🌼 Shri Satyanarayan Puja Vidhi
ॐ श्री सत्यनारायणाय नमः
Puja samagri
- Picture/idol of Shri Satyanarayan (Vishnu) or a Shaligram; Ganesh idol or a betel-nut Ganesh
- Wooden chowki with yellow/red cloth, kalash with water, mango leaves, coconut
- Banana stems/leaves to make a small mandap around the chowki
- Roli, haldi, akshat, moli, sandal paste, yellow flowers, garlands, tulsi leaves (essential for Vishnu)
- Panchamrit (milk, curd, ghee, honey, sugar) and Ganga jal
- Prasad: panjiri (roasted wheat flour or sooji with ghee and sugar) — traditionally "sava" (one and a quarter) measure — bananas, fruits, dry fruits
- Paan, supari, cloves, cardamom, dakshina; ghee lamp, dhoop, camphor, bell
Step-by-step method
- Fast during the day if health allows (fruit/milk is fine); bathe and wear clean clothes.
- Clean the place, set up the chowki facing east or north and tie banana stems at the four corners to form a mandap; draw a swastik and place rice.
- Kalash sthapana on the rice; place the Satyanarayan picture/Shaligram and Ganesh on the chowki; light the ghee lamp.
- Pavitrikaran and achaman; take sankalp with water, akshat and flower, stating name, gotra, place, date and purpose.
- Worship Ganesh first, then the kalash and Navagraha (short remembrance), then Gauri or your kuldevata as per family custom.
- Worship Shri Satyanarayan with shodashopachar: avahan, asan, padya, arghya, panchamrit snan, shuddh snan, vastra, chandan, akshat, flowers & tulsi, dhoop, deep, naivedya (panjiri, panchamrit, bananas), paan, dakshina.
- Sit with family and listen to all five chapters of the Satyanarayan katha with full attention; a person may recite, others listen with akshat/flowers in hand.
- After each chapter, many families ring the bell and offer akshat/flowers; after the katha offer all flowers at the deity's feet.
- Perform havan if desired (optional in simple household puja).
- Perform the aarti "Om Jai Lakshmi Ramana", then "Om Jai Jagdish Hare"; do pushpanjali and pradakshina.
- Mix tulsi in the panchamrit and panjiri; first give charnamrit, then prasad to everyone present. Never refuse or waste the prasad — this is the lesson of the katha.
- Break the fast after the puja with prasad and a sattvik meal.
Mantras
Vishnu dhyanशान्ताकारं भुजगशयनं पद्मनाभं सुरेशं विश्वाधारं गगनसदृशं मेघवर्णं शुभाङ्गम्। लक्ष्मीकान्तं कमलनयनं योगिभिर्ध्यानगम्यं वन्दे विष्णुं भवभयहरं सर्वलोकैकनाथम्॥
Satyanarayan mantraॐ श्री सत्यनारायणाय नमः॥ ॐ नमो भगवते वासुदेवाय॥
Ganeshवक्रतुण्ड महाकाय सूर्यकोटि समप्रभ। निर्विघ्नं कुरु मे देव सर्वकार्येषु सर्वदा॥
ℹ️ The heart of this vrat is truthfulness, keeping one's promises and respecting prasad. A simple puja done with sincerity is complete.