Everything you need to keep home worship simple and steady - daily nitya vidhi, weekday deity worship, the monthly tithi calendar and a full samagri list.
Bhav (feeling) matters more than perfection. This checklist follows common household tradition - your family, regional and guru parampara always comes first. Confirm tithis and muhurats with the panchang for your own city.
Brahma muhurat to sunrise is ideal - roughly 4:00 to 7:00 am. Keep it short but unbroken.
Done at dusk, in the 48 minutes after sunset. Simpler than the morning vidhi - the lamp matters most.
Each weekday belongs to a deity. Add this one extra act to your daily puja on that day.
Jalabhishek on the Shivling with water, milk and bel patra; chant Om Namah Shivaya 108 times; avoid tulsi and haldi on Shiva.
Offer sindoor with chameli oil, a boondi laddoo and red flowers; read Hanuman Chalisa; many keep a salt-free vrat.
Offer durva grass (21 blades), modak or green moong; chant Om Gam Ganapataye Namah; good day to start new work.
Offer yellow flowers, chana dal and gud; water the banana plant; chant Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya; avoid washing hair.
Light a ghee lamp at dusk, offer kheer or white sweets and lotus/red flowers; chant Shri Suktam or Om Shreem Hreem Shreem.
Offer mustard oil and black til to Shani, light a lamp under peepal at dusk, feed crows or dogs; chant Shani mantra 108 times.
Offer arghya (water with roli and red flowers) to the rising sun, chant Gayatri or Aditya Hridayam; avoid salt in the evening meal.
These repeat in both the shukla and krishna paksha. Dates shift each month - check the panchang.
Do this once a month, ideally on a Purnima, Amavasya-eve or the first day of the Hindu month.
Light a lamp, offer water and a flower, chant your ishta mantra 11 times and do a short aarti. Shastra values niyam (regularity) over length - a small daily puja is better than a long puja done rarely.
Face east or north while sitting; the deity is placed in the north-east (ishaan) corner facing west or east. Avoid facing south while chanting, except for pitra karya.
Tradition suggests resting from touching the murti and entering the temple, but mental jap, naam smaran and reading are never prohibited - devotion is never impure. Follow your family's practice.
Do not treat it as a sin. Offer a lamp and a kshama prarthana (prayer for forgiveness) whenever you remember, and resume the next day. If a vrat is missed, it may be completed on the next occurrence of the same tithi.
Yes. Sunrise, moonrise and tithi end-times differ by location, so Ekadashi, Pradosh and vrat parana timings vary between Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and overseas cities. Always check a panchang for your own city.