PARIHARAM

Methods of doing Shiva Linga Puja at home: Importance of doing Shiva Linga Puja: Everyone must understand that doing Puja and worshipping Lord Shiva brings enlightment, gains and benefits. One must understand that not everybody get a chance to do Shiv Puja during their lifetime. The person will get a chance to do Puja for Lord Vishnu in the 101st of his birth time, if they perform Puja for all other Gods during their 100 previous birth time. The person will get a chance to do Puja for Lord Shiva in their 101st birth time, if they perform Puja for Lord Vishnu  during their 100 previous birth time. That is, the worship and Puja of Lord Shiva is possible only for those who have attained the maturity through their experiences during their previous births. Mental Prepardness for doing Puja to Lord Shiva : 1. The Person should not remain jealous, angry, have possessive attitudes and possess vengenace. 2. The Person should not speak anything that hurts others mentally or phy

How to arrange your Puja Rooms and conduct Puja in your house? 1. Provide separate room or separate place to conduct puja and prayers, where your guests or visitors do not trespass or may not have an easy access. This is to ensure the sanctity of the Puja room or place. 2. The Pictures of the God and the Goddess should be placed in the top-most layer. The pictures of Navagrahas & the Guru/Acharya/Yogi's should not be placed alongside the pictures of the God and the Goddess. 3. The Pictures of the Navagrahas (if any) should be placed below the pictures of the Gods. 4. The Pictures of the Guru/Yogi/Acharya's should be placed alongside or below the pictures of the Navagrahas. 5. You must clean the Puja room and utensils used for Puja atleast once in a day. 6. The pictures of dead ancestors must not be kept in the Puja room. The Pictures of the dead ancestors should not be fixed above the height of the Pictures of the God or the Goddess in any place within your hou

Pariharam: The Truth about the Coconut: Coconut is mainly used in the Pujas, homams and also on in every important Hindu rituals. Let us understand, the importance of using the coconut in the pujas and also in the rituals; and let us delete our misunderstandings and mis-beliefs. 1. Breaking of a coconut either in a Puja or while doing Pariharam removes the Dhiristi (evil eye syndrome). 2. It is always better to do the Puja by breaking the coconut before the God, as this will automatically remove the Dhiristi. 3. Never do a Puja or Archana to any God without buying/offering/breaking the Coconut. You must do a Puja or archana by offering coconut, fruits, flowers, betel leaves & betel nuts, camphor and incense sticks, which are the basic & minimum you can offer. 4. You must try your best to select a good coconut, while buying it from the shop. You must shake the coconut well and must buy the coconut that has plenty of water into it. You must knock the shell of the cocon