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When Did Beadbags Come Into Our Tradition?

Posted by David on December 1, 2011 at 7:49pm in Japa

Please Accept My Humble Obeisances.

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada, Guru & Gauranga.

 

Hare Krishna

 

I have not seen a picture with Lord Caitanya & Past Acarya's (Ramanuja, Madhavacarya) with a bead bag. I have seen Them with Mala's, but not with bead bag. I have seen the 6 Gosvami's of Vrndavan with bead-bag however.

Does this mean that bead bags were accepted after the 6 Gosvamis?

 

I have seen a Picture of Sriman Mahaprabhu and Tulasi mala (but no bag). 

 

Please forgive me if I am making an offense in asking this question.

 

Hari Bol!!

 

Your Servant,

Bhakta David

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    Mohini Madhavi December 2, 2011 at 5:51pm

    Hare Krishna David Prabhu, please accept my humble obeisances! All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

    We use bead bag for the next reasons:

     --to keep clean our beads

    --to keep them comfortable, since they are very long.

    --it also says that all living entities around us want auspicious fruits of Hare Krishna Maha Mantra. when we chant without bead bag living entities in subtle body will take away some results. (in the beginning senior Devotees told me this, then i thought "ok, if they want then let them take why to be greed?". but they told that it is better to protect your beads)

    --it says that we should not show our beads to everyone.

    --or should not let touch them to some people. they might be non vegs and it is an offense for Tulasi Maharani.

    So decide Yourself! To chant within bead bags or not. But we do what our Guru told us to do. we even do not do what HH Bhakti Sidhanta Saraswati Thakur Maharaja told "to chant 64 rounds" but we do what Srila Prabhupada told to do.

    Your servant, 

  • Sagar Jadhav December 2, 2011 at 12:51am

    I have also seen a picture of Madhavendrapuri chanting in a beadbag... it might be since then !!

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    Sudheendra S December 1, 2011 at 10:27pm

    In the madhava line that I have seen in Udupi, devotees have a tulasi mala around their neck and they take it out while chanting... Some devotees would put the mala in a bowl or something while chanting. some have the mala of 54 beads so that its not long. Some hold the mala in their hands up so that it does not touch the ground. Unfortunatly, as Kaliyuga progressed, human beings degraded so much that we need something like a beadbag to put our beads in.

     

    what ever it is, i feel its a very good idea and design. We could have not managed with long beads without offending if these beadbags were not be there.

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