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Chandra Shanti puja is performed on Monday evening during Pradosh Kala (twilight). Performing during Purnima (full moon) Monday is most powerful.
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Bathe in the evening before puja. Wear clean white clothes. Add a few drops of milk to the bathing water for purification.
Sit facing north-east. Hold milk-mixed water in the right palm with white flowers. State your name, gotra, and intention to pacify Chandra graha.
Fill a silver or steel vessel with milk and water. Place white flowers and a silver coin inside. Set on a bed of rice grains covered with white cloth.
Invoke Chandra Deva by lighting the ghee lamp and camphor. Offer white flowers and recite "Om Chandraya Namah" three times.
Chant the Chandra Beej Mantra 11,000 times (or 108 times minimum). Use a sphatik (crystal) or pearl mala. Meditate on a cool, silver-white lunar orb.
ॐ श्रां श्रीं श्रौं सः चन्द्राय नमः
oṃ śrāṃ śrīṃ śrauṃ saḥ candrāya namaḥ
Salutations to the Moon God. The seed syllables invoke Chandra's cooling, nurturing energy for mental peace, emotional balance, and maternal blessings.
Pour milk over the Shiva Linga or Chandra image while chanting the Chandra Gayatri. The Moon is Shiva's crest ornament, so Shiva puja amplifies Chandra shanti.
ॐ क्षीरपुत्राय विद्महे अमृततत्त्वाय धीमहि । तन्नो चन्द्रः प्रचोदयात् ॥
oṃ kṣīraputrāya vidmahe amṛtattattvāya dhīmahi | tanno candraḥ pracodayāt ||
We meditate on the son of the milk ocean (Chandra), the essence of nectar. May the Moon God illuminate our mind and grant serenity.
Donate rice and white cloth to the needy. Offering milk or white sweets to children is also auspicious for Chandra shanti.
Offer final prayers to Chandra for mental calm and emotional balance. Perform namaskar. View the moon if visible and offer mental salutations.