The planetary puja is done for offering respect and worship to the nine planets. Worshipper’s seeks for the blessings and fulfillment of their wishes. The offerings made in this puja are for the planets and their respective deity and these offerings communicate the person’s desire to the planets.

In this puja navgrah are the chief deities, which are worshipped to get the desired result. There are nine planets, which are responsible for the happiness, and all adversities coming in our life. The nine planets or grah are as follows: surya {sun}, Chandra {moon}, mangal {mars}, budh {mercury}, guru {Jupiter}, shukra {Venus}, shani {Saturn}, Rahu and Ketu {ascending and descending node of the moon}.

Significance of Navgrah puja

The nine grahas or planets present in our horoscope are responsible in controlling our karmas, our desires, and outcomes of life. Each of these have a great influence on our lives and this is called as dasha. This navgrah shanti puja is undertaken by the devotees to reduce the ill effects of the planets and increase in the positive energies, and prosperity in life.

Importance of Navgrah puja

Some people say that their time is running bad. These bad times are due to the effect of planets position currently in your horoscope. For getting, the time in your favor and removing all the doshas created by these planets this navgrah puja is performed. Each of the grah has its own benefits and rivals with the other, which gives rise to the doshas in the person's horoscope. This puja help in acquiring the better results and remove all ill factors from your life. The puja can be done on any auspicious hora.

How to perform puja:

For performing the Navgrah puja first, a table called mandala is set. Here a specific position is allotted to each grah {planets} with the specific grains and shape. In the centre, the wheat represents sun and to its right is Jupiter with chickpeas while in left mars with reddish lentil. In the first row from left to right, moon is represented by rice, Venus by white beans, and mercury by the beans of moong. In the last row, from left to right, the black beans represent Rahu, dark lentils for Saturn and multicolored for Ketu. After this, a kalash is placed at the backside filled with water and garland of flower is used to decorate the table and kalash. Then by chanting the mantras, deities are invoked in the kalash. After the completion of puja the aarti is performed.

Benefits of Navgrah puja:

This puja helps the devotee to gain courage to face any situation of life, fills him with the positive energy, and infuses peace and prosperity in his life. The blessings of nine planets help in acquiring the better health, wealth, education, knowledge and over all prosperity in life.

Navgrah puja mantra:

The mantras for all the grah are different and have their auspiciousness. Still one can recite aditya hridya strota or gayatri mantra daily to reduce the doshas of these grah.

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