PARIHARAM

Is there any alternative for Gemstone in Astrology? Astrological Remedies As per Hindu Vedic Astrology, all the Planets have their qualities of color , size, environment, mental, gems, caste, gender, language, character, illness, directions, grains (or) cereals, vehicle, taste and their Lord. For example, let us see the qualities of Venus. 1.      Gender - Female 2.      Size (Appearances) - Normal 3.      Language - Sanskrit 4.      Colour - Pure White 5.      Caste - Brahmin 6.      Character - Peaceful 7.      Illness -Phlegm 8.      Direction - East 9.      Gem - Diamond 10. Grain (or) Cereal - Vaal 11. Flower - White Lotus 12. Smell - Fig 13. Vehicle - Eagle 14. Taste - Sweet 15. Metal - Silver 16. Day - Friday 17. Month - Jyestha (Taurus/Mid-May to Mid-June) 18...

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...

Reason for doing Pariharam to Navagrahas: As per Hindu Vedas, the birth and death are contiguous. That is, death is not the end of the life; the Soul takes a new form of life. In short, everybody's present life will have a connections to the past life and the present life will bring an impact on the next life. Your present quality of life, physical health, mental stability, gains and losses will be decided by your actions that you had committed during the past life. If you had done many good things in the past life, those virtues will be brought to your current life in the form of Yogas in your present horoscope.  If you had committed many sins in the previous life, these sins will be brought into your present life in the form of Doshas in your present horoscope.  Hence, if you had done something good during your previous life, then you would have born in a good time and you would enjoy the benefits and gains as a reward. If you had committed sins during your previous...

FAQ's on Pariharam for the NRI's:  1. I am living in a country, where there are no temples at all. What should I do? Answer: You can treat your residence as the temple. You can sit in your Puja room and conduct the Puja and chant the mantra. 2. The temple is faraway from my residence. I can't go to the temple on weekdays, since it is too far away? Answer: Conduct your prayer at the specified days in your house. Go to the temple on weekends (or when you are free) and do Pujas to all the Navagrahas at one go. It is not an offence to do the Puja in that manner. 3. You can't find crows and cows roaming around here in this country. What should I do with these Pulses?  Answers: Keep all the Pulses with you. When you are visiting India, bring all the Pulses by emptying into a container or box. You can even mix all the Pulses that are done as Pariharam for all the Planets. Conduct the rituals that are mentioned in this blog (to empty the pulses into the running ...

WHY SHOULD WE WORSHIP NAVAGRAHAS?  The Hindu Religion teaches us that the Soul doesn't die and they Soul takes multiple birth, so as to purify itself to attain moksha. That is, the Life is a continuous process and there exists a connection between every birth. When a child is born in this world, its fate is decided by its own deeds and acts in the previous life. That is, the Child would have born somewhere else in the previous birth. During its lifetime, he or she would done many good things and would have done bad things too. The Good things or Virtues would turn into Yogas and the bad things or sins would turn into doshas in the horoscope of the child in the present lifetime. That is, the Child would be rewarded for its virtues in the form of good parents, good physical health & mental health, good wealth, good education and peaceful married life; and so on. The Child would be troubled by its sins (that it had committed under the previous birth) by way of facing troubles...

Facts you must know, before wearing Gems: 1. Which Gem that I must wear? You must select a Gem, which respresents a benefice planet in your Horoscope. It is better not to wear any Gems that represent the planets that are highly malefic in nature in your horoscope. 2. What is the difference between a Orginal Gem or a duplicate or an equivalent Synthetic Gems? You must wear only original Gems. You get nothing out of wearning any synthetic or duplicate Gems. 3. How to find and test the orginality of the Gems? Do not do any scientific tests on Gems. Just put the newly bought original Gems in a small box containing Wheat or Paddy at an auspicious day and time. Keep it in your Puja room. Do your regular pujas on daily basis for the next 21 days. If you do not hear any kind of negative news on any issues @ personal, professional, career and health issues, then you can assume that the Gems are original and remains flawless in nature. 4. Is there any restriction...

Best Results out of Fasting: "Fasting" is a method being adopted by almost all religions around the world. In the Hindu Religion, fasting assumes important place in the religious rituals. Let us see the facts about the "Fasting" to get good results. 1. Skipping a meal is not the exact meaning of the phrase "Fasting". 2. The primary objective of fasting is to control the actions of tongue, eyes, nose, ears and body sensations. The control of taste buds in the tongue holds the key to bring control over his/her mind and body over various temptations. 3. Hence skipping a meal either in the morning or evening and filling the stomach later with various types of foods on the same day can not be called as "Fasting". 4. A Fasting becomes complete only if the control of the body and mind is being done from the Sunrise of the fasting day to Sunrise on the next day. 5. Fasting loses its values, once a person consumes alochol, cigrattes, non-vege...

