During the Aaradhane at SKV, North Carolina, while welcoming God and Rayaru, I saw an amazing drawn Aarathi plate. I was told it is customary to have Rangoli and Lakshmi Hrudaya in Aarathi plate. I had never heard about it.
So, I asked Meghana who has become a close extended family, and also Anuradha Shrikanth Belpu to please take picture of the Aarathi plate
The plate was decorated by Smt. Akhila Mahishi who also told me the trick to do the same.
You can find how to draw Lakshmi Hrudaya from my blog here:
Uploading another amazing song for the upcoming Vara Mahalakshmi Vrata Pooje. Please find lyrics added to the Video. Will add lyrics in Kannada and English soon.
Happy Vara Mahalakshmi Vrata Pooje to all. I am trying to record the Vara Mahalakshmi Vrata Katha/Story and upload soon.
Shri Vara Mahalakshmi Vrata is performed by married Hindu women to seek the blessings of the Goddess Mahalakshmi, wife of Lord Vishnu.
The Vrata is observed on the Friday immediately preceding the full moon day of the month of
Sravana Masa. On the day of Pooje or Vrata, women clean their homes and decorate their front yards with rangolis. Later, they take a bath and deck wear pure silk saree and jewellery. The lady performing the pooje makes a mandala with the drawing of a lotus upon it. A kalasha filled with rice and topped with fresh mango and betel leaves, a coconut smeared with haldi and kumkum and cloth are placed on the mandala and Lakshmi is invoked therein.
After the worship of the kalasha, follows the worship of Ganesha, then the worship of the sacred thread. Now the main worship of Vara Lakshmi begins and the scared thread is worshipped a second time. It is then tied to the right hand of the lady. After the worship thamboola is given to 5 married ladies.
The same evening, we invite all the neighboring ladies(married women) and offer them tamboola; also called veeledele Adike, which is an offering of betel leaves, fruits, betel nuts, kumkum, haldi and dakshine. At this point the ladies also sing songs in praise of goddess Varalakshmi.
Attached below is a scanned vrata procedure in Kannada:
Another amazing lyrics from the book. Composed by Shree Purandara Dasaru. I had never heard this song ever. Beautiful it is and once again added my own tune. Like my Father says, for God’s Bhajane Raga Tala isn’t key, bhakthi is important.
Happy Friday and Happy Shravana Masa to All.
I have a screenshot of the lyrics in the video, will post it soon.
During this visit to Kamadhenu Kshetra, and in their book store I found an amazing book on Goddess Lakshmi Devi and it has exactly 108 songs composed by Dasaru. I am trying to learn as many as possible and post it here in my blog especially for Shravana Masa Friday’s pooja.
Here is the link for Kamadhenu Kshetra in Bangalor.
I also learnt another trick to scan and convert lyrics. I used to spend hours and hours during weekends typing lyrics and converting them. With this new technique, lot of time saved. One benefit of being an Engineer right? No matter what, that mindset helps.
Lyrics in Kananda and English.
ನಡೆದು ಬಾರಮ್ಮ ಮನೆಗೆ | ಲಕ್ಷುಮಿ ದೇವಿ ನಡೆದು ಬಾರಮ್ಮ ಮನೆಗೆ ||ಪ||
ನಡೆದು ಬಾರಮ್ಮ ಜಗದೊಡೆಯನ ಮಡದಿಯೇ ಅಡಿಗಳಿಗೆರಗಿನಾ ನಡೆಮುಡಿ ಹಾಸುವೆ ||ಅಪ॥
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