Today is the festival of Varalakshmi Pooja! Perform prayer in residence!
Posted on: 20/Aug/2021 1:08:50 PM
Varalakshmi Pooja is celebrated on the Friday coming just before the Full Moon Day in the Tamil Calendar Month of Aadi to pray the Goddess of Wealth Lakshmi who can bless us with 16 varieties of wealth and observing penance.
- Erect a small enclosure in the southeast corner of the house (or office) and set up the deity of the Goddess in this enclosure. In case a deity of the Goddess is not available, make a face of the Goddess with sandalwood pastes and set it up in the enclosure.
- Place a banana leaf in front of the deity and first, fill it up with a measure of raw rice, and spread it. Then, place a coconut, a lemon, a bit of gold, and fruits.
- Adorn the deity with a yellow cloth.
- Take a kumbam (a vessel known as ‘kudam’ as well in Tamil) fill it with sacred water, adorn it with a bunch of mango leaves and set the coconut on top of the vessel and keep the vessel on the centre of the spread rice on the banana leaf.
- Perform the pooja for the Goddess Lakshmi with the ‘Aarthi’ plate. ‘Kumba Pooja’ is performed thus.
- After performing Kumba Pooja for the Goddess, perform pooja for the Lord Vinayaka.
- Pooja can be performed by spraying the bits of ‘Arugampul’ (Scutch grass), a favourite of the Ashta Lakshmis (the 8 goddesses of Lakshmi)
- While performing the Varalakshmi Pooja, one can read/chant the Mahalakshmi Sthothram, Ashtalakshmi Sthothram, and Kanakathara Sthothram.
- For the female visitors attending the Varalakshmi Pooja occasion, offering plate containing yellow thread, Coconut and ‘kunkumam’ (vermisslion).
- Prepare ‘kozhukkakattai’ (Dimsums - a popular Chinese dish or momos made with steamed raw rice powder stuffed with ingredients sweet and sour and spicy)
