Online puja for families in Montreal

Montreal's Hindu families live across the island and its suburbs, from Parc-Extension and Saint-Laurent to the West Island communities of Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Pierrefonds and Pointe-Claire, and off-island in Laval and Brossard. The community includes long-established families, students at the city's universities and many newcomers. Long winters, busy schedules and a limited number of pandits who are free on popular muhurats can make a home puja hard to arrange. Our pandits are based in India and conduct pujas live over Zoom, Google Meet or WhatsApp video. The mantras are in Sanskrit and the pandit explains each step in Hindi or English (not French), so please tell us if anyone in the family needs extra help following along; relatives in India can join on the same link. Rituals traditionally done at a tirth, such as pind daan and asthi visarjan, are performed on your family's behalf at Prayagraj, Kashi, Ayodhya or Mathura-Vrindavan and shown to you live. For apartments and condos with smoke alarms, we offer a smoke-free havan: the pandit performs the fire havan live at a tirth in India while your family offers ahutis at home with no flame or smoke, or with only a ghee lamp. We have no office in Canada and do not make home visits.

Practical notes for Montreal

• Indian grocery stores in the area stock most samagri; we send a checklist with substitutes.
• Montreal is on Eastern Time: 10h30m behind IST in winter and 9h30m behind in summer. Evening pujas fall in the early Indian morning.
• Many Montreal homes are apartments or plexes; choose the smoke-free havan and never cover or disable an alarm.
• Moving day in Quebec is traditionally around 1 July; if you plan a Griha Pravesh then, share your date early so we can find a muhurat.
• Do not put ashes or offerings into the St. Lawrence River; we arrange visarjan at a tirth in India.

Online via Zoom, Google Meet, WhatsApp video. Online pujas from $51 — see pricing.