About SaralPooja

Why this exists

Most families want to do the pooja themselves, and most of the time the thing stopping them is not devotion but detail. Which day. What to buy, and what to do when the shop does not have it. What to say, and what the words mean. What order it all goes in. That knowledge usually lives with a purohit or with an elder, and it is easy to lose in a generation.

SaralPooja writes it down — plainly, in the language you think in, step by step, with every mantra explained rather than just printed.

How the guides are written

The vidhi, the mantras and their order come from a Guruji who performs these poojas. We then work through each step asking the questions a family actually asks: does this have to be exact, what if we do not have this, is it still complete if we skip it. The answers are in the guide, because they are the part that lets someone begin.

Everything is written in English, Hindi and Marathi — not machine-translated after the fact, but carried in all three from the start. The Devanagari of a mantra is identical in every version; only the explanation around it changes.

What is free, and why

The Ganesh Sthapana guide is free and complete — no account, no sign-in, nothing held back. A guide that stops at the first mantra is not a guide.

On the guides we do charge for, the line is drawn at the first mantra rather than at the front door. Everything you need in order to prepare is free and always will be: when to do the pooja, how to get ready, the full samagri list with alternatives, and the plan of how to lay it out. Nobody should have to pay to find out what a pooja will cost them in time and shopping. What is paid for is the vidhi itself — every mantra with its meaning, the katha, the aarti and the prasad.

Dakshina is offered at the end, voluntarily, by anyone who wants to. Most of it goes to the Guruji whose knowledge this is. A small part keeps the site and its servers running and helps us write the next guide.

What is coming

Satyanarayan Pooja is ready, with all five adhyayas of the katha. Griha Pravesh and Navratri are being written now. The festival list on the home page shows what is next and how long there is to prepare.

Who is behind it

SaralPooja is a Bhrugu Astrology product. If something in a guide looks wrong, or your family does it differently and you think we should say so, please write — corrections from readers are how this gets better.