Hanuman Pooja Benefits

Why do we pray to Lord Hanuman? What are the benefits of Hanuman Pooja? 

Let us look at it.

Hanuman Jayanti is the day when Lord Hanuman is born. This year Hanuman Jayanti falls on 08th of April, 2020, which is a Wednesday. It is auspicious to pray Hanuman Ji on a Purnima, Tuesday and Saturday. Hanuman Ji was born on the wee hours before Sunrise on a Tuesday.

Lord Hanuman is a fervid devotee of Lord Rama and is a worshipper of Lord Shivaay. He was a bachelor throughout his life bound by the Brahmacharya mantra and was a firm believer. Lord Hanuman was born to mother Anjana and father Kesari. An emblem of true courage, Hanuman Ji would bless you with immense power, infallible energy, tremendous strength and true courage.

How to Perform Hanuman Pooja?

You can recite Hanuman Chalisa daily. Reciting Hanuman Chalisa can be done on any day and it does not require any specific preparations.

However, Hanuman Pooja is quite an elaborate process. Have a look at the below procedures.

1. Begin the spiritual quest before Sunrise on that day.
2. Wear red or orange coloured clothes on that very day.
3. Keep a full day fast, feed on fruits, Sago, and milk if you can’t do a complete fast.
4. You can use a photo of Lord Hanuman to focus. Keep some red Kumkum on his forehead and place some flowers on his feet. 
5. Offer jaggery, chana or some yellow Laddoo as Prasad and betel leaves as a token of love.
6. Read Hanuman Chalisa, recite 108 names of Hanuman Ji from Sunderkand and pray to him with Bhajans (devotional songs).
7. Sindoor is applied upon Lord Hanuman to commemorate his unconditional love for Lord Rama.
8. Betel leaves, cloves and a Diya every Saturday under the Banyan tree can also help you immensely.

Significance of Hanuman Pooja

Hanuman Pooja helps in reducing the effect of the sins and to protect oneself from the sins committed unknowingly. Often making a decision is difficult. Sometimes we may unknowingly make such a decision that harms or hurts someone. Thus, the significance of Hanuman Pooja, lies in the fact that we often can relieve ourselves from all these unwanted chaos.

If you worship Hanuman Ji daily, your inner face will become beautiful. You would understand the true meaning of life and this eternal life would finally make sense to you.

1. The regular worshipping benefits of Hanuman Pooja begins when you gain freedom, courage, strength, and peace of mind.
   
   
2. Lord Hanuman is known as sankatmochan, which means that you can always pray to him so that he reduces your pain and your sufferings and removes all hurdles from your life.
   
   
3. Lord Hanuman is also known as Kashtabhanjan and there is a chance that whatever or whoever is creating troubles in your life is going to sit quiet if you know how to pray to Lord Hanuman appropriately.
   
   
4. Worshipping Hanuman Ji can also help you receive blessings from Lord Ram and from the planetary Gods Saturn (the Universal judge) and Mars (the Universal fighter).
   
   
5. Purity of mind and heart is obtained when you pray to Lord Hanuman with all your heart.
   
   

Focus for sometime and then pray to the Lord with any of the below prayers.

• (i) “Om Hanumate Namah-” The moola mantra
  
  
• (ii) “Om Aeem Bhreem Hanumate Shri Ram Dootaya Namaha-” The Beeja Mantra
  
  
• (iii) “Manojavam Maruta Tulyavegam Jitendriyam Buddhimatam Varshitam Vatatmajam Varanayuthamukyam Sri Rama Dhutam Sharanam prapadye-” manovajam maruta tulyavegam mantra.
  
  
• (iv) “Om Anjaneyaya Vidmahe Vayuputraya Dheemahi, Tano Hanumat Prachodayat-” Hanuman Gayathri mantra.
  
  
• (v) “Om Aim Hreem Kleem Dinankampi Dharmatma Premabdhi Ramvallabha Adhaivam Marute Veer Bhshtdehi Satvaram Kleem Hreem Aim Om-” Wish fulfillment mantra.
  
