Why and how is God Shani worshipped.

1. After a pure bath, men should go to the deity’s foundation dressed in a wet cloth.
2. Women cannot go to the foundation.
3. If Shani is coming into your ‘rasi’
4. If you are afflicted by Sade Saathi.
5. If there is ‘adayya’ in your ‘rasi.’
6. If you are suffering from the gaze of God Shani.
7. If you are working in anything such as connected to iron, travel, trucks, transport, oil, petroleum, medical, press and courts.
8. If you do any good work.
9. If in your occupation is related to commerce and there is loss in business and worry thereof.
10. If you are suffering from incurable diseases like cancers, AIDS, kidney, leprosy, paralysis, heart ailments, diabetes, skin ailments and are fed up, then you should most certainly worship God Shani with ‘ahishek’.
11. One must remove the cap or head gear and then pray God.
12. In the houses of devotees where there has been a birth or death recently, they do not go to the deity.

Shani Amavasya

On the Saturday of New Moon, it is known as Shaneshchari Amavasya. Normally, in a year, there will be two or three Shaneshchari Amavasya.The importance of Shaneshchari Amavasya lies in the fact that out of the rays of the Sun God, the main rays are called ‘Ama’. It is from the main rays of Sun God called ‘Ama’ that the Sun God gives brightness to the three worlds. In this ‘Ama’ day, especially, God Moon stays. Therefore, it is called Shani Amavasya. This Amavasya is known to give good fruits to all religions. In ‘Shradhya Karma’, this carries a lot of importance