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 NITYA PANCHAYADANA/ PRADOSHA POOJA VIDHI
(Two types of “how to place the Gods at the Altar”)

(1) GOD SHIVA AT THE CENTRE (2) GODDESS AMBIKA AT THE CENTRE
AADITYAM AMBIKAM VISHNUM GANANATHA NIRRURUTHEYSCHA GANESHAANAAM SOORYAM
MAHESHWARAM. VAYAVYAEVACHA EESHAANEY VISHNUM
AAGNEYA SHIVAM SHIVA PRAPOOJAYETH.

1. South-West 2. North-West 1. South-West 2. North-West

3. Centre 3. Centre

4. South-East 5. North-East 4. South-East 5. North-East

Position to sit to perform Pooja : To sit facing North and the Gods should be east facing. This
is the most ideal placement (north is considered “Kubera Moola”).

It is the duty of every Hindu to understand the tenets of rituals and perform Prayers based on
enshrined guidance to obtain knowledge, good health, energy to sustain, increase memory
power, removal of poverty etc. The very word Pooja means “to Worship”. Various aspects of
rituals are called “Upacharas” in Sanskrit, this literally means “submission of services to the
Almighty”. Poojas are conducted by individuals at Home or collectively at Temples or
gatherings at an auspicious occasion. The Pooja performed at home is called “Panchayadana
Pooja” in which Five elements of God is invoked and presented with various Ablutions,
Alankarams and Offerings. This is one of the ancient worship from Vedic times.

There are sixteen types of Poojas called ‘Shodashopajara Pooja’ in which offering of Clothes,
Ornaments, Sandalpaste, Flowers, Fragrances are offered to the Beloved God. Similar to what
we enjoy, we too make the God to enjoy these, though He remains unattached. As we honour
our guests while welcoming them to our home, the God also is to be offered elaborately in a
sixteen step Pooja where we include songs, dance, chariots, elephant, songs, horse riding,
recitation of Vedas, Prostration. We welcome Gods (Swagatham) and to Sit (Aasanam)
followed by requesting Them to wash Their Feet (Paadyam), to wash the Hands (Arghyam),
Offering water to sip and rinse Mouth (Aachamanam), Sacred Bathing (Snaanam), Daubing of
Ghandam (Sandal paste), Offering Them with fragrance flowers (Pushpam), Showing Incense
(Dhoopam), Waving Holy Lamp (Deepam), Offering Naivedhyams (Shudhdhannam), Offering
Thamboolam (Betel leaves, nuts and Banana for digestion), Prostration (Namaskarams),
circumambulating (Pradakshinam), and Seeting Them Off (Visarjanam) after the Pooja is over.
All these actions, if performed in a shortened way, will take about an hour.

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