  
• (vi) The Hanuman Chalisa- “Shree Guru Charan Saroj raj, Nij man mukurra sudhari, baranau raghubar bimala jasu, jo dayaka phal charu, buddhina tanu janike, sumirau pawana kumar, bal buddhi, vidya dehu mohe, harhu kleh bikaar.” Please read the entire chalisa from the Hanuman Chalisa. 
  
  
  

Benefits of praying to Lord Hanuman

Lord Hanuman is a living embodiment of Brahma in this world. All knowledge resides in him; every wisdom begins from him and vanishes in him. It is said that his portrait is itself a message to the world just like Lord Shiva’s portrait and it encourages every human to adopt a few changes in life and living in this Kali Yuga

The benefits of Hanuman Pooja begins when you merely start observing his image as a whole.

During Hanuman Pooja, look at the tail, the long tail tells people to be balanced in life. The tail on any animal is a symbol of balance. Thus, his tail teaches us the important lesson of balancing and weighing everything before acting upon it, to survive this dim Yuga. 

When you’re worshipping Hanuman Ji during Hanuman Pooja, look carefully at his jewels that teach us that in this world, you need to understand and acknowledge the importance of wealth, you need to use it wisely by sharing equally between your recreations and your assets.

The crown on his head asks us to not bow before everyone in this Yuga. The crown is a symbol of honour, pride and self-respect, thus by wearing the crown he warns us to treat this asset of human life prudently.

He wears a red Tilak on his forehead that is surrounded by a white tilak. Do you know it’s meaning?

Well, look at it cautiously during Hanuman Pooja. it asks us to surround the fixed stern rules of the Solar Kingdom by the changeable laws of the Lunar Kingdom. 

In short it asks us to focus on the stern values of the Suryavanshis but also asks us to remember that certain subtleties would have to be practiced to understand and accommodate the impacts of this Yuga. 

Protect your feet, meaning protect your most unseen parts. He is often found flying in the Air. This tells us to keep the Air clean, this asks us to take help of the Power of Air. How many of these laws do you think we obey? None of the ancient depictions are false, if only we know how to read them. None of the lores are a lie, if only we know where they originate. 

Once you start putting Lord Hanuman’s image on your mind, you would know for sure his teachings and their influence on humanity. 

Thus, the benefits of Hanuman Pooja is obtained when you know your inner powers, the ones that sleep within you. You can only know them, when you are courageous, wise, compassionate, genuine and balanced. When your inner monsters are within your control- 

1. When you know how anger can not only destroy the person in front of you but also you yourself can burn in that same rage.
   
   
2. At any time, we know that jealousy serves you no use, except burning your inner calories a bit, except serving you a good pastime.
   
   
3. You know very well that selfishness does not work well, but you also know how selflessness should be practiced judiciously. You can’t be selfless between thieves.
   
   
4. When you know how covetousness can create an imbalance.
   
   
5. You got to learn how the world is functioning, how you need to function in order to survive and live in it. When you know what needs to be changed in this world, it is not necessary that you would have the capability of doing it but then knowing it will move you out of the mad race.
   
   

If you perform Hanuman Pooja regularly, you would learn all of it, once you learn to regularly meditate on Lord Hanuman. It is then that you would know how lust and Maya work together to blind you.

You can perform Hanuman Pooja anytime other than the Hanuman Jayanti, in fact you can practice it everyday. So, tell me after learning and understanding all of it, don't you think you would be free from the toiling that you go through everyday as benefits of Hanuman Pooja?

When you become free of all these things, you would definitely reach a higher level of human understanding. You would undoubtedly know that you’re more powerful, and superior to those who still believe that life is not a mirage. 

Hanuman Pooja teaches you that the power, strength and stamina you can gain from the truth will prevent you from participating in anything that humans usually do to retain power, fears, worries, anxieties, families and stronger structures called life.