one of the problems faced by many Iyer families is that they have abandoned Shiva pooja

 

Panchayanthana pooja in the Smartha way which we Palakkad Iyers follow or comparable Poojas if Shrivaishnavas or Shivacharya are to be performed in a certain manner.

Normally Kalasha shankha atma peeta Poojas avahanam prana pratishta Arghyam achamanam abhishekam gandham pushpam dhoopam Deepam naivedyam neerajanam Arghyam pradakshinam Namaskarams these thing cannot be avoided.

And if Prana pratishta is done naivedyam of cooked dhanyam or rice or Payasam too is a, must.

In addition, all these have procedures and mantras.

Minimum 40 minutes if we use only purushasooktham for abhishekam.

Another 30 minutes or so more if we do rudrabhishekam with laghunyasam at least.

Then archana Stotram etc if tried would also consume a lot of time.

I do pooja daily at home

It takes minimum 90 minutes.

Nowadays one of the problems faced by many Iyer families is that they have abandoned Shiva pooja or panchayatanam and often they kept unattended, idols Moorthies saligramam lingam etc or they throw them away-Often destination unknown.

In many cases, the people would be rich learned and all and the horoscopes too would be excellent.

However, challenges occur and when queried through prashnam we see either deva kopam or pitru kopam.

Then we do many pariharams but still do not care to do the routine pitru Karyam or pooja to our swamis at home.

This is a serious issue