DO's ABOUT CHANTING MANTRAS: 1. Chanting Mantras after taking head bath and in the empty stomach delivers excellent results. 2. Chanting of Mantras must be done in a consistent manner @ if a person is able to chant a particular Mantra for more than 10,000 times, he would be able to experience the difference. If it crosses 1,00,000 mark or above, then the person would really enjoy the desired results in a perfect manner. 3. When you chant Mantras, if your ear does not hear (the sound of chanting Mantras by yourself), then it is considered as an excellent way of the Prayer. If your ear hears that what you chant, then it is considered as Normal way of Prayer. If your voices (Chanting of Mantras) are heard by others, then it is considered as the worst form of Prayer. God is fond of excellent way of Prayer only. 4. Chanting the Mantras either before or after Sunrise would deliver wonderful results. 5. We are childrens to the God. Hence the God really likes to hear Kindergarte...

Here we would study about the simple methods that makes your Pariharam to deliver effective results. 1. You  must have read about doing Pariharam for 9 weeks. But the readers are advised to do Pariharam as long as it delivers you the expected results. Because the trouble with the Planets differ from people to people with their horoscopes. Hence it takes a quiet longer time to get an effective results out of doing Pariharam. 2. It is better to do Pariharam for the entire Mahadasa or Antardasa period, if the particular planet's Mahadasa or Antardasa period is highly malefic. This will act as an insurance against possibility of getting into troubles at any time within an Mahadasa or Antardasa periods. 3. Keeping the mind and the body clean is the first and foremost requirement to make the Pariharam to be effective. 4. One must avoid anger, unethical thoughts or actions, sexual thoughts or actions and an vow (within the mind) to never repeat any wrongdoing that was done previo...

Please avoid doing the below mentioned activities when you visit the Lord Shiva temples. 1. Never spit or do anything that reduces the cleanliness of the temple. 2. Never speak to anyone (beyond some few formal words) anything inside the temple or speak in the mobile phone for a longer duration. 3. Never criss cross between the Lingam and the Nandhi. 4. Never worship or praise a man inside the temple. 5. Do not shout or sing or pray that turns as a disturbance to others. 6. Do not go between the God and anyone praying to the God. 7. Do not worship Navagrahas first. 8. Do not worship or do puja for the Navagrahas without worshiping the Lord Shiva. 9. Do not go around the temple, when the abhisekham is performed for the presiding deity. 10. Similarly, going around the temple is forbidden, when the curtains are down for decorations or for other rituals to the presiding deity. If we help the temples to be kept very clean for a day, then it is equivalent to d...

If you can do this below mentioned activity, this will really helps your both personal and career life. 1. Keep the temple clean by any possible means. 2. Tell others not to throw paper, lighted match sticks, plastic covers and spill oil within the temple. 3. Never dust the temple pillars with the holy ash and Kumkum. 4. Voluntary involvement in the temple activities will deliver more benefits than doing Pariharams. 5. Helping the people who works in the temples would bring in more benefits than doing Pariharams. 

Please read the contents carefully and get benefits in your life. 1. Go to the Lord Shiva temple, if you have taken a head bath. 2. Do not go to the temple (after taking bath), if you had done any sexual acts or taken any liquor/drugs and consumed any non-vegetarian foods. 3. Worship the Gopuram (Tower) before entering the temple. 4. Worship Lord Ganesha, Lord Muruga located in the outer periphery of the temple. 5. Worship the flag post of the temple. 6. Worship the altar and leave all your egotistical thoughts. 7. Worship the Nandi and seek his permission to enter the sanctum sanctorum. 8. Worship Lord Shiva and then Goddess Parvathi. 9. Worship other Gods and go around the temple at least 3 times. 10. Worship the Navagrahas only when you are about to exit the temple. 11. You can do "Sastanga Namaskaram" (Laid down worship) only before the flag post of the temple by placing your head and hand towards North direction. 12. Sit in the temple at least fo...

Readers must be aware of things to be done and the things not to be done, while doing Pariharam or worshiping the Navagrahas. DO'S 1. Do the Pariharam on the designated days, time and horas; as this would bring tremendous results. 2. Fasting is advisable but not compulsory. But the restriction on the intake of foods (that instigate the mind) should be maintained. 3. Pariharam and sexual thoughts and actions does not travel in a parallel manner. Hence avoid the Pariharam on the day, if you had done any sexual acts after the Sunrise. 4. Offer anything (flowers/lighting a lamp/cloth and so on) to the Navagrahas that is possible within your economical limits. 5. Distribute prasadam that are offered to Navagarahas to everyone, if you had done puja for removing the doshas. 6. Worshiping or doing Pujas for Navargahas without even looking at the presiding deity would deliver complete negative results. DONT'S 1. You should not treat the Navargrahas either equal or gre...