Diwali Puja Vidhi - Method of Diwali Pooja & Rituals

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Diwali Puja is perfomred to please Ganesh-Lakshmi

Diwali is a great festival of light that brings eternal blessings, fortune and mammoth prosperity at home. During this auspicious festival, Diwali Puja is performed to please Goddess Lakshmi and Lord Ganesha. Innumerable rituals, customs and traditions are aligned with this sacred festival of Hindus. However, simple method of performing Diwali Pooja has been given here in detail. Know Diwali Pooja Vidhi in detail and make your Diwali divine and special. Find what Pooja items are needed, what holy Mantras are chanted and which traditions are followed to delight the Goddess of wealth Lakshmi and Lord of fortune Ganesha. It is true that consulting any sagacious Pandit to perform your Diwali Pooja is quite a matter of paying money. So, how about performing Diwali Pooja by your own correctly? Indeed, the available Diwali Poojan Vidhi is not complicated, in fact, it’ll be very simple to perform. Festival of Diwali comes once in a year. It is the major and auspicious occasion that offers you an opportunity to be millionaire by obtaining grace of the Goddess of wealth, Lakshmi. Perform Pooja with accurate Diwali Pooja Vidhi given here and get a chance to obtain immense blessings of Goddess Lakshmi.

Diwali Pooja Items

For performing a simple Lakshmi Pooja during the occasion of Diwali, the following Pooja items are used. The given items are easily available in any local grocery stores. Use these Pooja items to perform Diwali pooja flawlessly.

Following is the list of Diwali Pujan Samagri:

Kumkum Powder 1 spoon
Turmeric Haldi 1 spoon
Chandan Powder 1 spoon
Agarbatti / Dhoopsticks 4 aggarbatti sticks
Flowers
Bell
Camphor Dhoop Patra
Oil lamp (if available)
Kalash
Ghee Lamp
Panchpatra Achman
Puja Plate
Camphor 1 pkt
Peetham (optional)
Raw Rice 1 cup
Milk 1 cup
Curd 1 cup
Ghee 1 cup
Honey 2 spoon
Sugar 1 cup
Paper roll
Ganesha Idol
Mahalakshmi Idol or picture
Lakshmi coins
5 Coins
Few spoons
Few paper plates
Cotton wicks to light lamp
Betel nuts 1 packet
Betel leaves
Red or white cloth (towel or blouse piece)
Home cooked Prasadam
Sweets
Banana 1 dozen

Guidelines to be followed during Diwali Poojan

Purification of soul and body is must before performing any Pooja, so first bath and wear new clothes, and do Namaskar to your parents, Guru or their picture
Collect all Diwali Pooja items at your shrine place where you’ll perform Diwali Poojan
While performing Diwali Pooja, facing should be toward east direction
Place Peetham in front of you and spread red cloth or unused small towel on top.
Place Goddess Lakshmi’s picture on top of the red cloth.
Put oil lamps on both side.
Put incence sticks on the right hand side of the picture.
Prepare a plate with Kumkum, Chandan, turmeric power, coins, betel nuts and leaves
Place banana on side
Place Prasad on side
Take 1 cup of raw rice, mix couple of pinches of turmeric powder. Mix it really well and sprinkle couple of water drops and mix it again. This is called Akshata
Place flowers on your right hand side and put Akshata (prepared above) in the same plate
Keep water filled Kalasha ready to your left
Place Panchapatram or a cup filled with water and spoon in your front
Place paper napkins on side
Keep Ganesha idol, Lakshmi idol and Lakshmi coins right in front of the picture
Ladies should sit on the right side of males during Puja

Mantra

Chanting Mantras are very significant sacred part to perform a delightful Puja and to solely please God or Goddess. Thereby, offering invocations and chanting mantras will make Diwali Puja divine. Following are the different Mantras given for different purposes.

"Om sarvebhyo gurubhyo namah |
Om sarvebhyo devebhyo namah ||
Om sarvebhyo brahmanebhyo namah ||
Prarambha karyam nirvighnamastu |
Subham sobhanamastu |
Ista devata kuladevata suprasanna varada bhavatu ||
Anujnam dehi ||"

Deep Sthapana

As Diwali is the festival of illuminating lights, establishing deepa or diya (lamps) is divine part of Diwali Pooja. Establishments of Dipa on shrine place is called ‘Deep Sthapna’. Performing this, you not only lit lamp but also invite enormous prosperity at your home. By lighting Diya, you pray to God to remove darkness or evil influence from your life forever. And this way, Dipa Sthapna brings mammoth happiness and harmony among family members. Therefore, some holy methods are applied for Deepa Sthapna. Know below how Dipa Sthapana is done.

"Atha devasya vama bhage dipa sthapanam karisye |" (light lamp on the left side of the picture, if you have two oil lamps you can place both of them on either side otherwise on the left hand side of the Devas)

Achamanam

(Take a spoonful of water, sip it and repeat the process three times with each Mantra outlined below and wash your hands at end)

"Om Kesavaya svaha | Om narayanaya svaha | Om madhavaya svaha |"

Given below are the mantras. Do Namskaram with each of the following mantra.

