchings but I suspect it be back again soon.

 

Best way to go about it was to tied up each individually to a

chopstick with just enough length so that it does not touch the pot

and then leave it for an hour.

 

Those strands/fibres are the pulp. I don't think it possible to 100

percent remove all. I used a small pin to scrape out what I could.

Initially, boiling them was gave some heartache. They darkened a lot,

some part looked black. But once cooled, the blackness left.

 

The "broth" smelled rather nice though. No I didn't drink it...

 

Come to think of it, how does the Rudraksha berry taste like?

 

Andrew

 

, rudracenter

<no_reply wrote:

>

> 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