Sharad Purnima Kojagari Lakshmi puja

Kojagiri Purnima also known as Sharad Purnima, will fall on the full moon night on Saturday 16th October 2024 as per Hindu calendar 2024. Kojagiri Purnima Puja is celebrated in the whole of India with different names. In Bengal it is celebrated as Sharad Purnima Lakshmi Puja, Orissa it is known as Kumar Purnima and celebrated as Gajlakshmi Puja and in Mithilanchal as Kojagari lakshmi Puja.

Kojagari Lakshmi Puja

Kojagari Lakshmi puja is a worship and praise of Mahalakshmi. We show respect towards Goddess Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth and prosperity. During the tradition of kojagari Laxmi puja, special offerings are paid to Goddess Lakshmi, the Nine Planets to seek blessings and good fortune for all family members. Lakshmi is the goddess of light, beauty, good fortune and wealth. While Laxmi is generally worshiped to achieve success, she does not reside with anyone who is disinclined to work and wish her only as wealth.

Kojagiri Purnima Puja: Night of arousing wealth and Prosperity

On the Kojagiri Purnima night worship of Goddess Mahalakshmi along with Indra on Erawat elephant (white elephant) is done with Shodashopachara Puja. After fasting for the whole day, puja at night is carried out by vamtantra with lighting minimum of 108 lamps, incense sticks, flowers. Bhog of kheer made of makhana and milk is must to appease goddess Laxmi on sharad purnima. Kheer is prepared and kept under the moonlight for the whole night and eaten in the morning, on the next day.

Powering Shri Yantra On This Night

Shri yantra is the personification of Goddess Lakshmi herself. One of the most ancient, pure, and powerful yantras is the yantra of Mahalakshmi called Shri yantra. It is an instrument of a mystical diagram is related geographically to the five elements of nature. It is an apparatus to attain siddhi and fulfill one’s desires and ambitions, speedily. Shri yantras are prepared by vamtantra with colors obtained from Ashthagandha, Keshar, and Gorochan and other mystic Herbs on auspicious times to give the full benefit. Shri yantra prepared at a particular auspicious time on Ashwin Purnima night when the maximum power is generated from a particular planet to get it fully energized. Once fully energized with utmost skill and sincerity, Yantras help ward off the evil effects of planets, spirits or one’s adversaries.

Sharad Purnima 2024 Daan

Daan/donation is the most significant aspect of human life in which even after giving away his most precious possessions he finds blissful solace. Daan is meant to propitiate sins committed knowingly or unknowingly in this or earlier lives. Daan is fruitful only when you give your precious possesions unhesitatingly and without expectation of any return. Daan is meritorious and virtuous when you give it secretly. Pure daan earns pure punnya. Only your earned virtues get carried to the next Life. You earn what you sow, nothing more nothing less. Earn more virtue by giving away your best to the needy.

Ann daan and Vastra daan on Sharad Poornima

Vamtantra conducts ann daan, bhandara and vastra daan for the needy and poor on the occasion of Sharad purnima/kojagiri purnima after puja is completed. On the night of sharad purnima after kojagiri puja people are offered makhana, kheer and sugar mixed with ghee, also poor are given clothes as donations.

Sharad Poornima Jagran

Kojagiri Purnima celebration – On the night of Kojagari Purnima jagran is auspicious for spiritual awakening. Vamtantra organizes the jagaran in which chanting and reciting of laxmi mantra, Patha of laxmi puran, Indra Awahan Mantra, Bhagwad Geeta and Bhajans, etc. are performed during the jagran on this Ashwin Purnima night. It is believed sages and peers that persons who are awake on this Purnima night and take part in the jagrans or any other religious activities are blessed by goddess Laxmi and Lord Indra with wealth and prosperity.

Astrological Benefits of Sharad Poornima Puja

Performing Kojagiri Purnima puja and daan helps everyone but to a great extent reduces the malefic effects of Brahaspati and Chandra. Persons going under mahadasa(main-period), antardardasa(sub-period) of Jupiter and moon can take benefit by carrying out this puja and daan.

Kojagiri Purnima puja- Gajkesari Yoga

When Jupiter and moon are together in the same sign or in mutual kendra from each other normally Gajkesari yoga is formed. Jupiter is known as the karak planet of wealth, knowledge, fame, luck, and children while Moon is known as karak planet of heart, softness, mobility, happiness, and prosperity. Hence, Gajkesari yoga gives the person a lot of opportunities to earn wealth. Particularly persons having Gaj kesari yoga in their horoscope or Kundli must get kojagiri Purnima puja and daan performed to get the maximum benefit from these planets.

The medical significance of Sharad Purnima

Ashwin Purnima marks the commencing of Sharad ritu. On Sharad Purnima moon is at a shorter distance to earth. This night’s moonlight has properties tending to cure illnesses and restore good health. Kheer is prepared and kept under the moonlight for the whole night and eaten in the morning, on the next day as moonlight enhances the nutritive qualities of the food and it purifies the body and soul. We can also improve our eyesight by looking without blinking at the moon for a few minutes every night from Dussehra to Sharad Poornima.

Ayurvedic Cure for Asthma

The Moon-god is also the lord of herbs, seeds, the Brahmins, waters and Nakshatras or Constellations. Asthma is referred to as Swas Roga in Ayurveda. From an Ayurvedic perspective, the kapha dosha combines with pranavayu leading to obstruction in the respiratory passage called pranavaha srotasa in Ayurveda causing a condition called Swas Roga or Asthma.
Vamtantra is providing herbs powered with sacred rituals and worship to asthma patients to be taken after Sharad Purnima from the last twelve years at a nominal charge. Kheer is prepared along with herb and kept under the moonlight for the whole night and eaten in the morning which has shown curable and preventive results for asthma patients as an Astro ayurvedic remedy.