How to do the Valmiki Jayanti puja at home

In the morning, after a bath before sunrise: his picture honoured, the katha, the Ramayan, the aarti, and then daan.

1. Valmiki ji's puja

   Bath and the puja ghar

   1. Rise before sunrise and bathe.
   2. Clean the home mandir or the place of puja.
   3. Spread a clean cloth on a low stool or the mandir shelf.
   

2. Valmiki ji's puja

   Ganesh ji first

   1. Offer Ganesh ji a little roli, akshat and a flower.
   2. Fold the hands and say His verse.

   Ganesh ji first · 3 lines

   वक्रतुण्ड महाकाय सूर्यकोटि समप्रभ।vakratuṇḍa mahākāya sūryakoṭi samaprabha.O Deva of the curved trunk and mighty form, radiant as ten million suns,

   निर्विघ्नं कुरु मे देव सर्वकार्येषु सर्वदा॥nirvighnaṁ kuru me deva sarvakāryeṣu sarvadā.keep every work of mine free of obstacles, always.

   ॐ गं गणपतये नमः॥oṁ gaṁ gaṇapataye namaḥ.Om gam, salutations to Ganapati.
   

3. Valmiki ji's puja

   Valmiki ji's picture set

   1. Set Maharishi Valmiki's picture or murti on the cloth.
   2. Set a picture of Shri Ram beside it, if the house has one.
   3. Keep the roli, akshat, flowers, a garland, a diya and dhoop ready on a plate.

   He is pictured as a rishi in saffron, or in red as Punjab pictures him, with a quill and the pages of the Ramayan.

   
5. 4. The diya and dhoop
   5. Tilak, flowers and the garland
   6. Valmiki vandana
   7. Shri Ram remembered
   8. The katha: the first shloka
   9. The first shloka
   10. The Ramayan read
   11. The bhog
   12. The aarti
   13. Pranam and prayer
   14. Daan
   15. The mandir and the shobha yatra

   These 12 steps, with their drawings and mantras, are in the app