🍀 Varalakshmi Vrat Katha 🍀
🙏 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 the devotee.
- Spread some rice at the place of worship.
- After this, take a Kalash and apply sandalwood paste around it.
- Fill the Kalash more than half with rice. After that, put betel leaves, silver coin and dates in the Kalash.
- Apply sandalwood and kumkum on a coconut and place it on top of the Kalash.
- Put mango leaves around the coconut placed on top of the Kalash.
- Take a plate and spread a new red cloth in it and place it on top of the rice.
- Make sure to light an oil lamp in front of the idol of 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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🌺 Varalakshmi Vrat Katha 🌺
Varalakshmi Vrat has its own unique belief in Hinduism, which is prevalent in Maharashtra and South India. Many mythological stories are associated with this fast, but we are telling you about the most beautiful story associated with it. This story was narrated by Mahadev himself to Goddess Parvati. According to this story, perhaps there used to be a city named Kundi in the kingdom of Magadha, and its construction was possible by the grace of heaven.
In this town named Kundi, a woman named Charumati lived with her entire family. Charumati was a devoted devotee of Goddess Lakshmi and used to immerse herself in her daily worship. She used to live like an ideal woman, serving her in-laws and husband daily.
One day when Charumati was sleeping, she got the darshan of Goddess Lakshmi in her dream. The Goddess told her about this Varalakshmi Vrat in her dream itself and asked her to follow it faithfully. When Charumati woke up the next morning, she remembered what Goddess Lakshmi had said.
Charumati then told all the other women of the town about the Varalakshmi Vrat. All the women agreed to perform this worship of Goddess Lakshmi. Then all the women, including Charumati, started preparing for the worship of Goddess Lakshmi by keeping the Varalakshmi Vrat duly.
After the completion of the ritualistic worship, when all the women started circumambulating the Kalash, they saw that their bodies were laden with gold ornaments. Also, all their houses were made of gold, and many animals like elephants, horses, etc. started roaming in front of them. Seeing this scene, the rest of the women were very surprised and started praising Charumati, because it was, she who had told the women about this fast.
Charumati then told those women that all this is the prasad of the grace of Mother Lakshmi. After this, the glory of Varalakshmi Vrat started spreading from city to city, and women started observing this fast with great devotion. Since then, Varalakshmi Vrat started being observed on the Dashami Tithi of the month of Shravan.
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