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Sashti Viratham · puja vidhi

How to do the Sashti Viratham puja at home

Lord Murugan's Sashti in every month, the sixth day of the bright fortnight: a vrat through the day, the Kanda Sashti Kavasam, and the puja 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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Every offering one by one, the Shanmuga Kavasam beside the Kanda Sashti Kavasam, food given, and the next sunrise's parana for the vrat kept through the night. About an hour in the morning.

Sashti Viratham

The morning puja

7:43 AM · Columbus

From sunrise, after the bath: the diya and dhoop before Murugan's picture, the offerings, milk and fruit, then the Kanda Sashti Kavasam, all day or as long as you can.

  1. The morning puja

    The bath

    1. Rise early and bathe.
    2. Clean the whole house, or the puja room at least.
    3. Put on clean clothes.
    The 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 a garland of fresh flowers to Murugan.
    Lord Murugan's picture, garlanded

  3. The morning puja

    The diya

    1. Place a diya of ghee — or of gingelly oil — before Murugan's picture.
    2. Light it, and let the flame settle.
    3. Fold your hands for the verse.
    Deepa · 2 lines
    दीपज्योतिः परब्रह्म दीपज्योतिर्जनार्दनः।dīpajyotiḥ parabrahma dīpajyotirjanārdanaḥ.The flame of the diya is the Supreme Brahman; the flame of the diya is Janardana.
    दीपो हरतु मे पापं दीपज्योतिर्नमोऽस्तु ते॥dīpo haratu me pāpaṁ dīpajyotirnamo'stu te.May the diya take away my wrongs. O flame of the diya, I bow to You.
    The diya
    1. Achaman
    2. Ganesh ji first
    3. The sankalp
    4. Avahan: inviting Lord Murugan
    5. A seat, and water
    6. Chandan and kumkum
    7. Flowers
    8. Dhoop and the diya
    9. Naivedya: milk and fruit
    10. The Kanda Sashti Kavasam
    11. The Shanmuga Kavasam
    12. Murugan's katha
    13. Om Saravanabhava
    14. Keep the day

    These 14 steps, with their drawings and mantras, are in the app

The evening puja

6:52 PM · Columbus

At dusk: the diya lit again, a fresh garland offered to Murugan, the naivedya, dhoop and the aarti, a Murugan temple if one is near, and then the vrat is closed.

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

    These 9 steps, with their drawings and mantras, are in the app

The next sunrise · the vrat through the night

7:44 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, at sunrise

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

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