"Om govimdaya namah | om visnave namah | om madhusudanaya namah | om trivikramaya namah | om vamanaya namah | om sridharaya namah | om hrsikesaya namah | om padmanabhaya namah | om damodaraya namah | om sri krisanaya namah | om vāsudevāya namah | om pradyumnaya h| om aniruddhaya namah | om purusottamāya namah | om adhoksajaya namah | om narasiṁhāya namah | om acyutaya namah | om janardanāya namah | om upemdraya namah | om haraye namah | sri krisnaya namah ||"

Pranayamah (take spoonful water in your hand)

"Om pranavasya parabrahma rsih | paramatmadevata | daivi gayatri chandah | pranayame viniyogah ||" (Drop water from your hand in a plate) (Sit straight, fill your lungs with air, hold it and exhale)

"Om bhuh | om bhuvah | om svah | om mahah| om janah | om tapah| om satyam | om tatsaviturvarenyam bhargodevasya dhīmahī dhiyo yo nah prachodayāt || Om apojyoti rasomrtam brahma bhurbhuvassuvarom ||"

(Offer Akshata and flower petals to Lord Ganesha)

"Om Sri mahaganadhipataye namah |"

"Sri gurubhyo namah | Sri sarasvatyai namah | Sri vedaya namah | Sri Vedapurusaya namah | Istadevatābhyo namah | kuladevatābhyo namah | Sthanadevatabhyo namah | Gramadevatabhyo namah | Vastudevatabhyo namah | Sachipuramdarabhyām namah | Umamahesvarabhyam namah | matapitrbhyam namah | Padmavati narayanabhyam namah | Sarvebhyo devebhyo namo namah | Sarvebhyo brahmanebhyo namo namah | Karma pradhana devatabhyo namo namah ||"

|| Avighnamastu ||

(Keep offering Akshat or flower petals to Lord Ganesha’s idol)

"Sumukhasca ekadmtasca kapilo gajakarnakah |
Lambodarasca vikato vighna naso gahādhipah || "
"Dhumraketurganadhyakso balacandro gajananah |
Dvadasaitani namani yah pathet srunuyadapi ||"
"Vidyarambhe vivahe ca pravese nirgame tatha |
Samgrame sankatascaiva vighnah tasya na jayate ||"
"Suklambaradharam devam sasivarnam caturbhujam |
Prasanna vadanam dhyayet sarva vighnopa samtaye ||"
"Sarvamangala mangalye sive sarvartha sadhike |
Saranye trayambake devi narayani namostute ||"
"Sarvada sarva karyesu nasti teasam amangalam |
Yesam hrdistho bhagavan mangalayatano harih ||"
"Tadeva lagnam sudinam tadeva tārābalam camdrabalam tadeva |
Vidya balam daivabalam tadeva padmavatipateh temghri yugam smarāmi ||"
"Labhastesm jayastesam kutastesam parajayah |
Yesam indivara śyamo hrdayastho janardanah ||"
"Vinayakam gurum bhanum brahmavisnumahesvaran |
Sarasvatim pranamyadau sarva karyartha siddhaye ||"
Sankalpah (Hold flowers, Akshata, a coin, water drops, betel nut in your both hands together)
"Om purvokta evam guna visesana visistayam subhapunyatithau mama atmanah sruti-smrti-puranokta phala-praptyartham mama sa-kutumbasya ksema sthairya ayu-rrogya caturvidha purusartha sidhyartham dipavalilaksmi pujam aham karisye ||"
"Idam phalam mayadeva sthapitam puratastava |
tena me saphalavaptirbhavet janmani janmani ||" (offer flowers, akshata, a coin, water drops, betel nut in front goddess)
Ganapati puja (hold a spoonful water in your right hand, chant following Mantra and offer the water at the end)
(Offer water in hand to Lord) "Adau nirvighnatasidhyartham maha ganapatim pujanam karisye |"
"Om gananam tva saunako grtsamado ganapatirjagati ganapatyavahane viniyogah ||" (offer water in hand to lord)
"Om bhurbhuvasvah mahaganapataye namah | avahayami |" (offer Akshata)
"Om bhurbhuvasvah mahaganapataye namah | dhyayami | dhyanam samarpayami |" (offer Akshata)
"Om mahagahapataye namah | avahanam samarpayami |" (offer Akshata)
"Om mahaganapataye namah | asanam samarpayami |" (offer flower petals, Akshata)
"Om mahaganapataye namah | padyam samarpayami |" (sprinkle water drops)
"Om mahaganapataye namah | arghyam samarpayami |" (offer flower petals, water drops and Akshata)
"Om mahaganapataye namah | acamaniyam samarpayami |" (offer a spoonful water)
"Om mahaganapataye namah | snanam samarpayami |" (offer a spoonful water)
"Om mahaganapataye namah | vastram samarpayami |" (offer akshata, flowers )
"Om mahaganapataye namah | yajnopavitam samarpayami |" (offer akshata, flowers )
"Om mahaganapataye namah | camdanam samarpayami |" (offer chandan paste)
"Om mahaganapataye namah | parimala dravyam samarpayāmi |" (offer kumkum)
"Om mahaganapataye namah | puspani samarpayami |" (offer flower petals)
"Om mahaganapataye namah | dhupam samarpayami |" (offer agarbatti)
"Om mahaganapataye namah | dipam samarpayami |" (show ghee lamp)
"Om mahaganapataye namah | naivedyam samarpayami |" (offer banana)
"Om mahaganapataye namah | tambulam samarpayami |" (offer betel leaf, betel nuts)
"Om mahaganapataye namah | phalam samarpayami |" (offer some fruits)
"Om mahaganapataye namah | daksinam samarpayami |" (offer coins)
"Om mahaganapataye namah | artikyam samarpayāmi |" (light ghee lamp, do arati three times)
"Om bhurbhuvasvah mahaganapataye namah | mantrapuspam samarpayami |" (offer flowers)
"Om bhurbhuvasvah mahaganapataye namah | pradaksinan namaskaran samarpayami |" (offer akshata, flowers)
"Om mahaganapataye namah | sarva rajopacaran samarpayami ||’ (offer akshata)
"Anaya pujaya vighnaharta mahaganapatih priyatam ||"

