How to do the Vinayaka Chaturthi puja at home

From sunrise: the bath, clean clothes, and the sankalp of the vrat.

1. Morning

   The morning bath

   1. Rise early and bathe before, or at, sunrise.
   2. Put on clean clothes; many who keep the vrat wear red or yellow today.
   3. Sweep the place of puja and sprinkle it with a little Gangajal.
   

2. Morning

   Achaman

   1. With the spoon, pour a little water from the lota into your right palm.
   2. Sip it once as you say each of the first three names — three sips in all.
   3. With the fourth name, pour a little water over your right hand to wash it.
   4. At the verse, dip a flower in the water and sprinkle a few drops over yourself and the puja things.

   Achaman and pavitrikaran · 6 lines

   ॐ केशवाय नमः।oṁ keśavāya namaḥ.Om, salutations to Keshava. (First sip.)

   ॐ नारायणाय नमः।oṁ nārāyaṇāya namaḥ.Om, salutations to Narayana. (Second sip.)

   ॐ माधवाय नमः।oṁ mādhavāya namaḥ.Om, salutations to Madhava. (Third sip.)

   ॐ हृषीकेशाय नमः।oṁ hr̥ṣīkeśāya namaḥ.Om, salutations to Hrishikesha. (Wash the right hand.)

   ॐ अपवित्रः पवित्रो वा सर्वावस्थां गतोऽपि वा।oṁ apavitraḥ pavitro vā sarvāvasthāṁ gato'pi vā.Whether pure or impure, in whatever state one may be,

   यः स्मरेत् पुण्डरीकाक्षं स बाह्याभ्यन्तरः शुचिः॥yaḥ smaret puṇḍarīkākṣaṁ sa bāhyābhyantaraḥ śuciḥ.whoever remembers the lotus-eyed Vishnu is made pure, without and within.
   

3. Morning

   Ganesh ji first

   1. Fold your hands before Ganesh ji's picture or murti.
   2. Say the verse and His name mantra, and bow.

   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.
   
5. 4. The sankalp

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

At madhyahna, the middle of the day: Ganesh ji seated, the offerings, the durva and the modaks, the katha and the aarti.

1. 1. The chowki
   2. The diya
   3. Dhyana: Ganesh ji in the mind
   4. Avahan: inviting Ganesh ji
   5. A seat, and water
   6. Snan
   7. Cloth and janeu
   8. Chandan, akshat and sindoor
   9. Red flowers
   10. Twenty-one durva
   11. Dhoop and diya
   12. Twenty-one ladoos
   13. Paan, fruit and dakshina
   14. The Sankatnashan stotra
   15. The vrat katha
   16. Aarti: Jai Ganesh Deva
   17. Pradakshina
   18. Kshama prarthana

   These 18 steps, with their drawings and mantras, are in the app

At sunset: a diya before Ganesh ji, the aarti, and then the one meal of the day — without looking at the moon.

1. 1. The evening diya
   2. The Ganesh Chalisa
   3. The evening aarti
   4. Tonight, the moon is not looked at
   5. The one meal

   These 5 steps, with their drawings and mantras, are in the app