Griha Pravesh Puja is performed to purify the environment of the home and protect your abode from the evil eye. This Puja is performed to ensure peace and harmony in the new house. Also it is believed to drive away negativeness from the building/premises.
Gruhapravesam puja pleases the Vastu deity. Purohit performs this ceremony by chanting mantras to invoke the blessings of Vastu Shastra.
Required Pooja Material
Wicks, Oil, Navadhanya, Photos of Gods, Milk, New Vessel for Boiling Milk, Dhoti, Angavastram(new), Aarthi Plates, Bell, Kalasham, Mango Leaves, Lemon, Havan Samagri, Wood Sticks, Navagraha Cloths, Mango Leaves
- Break a Coconut
The Vastu deity can appease in the outside for that, the lady breaks a coconut that, is placed on the threshold.
- Kalash Puja
After breaking a coconut, one performs Kalash puja by filling it with water, a coin and nine types of grains.
- Place Coconut on Kalash
In red cloth, one can tie the coconut. Then, one should place a coconut on the top of Kalash with mango leaves.
- Recite Mantras
For doing Kalash puja, a priest can chant the sacred mantras.
- Carry Kalash Pot Inside The House
Inside the house to place a Kalash near to havan, both husband and wife should carry this pot.
- Cow and Calf Entry
At the traditional entry, the cow and calf entry is first before family members. This brings prosperity and positive energies into their houses.
- Boil Milk
After completion of puja, the lady of the house boils the milk and the milk must spillover.
- Milk Offering
After finishing of boiling milk, the lady offers this milk to family deity. Then she offers milk to the family members.
- Stay Overnight
Then, family members must provide proper food to the priests. Also, they must stay there overnight and they should not lock the house.
- Keep Diya Burning
The Diya should keep burning, to attract spiritual energies.
Significance of Griha Pravesh Puja
- It removes bad effects like evil eye, negative energy, and ill effects.
- By doing this puja, it bestows with inner peace, mental peace to the family members.
- It aids in improving fortune and good luck.
- It removes bad thoughts from the minds of the family members.
- This puja provides spiritual bliss to the family members.
Tips for Gruhapravesh & Important Things to Consider
- When a family enters a newly built house, homeowners must give more attention to auspicious muhurta to celebrate the Gruhapravesh ceremony. Vastu Shastra is more important during the first entry into a newly built home. Gruhapravesh mainly performed to get blessings from five elements Earth, Space, Water, Fire, and Wind. By doing this puja, these five elements will give happiness and peaceful mind.
- As per Hindu beliefs, if the house warming ceremony is performed at a favorable time on an auspicious date, it will give success and happiness. Navaratri is one of the most important auspicious days to enter one’s house for the first time. If the ceremony completed in these auspicious days, it will remove all evil and negative effects of the house, make it auspicious.
- In Hinduism, many people are not aware of customs associated with Griha Pravesh, for them, we are giving some Gruhapravesh tips to make this ceremony auspicious and enjoyable.
- The House warming ceremony should be done, only when the family is willing to shift into, and the house is ready to move in. Before ceremony day the entire house all doors, shutters should be in place along with the roof covering, it brings peace into the family.
- During the Griha Pravesh ceremony, the gods and goddesses idols should be placed in the East direction of the house, and should not keep against the house walls. Ganapathi puja should be performed.
- Before the puja, the total house cleaned with salt, for the purification of the house. Also, sprinkled holy water all over the house to instill a sense of purity.
- The house main door must be furnished with torans consisting of fresh flowers and mango leaves. The main gate should be decorated with swastika symbols and Lakshmi feet (for good fortune) because the main gate is called Simha dwara and is the face of the Vastu Purusha.
- The floor must be embellished with colorful rangoli made up of various colors and rice flour. People believe that rangoli invites the goddess Lakshmi, who is the symbol of prosperity and wealth.
- While entering the house, always put your right foot first.
- On the day of Gruhapravesam, a kalasha filled with water or milk should be placed inside the house, later donated to someone deprived or in a temple the next day.
- On this auspicious occasion, feast should be offered to priests.
- On the day of Graha Pravesh, the inhabitants of the house should sleep. in that house for that last night.
- In the kitchen of the house, milk should be boiled to bring good fortune.
- After finishing of Graha Pravesh ceremony, the house should not be left entirely, for the next 40days. At least one member should be present in the house.