What is Puja ?

Puja is a religious ritual performed as per our ancient Vedic scripts. Puja is done to
appease God , a Spiritual power, a Planet or any other Divine Entity. Puja is
generally performed by learned Brahmins according to the Rules and guidelines laid
in our ancient scripts. The Puja is generally performed for attaining certain wishes or
for protection against any malefic effect.

During Puja, the performer establishes a link between him and the diety by chanting
certain Mantras for specific number of times and thereafter a Yagna is performed
wherein various items are offered to the Diety with a request to bestow blessings.

Purpose ( Benefits ) of Puja and Homam :-

1. To attain health, wealth & happiness in our lives.

2. To remove various obstacles in our lives which may be due to multiple reasons
like any planet placed wrongly in our Horoscope.

3. To attain a spiritual environment at the time of specific occasions like starting of a

new business, marriage, housewarming etc.

4. Puja also helps to create positive and a pious atmosphere thereby eleminating
various negative energies responsible for the miseries and sorrows in ones life.

5. Specific Pujas are performed to negate the malefic effects of certain bad yogas in
ones Horoscope like Kaal Sarp Dosh, Mangal Dosh, Pitra Dosh etc.

6. There are certain Pujas which are performed to protect a person fromm certain
impending problems and dangers like Major Surgeries, Chronic & acute illness,
Court cases etc.

Now while day to day Puja can be done by any person on his own, Specific Pujas
need to be performed by experienced and learned Purohits or Pujaris to get the
required benefits since these Pujas need to be performed strictly as per the rituals
and guidelines provided in our ancient scripts. In this case the Purohit ji who is going
to perform the Puja on behalf of a person takes a " Sankalp " in that persons name
and then performs the puja so that the benefits of the puja are directed towards the
concerned person.

Procedure of Puja and Homam

Our learned Purohits take the Sankalp in the name of the person for whom the puja
is being performed. After that he recites the Mantras for a specic number of times
along with other Brahmins present so that the total number of recitals which is in
thousands is achieved within the specified time period. After that a Homam is
performed where the Lord Agni is Invoked and offerings are made to him in the form
of Ghee, Prasad (usually sweets, Fruits, Coconut etc.) and many other items as
prescribed in our scripts while chanting mantras of the diety for whom the entire Puja
has been performed. After a succesful Homam, an AARTI of the concerned Diety is
recited and this marks the completion of Puja.

During the Puja, all the items ( Yantra, Rudraksha Mala and Bracelets etc. ) which
are to be sent as Prasadam to the client are also ENERGISED and thereafter they
are sent as Prasadam.