Sacchidananda

ll Hari Om ll Poojan to be Performed on the Day of Padwa (Balipratipada) Ambadnya - Dr. Namitaveera Joshi We should get up early in the morning and in the wee hours should perform the below described ritual. * We should clean our house with broom and collect the waste on a cardboard. * After this we should enlighten a light made from dough in which we should use ghee as fuel. *We should then place a sweet (foodstuff) on the cardboard. * We should then take this cardboard (with all the stuffs on it) around our entire house. * One person should follow this person who is carrying cardboard with a plate which should be beaten to produce sound. * We should place our old broom outside our house in a corner. * We should then place this cardboard besides this broom. * We should then join our hands and pray saying the following words " ईडा , पीडा टलो , बळीचे राज्ययेवो " ("Let all the unholy come to end and let there be rule o...

ll Hari Om ll Poojan to be Performed on the Day of Laxmi Poojan The festival of Diwali  (also called as Deepavali) epitomizes prosperity, happiness and lights. Day three is of Laxmi Poojan. This is the only day in the entire Hindu calendar when a new moon day is celebrated as a festival. On the day of Diwali though the sky is devoid of moon and its light but still the entire atmosphere is always enlighten and filled with lights of different colours and shades and filled with joy, crackers and sweet smell of foodstuffs. We should keep 5 fruits & a mixture of coriander seeds and jaggery as holy offering ( Prasad ). लक्ष्मीपूजनप्रसाद - पाच फळे व धणे - गुळाचा नैवेध्य अर्पण करणे . नवीन झाडू उंबरयावर ठेवणे . तिला हळद व कुंकू अर्पण करून नमस्कार करणे ., नंतर खालील प्रार्थना करणे . We should keep a new broom on the starting line of our house ( उंबरठा ) and offer kumkum and turmeric powder  (haldi)...