Varlakshmi pooja is usually performed by women who have inherited this from their in laws family. Therefore it is a custom carried forward from one generation to another. I did not have this in my mothers house and I did not have a clue how to do this until my first year of marriage.
This pooja is performed by keeping the face of the Goddess made in silver preferably or any other metal and this face is used every year for the pooja. As a new daughter in law, my mother in law got a new face made for me which I am using till date. In the first year there is a small pooja performed before the actual inviting of goddess to hand this over from her to me as well.
There is a long list of things you need for the pooja. When my husband and me were leaving for Muscat for his job, my younger sister in law wrote down the list and with that she also drew how to place the kalasham with the face and this was extremely useful for me when I did this pooja for the first time away from home.
The order of the pooja is :
Bringing the Goddess inside the house to the pooja place
Ganpati pooja
Varlakshmi pooja
Neivedyam (5 or 7 items)
Deeparadhanai
Tying the thread or charadu
Lets look at the list of things you need first :
For the Kalasham :
Banana leaf
A square wooden raised platform (palaha)
Face of the Goddess
Garland for the Goddess
Coconut smeared with turmeric powder
Saree and other jewellery for the Goddess
Kalasham (Shombu )
Mango leaf bunch
Rice to put in the kalasham
Rice to put on the banana leaf
Silver coin
2 betel leaves
2 turmeric
1 supari
vellai & olai (black bangle and pink ring)
1 Lemon
Cotton garland
Flower mala
For the Ganpati Pooja :
Turmeric ganpati (manually made by hand)
Chutta Flowers
Shoeflower
Aruvampulai (grass like flowers which is Ganpati's favourite)
1 neivedyam item
For the pooja :
Betel leaves
Turmeric
Milk
5 variety of fruits (definitely bananas)
5 variety of neivedyam
Panjapathra udharani
One small cup to put the water from the panjapathram
Chandan powder
Kumkum powder
Camphor
Chutta flowers (lotus is a must)
Rice mixed with turmeric powder (akshathai)
Agarbatti
Lamp
Coconut
Flower mala
Yellow threads (charadu) for goddess and for the number of ladies
matchbox
Oil for lamp
I do the pooja with the link provided by Sathya Vadyar. He has created a Whatsapp group and he forwards the link on that group. You can go to Youtube and do the pooja but I feel the youtube ones are very brief and short.
You should not eat anything before the pooja but if you are not able to fast till then, you can have a banana and milk. Once pooja is done you can have all the neivedyam. No onion/garlic to be had on this day
The next day again you should do a small pooja, show 1 neivedyam item (you can even keep fruits), show deevaradhanai and shift the goddess to the left. Then after a while you can remove everything
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