Kubera Lakshmi Puja

Dhanteras opens the five days of Deepavali — the day on which wealth itself is worshipped. On this day KAILASA's Temples Around the World offer the Kubera Lakshmi Puja, worshipping Mahalakshmi and Kubera together, and THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAVAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM as the one in whom both are present.

Significance

Mahalakshmi is the most auspicious expression of the Cosmic Mother, who gives abundance in wealth to the whole cosmos; Kubera, Vaishravana, is the treasurer of the Devas and the guardian of the wealth of the worlds. Lakshmi bestows wealth, and Kubera holds and protects it. On Dhanteras we worship them together — and we worship THE SPH as the one in whom both are present, the living source from whom all wealth flows.

The Ritual

Mahalakshmi and Kubera are invoked and worshipped with the traditional upacharas — sanctified waters, kumkum, flowers, lotus, naivedya, and the waving of lamps — together with their mantras, and with the Guru Mantra honouring THE SPH as their embodiment.

“This cognition straight will bring revolution in body-mind – so much health, health will happen in you as a ferocious tsunami, wealth will manifest in your life – like Lakshmi and Kubera. I am not triggering your greed. I am doing my Moksha centric Dharma.” — THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAVAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

When

• Fri 6 Nov (Dhanteras) · time to be announced

Shastra Pramana

राजाधिराजाय प्रसह्यसाहिने । नमो वयं वैश्रवणाय कुर्महे । स मे कामान्कामकामाय मह्यम् । कामेश्वरो वैश्रवणो ददातु । कुबेराय वैश्रवणाय । महाराजाय नमः ॥

rājādhirājāya prasahyasāhine | namo vayaṃ vaiśravaṇāya kurmahe | sa me kāmān kāmakāmāya mahyam | kāmeśvaro vaiśravaṇo dadātu | kuberāya vaiśravaṇāya | mahārājāya namaḥ ||

Translation: “To the King of kings, the victorious — we offer salutations to Vaishravana. May Vaishravana, the lord of desires, grant fulfilment of my desires to me who desire. Salutations to Kubera, Vaishravana, the great king.” — Taittirīya Āraṇyaka 1.31.6 (Kubera Mantra)

Benefits

• The twin blessings of the arrival of wealth and the retention of wealth.
• Prosperity in business and life, and financial stability.
• Protection of what has been earned.
• Offered as gratitude to the Guru, wealth aligned with moksha-centric living — wealth that serves the higher purpose rather than binding the one who holds it.