|| Ganpati Bappa Morya || Ganesh Chaturhti 2022 is on 31 August!
It is Lord Ganesha’s birthday. The 11-day long festival will conclude on September 21 on the Anant Chaturdashi. This festival is celebrated in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh with zeal and joy. Some people bring a new Ganesh idol, worship it for 2 or N-number of days and then do visarjan; while some simply do puja on the Ganesh Chaturthi. In my place, we only do puja on Ganesh Chaturthi and don’t do the other rituals. Since I am from Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, in our region Ganesh Chaturthi day is most significant unlike in Maharashtra where Virsarjan vidhi is famous. Over the years, we have observed the rising trend in Visarjan vidhi here in U.P. as well.
Ganesh ji is also called as Vighnaharta, means someone who removes all the obstacles
How I do Ganesh Chaturthi Puja at Home
We start the day by cleaning our home-temple in the morning. This includes washing all the idols and cleaning the temple corners. Ours is a small wooden temple so it takes about an hour to do all this. Once it is clean, we re-arrange the idols by putting Ganesh ji at the center of the temple. Obviously, it is his birthday after all.
After doing the regular daily puja, we start to decorate the temple with fairy-lights and confetti.
Every year, Ganesh Chaturthi puja muhurat is different. This year in 2021, the shubh muhurat for Ganesh Chaturthi puja is between 11:03 am and 1:33 pm on 10 Sept.
Some people keep fast on this day as well, but I only do Ganesh Chaturthi puja and not observe the fast.
Ganesh Chaturthi Puja at Home
Preparation:
(what you need for the puja)
- fresh flowers
- Insense sticks and diya
- New clothes and ornaments for Ganesh ji
- As Ganesha loves modak and motichoor laddu, either make it at home or bring from a sweet shop
- Fruits and sweets et al
- Red cloth to keep ganesh ji murti
Wear yellow or orange clothes while doing the puja
Steps for Puja:
- Spirnkle gangajal on the idols and around the temple
- Place the red cloth and put the idols on it
- Apply chandan kumkum tika, akshat rice
- Offer fresh flowers
- Light a ghee-diya and agarbatti
- Offer sweets
- For bhoga, offer fruits as well
- Say Ganesh chaturthi katha
- Do aarti to conclude the puja white chanting the mantras/shlokas and ringing bells
- Distribute prasaad
- Sit there and tell your wishes and desires to ganesha and seek his blessings
This is how we do Ganesh Chaturthi puja at my house. Hope this helps!
Also read:
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My Ganesha Chaturthi Simple Decor at Home
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