Why do we use a bead bag for keeping our chanting beads?

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question why do we use the feedback primarily for respect and for convenience respect means that actually the beads are especially if they are initiated the beads are gifted by us to us by our spiritual master spiritual master is the person which enters in those beads and they have a special empowerment that is coming from Krishna all the way through the parampara down to us and that’s why the beads are a very precious possession to us and one of the ways in which we show our respect for this extremely precious possession is by keeping it respectfully so in the early days of this form some of the devotees many of the devotees would wear the chanting beads also around their neck and whenever they would want to chant they would take the beads out and start chanting and sometimes when taking the beads around their neck only they will chant at that time so in in principle because of their awareness of the culture their attraction for chanting was very good but their way of respectfully handling the beads was not there when we when we truly cherish something we keep it very carefully so in the Vedic tradition the way we cherish and care for the beads is by having special bead bags so that bead bag is specially meant for the beads only we may use it occasionally for keeping some other precious things which are also devotionally connected but normally we don’t use the bead bag as a substitute pocket or as an extra pocket bead bag is reserved primarily for the beads and often exclusively for the beads so by this we show respect for the beads which are the very important means by which we are actually practicing the yoga dharma we are accessing Krishna in his most potent form and along with that the bead bag also offers us convenience in taking the beads from one place to another so if you want to go travel if you just put the beads in a pocket that is we keep so many things in a pocket we don’t for example if we have money we just don’t stuff the money into the pocket we will probably put it properly in a wallet and then put the wallet carefully in a pocket so money can be kept in a pocket directly also especially if you are careful and if there is large amount of money you can value it you will have proper wallet or purse for it similarly when we want to travel we don’t just carry the beads stuff the beads in a pocket or stuff the beads in some convenient in some corner in another travelling bag that we are carrying we keep a special place for the beads so it makes it very convenient for us also to know am I taking the beads or not the beads are there the beads will be there that way so it helps us it is convenient for us we can keep the bead bag around the neck also so that way the beads often they are filthy beads and they stay safely around the neck bead bag we can wash regularly so that it becomes dirty, the beads themselves don’t become dirty washing the beads is a little more difficult it is made of wood, it is made of filthy so generally washing the beads is not recommended directly or regularly but we want to keep the beads clean we keep it in a bead bag we can clean the bead bag regularly but we can avoid exposure of the worldly elements to the beads exposure of the beads to the worldly elements and in general many Vaishnavas consider the beads to be like a treasured possession and that’s why often they don’t even take the beads out of the bead bag for others to see, the beads are inside and they themselves chant you don’t have to be fanatical about this but it is also true that we value the beads very much and take care of them so for the sake of respect and for the sake of convenience in taking them around the bead bags are very valuable and that’s all