Rite of Smartism
Panchayatana puja.
Five deities on one tray — Shiva, Vishnu, Devi, Surya, Ganesha — worshipped together with your chosen one at center: the theology of many-as-one, performed daily.
⏱ daily, at the home shrine◌ the householder
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this rite is held
Panchayatana puja arranges five deities — Shiva, Vishnu, Devi, Surya, and Ganesha — on a single tray, with the worshipper's chosen deity in the center and the others at the corners. The arrangement is a theological statement made in metal and flowers: whichever you love most, the others are the same reality. It is attributed to Shankara as a deliberate synthesis of competing sectarian practices into a single household rite.
The same ground, other faiths
rites that share this one's ideas
No founder, no scripture, no conversion.
Shinto · core tenet
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Ritual sustains the order of the world.
Vedic Religion · core tenet
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Dharma sustains the cosmos; to live rightly is to live in accord with it.
Hinduism · core tenet
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Vesak.
Buddhism
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Truth has many sides.
Jainism · core tenet
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The commandments are how the covenant is lived.
Judaism · core tenet
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