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Ganesha Chaturthi
Ganesha Chaturthi Fund Raiser
We are working to raise funds to have Prabhavali arches made for Ganesha and Dhanvantari. The total estimated cost for these is $1,000.
Please sponsor the daily Ganesha Charuthi festival to help us meet our goal. Ganesha Chaturthi falls between Monday, September 14th and Sept. 25th this year. All sponsors will have their names included in our daily sankalpa for the festival.
Donating connects you to the healing energy generated through the rituals. It connects you to the offerings being made here and opens a channel for blessings to flow to you. Ganesha is supplicated to help remove all obstacles and troubles, to give knowledge and wisdom, to grant success, wealth and abundance, and to ready us for spiritual awakening. Ganesha blesses people with calm and fearless mind and steadiness in their lives.
Nava Graha Shanti Puja
On August 28th, just after the conclusion of the Lunar Eclipse, we will be performing Nava Graha Shanti puja to help reduce the negative effects of the eclipse.
Because this eclipse is occurring in the sidereal Sign of Aquarius in the Nakshatra of Shatabhishek, this puja will be especially useful for people with Moon or Ascendant in Aquarius, Leo, Cancer, Capricorn, or Virgo. For Aquarius and Leo, this eclipse will be directly influencing one’s Ascendant, which can shake their personal identity.
For the remaining Signs mentioned, this eclipse is happening in a dusthana (difficult) house, which can increase difficulties (especially for Virgo).
For all these Signs, the chances for malefic effects from the eclipse are more likely, as can they be if any Planet in one’s birth chart is placed in Shatabhishak Nakshatra.
Nava Graha Shanti can be beneficial for anyone, regardless of their birth chart to help remove difficulties indicated by the Planets and to increase successes in life.
Donate $54 to sponsor the archana
Donate $108 to sponsor the entire Puja (or whatever amount you desire).
Nava Graha Shanti Puja
On August 12, just after the conclusion of the total Solar Eclipse, we will be performing Nava Graha Shanti puja to help reduce the negative effects of the eclipse.
Amavasya Ancestral Puja Ceremony
Honor Your Ancestors with Our Amavasya Ancestral Puja Ceremony | New Moon Puja
Participate in our Amavasya Ancestral Puja to seek blessings for your lineage. On the New Moon day each month, we are making offerings for the deceased. Making offerings for the dead helps their souls to get free from the lower astral realm and to ascend toward the higher spiritual realms. Many unseen troubles are caused when souls are caught between realms. To free these souls from suffering and darkness for the benefit of the world, Swamiji has been making offerings every New Moon day for many years.
Please send the names of your ancestors to be included in our prayers and donate to support our efforts.
Full Moon Puja
Join Us for Our Monthly Purnima Puja Celebrations and Blessings |Full Moon Puja
The Full Moon day is sacred to the Goddess, who is called Shodashi, “She Who is 16.” The Full Moon day is the 16th lunar phase, and the Lunar energy is powerful that day. This is day considered very inauspicious for any worldly activity, but very supportive for prayer and meditation to come to know the Goddess. We are offering Navavarana Puja (worshiping the 108 Goddesses in the Shri Yantra) and Abhishekam for Goddess Banashankari each Full Moon day.
Sponsor the Puja to connect yourself to the healing energies of the rituals.
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