Satyanarayana Puja

The Satyanārāyaṇa Pūjā is a pūjā (religious ritual worship) dedicated to the Hindu god Satyanārāyaṇa, identified as an ''avatāra'' of Viṣṇu in Kali Yuga.

The pūjā is described in the ''Pratisargaparvan'' of the ''Bhaviṣya Purāṇa'' and in the printed Bengali edition of the ''Revā Khaṇḍa'', a part of the ''Skanda Purāṇa''. Additionally, Satyanārāyaṇa was a popular subject in medieval Bengali literature. Scholars state Satyanārāyaṇa is a syncretic form of Satya Pīr of Bengal, and has been subject to variable levels of Sanskritization and accommodation into classical Vaiṣṇava ''avatāra'' theology.

According to Madhuri Yadlapati, the Satyanarayana Puja is an archetypal example of how "the Hindu puja facilitates the intimacy of devotional worship while enabling a humble sense of participating gratefully in a larger sacred world". Provided by Wikipedia