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Types
of Pujas
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Types
of Homa / Havan
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Sri
Maha Mritunjaya Homa: This Homa can be performed to overcome
illnesses.
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Sri
Suktam Homa: This Homa is performed to overcome any financial
hardships or improve job prospects.
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Nava
Graha Homa: This Homa is performed to appease any planets that
are giving you malefic influences.
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Rurda
Homa: This Homa is performed to appease Lord Siva.
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Ayushaman
Homa: This Homa is performed to overcome illnesses and improvements
in health from surgery, accidents. It helps in improving the
longevity as well as the quality of health in general.
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Chandi
Homa: This Homa is performed to appease Divine Mother Durga
by chanting the 800 Slokas of Sri Chandi Saptasati.
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Ganapati
Homa: This Homa is performed to remove any obstacles in your
life, and it helps students in their studies for better grades.
Sanskaras:
Rites as described in the Vedas for significant life
events.
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Jatak Karma Sanskar consists of baby's first Puja for invoking
Divine blessings for child as well as parents through out the
life.
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Mundan
Sanskar consists of hair cutting ceremony for the first time
for new born baby to cut off native Karmas from past life and
improve life in this current incarnation.
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Upanayan
Sanskar consists of sacred thread ceremony where eight plus
year old boys are initiated into the Gayatri Mantra.
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Cremation
ceremony consist of chanting Shanti, peace prayers for the departed
soul and help family grieve as the body is cremated.
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13th
Day ceremony after the body is cremated. This Puja consists
of doing last rites for the soul.
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Shraddha
ceremony consist of offering our respect to the departed soul,
which also should be performed yearly.
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Marriage
ceremony
The
Significance of Homas
A
Homa is a sacred fire ceremony in which various forms of the Divine
are invoked in a sacred fire that has been kindled according to
the guidelines in the Vedic scriptures. Certain special offerings
are made into the fire while Sanskrit Mantras are chanted. The
combination of the powerful energy of the fire and the Sanskrit
mantras creates extremely auspicious and purifying vibrations
that are beneficial to all who attend the Homa. The smoke that
rises from a Homa contains a powerful healing energy, and as it
rises to the heavens it purifies the atmosphere, both physically
and subtly, encouraging a peaceful environment and gentle weather.
Every kind of negative karma can be purified by the sacred Homa
fire, due to divine grace.
There
are many different reasons why you might want to do a Homa and
Abhishekam in your house by requesting a Brahmin priest, like
Acharya Bharat. The real significance of doing a Homa or Puja
is that one is offering one's negative karma in the form of the
money to Hindu Brahmin priest. Through the power of the Homa ceremony,
the negative karma is destroyed and replaced with positive karma.
If a person is experiencing difficulties of any kind, doing a
Homa will help to lessen those difficulties. In addition, doing
a Homa is a very sacred act of merit, as Homas benefit all family
members and invited friends. By making a donation to Brahmin,
we can bring great benefit to many creatures, and this enhances
our own pool of merit, or positive karma. Thus, doing the sacred
Homa in your home can both reduce one's negative karma and enhance
one's positive karma, which makes life more conducive to spiritual
practice and which ultimately leads to the highest liberation.
The Significance of Abhishekam
During
a traditional Puja, or worship ceremony, Abhishekam is often performed.
In an Abhishekam, various liquids like milk, ghee and honey are
poured in a steady stream over a Murti, or divine figurine, while
specific Sanskrit mantras are recited. As the offerings are gently
poured over the Murti, divine blessings radiate out towards all
those present, providing protection, purification, and spiritual
elevation. These sacred ceremonies purify the Earth's atmosphere,
uplift the community, and contribute to the health and prosperity
of the individual. All Homas and Abhishekas are performed by Acharya
Bharat, which makes the ceremonies many times more effective.
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