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Puja

The Three Great Mantras

Often recited at the beginning and at the end of a puja.

Video with recitation and words:

PDF with the words (in a booklet format; pg 2)

 

Mantra to Shri Ganesha

Often recited near the beginning of a puja

Video with recitation and words:

PDF showing format of mantras

 

The Ganesha Atharva Sheersha

Often recited near the beginning of a puja

Video with recitation and words:

PDF with the words (in a booklet format; pg 1)

 

Shri Mataji talks about puja (PDF >)

Introduction to puja and havan (PDF >)

Kavach of the Devi - revised version (PDF >)

 

The Aarti

Often sung at the end of a puja

Video with recitation and words:

PDF with the words (in a booklet format; pg 2)

 

Information about specific pujas

Navaratri Puja: 54-page PDF >

(On several nights you can recite the Kavach of the Devi; see link above for revised version)

 

 

Songs

We sing songs, in Marathi, Hindi, Sanskrit, and English during pujas.
The full PDF of the "Australian Songbook" is 112 MB. Here are a few songs extracted from the full PDF:

 

 

 

 

 

     
     

Photograph:
Her Holiness Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi,
Shri Krishna Puja
Englewood, New Jersey
18 August 1984

Updated 2020.10.15