Daily Pooja Ingrdiantes
Akshat / Rice
Description
- Akshat basically consists of uncooked un-broken pieces of rice.
- Akshat is believed to be equal to offering clothes, jewelry, food, or any other offering.
- Akshat is usually thrown over the head of the devotees during Pooja and during functions like marriage and other auspicious events.
- Akshat / Rice Grains is one of the primary things without which the worship of the deity cannot be accomplished in a proper way.
- They are actually the symbols of prosperity and wealth.
Quantity
- 250 gms
Black sesame (Kala Teel)
Description
- It is also known as Kura Goma. These seeds are used for purifying the body.
- Water boiled with these seeds makes body pure.
- Black til is mixed in either milk/ water and then offered to Lord Shiva in the form of Abhishek.
- It is equivalent to doing abhishek with 'punchamrat' (a combination of 5 things).
- This seed is very dear to the Pitars (deceased ancestors).
- Black sesame or kaala teel is part of hawan samagri, mix up in hawan samagri as homam dravya , exotice herbs.
- In shani, hanuman, shiva pooja and hawns major samagri used is black teel. on the day of saturday and tuesday with chameli oil black teel is offers to lord hanumanji, too remove saturn effect.
Quantity
- 250, 500 gms
Camphor – Kapur
Description
- Camphor is burnt to perform Aarti (circular movement or display of the lamp in reverence before the deity or the idol) before the deity.
- Just as God rotates the sun and the moon around you, you imitate the same and thus offer and move the camphor lamp before God to bring joy to you.
- This is also to express the prayer that the light of our life should never go astray from God and should always be centered and revolve around God. It is with this deep feeling that you perform aarti.
- The breathing of Aarti wakes up the Chakras, some say.
- The smoke from these balls purify the entire atmosphere.
- pooja kapoor has a unique place in the Hindu ritual of traditional Pooja or any other festive or customary occasion.
- It is pure white in colour, and when it is burnt it takes on the hue of agni (fire), and it burns itself out completely, without residue.
- Lighting camphor before God symbolizes that if we burn our illusion or ego with the fire of true knowledge, we shall merge with the God, leaving no residue.
Quantity
- 125 gms - 200 balls
Chandan Powder
Description
- Chandan or sandal is well known for its aroma and cooling effect on human body.
- Sandal powder is an important pooja item.
- Sandal paste is used in worshiping deities especially for applying tilak on the forehead of sacred idols.
- After offering to deities, devotees can apply it between the eyebrows or on the forehead to cool the nervous system and to stimulate spiritual energy.
- The paste can help heal skin diseases such as infectious sores, ulcers, acne and rashes.
- Sandalwood powder helps smooth and cool the skin, and can be made into a paste, lotion or soap for cleansing, calming and hydrating sensitive or aging skin.
- Sandalwood balances the circulatory, digestive, respiratory and nervous systems.
Quantity
- 20 gms
Clove, Cardamom, Betelnut
Description
- Pack of cloves (long), cardamom (elaichi) and betelnut (supari) for use in daily pooja and rituals.
Used
- Clove in pooja rituals for fulfillments of desires and success in work (karya siddhi).
- Cardamom has a special aroma, which is pleasant and is used to attract and invoke deity energies.
- The betel nut is an integral part of the daily or ritualistic Pooja.
- It is also popularly used in the age old- custom of Indian eating.
- The supari is symbolic of the nut of the ego that must be offered on the altar of God.
- It represents the hard, coarse qualities that must be surrendered to God, leaving only the soft, pure qualities.
Quantity
- Clove, Cardamom, Betelnut - set of 5 , or 11 each
Coloured Akshat / Rice
Description
- Akshat basically consists of uncooked un-broken pieces of rice.
- Akshat is believed to be equal to offering clothes, jewelry, food, or any other offering.
- Akshat is usually thrown over the head of the devotees during pooja and during functions like marriage and other auspicious events.
