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🌼 Varalakshmi Vratam 🌼
॥ ॐ श्री परमात्मने नमः ॥
🚩 Varalakshmi Vratam 2025 🚩
About Varalakshmi Vrat:
A few days before Shravana Purnima and Rakhi, on the final Friday of Shravana Shukla Paksha, is when the Varalakshmi fast is celebrated.
Varalakshmi Vrat is recommended for both men and women. Nonetheless, married women are the only ones who observe Varalakshmi fasting in the regions of Andhra, Telangana, and Maharashtra. Children, a husband, luxury, and all other earthly pleasures are among the worldly joys that are desired during the Varalakshmi fast.
Throughout Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Maharashtra, Varalakshmi Vratam is a highly celebrated Puja Day and fasting occasion. Married women in these states typically perform Varalakshmi Puja for the benefit of their husbands and other family members. Worshiping the eight goddesses of wealth (Sri), earth (Bhu), learning (Saraswati), fame (Kirti), peace (Shanti), pleasure (Tushti), and strength (Pushti) is thought to be the same as worshiping Goddess Vara-Lakshmi on this day.
Varalakshmi Puja is not as well-liked in North Indian states as it is in South Indian states, nevertheless. One of the best days to offer prayers and seek the Goddess Lakshmi’s blessings is Varalakshmi Vratam.
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🕰️ Varalakshmi Vratam 2025 Date & Time:📅
Varalakshmi Vratam – Friday, August 8, 2025
Simha Lagna Puja Muhurat (morning) – 06:55 to 09:05
Duration – 02 Hours 10 Mins
Vrishchika Lagna Puja Muhurat (afternoon) – 13:27 to 15:42
Duration – 02 Hours 15 Mins
Kumbha Lagna Puja Muhurat (evening) – 19:36 to 21:11
Duration – 01 Hour 35 Mins
Vrishabha Lagna Puja Muhurat (midnight) – 00:25 to 02:24, Aug 09
Duration – 01 Hour 59 Mins
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💐Significance Of Varalakshmi Vratham💐
Pursuing divine blessings by offering sincere prayers to Goddess Lakshmi is the primary goal of Varalaksmi Vratam. There are no hard and fast guidelines for keeping this vrat. Goddess Varalakshmi can be placated with just a basic prayer and there are no strict rites to follow.
Goddess Lakshmi is the ruling goddess of fertility, generosity, light, money, fortune, wisdom, and courage, according to Hindu mythology. This vrat is carried out by women, especially married ones, in an effort to appease Goddess Lakshmi and win Her heavenly favor. The women ask the Goddess for blessings on a healthy offspring and a long life for their individual husbands. Women alone celebrate Varalakshmivratam, which is predominantly a holiday for women. The importance of Varalakshmi vratam is explained in the ‘Skanda Purana’.
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🌲Materials for Varalakshmi Puja Vidhi🌲
Whenever we worship any deity or get someone to worship, some essential materials are required for the worship. Today we will learn about those materials.
Idol of Goddess Varalakshmi, Flower garland, Turmeric, Kumkum, Sandalwood powder, Vibhuti, Mirror, Mango leaves, Comb, Flower, Betel leaves, Panchamrit, Banana, Curd, Milk, Incense sticks, Mauli, Water, Karpur, Puja bell, Prasad, Oil lamp, Akshat.
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🍀Varalakshmi Vrat Puja Vidhi:🍀
First of all, wake up early in the morning, take a bath and bow to Goddess Lakshmi and wear white clothes.
Where you worship, make Rangoli with the help of chalk at that place.
Purify the house by sprinkling Gangajal in all the corners of the house and take a vow to fast.
Dress the idol of Goddess Mother properly and adorn her with jewellery and kumkum.
Take a stool, spread a red cloth on it and install the idol of Mata Rani along with Ganesh ji.
Make sure that the idol of Goddess Lakshmi faces the east direction. This is very beneficial for devotees.
Spread some rice at the place of worship.
After this, take a Kalash and apply sandalwood paste around it.
Fill the Kalash with more than half the rice. After that, put betel leaves, silver coins and dates in the Kalash.
Apply sandalwood and kumkum on coconut and place it on top of the Kalash.
Put mango leaves around the coconut and place them on top of the Kalash.
Take a plate and spread a new red cloth on it and place it on top of the rice.
Make sure to light an oil lamp in front of the idol Goddess Maa.
Light a ghee lamp in front of Ganesh ji.
Welcome Goddess Varalakshmi with Kalash and Akshat.
Offer sandalwood powder, kumkum, perfume, garland of flowers, turmeric, incense, clothes and sweets to Goddess Maa.
Chant mantras to please Goddess Lakshmi.
Read the story of Varalakshmi Vrat and do the Aarti of Goddess Maa.
After the completion of the puja, offer food to Goddess Maa and distribute the prasad.
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🌻 What is there in Varalakshmi Prasadam or Prasad?🌻
Various meals are served at the puja, including boiling legumes, jaggery sweets, and porridge made with rice flour.
When performing the puja, the offerings—which are often made of banana leaves—are placed in front of the idols. Following the end of Varalakshmi puja, married women, their children, and everyone else invited are given prasadam.
After the Varalakshmi aarti is performed in the evening as part of a final puja, the candidates can break their fast by eating. In the evening, married women are invited and given some presents.
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🍀Mantras of Varalakshmi Vratham:🍀
ॐ ह्रीं श्रीं लक्ष्मीभायो नमः॥
Om Hreem Shreem Lakshmibhayo Namah.
या श्री: स्वयं सुकृतिना भवनेश्वलक्ष्मी:।
पापात्मनां कृतधियां हृदयेषु बुद्धि: ॥
श्रद्धा सतां कुलजनप्रभवस्य लज्जा ।
तां त्वां नता: स्म परिपालय देवि विश्वम ॥
Ya Shri: Svayam Sukritina Bhavaneshvalakshmi.
papatmnam krutdhiyam hardyeshu budhhi.
shraddha satam kuljanaprabhavasya lajja.
tam tvaam nata: sm paripalaya devi vishvam.
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💐Conclusion 💐
Varalakshmi Pooja is a celebration of dedication, plenty, and thankfulness in addition to being a religious rite. Families get together for this beloved celebration, which fosters faith and unity. Varalakshmi Pooja continues to radiate its significance and blessings to everyone who celebrates it with sincerity and enthusiasm thanks to its intricate decorations, the scent of incense sticks, and the dedication of its participants.
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