Satyanarayan Puja Vidhi

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**Procedure:**

1. Bathe and wear clean clothes at dawn on Purnima. Perform Sankalpa expressing the intention of the puja.
2. Set up a chowki with a red cloth and place a photo/idol of Satyanarayan (Vishnu form). Around it: bananas, coconut, panchamrita.
3. Invoke Ganesha, Navagrahas, and Panchadeva first.
4. Perform Shodashopachara puja to Satyanarayan with mantras.
5. **Recite the 5 Katha chapters** of Satyanarayan Vrat from Skanda Purana — each chapter covers a story of devotion and its fruits.
6. Offer **churna** as naivedya: mix wheat flour + sugar + ghee + milk + banana + dry fruits (32 parts).
7. Perform aarti and distribute prasad to at least 5 people.
8. Prasad must be consumed by the puja host and family before evening.

**Key rules:** The prasad is called "sapatam" and must not be refused if offered. The puja host observes a fast until prasad consumption.