Q. Do I have to perform any Puja / Rituals after receiving the items ?.

A.   For Rudraksha beads

Your mala and beads have been blessed and energized before sending to you. You can start wearing your mala on any morning after bath as per your convenience. Just follow these simple steps:

• Keep the mala in a plate in front of you and sit or stand facing East.

• Light incense/dhoop and/or oil lamp.

• Wash the beads with water or lightly sprinkle water on them with a leaf or flower chanting "Om Namah Shivaya" 27 times.

• Dip a fresh flower in sandal paste and offer on the mala.

• Then chant the Beeja mantras stated below 27 times each for the mukhis in your mala. You may hear the beeja mantras online at: http://www.rudraksha-ratna.com/mantras.html

• Ask blessings from Lord Shiva and start wearing your mala.

You may wear as long as you wish and when not wearing keep in a pouch or at a clean place, preferably a plate in your altar. Wear next to skin. You may even choose to carry the mala with you and keep in a box/plate in your drawer or on your work table or pocket, or leave at your altar. Rudraksha beads work by touch/sight/worship or possession. So there are many ways to get the blessings of Rudraksha.

Daily worship process:

• You may chant the Beeja mantras a fixed number of times everyday (3 times or 9 times or 11 times or 27 times or even throughout the day silently in mind). The more you work with mantras, the more powerful the mala becomes.

• There is no precaution as such to be taken. Just wear it everyday and take it off at night before sleep and keep on a plate, and in the morning after bath, wash it with water, offer dhoop, chant mantras and wear it.

• There is no need to take off mala any other time during the day, and avoid touching the beads with your hands as far as possible and keep them under your shirt.

• It is necessary to wear the mala continuously (except possibly in the night if inconvenient) for the first 30-40 days and then relationship with the beads is established. Thereafter even if you wear for a short time, the beads are attuned with you.

The Beeja mantras for different beads are as follows:
1 mukhi Rudraksha – Aum Hreem Namah
2 mukhi Rudraksha – Aum Namah
3 mukhi Rudraksha – Aum Kleem Namah
4 mukhi Rudraksha – Aum Hreem Namah
5 mukhi Rudraksha – Aum Hreem Namah
6 mukhi Rudraksha – Aum Hreem Hum Namah
7 mukhi Rudraksha – Aum Hum Namah
8 mukhi Rudraksha – Aum Hum Namah
9 mukhi Rudraksha – Aum Hreem Hum Namah
10 mukhi Rudraksha – Aum Hreem Namah
11 mukhi Rudraksha – Aum Hreem Hum Namah
12 mukhi Rudraksha – Aum Kraum Sraum Raum Namah
13 mukhi Rudraksha – Aum Hreem Namah
14 mukhi Rudraksha – Aum Namah

Common Mantra: Om Namah Shivaya

For Yantras

Worship of Yantras

• In morning after having bath start with a clear and positive mind frame

• Find a place on the floor facing east, where you will be undisturbed.

• Light the incense or diya. (It does not matter how many you light).

• Lay a fresh flower and a fresh fruit on the altar.

• Open the Yantra and place it along with the image of the deity of yantra and your isht God.

• Take the water with any leaf from any tree and sprinkle the water on yourself followed by sprinkling the water on the Yantra.

• Then purify your soul and surrender yourself completely in devotion to God and chant 21 times the mantra of the yantra. You may download the mantra for the yantra from this link: http://www.rudraksha-ratna.com/mantras.html

• Close your eyes and concentrate on the deity to bless you with wishes. Now with all sincerity, ask God to grant you the desire of your life that you wanted to be fulfilled in your own language.