PARIHARAM

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 life

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

METHODS TO BE ADOPTED FOR REMOVING DHIRISTI IN THE SHIVA TEMPLES: 1. Select the Day that comes with Ashtami thithi. The Ashtama thiti comes on the 8th day from the Amavasya days (Full Moon day) or the Poorima days (New Moon day). The Best day for Pariharam would be the Ashtmai Thithi coming in the descending period of Moon, which is called as the Descending Ashtami Thithi (8th Day from the Poornima Day). But even the Ascending Ashtama Thithi is also considered as best. 2. Ask all your family members to assemble in the Main Hall and stand in the direction of the East. 3. Take a Coconut and Red chillies (Long) along with required quantity of Gingelly oil or Coconut oil and go to every room of your house and just rotate it three times in the clock-wise direction and three times in the anti-clock wise direction. 4. Come to the Main hall, now rotate the Coconut & Long Red Chillies along the oil both three time in the clock-wise and also in the anti-clock wise direction and as

METHODS TO BE ADOPTED FOR REMOVING DHIRISTI IN THE SAKTHI TEMPLES (METHOD 2): 1. Select the Poornima days (Full Moon day) or the Amavasya days (New Moon day) 2. Ask all your family members to assemble in the Main Hall and stand in the direction of the East. 3. Take a small Pumpkin along with required quantity of Gingelly oil or Coconut oil and go to every room of your house and just rotate it three times in the clock-wise direction and three times in the anti-clock wise direction. 4. Come to the Main hall, now rotate the Pumpkin and the oil both three time in the clock-wise and also in the anti-clock wise direction and ask all the family members to go into any of the rooms without looking back at you. The family members must wash their feets, hands and their face, before they sit within their house. 5. Now you must stand before the main door of the house and rotate it three times in the clock-wise direction and three times in the anti-clock wise direction. 5. You must do i