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July Guru and Navagraha Yagya – Day 10 Navagraha last day
The last day of the yagya series focused on the Navagraha (9 planets). Here our priest is reciting mantras to invoke the planets at the conclusion of the Ganesha puja. As always the introductory pujas conclude with the offering of light from burning camphor. The priests spend a lot of time standing and reciting all […] -
July Guru and Navagraha Yagya – Day 9 Dakshinamurti Yagya
The Puja.net community is made up of people around the world who follow many different teachers, or none at all, perferring the inner guru principle to be their guide. So if you are going to perform a yagya that honors this diversity of spiritual paths, then one would perform the yagya to the form of […] -
July Guru and Navagraha Yagya – Day 8 Soma Yagya
Ganesha with his offerings of bananas and coconuts. All the kalasha pots with their daily fresh malas. Kalasha pots with the Navagraha mandala in front. Some of the items used in the Soma Yagya. From the top left – a bowl of sandalwood mixed with water, dark red kumkum which is associated with Lakshmi. It […] -
July Guru and Navagraha Yagya – Day 7
The aarti flame always looks nice at the end of the Ganesha puja. In India, the supply of flowers is unlimited. Ganesha, lakshmi, and Subramanya (L to R) overlooking the kalashapots for this month’s yagya program. A nice shot of the incense burning during the puja. The whiteness of the curd offering almost looks like […] -
July Guru and Navagraha Yagya – Day 6
Morning Ganesha puja begins… Always seated in a bowl surrounded by flowers. Rudra Abishekam begins with a water offering. And continues with milk. Under the Shiva lingam you can see little murtis for Ganesha, Vishnu, Durga, Subramanya, Navagraha, Lakshmi, and Annapurni Offering of curd (yogurt). At the conclusion of the sandalwood offering. At the conclusion […] -
July Guru and Navagraha Yagya – Day 5
“O elephant faced god, Ganesha, you are served by the assemblage of ghosts, and you eat sweet wood apples and blackberries. You are Uma’s son, the destroyer of sorrows. I bow to the lotus feet of the remover of obstacles” – Siva Mahimnah Stotra “The wise hold this view of you: You are the Sun, […] -
July Guru and Navagraha Yagya – Day 4
“Just as one lamp lights another lamp, the guru imparts the knowledge that everything is Brahman – the Brahman that is imperceptible, eternal, highest, without form, and without attributes.” Sri Guru Gita “Just as fragrance is natural in flowers, camphor, and other things and as cold and heat are natural in water and fire, so […] -
July Guru and Navagraha Yagya – Day 3
An important part of every puja and yagya is the recitation of the “sankalpam”, usually translated as the “statement of purpose”. The sankalpam is like reading into the cosmic record that “on this day, in this place, these people caused these pujas, and these abishekams, and these havana to be performed, for these deities, for […] -
July Guru and Navagraha Yagya – Day 2
The second day of the yagya series begins, as always, with a nice Ganesha puja. Every puja involves the offering of light, from a small ghee lamp in this case. Every offering in a puja is symbolic and in this case, the light represents the light of consciousness being offered to the divine as both […] -
July Guru and Navagraha Yagya – Day 1
The July Yagya Series begins and you can see in front the traditional Navagraha mandala with squares of colored cloth and the grains associated with each planet. Behind that, you see five kalasha pots each decorated with a fresh flower mall. On the right is the traditional Shiva lingam with the round yellow sandalwood dot […]