This Special Seed Protects You From Negative Energies
Sadhguru: This (Pointing the Rudraksh) can purify your aura. He has a cocoon of his own energy that the outside energies does not disturb him. You know, people use negative energies to affect other people’s lives. Wearing a simple mala gives a certain level of protection for that person. The main purpose is to make you available to grace. Benefits of Wearing a Rudraksha See, every substance has a certain reverberance to it, everything in the universe. Now, we are trying to identify things which will push us in a particular direction. It's not just about Rudraksh – plants, flowers, animals everything have been identified as to what will take you in a spiritual direction and what will not. You have heard that this flower is the favorite of Shiva. This flower is the favorite of Vishnu. They're just identifying a certain reverberation which would come close to what we are referring to as Shiva or Vishnu or whatever else and saying, "This flower gets you closest to that." So, you touching it, you receiving it, has a certain impact. So, everything was identified like this. Rudraksh is one of those items which has a very unique type of reverberation. #1 Cleanses Your Aura Now why Rudraksh is worn on the body is – one thing is it cleanses the aura. You know what's aura? A-U-R-A? There's a certain field of light and energy around every body, around every object. Every physical object has its own aura, even inanimate objects. These days it is being photographed and recorded in so many different ways. It cleanses your aura. Aura can be from a pitch black aura to a pure white aura. You know your… If you have seen – maybe not so much in America, but if you have seen any of these Spanish pictures or Indian pictures, you will see, if they show any saint or sage, always there will be a white halo around their head. It is not that these people walked around with light bulbs behind their heads. (Laughter) It is just that the artist is trying to impress upon you that this is a pure being. He had a pure white aura, that's what is being conveyed. So, from a pitch black aura to a pure white aura you can have. If you meet somebody who is into occult processes, who do things with energy – If you meet such a person, most of them are just fakes who just use, what, chicken and tails to scare you, but there are genuine people in that field. In India, there are lots of people. It's a very sophisticated occult. If you meet them, they are powerful in a very different way, totally pitch black aura. They're very, very powerful but in a completely different way. So, from a pitch black aura to a pure white aura, in between there are a million shades. This (Pointing at the Rudraksh) can purify your aura, this does not mean if you wear a Rudraksh, tomorrow morning, you'll have a halo glowing behind your head, (Laughter) not like that, but you're aspiring to purify yourself. When you're aspiring to purify yourself, every little help, every little aid you get you want to make use of it. #2 Protects From the Rigors of Travel Another reason why it's worn by Indian sadhus and mendicants is, they are constantly traveling. One who is constantly eating and sleeping in different places, his body goes through a certain level of de-stabilization. In the sense, many of you might have noticed this, you went to a new place, even if you're very exhausted, somehow in a certain place, your body won't settle down and sleep. Have you noticed this ever? If you're a traveling person, you would have noticed it in some places, your body just won't settle down. You're fully exhausted, but you cannot sleep. This is because in your own house, in your own bedroom… Today, there is something called as what… The forensic people are using this word, thermal imaging, is it? See, if you sit here now, 24 hours later somebody will come with a machine and find out where Gayatri was sitting. There is a memory in the place, which they are able to detect, this person was sitting only here, not there. Well, if you bring your dog, (Gestures) it knows she was sitting here, isn't it? So, something is left there, isn't it so? Something is obviously left there, that is why a dog or a machine or something can detect it. So, you are sleeping in the same bed every day, here certain aspect of your energy is left here; here, you're very comfortable. If you go to another place where the energies are very different, your body may not settle; sometimes it could be damaging to the system. So, a person who is constantly traveling wears a Rudraksh so that he has a cocoon of his own energy, that the outside energies does not disturb him. We call this as kavacha. You know what's a kavacha? Kavach, hmm? It's more like a cocoon. It's a cocoon of your own energy; wherever you go, you have your private bedroom going with you. It travels with you wherever you go. Especially in travel the… your aura gets frayed, this is the reason why you feel so exhausted with travel. Actually you sit and do nothing; somebody is driving, you just sit, after ten hours you find you're so tired. You did nothing. Because your energy gets frayed, your body is moving at a faster speed than it is designed to move. So, the first thing that is damaged is your aura. If you go faster, faster, faster, faster… Let's say, you travel 600 miles per hour in a open space without a windshield, you will see your skin will peel off, isn't it? After that your flesh will fly off, after that your bones will fly off. (Laughter) Yes or no? The first thing that begins to be damaged is your aura. So, with movement, with faster and faster movement, aura gets frayed. So, if you wear Rudraksh, it gives you a certain cocoon. It gives you a certain stability to your aura that travel, movement can be taken well. #3 Protects From Negative Energies This also is a kind of protection. You know people use negative energies to affect other people’s lives. You’re aware of this? What do you call that here? Yes, billi shoonyam, the black magic or whatever you call it. There’re various kinds of arts. One Veda, out of the four Vedas, one Veda is dedicated towards this. The Atharvana Veda is all about how to manipulate energies to your benefit and somebody’s detriment. If you wear Rudraksh, it also protects you against that kind of negative situations. Many times, these things could happen to people even though they are not directed towards them. Right now, let’s say somebody is doing some black magic to me, but I’m not receptive to it, you’re sitting here, you may get it. It is not necessary it must be aimed at you. If you are susceptible at a certain moment, you will get it. So, many, many times, people may go through bad patches and things like that – don’t ascribe this, I don’t want to create fear in your mind, but many times we have seen people being influenced by certain things, not knowing what’s happening, blaming all kinds of things, not knowing what exactly is happening with themselves. Wearing a simple