🌸 Complete Ganpati Sthapana Pooja Procedure 🌸

1️⃣ Preparation Before Sthapana

🪔 Cleanliness & Setup

• Clean the house & pooja area ✨

• Set up a decorated mandap / chowki with flowers 🌼🌿

• Place a red or yellow cloth on the chowki 🧡💛

📿 Samagri to Arrange
🍎 Fruits | 🌸 Flowers | 🍬 Sweets (Modak, Ladoo) | 🌿 Durva (3-blade grass) | 🪔 Deepak | 🥥 Coconut | 📿 Kumkum, Haldi, Akshat

2️⃣ Ganpati Murti Sthapana 🙏🐘

• Place Ganpati idol on the decorated chowki facing inside the house 🏡

• Tie a red cloth/angavastra on Bappa ❤️

• Light Deepak & Incense sticks 🪔🌸

3️⃣ Sankalp (Vow) ✋✨

• Take water in hand with flowers 🌸

• Chant your name, gotra, and purpose (family prosperity, health, happiness) 💫

• Place the flowers at Ganpati’s feet 🐘

4️⃣ Kalash Sthapana 🏺

• Fill a kalash with clean water 💧

• Put mango leaves 🍃 around its mouth

• Place a coconut 🥥 on top wrapped in red cloth

5️⃣ Invocation of Lord Ganesha 🕉️

Chant:
🕉️ “Om Gan Ganapataye Namah” (108 times or as per capacity)

Offerings sequence:
🌿 Durva grass
🌸 Flowers
🍬 Modak / Ladoo
🥥 Coconut
🍎 Fruits

6️⃣ Shodashopachara Pooja (16 Ritual Offerings) 🙌

1. Avahan (inviting) 🙏

2. Asana (offering seat) 🪑

3. Padya (washing feet) 🚿

4. Arghya (offering water) 💧

5. Achamaniya (sipping water) 🌿

6. Snana (bath with water, Panchamrit) 🥛🍯

7. Vastra (offering cloth) 🧣

8. Abharana (ornaments) 💍

9. Gandha (sandalwood) 🌸

10. Pushpa (flowers) 🌼

11. Dhoop (incense) 🌿

12. Deep (lamp) 🪔

13. Naivedya (food offering) 🍬🍎

14. Tambula (betel leaves & nuts) 🌿

15. Dakshina (money offering) 💰

16. Aarti (final prayer) 🔥🎶

7️⃣ Ganpati Aarti 🔥🎶

• Perform Aarti with diya & kapoor 🪔

• Sing Ganpati Aarti with family 🙌

• Offer Modaks, Bappa’s favorite sweet 🍬🐘

8️⃣ Prasad Distribution 🍎🍬

• Distribute fruits, sweets & naivedya among family & neighbors 🤗

🌟 Important Notes 🌟

✅ Keep Bappa in clean & positive environment
✅ Do morning & evening Aarti daily during the stay
✅ Avoid non-veg & alcohol 🚫

✨🐘🙏 Ganpati Bappa Morya! 🙏🐘✨