Phase 7 – Lesson 6
Things Needed For The Ritual

Actually the procedure is a quite lengthy and quite complicated one even for those who are born in India. They usually take the help of a priest and perform this ritual. But with the grace of the divine towards those who follow this path, this ritual is shortened and designed in such a way that it can be done on your own, easily and quickly and at the same time, get the grace of the divine, Shree Satyanarayan (whom you can also call Satya Deva).

If you are born in India and if you or your family knows how to do the Shree Satyanarayan Ritual, you can do as you and your family prefers to do. There is rule or condition that, you should follow what is given in this ritual. This ritual is meant more for those who do not know all those procedures and yet they can benefit the same as the way it is done in Indian culture. Even if you are an Indian and if you are a busy in your life, you can prefer the procedure suggested here.

The basic required attention and effort is required towards this ritual from the doers. If not, that love, devotion towards the divine and other cosmic management divine energies are not expressed. Plus some divine intervention is needed in your life to make sure your life runs well in all aspects. So for that purpose and for love and devotion towards the divine energies, you will have to put these efforts in making sure of all the needed arrangements.

Everything does not come through laptop or through your mobile. If you have to eat food, you cannot always go to restaurants or get food online. For your family sake, for your sake you will have to cut vegetables, cook food and then, you will have to feed your family members and you as well. For the true divine grace and blessings, some physical efforts are required put. You cannot say, I will always meditate and that is enough. Meditation is meant for your to clean your mind and intellect so that you will function (work) well in the world with clean mind and intellect. After many hours of meditation also, one has to work in the world. To work in the world, you need to have clean or pure mind and intellect. The problem with normal humans is they do not have clean mind and intellect so they think and do all wrong actions in the world.

 So imagine, this effort towards the ritual that you are putting would TRAIN your mind, intellect and body to properly function. This training would be useful to you, in your daily life functions. This effort would also cut down some karmas of yours as your mind and intellect get cleaned by this ritual.

So those who say, we will only do meditation and those who are lazy for even these little efforts, to them, the divine grace would not come walking. Karma (action) has to be done by every man without which man’s body cannot sustain. But how karma has to be done? – is what the ultimate goal of every human which will come INVOLUNTARILY in this path.

I will give two version of the ritual. One is a short one that lasts for I think 30 minutes and the other one lasts for one hour. You can choose to do whatever the format you want.

 Print format of the Ritual Platform

This is a platform specially designed with all the divine invoking energies. You can take a bigger print of this platform (by downloading the image below). Probably you can take the print of 40 CM by 50 CM (or 35cm by 45cm – something like the size you are at your comfortable with). You will be putting the flowers and money coins at each divine energy location. So the platform has to be big enough. It cannot be the size of A4. You can watch my video so you can understand the size of the platform you need. Platform is actually not a dead or static platform it is designed out of Samathi by me and it is a Yantra (divine diagram) that carries all those divine energies. You can either take color print of this platform or even black and white print would be fine.

Ritual Platform small framed photo

You can take a small print of the platform and make a frame of it and put it in your altar. If you put everyday a flower this photo, it would be good. It will be as if, you recognize and respect those divine energies every day.

Things Required for the ritual
You can download the PDF version of check list from here

1. Primarily Love, devotion and conviction to make sure of your life function well (yours and your family members life) in all aspects.
2. Oath – One day, you can chant the mantra “Hariom Satya Naa-raa-ya-naa-ya” for few times, and tell the lord that you will do his ritual (Shree Satyanaryan Ritual) on so and so day and start preparing for it (making sure you will be available on that day). If you naturally miss that day, do it on the next full moon day. Or as said earlier, you can message me about the good day to do the ritual. After knowing the good day, you can take the oath as said above.
3. Bigger size of the printed platform of the ritual – Download it here
4. Some box or any other wood platform where, you can keep this ritual platform on – check video (you should not keep this platform on the floor and do the ritual. So under that, you should keep something.
5. Flowers – at least you should have 100 number of flowers (you can buy small size of flowers, they need not be big ones) – For short format of the ritual, you do not need 100. But you may need around 30 flowers.
6. 40 to 50 number of small size papers (you can check the video). If you can get betel leaves it would be great (if you are in India, you can get betel leaves). You can check this link to know what is betel leaf – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paan . If you cannot get betel leaves, then you can use small pieces of papers – Check video. For short format you will need only some 5 to 10 paper slips.
7. 40 to 50 currency coins – For sort format of the ritual, you may need only some ten coins.
8. Two fistful of rice mixed with turmeric – If you cannot get turmeric in your area, leave it no problem, plain rice would be enough. You can check video
9. 40 to 50 betel nuts or Areca nuts – You can check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Areca_nut_production_in_India to understand what it is. If you can get these nuts, you can get. If you cannot get them in your area, leave this item. No problem. Even if full nuts are not available, in some areas, you get small pieces of nuts. Even those small pieces are fine to use in the ritual.
10.  Some six number of any fruits
11. Nivedan or food to the divine energies – you can cook any sweet to offer (which you and your family can eat later)
12. Incense Sticks – if you cannot get those incense sticks, that would be fine
13. Indian lamp or Diya or Deepak or Candle light (with wick and oil)
14. Camphor and matchsticks or lighter (if you don’t have camphor, it is okay)
15. Ritual Bell (if you don’t have this, leave it, no problem)
16. Print of the ritual stories (you can download the file from here – OR You can play the audio file which you can listen to (download it from here)
17. Ritual procedure – You will be given a video with audio directions in the background. You can download both text based directions and also audio based directions which you can simply follow and perform the ritual.