The people desirous of the worldly pleasures as well as the salvation, should wear Rudrdksa according to their Varnas. The devotees of Siva, particularly, in order to please Siva and Parvati, should wear Rudraksha.(13) Rudraksa has been prescribed for the removal of sins. Therefore one should wear this Rudraksa which fulfills all the desires. O Goddess, a person having a great devotion and faith, for the achievement of all the desired objects, getting freed from laziness, should wear Rudraksa(82). The one who always applies the holy ashes and also wears Rudrdksa rosary, he becomes dear to lord Siva. With the influence of wearing the same, one achieves worldly pleasure and salvation.(89)

My gurus put glittering jewels along with the rudraksha and I straight away picked the rudraksha! I will tell you this one incident, only then you will understand the concept of God as deity:

My guru Kuppammal (Mata Vibhudananda Puri) was having the whole guru parampara deity – given from Arunagiri Yogishwara’s time. When Isakki Swami was about to leave the body, he was not able to do puja everyday, so he handed it over to Kuppammal and she was doing puja for it everyday. One day she asked me to clean the deity. I cleaned all the rudraksha and kept everything separate. She came and asked where everything was – the Rudraksha and other jewels on the deity.

I said, “I cleaned everything and kept it aside.”

She said, “Our ancestors gave this to us. So we don’t know whether the deity is god decorated with rudraksha or the rudraksha is god put on a stand called deity so we should never do this game of separation! as they gave it, put it together, tie it and keep it and do puja!”

Rudraksha beads have been reported for their therapeutic potential against several disorders like stress, anxiety, depression, palpitation, nerve pain, epilepsy, migraine, lack of concentration, asthma, hypertension, diabetes, arthritis and liver diseases Jain et al. (2014).

It has also been mentioned that the specificity in their therapeutic properties differs based upon the type of grooves or Mukhis Shah et al. (2010); Tripathi et al. (2016-a); Dadhich et al. (2014); Sharma et al. (2015); Tilak et al. (2017); Jain et al. (2014); Tripathi et al. (2016-b).

Electromagnetic properties in Rudrakshahave been reported by several reviewers Joshi et al. (2014); Jain et al. (2014); Arivu et al. (2017); Hardainiyan et al. (2015),where Rudraksha was mentioned as a famous electromagnetic bead helpful in curing several chronic disorders. Tripathy et al. (2016- b)stated the healing mechanism of Rudraksha due to its electromagnetic property. The study reported that the electromagnetic properties of Rudrakshabeads activate body’s energy wheel, which in turn influences the bioelectrical properties of human body and heals various chronic diseases like blood pressure, heart rate, diabetes, gynaecological problem, neurological disorders, mental problem, insomnia and rheumatism.