- Akshat/Rice Grains is one of the primary things without which the worship of the deity cannot be accomplished in a proper way.
- They are actually the symbols of prosperity and wealth.
Quantity
- 250 gms
Darbha Grass
Description
- Darbha Grass or Kusha Grass is scientifically known as Desmostachya bipinnata, commonly known in English by the names Halfa grass, Big Cordgrss, and Salt read-geass, is an Old World Perennial Grass. Kusha grass is a special type of grass which is used in Hindu rituals Pooja and Worship.
Uses
- While chanting hymns, hold a bunch of Darbha grass, dipping the tip into a pot full of water. The positive vibrations of the mantras recited are believed to be absorbed by water in the pot through the grass. Then the recharged water is sprinkled around to purify the surroundings.
- Also, while performing fire ritual, Darbha grass is placed on the four sides of the agni kund or sacred fireplace, While chanting and reciting verses from the Vedas, one has to wear a ring made of Darbha grass on one’s right hand ring finger as a protective shield from negative vibrations.
- The number of Darbha leaves used depends on the ceremony that is being performed. For ceremonies related to death, only one Darbha leaf is used. For auspicious and daily rituals, a ring made of two leaves is used for inauspicious but not death related functions — Amavasya Tharpanam, Pithra Pooja — a three - leaf Darbha ring is used. For temple prayers and pooja, a four-leaf Darbha ring is used.
Quantity
- Set of 5
Dry Coconut
Description
- We never offer the coconut as it is.
- We remove the fibre that covers it and offer the fruit that is free from all the external fibre.
- Only then is it possible to break the coconut.
- By breaking the coconut, the water in it flows out.
- The heart is the coconut and it is covered by the fibre of desire.
- The water that flows out is the 'Samskara' or purification. The fibres on the surface are the desires.
- We must strip the heart of all desires and offer the core without the fibre. It then becomes an offering to God.
- If we plant a coconut as it is, in course of time and by watering it, another plant will grow out of it.
Used
- Dry coconuts are used as an offering to deities and especially during the final oblation (purna-ahuti) of any homa/yagna.
- It is filled with sugar and ghee and is then closed with a sacred thread, before offering to the homa fire.
Quantity
- 360 gm - Broken pieces of 2 coconuts
Gangajal
Description
- The river Ganga's holy water, Gangajal, flowing from the Himalayas, is sacred for its crystal purity as it carries with it essential mix of multi-minerals and unique herbs.
- Sealed hermetically, untouched by human hands or other impurities, we try to keep intact all its natural qualitative aspects that improve digestive organism, preserve elements of its sweetness, coolness and high stimulant properties that it is believed to possess that Gangajal has the ability to enhance and retain wisdom and has the capability to cure many ailments.
- Few drops of Gangajal make everything holy.
Benefits
- Is used in daily pooja for rituals and Abhishek.
- To bathe deity idols.
- Gangajal is full of purest oxygen. Drink a pouch / glass everyday. It would take care of your stomach related problems.
- Enhances food taste, and is used in cooking.
- It also reduces acidity and stomach disorders. Patients are advised to take their medicines with Gangajal for speediest recovery.
Quantity
- 50 ml
Ghee
Description
- Ghee holds its position of purity in nearly all the Hindu pooja rituals.
- In Hindu mythology, Prajapati/Brahma, created Ghee by rubbing or "churning" his hands together and then poured it into fire to engender his progeny.
- So, whenever the rituals are performed, the pouring of Ghee into fire symbolises a re - enactment of creation.
Quantity
- 200 gms
Gomutra
Description
- Being highly recommended by the scriptures, it is considered holy and safe to use.
- The original scriptures of Ayurveda consider cow urine to be the elixir of life.
- Cow urine is an important part of many Indian rituals/daily pooja.
- Gomutra has the ability to attract divine consciousness which in turn creates an increase in the Sattva component and therefore facilitates spiritual healing.
- The Indian cow has the ability to attract the frequencies of all the deities in the universe.
Quantity
- 200 ml
