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Puja vidhi

Puja Vidhi: How Each Vrat and Festival Puja Is Done

Puja vidhi for Karwa Chauth, Diwali Lakshmi puja, Chhath, Satyanarayan and other vrats: samagri, the steps at home, customs and where to check the muhurat.

  • Satmarg Astro editorial team
  • Updated
  • 2 min read

This is the common way the puja is done at home. Your family’s custom comes first: steps, offerings and words differ by region, and a simple puja done with care is complete. Nothing here needs to be bought from anyone.

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A puja vidhi is the order in which a puja is done: what to keep ready, what to offer, in what sequence, and how the vrat is begun and ended. This section sets out the vidhi of the major vrats and festivals as families do them at home, in English and in Hindi, with the regional ways where they differ.

The shape most home pujas share

Most household pujas follow the same broad order, whatever the festival. The place is cleaned and a low stool or chowki is set up. A sankalp is taken: a few words, in your own language, of what you are doing and why. Ganesh is worshipped first. Then comes the main worship of the day's deity with the familiar offerings (water, roli or kumkum, akshat, flowers, incense, a lamp, food), the katha is heard, the arti is sung, and prasad is shared. A fast ends with parana or with the sight of the moon or the sun, depending on the vrat.

Each page here fills that outline in for one observance: the specific samagri, the steps that are particular to it, and the customs that grow around it.

Customs, not conditions

Every vidhi page lists the customs families keep, and calls them that. Regions, communities and households do things differently, and your own family's way comes first. A simple puja done with attention is complete; nothing here needs to be bought from anyone, and no step is a test that brings trouble if it is missed. People who are pregnant, unwell or older keep gentler fasts, and a doctor's advice comes before any rule of fasting.

Where the time comes from

The vidhi pages never print a date or a time. The day of each vrat and its muhurat are worked out by our panchang from the classical rule, and they change every year and from city to city. Each vidhi links its festival or vrat date page on the festival calendar, and the time tools that matter for it: the muhurat finder, the choghadiya for your city, or moonrise for the fasts that end when the moon is seen.

Katha and vidhi together

Every vidhi has a companion vrat katha page with the story told at the puja. Prepare with the vidhi; hear the katha at the puja itself.

Each puja has its katha alongside: Vrat katha. Dates are on the festival calendar.

Sources

  • Household practice across North, East and West India
  • Vrat books and the common order of household worship (sankalp, Ganesh puja, the main worship, katha, arti)

Written by the Satmarg Astro editorial team. The kathas are retold in our own words, and we say where traditions differ. Dates and times come from our panchang calculation and are never written into the text. Our method