Gomukhi
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A cloth rosary bag, shaped like a cow's face, used to conceal the hand and rosary while chanting mantras in public.
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May one person do the agni sparsh of everyone's japa mala?
No. Purifying them all in this way, seat each again in its own place; let everyone put on their own kavach, and everyone take their own mala. Now you are a sadhak, your wife is a sadhika, your sister a sadhika, your brother a sadhak — so do not sit down with everyone's japa mala, he says. You may do the kavachas, and the mala worn may also be given agni sparsh by you, but do not touch anyone else's japa mala. Each person will take his own out of the gomukhi, purify it, wash the gomukhi, and himself have both the gomukhi and the mala touch the fire.
Should a japa mala ever be shown or looked at?
When you have taken the mala out of the gomukhi, washed the gomukhi and set it to dry, keep the mala at that time wrapped and covered in some vessel or in some newly washed cloth — he is speaking of the japa mala. Not that it is put on exhibition, look at my mala, look at my mala. Once a mala has gone into the gomukhi, even you yourself are forbidden to look at it again; do not look at it either, only look at the sumeru. That it gets glimpsed is a separate matter; but no one else should look at it.
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