Why is the index finger considered inauspicious?

From: Vaibhav Kalambe

Why is the index finger considered in-auspicious and not allowed to touch the beads during Chanting?

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Question by Vaibhav Kadambe Why is the index finger considered inauspicious and not allowed to touch the beads of enchanting? Answer The index finger is generally used by us to point out who is to blame.
Very often when we want to pass off the blame to others we use the finger to point false. So ultimately there may be some causes because of which others may take some part of the blame but we understand that in a philosophical ultimate sense we are suffering because of our own wrong choices, because of our own bad karma. And so when we blame others, ultimately because God has arranged the whole world, we are blaming God.
So if we are blaming God, we can’t be loving God. And if we want to love God then we need to stop blaming God. So therefore at least at external level we try to avoid touching the index finger to the beads during this chanting because chanting and instruments used for the chanting, paraphernalia, the beads they both represent our desire to reawaken our love for God.
And for this purpose we shouldn’t just be satisfied that I am not touching the index finger to my beads but we should also try to apply what that gesture is intended to signify that we stop blaming God for the sufferings that we have in this world. In the earlier ages this index finger was also used to curse others. So when the in our age people don’t have the power to curse others but the the anger when we feel that others are to blame that would come out earlier in terms of words that would curse others.
So that would aggravate the situation. So because of this expressed or unexpressed blaming mentality that finds a route to the index finger we avoid the index finger during the process of chanting.