Goddess Lakshmi Worshiped Today with Special Puja

Kathmandu. Today, the festival of Laxmi Puja is being celebrated with special worship, devotion, and reverence for Goddess Lakshmi, the goddess of beauty, wealth, and prosperity. It is a Vedic Sanatani tradition to perform Laxmi Puja on the third day of Yamapanchak and Tihar, which falls on Kartik Krishna Aausi every year.

According to Dharmashastra expert Prof. Toyaraj Nepal, Laxmi resides only in clean and well-decorated houses, and thus, Laxmi is worshiped today after cleaning. Based on this, houses are cleaned and decorated with cow dung and red mud early in the morning today, and lamps are lit to invite Laxmi.