puja

This is why, on the central night, households clean and whitewash, open the doors, and perform Lakshmi puja (the formal worship of the goddess), often alongside Ganesha, the remover of obstacles.

The daily puja , the act of worship, follows a familiar shape: light, incense, flowers, water, food, and the circling lamp of arati .

The coconut is broken as an offering that carries several meanings at once. It is the purest gift a worshipper can bring, because its kernel and water are sealed…

…e the other mode, the mode we now think of as Hindu, becomes visible: puja , the honouring of a deity through offerings of flower, lamp, food, and water, made before a murti , a consecrated image, housed in a t…

Sanatana Dharma has no founder and no single date of birth. It is the cumulative tradition of the Indian subcontinent, built up over more than three thousand years,…

The Asur community, an Adivasi people of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal, claim descent from Mahishasura and observe Durga Puja as a period of mourning.

…p a solar practice: Martina Palladino's fieldwork records daily surya-puja at dawn and sunset with the water-offering as its core act, matching the Puranic prescription, and Ratha Saptami as the great festival …

Rita (ritam) is the ancient Vedic principle of cosmic order: the truth-in-action by which the universe holds together rather than dissolving into chaos. In the…