Goddess Lakshmi Puja is an important Hindu ritual performed on Diwali Festival every year. Performing Goddess Lakshmi Pooja during Deepavali Festival is very much popular in North India and West India.
Reac History of Lakshmi Puja and the ritual here.
1) Clean the house and the place where Laksmi puja is performed. Rangoli designs can be drawn to welcome Goddess Lakshmi Devi.
2) A new cloth is to be placed on a raised platform.
3) Fill the middle portion with handful of grains and keep a kalash (pitcher) made of gold, silver, copper, or terracotta.
4) The three-fourth of Kalash is to be filled with water.
5) Place a betel nut, a flower, a coin, and some rice grains in it.
6) Keep five kinds of leaves or mango leaves in the kalash.
7) Now set a small dish on the kalash and fill it with rice grains.
8) Draw a lotus with turmeric powder over the rice grains.
9) Before placing the idol of Goddess Laxmi over it, keep the idol in a separate plate and bathe it with water, panchamrit (a mixture of milk, curd, ghee or clarified butter, honey, and sugar) and then with water containing some gold ornament or a pearl.
10) Clean the idol and place it back on the kalash along with silver coins. As an alternative option, you can just sprinkle water and panchamrit on the idol with a flower.
11) Place the idol of Lord Ganesh in front of the kalash, on the right side (South-West direction).
12) Place the books and materials related to your business or occupation on the platform
13) Then light a lamp and perform puja by offering turmeric, vermillion and flowers to the platform on which the kalash is placed.
14) Also offer turmeric, vermillion, and flowers to the water that is to be used for the puja, evoking the river goddesses to be part of this water.
15) Recite the Vedic mantras and invoke the Goddess Lakshmi.
16) You can offer sandal paste, saffron paste, perfume, turmeric, vermillion, abeer and gulal (colored powders) to the goddess. A garland of cotton beads is also offered to the goddess.
17) Other offerings such as flowers, especially the marigold flowers and leaves of Bel (wood apple tree), sweets, coconut, fruits, puffed rice and batasha are also made to the goddess.
18) Next pour some puffed rice, batasha, coriander seeds, and cumin seeds over the idol.
19) To conclude the puja, Aarti is performed. The Aarti should be accompanied only by a small bell as the goddess hates loud noise.
20) Ensure that crackers are not burst till the Goddess Lakshmi puja is complete.
Performing Lakshmi Puja is believed to appease the Goddess and bring peace and prosperity in all walks of life. May Goddess Lakshmi bless every on this Diwali occasion and always!
How to perform Goddess Lakshmi Puja
The first important step for the Goddess Lakshmi Puja is cleanliness. According to Puranas, Goddess Lakshmi likes neatness and visits the houses which are kept clean. That is why the broom is also worshiped on the day with offerings of turmeric and vermilion.
1) Clean the house and the place where Laksmi puja is performed. Rangoli designs can be drawn to welcome Goddess Lakshmi Devi.
2) A new cloth is to be placed on a raised platform.
3) Fill the middle portion with handful of grains and keep a kalash (pitcher) made of gold, silver, copper, or terracotta.
4) The three-fourth of Kalash is to be filled with water.
5) Place a betel nut, a flower, a coin, and some rice grains in it.
6) Keep five kinds of leaves or mango leaves in the kalash.
7) Now set a small dish on the kalash and fill it with rice grains.
8) Draw a lotus with turmeric powder over the rice grains.
9) Before placing the idol of Goddess Laxmi over it, keep the idol in a separate plate and bathe it with water, panchamrit (a mixture of milk, curd, ghee or clarified butter, honey, and sugar) and then with water containing some gold ornament or a pearl.
10) Clean the idol and place it back on the kalash along with silver coins. As an alternative option, you can just sprinkle water and panchamrit on the idol with a flower.
11) Place the idol of Lord Ganesh in front of the kalash, on the right side (South-West direction).
12) Place the books and materials related to your business or occupation on the platform
13) Then light a lamp and perform puja by offering turmeric, vermillion and flowers to the platform on which the kalash is placed.
14) Also offer turmeric, vermillion, and flowers to the water that is to be used for the puja, evoking the river goddesses to be part of this water.
15) Recite the Vedic mantras and invoke the Goddess Lakshmi.
16) You can offer sandal paste, saffron paste, perfume, turmeric, vermillion, abeer and gulal (colored powders) to the goddess. A garland of cotton beads is also offered to the goddess.
17) Other offerings such as flowers, especially the marigold flowers and leaves of Bel (wood apple tree), sweets, coconut, fruits, puffed rice and batasha are also made to the goddess.
18) Next pour some puffed rice, batasha, coriander seeds, and cumin seeds over the idol.
19) To conclude the puja, Aarti is performed. The Aarti should be accompanied only by a small bell as the goddess hates loud noise.
20) Ensure that crackers are not burst till the Goddess Lakshmi puja is complete.
Performing Lakshmi Puja is believed to appease the Goddess and bring peace and prosperity in all walks of life. May Goddess Lakshmi bless every on this Diwali occasion and always!
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