A friend of ours was in jail a couple of days for distributing books. “How’d you chant your rounds?”, he was asked. His method was a strip of cloth that he tied to make “beads”
Some years later I had no japa beads and so tore a strip of cloth from an old sari. I decided to give the description I had heard before, a try. Funny that the colors of that particular sari make the “beads” look wooden from a distance.
