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Krithigai · puja vidhi

How to do the Krithigai puja at home

Lord Murugan's day in every month, the evening the Moon stands in Krittika: a vrat through the day, red flowers and a ghee diya at His picture, and the offering at dusk. About 60 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 six-cornered kolam, the snan of Murugan's small murti and Vel, every offering one by one, the Shanmuga Kavasam and Kandar Kalivenba beside the Kanda Sashti Kavasam, food given, and the next morning's parana for the strict vrat. About an hour in the morning.

Krithigai

The morning puja

7:56 AM · Columbus

From sunrise, after the head bath: Murugan's picture garlanded, the ghee diyas, the offerings and the fruit, then the Kanda Sashti Kavasam, and Murugan's name in the mind through the day.

  1. The morning puja

    The head bath

    1. Rise before sunrise and take a head bath.
    2. Clean the house, and wipe clean the puja room and the place where Murugan's picture stands.
    3. Put on clean clothes.
    The head bath

  2. The morning puja

    Lord Murugan's picture, garlanded

    1. Place Lord Murugan's picture — or a small murti, with a Vel beside it — with care in its place in the puja room.
    2. Offer Murugan a garland: of sevvarali, the red oleander, or of any red flower.
    3. Place a few loose red flowers around the picture as well.

    Red is the colour of Murugan's flowers on this day, and sevvarali above all: Murugan is adorned with it, and garlanded with it.

    Lord Murugan's picture, garlanded

  3. The morning puja

    The six-cornered kolam

    1. Before Murugan's picture, draw a kolam with rice flour, letting it fall in a thin line from between your thumb and fingers.
    2. Draw it with six corners.
    The six-cornered kolam
    1. Ghee diyas on both sides
    2. Achaman
    3. Ganesh ji first
    4. The sankalp: your prayer to Lord Murugan
    5. Avahan: inviting Lord Murugan
    6. A seat, and water
    7. Snan of the murti and the Vel
    8. Chandan and kumkum
    9. Red flowers
    10. Dhoop and the diya
    11. Naivedya: fruit and milk
    12. The Kanda Sashti Kavasam
    13. The Shanmuga Kavasam
    14. Kandar Kalivenba
    15. Murugan's katha
    16. Murugan's name through the day
    17. Keep the day

    These 17 steps, with their drawings and mantras, are in the app

The evening puja

6:36 PM · Columbus

At dusk: the diyas lit again, sarkarai pongal, milk, fruit and panchamrit offered to Murugan, the camphor aarti, a Murugan temple if one is near, and then the prasad.

    1. The diyas at dusk
    2. The evening naivedya
    3. Dhoop and the diya
    4. The camphor aarti
    5. Kshama prarthana
    6. A Murugan temple
    7. Give food
    8. Close the vrat

    These 8 steps, with their drawings and mantras, are in the app

The next morning · the strict vrat

7:57 AM · Columbus

Only if the vrat was kept through the night. Those who closed it at dusk have nothing more to do.

    1. The parana

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

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