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RUDRAKSHAS

Beads that Bless, Beads that Heal

Now you can own rare Rudraksha beads from Hawaii to wear,
to share or even to grow your own small forest of these sacred trees

Thousands of pilgrims to Kauai's Hindu Monastery have gathered beads from the forest floor. Now they are available to you. The monks and devotees collect, clean and drill each bead by hand. They are then kept for a day and night near the giant Crystal Sivalingam in Kadavul Temple, where they absorb the blessings of the Deity. All proceeds go directly to help build Hawaii's unique, white granite Iraivan Temple.

Exquisite 36 Bead Mala:

The Iraivan fundraising project is now offering hand-made malas (prayer or mantra necklaces) of Kauai-grown rudraksha beads alternating with clear, unfaceted quartz crystal. These malas are made with 36 rudraksha seeds gathered from the heavily-rooted floor of Kauai's Hindu Monastery rudraksha tree grove during the late spring months of the tree's fruiting season. The seeds are gathered by monks or devotees of the monastery and carefully dried and cleaned in a three-stage process.

The cleansed beads are spread out in the sun or strong light so our team of craft volunteers can select each 5-faced seed for its uniformity of size, shape and look. The beads are 5/8th's inches in diameter. This discrimination gives each prayer necklace a beautifully aesthetic look and feels balanced when wearing or holding it. The malas are strung by hand using high-strength nylon line--each rudraksha bead alternating with a quarter-inch sphere of clear quartz crystal from the granite regions of the Himalayas near Kashmir. Beside the healing properties of the rudraksha bead mentioned above, the crystal beads also generate their own healing energies and amplify the rudraksha's calming field.

A large red tassle of cotton imbedded in a 37th rudraksha completes the mala's circle. The mala measures in length 16 inches from top to the final rudraksha seed. If worn close to the skin, over time the mala absorbs the skin oils and beautifully darken and deepen in color with a polished sheen.

Each finished mala is placed near the three-foot tall crystal Siva lingam in the monastery's Siva Nataraja temple as final time of blessing power.

The devotees who lovingly craft the malas as a karma yoga service are longtime followers of Kauai's Hindu Monastery and practitioners of the Saivite pure awareness meditation the monastery's founder--Sivaya Subramuniyaswami--taught for many decades. Thus these malas are created by serious meditators, an added facet to their specialness.

These malas will make extraordinary gifts for all occasions. US$65.00 per mala.

Five Holy Beads in a Box:

Single rudrakshas are also available. Wearing rudraksha malas of more than one bead is usually reserved for periods of worship, pilgrimage and religious, festive occasions and are otherwise kept in the shrine room. But for everyday use another traditional practice is to string a single bead and wear this around the neck 24 hours a day, even at work and at night while sleeping. You can also ask your jeweler to make a one bead pendant with silver or gold caps and chain for yourself or as gifts for friends or family members. There are five seeds in each box, and you can plant one or more seeds to grow your own grove of trees, which reach 60 feet tall in maturity, producing thousands of wildly iridescent blue fruits each season.