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Bestu Varas · New Year · puja vidhi

How to do the Bestu Varas · New Year puja at home

The first morning of the Gujarati year: rangoli and sabras at dawn, darshan, the elders' blessing and Saal Mubarak. About 90 minutes.

Every step is named here and the first 3 are given whole. The whole puja, every mantra with its meaning, is in the Kalava app.

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The whole morning, with the diya, Ganesh ji first and a small puja at the home mandir before the darshan.

Bestu Varas · New Year

Dawn · rangoli and sabras

6:42 AM · Columbus

Up early: the house cleaned, the rangoli at the door, the sabras received, the bath and new clothes.

  1. Dawn

    Up early, the house cleaned

    1. Rise early, before the light.
    2. Sweep and clean the house and the doorstep.
    Up early, the house cleaned

  2. Dawn

    Rangoli at the door

    1. Wipe the ground before the door.
    2. Make a rangoli of many colours there to welcome the year.
    Rangoli at the door

  3. Dawn

    Sabras

    1. At first light, take the sabras — salt in lumps — as it is brought to the door.
    2. Keep it in the house as the year's first shagun.

    Sabras means 'all of one taste'. Gujarati homes tell that Shri Krishna once told Rukmini she was as dear to Him as salt; offended, she learnt its worth from a meal cooked without it, and at Dwarka the salt of the new year began.

    Sabras
    1. Bath and new clothes

    This step, with their drawings and mantras, are in the app

The morning · darshan and Saal Mubarak

7:10 AM · Columbus

Darshan at the mandir, the elders' blessing, and Saal Mubarak from house to house.

    1. The diya at the home mandir
    2. Ganesh ji first
    3. Puja at the home mandir
    4. Darshan at the mandir
    5. The elders' blessing
    6. Saal Mubarak
    7. Guests at home

    These 7 steps, with their drawings and mantras, are in the app

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