Lakshmi Puja

Goddess Laksmi is the Goddess of wealth and richness. Worshiping and venerating, her devotees are blessed with boundless wealth in life. She is represented to offer gold, silver and infinite money coming out from grace of her hands. Thus, it is very auspicious and important to venerate Goddess Lakshmi during Diwali. Also, Lakshmi Pooja is important ritual in Diwali pooja vidhi. Know below the method of invocation to adore Goddess Lakshmi.

Now, chant following Mantra 108 times and keep offering mixture of milk, curd, ghee, sugar as well as honey over Mahalakshmi’s idol, Lakshmi coins. If you don’t have Lakshmi coins, you can use regular dollar coins etc. And then pour clean water. Cleanse and put them again in clean Puja plate.

"Om namo mahālakṣmyai namah |" Now chant this Mantra and wash Vigraham, idol and coins with clean water. Rinse and place them in clean Puja plate.

Now take flower petals, chant following mantras one after another and keep offering petals. Alternatively, you can also offer flower petals by chanting "Om namo mahālakṣmyai namah" 108 times.

Mahalakshmi Aarti

Aarti successfully concludes any Pooja. For delightfully concluding Diwali Pooja, it is must to sing Ganesh Aarti and Mahalakshmi Aarti. Through singing Aarti, devotees devotedly show reverence inclined toward deity. Offering Aarti is one way to adore or venerate God or Goddess. Therefore, for completely delighting Goddess Lakshmi during this Diwali Pooja, must offer Mahalakshmi Aarti.

Given below is Mahalakshmi Aarti. Light lamp and sing Aarati.

"Om Jai Laxmi Mata, Maiya JaiLaxmi Mata,
Tumko nis din sevat, Hari, Vishnu Data……….. Om Jai Laxmi Mata
Uma Rama Brahmaani, Tum ho Jag Mata…………..Maiya, Tum ho Jag Mata,
Surya Chandrama dhyaavat, Naarad Rishi gaata……………Om Jai Laxmi Mata.
Durga Roop Niranjani, Sukh Sampati Data, ………..Maiya Sukh Sampati Data
Jo koyee tumko dhyaataa, Ridhee Sidhee dhan paataa…………….Om Jai Laxmi Mata.
Jis ghar mein tum rehtee, sab sukh guna aataa,………….Maiya sab sukh guna aataa,
Taap paap mit jaataa, Man naheen ghabraataa…………..Om Jai Laxmi Mata
Dhoop Deep phal meva, Ma sweekaar karo,…………………..Maiya Ma sweekaar karo,
Gyaan prakaash karo Ma, Moha agyaan haro……………….Om Jai Laxmi Mata.
Maha Laxmiji ki Aarti, nis din jo gaavey……………Maiya nis din jo gaavey,
Dukh jaavey, sukh aavey, Ati aananda paavey……………Om Jai Laxmi Mata.
"Om namo mahalaksmyai namah | artikyam samarpayami |" (light ghee lamp, do Arati three times)
"Om namo mahalakshmyai namah | mantrapuspam samarpayāmi |" (offer flowers)
"Om namo mahalaksmyai namah | pradaksinan namaskaran samarpayami |" (offer akshata, flowers)
"Om namo mahalaksmyai namah| sarva rājopacārān samarpayāmi ||" (offer Akshata)
"Anaya pujaya mahalaksmih priyatam ||"

With this, you may end your puja and place the diyas in different corners of your house. Distribute the Prasad amongst all and grant blessings from the deities.