🛠️ Vishwakarma Pooja – Worship of the Divine Architect

📅 **When is Vishwakarma Pooja Celebrated?

Vishwakarma Pooja** is observed on the Kanya Sankranti (Sun’s transition into Virgo), which usually falls on September 17th every year. In some regions, it is also celebrated a day after Diwali (especially in parts of Karnataka and Gujarat).

It is a day to honor Lord Vishwakarma, the divine engineer, architect, and creator of tools, machines, and weapons for the gods.

🕉️ Spiritual Significance:

• Lord Vishwakarma is considered the creator of the universe’s architecture, including Swarga (heaven), Lanka (Ravana’s golden palace), and Dwarka (Krishna’s kingdom).
• He is revered as the patron deity of artisans, craftsmen, engineers, architects, and industrial workers.
• Vishwakarma Jayanti is a time for revering tools, instruments, machines, and workplaces as sacred.

🏠 Pooja Preparations:

🧹 Clean and Decorate:

• Clean your workplace, tools, machines, workshops, offices, or vehicles.
• Create a temporary altar or decorate the tool area with marigold flowers, mango leaves, and rangoli.
• Set up an image or idol of Lord Vishwakarma seated on a throne, holding his tools.

📿 Pooja Samagri (Items Needed):

• Picture or idol of Lord Vishwakarma
• Tools, machines, computers, vehicles (cleaned and kept ready for worship)
• Flowers (marigold preferred), turmeric, kumkum, sandalwood
• Betel leaves, areca nuts, fruits, and sweets
• Incense sticks, camphor, diya (oil or ghee)
• Panchamrit (milk, curd, honey, ghee, and sugar)
• Yellow cloth and sacred thread (mauli)
• Offerings like kheer, laddoo, or halwa

🙏 Vishwakarma Pooja Vidhi (Step-by-Step Guide):

🌅 1. Early Morning Rituals:

• Wake up early, bathe, and wear clean traditional attire (preferably yellow or white).
• Clean the altar or tool area thoroughly and decorate it.

🕉️ 2. Sankalp (Resolve):

With folded hands and water or rice in the palm, chant:

“I perform this Vishwakarma Pooja with devotion to seek blessings for skill, creativity, success, and safety in all work and professions.”

🛠️ 3. Main Pooja:

• Invoke Lord Vishwakarma by lighting a diya and incense sticks.
• Offer sandalwood paste, haldi-kumkum, and flowers to the idol or image.
• Sprinkle panchamrit and gangajal on tools and machinery as a purification ritual.
• Tie mauli (sacred thread) on large machines or tools.

🛕 4. Chanting and Mantras:

Recite the Vishwakarma Gayatri Mantra:

“Om Vishwakarmaya Vidmahe
Shilpa Devaya Dhimahi
Tanno Devah Prachodayat”

Or simply chant:

“Om Shri Vishwakarmaya Namah” (108 times)

🔥 5. Aarti and Naivedyam:

Perform aarti with camphor, singing:

“Om Jai Vishwakarma Bhagawan…”

Offer sweets, fruits, and dry coconut as naivedyam. Distribute as prasadam to everyone.

🚫 6. Rest for the Tools:

• As a sign of reverence, no tools, machines, or vehicles are used on this day after the pooja.
• It’s a symbolic day of rest and gratitude to the objects that enable human work.

🧰 Symbolism of Rituals:

🌟 Blessings of Vishwakarma Pooja:

• Protection from technical mishaps and accidents
• Success in creative and engineering endeavors
• Prosperity in profession, business, and craftsmanship
• Enhanced skill, focus, and innovation

🛕 Divine Message of Vishwakarma Pooja:

“Work is worship. May Lord Vishwakarma bless your hands with skill, your mind with ideas, and your heart with dedication to build and create with divine purpose.”