This guidance is that one should "not wear a Rudraksha during a menstrual cycle or while attending funerals." This advice is founded on the notion that the situations elsewhere make the Rudraksha beads vulnerable to “negative energies,” which could reduce their spiritual power or defile them with impurity. In most traditional spiritual settings, certain states of one’s body or environment (for example, a funeral, which evokes death and mourning) are ritually impure, or saturated with certain energies having the potential to counteract the benefits of sacred objects, such as Rudraksha. This is so that the bead retains its spiritual viability, one that’s not “tainted” or drained of its positive charge. Modern approaches and even personal spiritual practices may differ, but this has been a widely accepted traditional model of how to respectfully and effectively work with a Rudraksha mala.