How to do the Amla Navami (Akshaya Navami) puja at home

After the bath, facing east under the amla: water and milk at the root, the offerings, the thread and the seven rounds, the aarti and the katha.

1. Purvahna

   The bath

   1. Bathe early, before or at sunrise, and put on clean or new clothes.
   2. Gather the puja thali, a lota of water, raw milk and the thread.
   

2. Purvahna

   The sankalp

   1. Take water, a few grains of akshat and a flower in your right hand.
   2. Say your name and your gotra, and that today, on Akshaya Navami, you keep the puja of the amla, and the vrat if you keep it.
   3. Let the water flow to the ground.
   

3. Purvahna

   At the amla tree

   1. Go to the amla tree and clean the ground round its root.
   2. Spread a mat and sit, or stand, facing east, with the thali beside you.

   Where there is no amla tree nearby, an amla branch set in the earth or in a pot is given the puja.

   
5. 4. The diya
   5. Achaman
   6. Ganesh ji first
   7. Avahan: Vishnu ji invited
   8. Water and milk at the root
   9. Roli, haldi and akshat
   10. Flowers
   11. Dhoop and diya
   12. The thread round the trunk
   13. The seven rounds
   14. Fruit and sweets
   15. Paan, fruit and dakshina
   16. The aarti
   17. Om Jai Jagdish Hare
   18. Kshama prarthana
   19. The katha

   These 16 steps, with their drawings and mantras, are in the app

The food cooked beneath the tree, offered first to Vishnu ji and Shiv ji, and eaten together; the daan.

1. 1. Cooking under the tree
   2. Bhog for Vishnu ji and Shiv ji
   3. The meal together
   4. The daan

   These 4 steps, with their drawings and mantras, are in the app