steps in performance of pooja

[Guest guest]

Dear sirs,

 

Kindly enlighten me with steps in performing the pooja in the house.

 

1) Can we light the lamp and perform Sandya vandanam in another place in

absence of pooja room ( Now a days its common in apartments that we do not

get Pooja room separetly ) . Can sandhya vandanam be performed on terrace of

building and come down and lit the lamp at deities place .

 

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Do not include Sandhya Vandhnam in Pooja List.

It is a duty not pooja, but it has some manthrams and slokams towards devadha,

for whom the " Athma jyothi " is enough, no " Deepa Jyothi " is required.

Also do not think the sandhaya vandhanam as very hard and strict ritual, instead

of that take it very easy as brushing, bathing, combing, dressing etc. (if

possible as breathing).

 

2) After Sandhya Vandanam what are the poojas need to be performed at

dieties place. Kindly give me detailed description.

I have observed many people that they lit the lamp and perform short pooja .

In case of short pooja to be performed what are the essentials to be

perfoormed.

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NO pooja is required or must. You just do sandhya vandhanam and not try to

combine with any other ritual.

 

3) What are the rituals of Hindu women in day to day life.

Regards

kschakravarthy

 

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She should make her husband to be dharmavan as much as she can.

She should stimulate and help her husband to perform all the karmas prescribed /

listed in the sastram.

All other things that ladies themselves might know well all the rituals than a

man. (It is not my statement, it is in the sastram, it says, " If you don't know

the 'Sookshamam' of sastram for a particular thing ask ladies about it " .

 

nvs

[Guest guest]

With the permission of the moderator swamy, I wish to share my thoughts on the

member's question in regard to the pooja performance.

Pooja is worship and if that is directed to God it is also the prayer. Daily

Pooja is daily worship or prayer. Sandhyavandanam is a prescribed nitya karma

and therefore an ordained duty to do. Worship and prayer could be done in any

manner one wishes to do according to one's own knowledge, sraddhai and capacity

and time to spare. Bhagavath Aradhanam is the prescribed worship if one has a

Saligramam in one's house. There are manthras and procedures for this and

moderator mama has in his website given all the details. If there is no

saligramam in one's house, one can sit before God's portraits and chant whatever

stotras are known to him either by reading from the books or from one's own

memory. Reciting Vishnu Sahasranamam, Panchayutha Stotram, Dwadasanama Stotram,

Lakshmi Stotram and any of the 28 Stotras of Sri Vedanta Desika with devotion

and sraddhai is a great pooja in my opinion. Lamps near the portraits should be

lit as the first karma for a lady after taking

bath. You can offer Pushpams to the portraits. After reciting stotras, you

can perform Karpoora Arthi. Before that, you can submit to the gods in the

portraits the food that you have prepared for the day and pray to God that He

may take the food offered. You can offer fruits also. What is important in a

pooja, in my view, is sraddhai, atma samarpanam by reciting stotras known and

learnt and offer pushpams, fruits, food prepared at home daily, perform karpoora

arthi and recite mangala slokams.

Ladies can, before a portrait of Goddess Lakshmi, do kumkuma archana reciting

the Lakshmi Ashtotram.

One may go on saying more and more, but the above is indicative of how to

perform Pooja.

Adiyen Padmanabha Dasan

 

 

T V Padmanabhan

Advocate

 

 

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Dear TVP Sir,

'Pooja' is a very very general and basic term, with which we can not suggest

anything. As you have detailed, Pooja is nothing but worshiping the God in any

known manner.

We have already given many special pooja materials in our website like,

Sathyanaryana pooja, Sri Rama navami pooja, Vinayagar chathurthi pooja,

Varalakshmi vradham pooja etc. etc.

In that we have described, which are general for all pooja etc.

So, they should try to get the basic idea from the available text and then ask

for further doubts if any.

 

Asking genrally pooja and giving answer for that again and again is mere waste

of time.

 

Members should try to search the previous answers first and then send their

questions according to the search results.

nvs