| Types of
Homam |
| recovring Health &
healing:- |
Mrityunjaya
Homam
Maha Mruthyunjaya
Homam Dedicated to Lord Shiva to avoid untimely death (more) |
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Ayushya
Homam
This homam is done to worship the god of life.
(more) |
| gaining
wealth |
Maha
Lakshmi Homam:-
Shri Maha Lakshmi Homam is performed for the purpose of gaining
legitimate wealth.(more) |
Lakshmi
Kubera Homam:-
You must perform this homam when you are facing financial difficulties
( more
) |
Sri
Suktha Homam:-
The Sri Suktha Homam is a very powerful homam performed for ushering
prosperity and wealth.
(
more ) |
| Homam for
the well being of children:- |
Ayushya
Homam
If a child is constantly ill, this homam could be performed on a
monthly basis till the child attains good health (
more ) |
General
Homams |
Ganapathy
Homam:-
Performing Ganapathy Homa once every year will give prosperity,
health and wealth.
( more ) |
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| Lord
Ganesh the Remover of Obstacles |
The chubby, gentle,
wise,
elephant-headed Ganesh, or Ganesha, is one of Hinduisms most popular
deities. He is the remover of obstacles, the deity whom worshippers
first acknowledge when they visit a temple. He is also patron of
letters and of learning; he is the legendary scribe who, using his
broken tusk, which he often holds, wrote down parts of the Mahabharata
epic. Ganesh is usually depicted colored red; he is pot bellied,
has one tusk broken, and has four arms that may hold a pasam, a
goad, and a pot of rice or sweetmeats. The sweet meats are held
in a type of bowl known as a laddus. His appetite for these sweets
is legendary and offerings of them are often left at his shrine.
Statues of Ganesh can be found in most of hindu towns. His image
is placed where new houses are to be built; he is honored at the
start of a journey or business venture, and poets traditionally
invoke him at the start of a book |
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A pasam is a triple
twine weapon. Each of the three twines represent
1. Arrogance and conceit,
2. Maya - the illusory nature of the real world
3. and Ignorance
In Hindu ideology weapons are a viewed as symbolic tools to
destroy the ego rather than to cause any type of bloodshed.
Goads (or elephant prods) are typically used to direct elephants.
Goads are symbolic of how one should steer the soul away from
the ignorance and illusions of this earthly world just as
a mahout would steer an elephant away from any treacherous
path. |
Ganesh is usually shown in sculpture
accompanied
by or riding a rat. Since rats are seen as being capable of
gnawing their way through most things, the rat symbolizes
Ganesh's ability to destroy every obstacle.
Ganesh's name literally means "Lord of Gana." Ganesh
was entrusted by Shiva with the leadership of the ganas, Shiva's
dwarfish, rowdy retinue, in compensation for the loss of his
human head.
How Ganesh came to have
the head of an elephant is explained
in various stories. One account of his birth is that Parvati
formedhim from the rubbings of her body so that he might stand
guard at the door while she bathed. When Siva approached,
unaware this was his son, he was enraged at being kept away
from his wife and proceeded to lop off the head of Ganesh.
To ease Parvati's grief, Shiva promised to cut off the head
of the first living thing he saw and attach it to the body.
That creature was an elephant.Ganesh was thus restored to
life and rewarded for his courage by being made lord of new
beginnings and guardian of entrances. A prayer to Ganesh is
invariably accompanied by smashing a coconut, symbolic of
smashing the undesirable forces inherent in oneself. |
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