Satyanarayan Puja
The Satyanarayanã Puja is a religious ritual worship of the Hindu god Vishnu. The puja is described in the "Skanda Purana", a medieval era Sanskrit text. According to Madhuri Yadlapati, the Satyanarayana Puja is an archetypal example of how "the Hindu puja facilitates the intimacy of devotional worship while enabling a humble sense of participating gratefully in a larger sacred world". The Puja. The puja narrates the Satyanarayana Katha, which dictates the various worldly and spiritual benefits the puja brings to performers. The Katha states how the deity Narayana vows to aid his devotees during Kali Yuga, the  last of the four ages in Hindu cosmology, in particular the performers and attendees of the Satyanarayana Puja. The Katha narrates that the performance of the puja is in itself a promise to God, and recounts the plights of characters who either fail to complete the puja or forget their promises. Items needed for puja. The following is a list of items needed for the puja. Good to have