Griha Pravesh
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The full housewarming ritual performed on entering a new home, alongside which household deities newly brought from the old residence are established and their daily worship begun.
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What astrological rule governs choosing the right time for a Griha Pravesh?
Griha Pravesh timing follows canonical astrology and Muhurta Shastra rules — if Venus or Jupiter is combust (Asta) at the time, housewarming should be postponed until a genuinely auspicious Muhurta.
Special case: moving deities into a house that also gets a griha pravesh or Satyanarayan puja
The speaker says that if a Satyanarayan Puja is being done, or it is a brand-new house where a full Griha Pravesh will take place, the procedures change. After the griha pravesh vidhi, or as the pandit directs, the household deities are worshipped as part of the griha pravesh puja, and only then established there and their daily seva-puja begun.
Do the chaukhat devatas have to be carried to a new house?
There is no need to take the devi-devatas of the chaukhat anywhere, the speaker says. When you go to the new place and perform the first pujan there, their invocation will happen of itself. Nothing further needs to be done to take them from the old place to the new place.
What should be done at the completion of the house?
He says that after this you should complete your house; and when the house is complete, let the griha pravesh be at a correct and auspicious muhurat and tithi, and along with it have the anushthan related to whatever your shraddha is performed there on the very first day. Then you will be able to dwell in that house for a long time without obstruction.
What should be done about a deity's than left behind at a former residence?
A listener says he used to live in a government quarter where the than of Bhairav and Sati Mata had stood for sixty years; on leaving the house they were left there, and now he does dhoop-dhyan in their name. Very bad, the speaker says, a loss of life and wealth has occurred. He asks why, having lived and worshipped there for sixty years, he left it. If anything is established even upon a stone and you cannot bring them like that, then first of all their visarjan should be done. They should not be left just anyhow.
How should devta veers be reinstalled at another place?
A listener says he could not do his puja path because he was in hospital for twenty days, and asks how to establish his devatas and veers at another place now. Install them on the day of the Purnima, the speaker says. There is a proper video on how devta veers are taken to another place — how their vidai is done, how they are taken to a new place.
What is to be done when a vigraha is moved to a new house?
Whenever a vigraha is to be re-established at a new place — as when we live in a rented house and are going from one place to another — then when we leave the old place, a bali must certainly be done there too, even if it is only one coconut or one lemon, the speaker says. And a request must certainly be made there: that Prabhu, we are now going to a new place, may you all come along and be established there again; and for the sake of the sthan devi devatas and griha devi devatas of this place, we are giving this pujan separately according to our shakti, our capacity, our buddhi. In it burn camphor, offer naivedya and the like, and pray to them too that they always keep their kripa upon us, and give such a blessing that we may have our own land, our own house, in which we may do the puja of all of you. Making such a request, one should come away with gladness. And at the new place too you will give pujan, will give a bali, and for the new griha devatas, the new sthan devatas of that place, give a separate brief, simple, small pujan and bali. Great welfare comes from this, he says: the things are small, but their effect you will get for your whole life.
With the sthan devatas of a place on your side, half the obstacles of that place are already gone.
When he saw the dream, a discussion started about what should be done. Other people were present there who lived nearby in their huts and did sadhana. One of them, on hearing it, said to ask that man — it is a Musalmani thing; he was doing a Musalmani sadhana there. Asked how he knew, he said that from the way he sat it was understood that in Sanatan sanskriti it is not like that: the thing was enclosed and no one used to look, but the eye had fallen on it while coming and going; he used to sit in front of it and do japa with the reversed hand. He was told to dig it up and take it away, and that man, without any reply, picked it up and took it away. The message the speaker wishes to give from this is only this: if the devi devatas of a place come to your side, then you have become fifty percent free of obstacles just like that — they will not let any obstacle come at that new place. So when you go to a new place, give the pujan of the sthanik devi devatas.
What precautions apply when entering a rented house?
Asked what precautions should be kept when entering a rented house, he says: do look at the vastu without fail, and see who was there before and what the situation was — see all that, and then go into the rented house.
What should be done if the kundali says a new house will bring misfortune?
Asked what to do when it is written in the kundali that taking or building a new house will bring misfortune, the speaker says: in such a condition get the kundali analysed once again. Get it cross-checked; it will become clear, and if such a thing is to be, it will be seen to. And for that there is a vidhan for a new house — they will tell you how, if such a thing is really so, it is to be averted; the nirakaran for it has been told.
Why is Muhurta observed at all?
Because there is a system, and the deities have their own timings. There is a Muhurta for buying land, for worshipping it, for the foundation, and for Griha Pravesh — because divine powers go with you into the house and are satisfied with Havishya at the appointed time; go at the wrong time and there is trouble.
A family separating from a joint household lifts soil from the old puja sthan and installs it in the new house at an auspicious time
The speaker points to what happens in a village when a family separates from a large joint family and builds its own house: they lift soil from the very place of worship in the old house and carry it at an auspicious time, and make a new sthan for the devata in the new house.
A new house is built but the havan and griha pravesh have not happened — how to do keelan and protection?
Sumant Sharma ji, he says, it is exceedingly good if you have the keelan of your house done by some capable sadhak. If you wish to do it yourself, then in the place where you now live do the anushthan of the vidhan of the Argala that has been told to you, and — by the vidhan that has been told, of how the trishul and the rest is to be made abhimantrit — having done the abhimantran by that vidhan, you can do the keelan of your house.
Does a black granite strip level with the floor count as a chaukhat?
A listener says the chaukhat of the house is black granite, white tiles are laid in the house, and the black granite is at the same level as them, and asks whether that will be the chaukhat. The speaker answers: no, it will not be, brother, since it is level — it will not be by colour. Keeping black and white is fine, but the meaning of a chaukhat is that it should be raised a little; make it higher, lay one more line of granite, and then it will become a chaukhat.
How should the kuldevi be served in a rented house?
You can do the nitya seva-puja, he says. Only do not do the pratishtha — that is all.
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