14 Mukhi Rudraksha

Fake Hand Made 14 Mukhi Rudraksha

First is this fake hand made 14 Mukhi Rudraksha. Fake beads don’t have any seeds inside and hole in the center, you have to manually drill a hole in them.
If you look at its Mukh (faces), they are all completely straight and alike. Mukhs are the identity of a real Rudraksha. A real Rudraksha will never have all alike and completely straight faces. A natural thing will always have variations, some face will be straight and some will be curved or tilted. Some face will be raised while some will be suppressed. You will find these fake beads on many websites from Rs.4,000- Rs.5,000 to Rs.9,000 – Rs.10,000.

Indonesian 14 Mukhi Rudraksha

This is the Indonesian 14 Mukhi Rudraksha. Its the smallest in size and lightest in weight. The Mukhs in them are like tiny lines and these are not at all effective when compared to the Nepali beads. These have pretty low amounts of energy and that is why we never recommend you to wear a single bead, Indonesian 14 Mukhi should always be worn if Nepali bead of that Mukh is not available or you can wear it as a substitute if Nepali bead is going out of your budget but the preference should always be given to Nepali Beads.

BUY ONLY IF NEPALI 14 MUKHI RUDRAKSHA IS OUT OF YOUR BUDGET

CAN BE USED AS AN SUBSTITUTE BUT IS NOWHERE NEAR AS EFFECTIVE AS NEPALI BEADS

Nepali 14 Mukhi Rudraksha

Nepali beads are the most effective and they have broad mukhs and a natural hole in the center through which the bead is connected to its tree. Fake beads and Bhadraksha don’t have any hole in the center, you have to manually drill a hole in them.

You will find 14 Mukhi for Rs.4,000 – Rs.5,000 on many websites. At this price you will either get a fake hand crafted bead or an Indonesian bead and that too in silver plated “metal” pendant i.e that pendant won’t be in genuine silver and lab certificate won’t be genuine either. I see online that there are many sellers who are using pics of Nepali bead but in reality, they will send you an Indonesian bead only. Sellers who are providing you 14 Mukhi for Rs.4,000 – Rs.5,000, their silver is fake, certificate is fake and the bead itself is either fake or Indonesian that isn’t even effective. What’s the point in wearing a bead that isn’t even effective? Nepali 14 Mukhi comes in small to large size. At Rudra Gems you can get 22mm – 30mm size 14 Mukhi at the lowest price in the market. All our Rudraksha are made in Genuine Silver Pendant and will come with an Independent Lab Certificate.

As per MahaShivPuran, the only real way of testing whether an Fourteen Mukhi is original or not is to cut the bead in half from the middle and count the number of compartments inside. It should match the number of Mukhs outside so an original Fourteen Mukhi Rudraksha will have just 14 compartments inside but with today’s technology, we don’t need to cut the bead. Same result can be obtained with X-Ray. That is why we get all our Fourteen Mukhi Rudraksha tested from a Govt. approved independent lab. They test all the beads under X-Ray and only after verifying that the bead has only Fourteen compartments inside do they certify it as a natural bead. You will get the lab certificate and X-Ray copy along with each of our Nepali 14 Mukhi Rudraksha.

There are many “tests” mentioned online but none of them are completely accurate. For Ex – it is said that a natural bead will sink in water whereas a fake bead will float in water. This can’t be further from the truth as a natural bead with air and moisture inside will float in water whereas if you put just a tiny drop of any heavy metal like lead inside a fake hand crafted bead, it will sink in water. So the only sure way of knowing whether the bead is genuine or not is an X-ray from an independent lab.