Re: How to do Ritual
Rituals could be of several kinds... for example, one kind is the fire ritual or 'Homa'. Other kind can be ritual of giving the deity daily cleansing and 16 different kind of 'upacharas' or 'paying respects' called as 'shodasa upacharas'. This may mean something like cleaning the altar, decorating it, cleaning/water bathing the murti, adorning with flowers, offering cloth, reciting prayers, doing 'archana' or offering of flowers with mantras, offering food, offering incense, showing camphor light and doing namaskaras. If one cannot offer food, flowers, cloth, nothing is needed, simple water will do is what I have read. Hope this is of some help.
jai hanuman gyan gun sagar jai kapis tihu lok ujagar
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