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Ganesha homam
Keep your stomach empty before homam. Place the homa kunda such that when you sit you
sit infornt of it, you are facing East.
> Draw two lines with sindur between your seat and the homa kunda. Small lines. These
represent the Mother. Keep the Ganesha idol in the NE corner facing the Kunda.
> 1) Now mentally pray to Ganapati to help you in the homam, to the Divine Mother, pray to
the Rishis, to any Guru, Kula devata and pray to your mother and father.
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> 2) Take little water and pour it into your right hand palm and sip it saying the following
mantras three times a) Om Kesavaya swaha b) Om Narayanaya Swaha c) Om Madhavaya
> Swaha - This is called Achman.
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> 3) SAy the mantra vakratundamahakaya suryakoti samaprabha nirvignam kurumedeva
sarvakariyeshu sarvada and ask Ganesha to remove all obstacles from your homa. If
> you find this mantra difficult, simple pray to Ganesha asking him to remove ALL Obstacles
from your path and place one small flower infront of the Ganesha idol.
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> 4) Take some akshadas (rice) in right hand plam, close your palm and place it on your left
hand plam and say in your own language, "Your name, gotra etc that you are
> going to do a homam for Ganapati right now to please Ganapati to the best of your ability"
and drop the akshadas on the floor near you infront of the idol. This is called sankalpa.
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> 5) Put Copra/wood inside the homa kundam, and some camphor in it too.
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> 6) Put some water in a bowl and place it to the North East direction on the kunda near the
Ganesha idol. Now chant "Vam" 11 times and imagine that the pure waters from all the 7
rivers in entering into that bowl. Take a flower, dip it in the water and just sprinkle drops of the
water in teh place where you sit and the kunda and everything. This purified the whole
> place.
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> 7) Now light the camphors in the kunda by taking fire from the diya (you can use an
agarbatti to transfer the fire) with this mantra "Om bhur-bhuvah-suvarom".
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> 8) Pray to fire that it may help you in homam and that it only keeps the HOLY fire
"jatavedas" infront of you.
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> 9) Put 8 drops of ghee into the fire with the following mantra:
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> "Om bhur-bhuvah-shah swaha".
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> 10) Now dikpala puja.
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> Starting from the E and going to SE, S, SW, W, NW, N, NE - that is going clockwise from E
put some akshadas or lil flower petals on these directions around the homa
> kunda with the followin mantras.
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> 1) E - Om Indraya Namah
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> 2) SE - Om Agneya Namah
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> 3) S - Om Yamaye Namah
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> 4) Om Nirittayai Namah
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> 6) Om Varunaya Namah
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> 7) Om Vayave namah
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> 8) Om somaya namah
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> 10) Om ishanaya namah
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> Then put one flower petal or akshada between E and NE and say "Om Brahmane namah".
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> One between W and SW and say "Om Shesaya Namah".
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> One small bit petal into the fire in the kunda and say "Om agneya namah". One small bit
flower or akshada on yourself and say "Om Atmaney namah."
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> NEXT: Now say the following and drop ghee into the fire when you say "swaha"
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> 1) Om Prajapataye Swaha .
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> 2) Om Indraya Swaha
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> 3) Om Agneya swaha
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> 4) Om somaya swaha
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> Then in your own words ask for forgiveness for any mistakes u committed till now.
Now Pranpratistha:
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> Ask (you can pray aloud or with little movement of lips) Ganapati to come into the fire and
accept your offering. And say the following:
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> Avahito bhava, sthapito bhava..
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> Then say, "Om mahaganapataye namah".

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> (Actual pranpratistha is more complicated with mudras and more mantra, but initially you
can do this, just mentally pray hard and Ganesha will 100 percent listen),
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> After you have done this then you must offer 5 tattwas to Ganesha. It is like once the guest
is in your house you offer food water etc.
Give little haldi and say " Lam Prithiviatmane namah. Gandham samarpayami"
One flower petal and say " Ham Akashatmane namah. Pushpam samarpayami"
Show one agarbatti to teh fire and say, " Yam Vyayatmane Namah. Dhoopam agrahapayami".
Show diya infront of fire and say, " Ram agneyatmane namah. Dipam darshayami"
Some naivedya into fire and say , " Vam amritatmane namah. Naivedyam samarpayami"
Some akshada (rice) into fire and say " Sam sarvatmane namah. Sarvapocharam
samarpayami".
Pradhana homa: After this give ahuti of the following mantra:
"Om shreem hreem kleem glaum gam ganapataye varavarada sarvajanam me
vashamanaya swaha". - 108 times.
At the last time, that is 108th time say vausat instead of swaha.
Then offer some more naivedya with mantra, "gam ganapataye namah. Naivedyam
samarpayami". Light one kapur and show to fire and say "Gam ganapataye namah.
Nirajanam samarpyami".
Uttaramgam
Say following mantras with one drop ghee each time.
Om bhuv swaha
om bhuva swaha
Om suvah swaha
Om bhur-bhuvah-suvah swaha
Om vaishnave swaha
Om rudraya swaha
Then give purnahuti. You can give some fruit in here like banana (not orange or citrus fruit).
Imagine teh fruit is your head and ego that is going into fire. Say Om gam ganpataye namah,
purnahutim samarpayami. Then put on drop of ghee and say "Agneya saptapate swaha".
Now make sure the purnahuti burns completely and meditate.
Once it has burnt, ask Ganapati to leave the fire and enter your heart. (There are mudras
here, but start off this way. You can learn them later).

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Then take some water in hand and say, " sarvam sri Krishnarpanamastu".