NAVRATRI PUJA VIDHI: DETAILED POOJA PROCEDURE:
You can celebrate Navratri puja at your home with your family. On first day, do Ghat Sthapna at your home. Get the holy book Durga Saptshati and recite it’s chapters daily for nine days. 8th day invite 1 to 9 girls as much as you can for ninth day. Feed them and give some gifts.
For performing the Navratri Puja, you need to wake up early in the morning. Sunrise is considered the best time to perform Navratri Puja. Take bath and wear laundered clothes. Keep the lamp at the left side of the Goddess Durga’s deity. Try to light the ‘Akhand Jyot’. It is advised to have someone at home always if you are lighting the ‘Akhand Jyot’. The scriptures suggest having atleast one person at home. On the right hand side of Goddess Durga’s Idol, keep incense sticks etc. Keep yourself prepared to do the Puja with full devotion and concentration. You are required to keep the kalash and coconut as well. Lay the mat and sit in an upright position in front of the deity. Light the lamp ad blow the ‘Shankh’ invoking Devi.
#Ghatasthapana
Ghatasthapana is one of the significant rituals during #Navratri and is called the #NavaratriVidhi. It marks the beginning of nine days festivity. Our scriptures have well defined rules and guidelines to perform Ghatasthapana during a certain period of time at the beginning of Navratri.
The most #auspicious or #Shubh #time to do Ghatasthapana is first one third of the day while Pratipada is prevailing. If due to some reasons this time is not available then Ghatasthapana can be done during Abhijit Muhurta. It is advised to avoid Nakshatra Chitra and Vaidhriti Yoga during Ghatasthapana but those are not prohibited.
Items Needed For Ghatasthapana
Wide and open Clay Pot to sow Sapta Dhanya
Clean Soil to sow Sapta Dhanya
Sapta Dhanya or seeds of seven different grains
Small clay or brass Pitcher
Sacred water to fill the Kalash or Ganga Jal
Sacred thread / Moli / Kalaya
Scent (perfume)
Supari (betel nuts)
Coins to put into the Kalash
5 leaves of Ashoka or Mango tree
A Lid to cover the Kalash
Raw Rice or unbroken rice known as Akshat to put in the lid
Unpeeled Coconut
Red Cloth to warp coconut
Flowers and Garland (preferably of marigold)
Durva (grass)
Kalash Preparation for Ghatasthapana
Kalash is prepared before invoking the Goddess and other Gods into it.
Step 1 – First the wide clay pot (the one which would be used to keep the Kalash) is taken to sow the grains. The first layer of the soil is spread into the pot and then the grain seeds are spread. Now the second layer of the soil and grains are spread. In second layer grains should be spread near the periphery of the pot. Now the third and final layer of the soil is spread into the pot. If needed little water is added to the pot to set the soil.
Step 2 – Now the sacred thread is tied on the neck of the Kalash and it is filled up with the holy water up to the neck. Supari, scent, Durva grass, Akshat and coins are dropped into the water. 5 leaves of Ashoka is kept at the edge of the Kalash before covering it with a lid.
Step 3 – Now the un-peeled coconut is taken and wrap it inside the red cloth. The coconut and red cloth are fastened with the sacred thread.
Step 4 – Now the coconut is kept on top of the Kalash prepared in step 2.
Step 5 – At last the Kalash is put in the center, on the grain pot prepared in step 1.
At the end of these steps, we have Kalash ready to invoke Goddess Durga into it.
pray and worship of Goddess and all Gods in Ghat. Lit the lamp, because all kinds of puja starts with lighting a lamp. Now invoke (avahan, call) all Gods and sacred rivers in Ghat and pray them to purify water and reside there for nine days, destroy all obstacles of life and give wisdom.
Do worship of Kalash or Ghat with Panchopchar. Panchopchar means worship of deity with five things, i.e.
1. Itra (Scent)
2. Flower, Garland (Mala)
3. Dhoop
4. Deepak or lamp made of clay (with batti and ghee)
5. Naivedya (Food to offer, may include fruits, sweets and whatever you cooked in your kitchen etc.)
Offer these five things to deities present in Ghat. Don’t put these things inside the Ghat, put these five things near Ghat instead
First the lamp is showed to the Kalash and all the deities are invoked in it. After lamp offering, Dhoop sticks are lit and offered it to the Kalash, followed by flowers and scent. Finally the Naivedhya i.e. fruits and sweets are offered to the Kalash to conclude Panchopachara Puja..
Now next step is, installation and invoking of Goddess Durga. For this, spread the red cloth on chowki. Tie Moli around it. Now place idol or picture of Goddess Durga on the chowki.
Now invoke Goddess Durga in idol or photo. Pray Mother Goddess to come and stay at your home for nine days of Navratri and give love in her lotus feet. After praying, do panchopchar I.e Offer five things to Mother Goddess.
Now Goddess Durga is invoked and is requested to accept our prayers and to bless us by residing into the Kalash for nine days.
Now Do Aarti of Mother Goddess. For Aarti, stand up at your place. Take Puja ki Thali and bell in hand. Sing the aarti with jingle the bell. After you complete aarti, give aarti first to Goddess Durga, Ghat (Kalash) and deities present in Ghat. At evening (sandhya) repeat the aarti.
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