HOW TO DO PUJAS IN THE HOUSE?

How to arrange your Puja Rooms and conduct Puja in your house?

Provide separate room or separate place to conduct puja and prayers, where your guests or visitors do not trespass or may not have an easy access. This is to ensure the sanctity of the Puja room or place.

The Pictures of the God and the Goddess should be placed in the top-most layer. The pictures of Navagrahas & the Guru/Acharya/Yogi's should not be placed alongside the pictures of the God and the Goddess.

. The Pictures of the Navagrahas (if any) should be placed below the pictures of the Gods.

You must clean the Puja room and utensils used for Puja atleast once in a day.

The pictures of dead ancestors must not be kept in the Puja room. The Pictures of the dead ancestors should not be fixed above the height of the Pictures of the God or the Goddess in any place within your house. The Pictures of the dead ancestors should not be placed prominently in a place overlooking the main entrance of the house. 

Never use any utensils that are used for common cooking purpose to prepare any dish to offer to the God. Similarly use separate utensils and Puja accesories for conducting Pujas.

Do not do Puja, when someone is sleeping in another room of the house.

Do Puja only when everyone in your family has finished their bathing. Never allow anyone to take head bath after the completion of Puja on that day. Never wash your house with water after the completion of Puja.

Remove all the flowers that are dried up. Allowing the dried flowers to remain hanging up for more days is not considered good. Do not throw the dried flowers in the pathway; trash it carefully into the dustbin @ the dried flowers should not be trampled upon.

You can offer any flower to the God. You can also offer any leaves, if you are not able to get any flowers.

You can offer any fruits or cooked food to the God. You should not offer any food or fruits that had already been tasted. If you don't have access to any fruits or any cooked food, simply offer the drinking water.

The Person must be bodily clean, when he/she prepares the food for the God @ the food should not be offered to the God, if a unclean person prepares it.

Do not offer any Non-Vegetarian foods to the God, as this will bring more curse.

You can place the Pictures of the God overlooking West and South direction @ you must face either East or North direction, while praying to the God.

Anyone who faces the West and/or the South directions while praying may not get the desired results.

You must light up lamps either with Ghee or Gingelly oil. Never use anyother oil or mixed up oil.

The Lamp should be placed either facing the North or West or East direction only. Never light up the lamp, while it is facing the South direction.

The Lamps lit with ghee or gingelly oil should not be put out immediately after the completion of Pujas. The Lamps should be allowed to be lit, till the complete burning out of incense sticks (agarbathi) or benzoine (samprani).

You must put out the lamps either by pulling the thread back into the oil or by using the flowers. You should not put out the lamp by blowing air out of your mouth.

Never interrupt your Puja in the middle, whatever be the reason. The Level of concentration is very important in your Puja.

It is better to do Puja in the empty stomach; you will lack concentration on the Puja, if you had eaten too much.

Empty the water (that you had offered to the God on the previous day) into any plants that you grow in the house or empty into your well (if you possess it) or simply mix it in the water that is to be used for your bathing.