International & Australian Puja Calendar
2024 Puja Dates
- The Seminar Dates are listed below for the Australian National and International Puja seminars.
- For all Australian Pujas where there is no National Seminar, the date of Puja in each state will fall on either the Saturday or Sunday of the International seminar dates. The specific date and time of Puja in each state will be advised in the lead up to Puja by your State Councillors.
- Please note the exceptions to the above are Birthday Puja and Christmas Puja, which fall mid-week. The specific date and time of Birthday Puja and Christmas Puja in each state will be advised in the lead up to Puja by your State Councillors.
| Puja | Seminar_Dates | Location | Website | Hosting_Countries |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mahashivaratri Puja International | 8,9,10 Mar 2024 | Brasilia, Brazil | Puja website | Brazil, co-host: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, México, Uruguay, Perú, Puerto Rico. |
| Mahashivaratri Puja Australia | No National Seminar | Local Main Centres | ||
| Birthday Puja International | 19,20,21 Mar | India | India | |
| Birthday Puja Australia | No National Seminar | Local Main Centres | ||
| Easter Puja International | 29,30,31 Mar 2024 | Prague, Czech Rep. | Puja website | Czech Republic; Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia. |
| Easter Puja Australia | 29,30,31 Mar 2024 | Balmoral Ashram NSW | Puja website | Hosted by NSW |
| Sahasrara Puja International | 3,4,5 May 2024 | Cabella, Italy | Puja website | Austria; Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia. |
| Sahasrara Puja Australia | No National Seminar | Local Main Centres | ||
| Shri Adi Shakti Puja International | 21,22,23 June 2024 | Canajoharie, USA | Puja website | USA, co-host: Mexico, Canada, Central America, Caribbean, Baltic countries, Belgium, Finland, Iceland, Scandinavian countries, Spain, UK, France. |
| Shri Adi Shakti Puja Australia | No National Seminar | Australian State Ashram/Centres | ||
| Shri Adi Guru Puja International | 19,20,21 July 2024 | Cabella, Italy | Italy with co-hosts: UAE, Bulgaria, Israel, Lebanon, Oman, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Turkiye. | |
| Shri Adi Guru Puja Australia | 19,20,21 July 2024 | Waumran Ashram Qld | Hosted by Queensland | |
| Shri Krishna Puja International | 23, 24, 25 Aug | Cabella, Italy | USA, North, Central & South America, Albania, Croatia, Macedonia, Poland, Romania. | |
| Shri Krishna Puja Australia | No National Seminar | Local Main Centres | ||
| Shri Ganesha Puja and Marriages International | 26,27,28,29 Aug 2024 Festival and Announcements | Cabella, Italy | Italy; Andorra, Australia, China , India, New Zealand, Spain, Singapore, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Phillipines, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, international Yuva Shakti. | |
| Shri Ganesha Puja Australia | No National Seminar | Australian State Ashram/Centres | ||
| Navaratri Puja International | 4, 5, 6 Oct 2024 | Cabella, Italy | UK; Switzerland; Belarus, Cyprus, Greece, Israel, Ukraine. | |
| Navaratri Puja Australia | 4, 5, 6 Oct 2024 | Gidgegannup Ashram WA | Hosted by Western Australia | |
| Diwali Puja International | 1,2,3 Nov 2024 | Capetown, Sourh Africa | South Africa, Co-hosts all African countries, Portugal, France, Switzerland, Mother Persia |
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| Diwali Puja Australia | 1,2,3 Nov 2024 | Hiawatha Ashram Victoria | Hosted by Victoria | |
| Christmas Puja International | 25 Dec 2024 | India | India | |
| Christmas Puja Australia | No National Seminar | Local Main Centres |
** There will be no new matches at Shri Adi Shakti Puja. There will be only Sahaj re-marriages and marriages of previously matched couples.
Shri Adi Shakti, we bow to You again and again, and thank You for these golden opportunities to gather in worship at Your Lotus Feet.
Jai Shri Mataji!
What is Puja?
H.H. Shri Mataji – Significance of Puja, Shri Lalita Puja, Paris April 20th, 1980
“That is what is Puja by which you are blessed by the Divine so that you shoot off should of from all your physical, mental, emotional and the so-called spiritual being, which was seeking into the realm where you have sought.
So, today we must determine that we’ll have no rational activity about it, otherwise you want won’t have the joy of Sahaja Yoga, which is your achievement. Stop rationalizing it. With your heart you do the Puja. All these things that you are going to do has very, very great significance, which I’ll explain to you some other time, but that explanation cannot take you too far. It is too minute to enter into the gross understanding. So, best is to absorb it and absorb it and enjoy it. Why do you want to enter into the whole machinery of electricity? You just use the electricity. All machinery is done for you, is prepared for you. Don’t try to envisage it, to conceive it in your little mind. You must know that you have to become the ocean and not try to understand the ocean with the drop of your brain. If you realize that, then you can become the ocean. Your limits are broken by Puja and you become one with the unlimited. It blasts you limits and your limitations. Tell your mind not to come and trouble you during Puja, then it will work out.
May God bless you! ”
H.H. Shri Mataji – Significance of Puja, Shri Lalita Puja, Paris April 20th, 1980