16 Thursday Maa Tara Sadhana Completion (Udyapan) Puja at Tarapith — in your name & gotra
Finished your 16 Thursdays — or on the way? Offer the concluding puja at Maa Tara's feet in Tarapith on your 16th Thursday: a simple Anjali Puja or a personal Hawan performed live on video call. Puja photo & video on WhatsApp, prasad by courier to your home.
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Three quick choices — then the usual booking form (names, gotra, wish, delivery, payment).
What is the 16 Thursday Maa Tara Sadhana?
The 16 Thursday Maa Tara Sadhana is a sixteen-week vow (anushthan) offered to Maa Tara of Tarapith. On sixteen consecutive Thursdays — Thursday being the day of the Guru (Brihaspati) and a day dear to Maa Tara's devotees — the sadhak sits for japa of the Maa Tara mantra given by their Guru (many keep a count of 16 malas), observes a simple sattvic routine that day, and offers a small worship at home. Over the weeks the practice becomes a bond with Maa: faith deepens, fear loosens, and the mind steadies.
On the 16th Thursday the sadhana is concluded — this concluding offering is the Udyapan (also said ujjapan). Traditionally it is made at Tarapith, Maa Tara's own Shakti Peetha, where Sadhak Bamakhepa worshipped her: a puja at Maa's feet in the devotee's name and gotra, or a Hawan with purnahuti. Devotees who cannot travel to Tarapith offer it through a priest here — that is the service on this page.
Why devotees take up this sadhana
Devotees undertake the 16 Thursdays with a sankalp (an intention) and complete it with gratitude. The intentions we hear most often when they book the completion puja:
- Relief from obstacles, fear and negativity — Maa Tara is the Mother who carries one across (tarati iti Tara).
- Steady income and freedom from debt — dhan prapti, business growth.
- Success in studies, exams and career — Maa Tara as Nil Saraswati, the giver of vidya and speech.
- Marriage, family peace and health.
- Spiritual progress — a living connection with Maa, steadiness in japa, inner courage.
These are the prayers devotees bring to Maa; what she grants is her grace. We make no promises of outcomes — we offer the puja with full vidhi and faith.
How the 16 Thursdays are generally done
- Begin on any Thursday. Take a sankalp — what you are praying for — and count that Thursday as the first of sixteen.
- Each Thursday: bathe, clean the puja place, light a lamp before Maa Tara's picture or yantra, offer a red flower (jaba/hibiscus), sindur and a sweet if you can.
- Japa of the Maa Tara mantra as your Guru has given it — many sadhaks do 16 malas on these Thursdays. Sit facing north or east, keep the same seat and time each week if possible.
- Simple food that day — sattvic, no meat, fish, eggs or alcohol; many keep a fast till the evening puja.
- Keep your count. If a Thursday is missed — illness, travel, monthly cycle — the sadhana is not broken: continue on the next Thursday; the count simply moves by a week.
- The 16th Thursday — Udyapan. Offer the concluding puja at Maa Tara's feet in Tarapith: an Anjali Puja or a personal Hawan in your name, gotra and sankalp, with prasad and Maa's ashirbad (blessing) sent to you.
The completion puja at Tarapith — Anjali or Hawan?
| Anjali Puja | Personal Hawan (video call) | |
|---|---|---|
| What is offered | Your name & gotra in the sankalp at Maa's feet with flowers, sindur, alta, mala, peda; higher packages add shalu, bhog, sringaar. | A yagna (fire offering) performed by a tantrik priest in your name, gotra and wish, ending with purnahuti — the fullest form of Udyapan. |
| You see it | Puja photo on WhatsApp the same day. | LIVE on video call — you take part from home. |
| Prasad | Peda, dry prasad, sindur, ashirbad flowers, dhaga, Maa's photo — by courier. | The same prasad plus the Hawan tilak — by courier. |
| Price | From ₹711 | From ₹7,501 |
| Best for | A complete, simple Udyapan — most devotees choose this. | When you want the full yagna and to be present (virtually) for the purnahuti. |
Either one completes the sadhana. Choose by what your heart — and your Guru — suggest.
Starting or midway? Add the weekly sankalp: on each remaining Thursday until your 16th, we read your name and gotra in the Thursday sankalp at Tarapith (₹51 per Thursday). Your own japa at home continues as before.
How to book — three steps
- Tell us where you are — completed, midway (how many Thursdays done), or about to start. We work out your 16th Thursday.
- Choose Anjali Puja or Hawan, and whether you want the weekly sankalp before the 16th.
- Fill the usual form — names for the puja, gotra, your wish, delivery address, payment (UPI/card, wallet, or cash on delivery for Anjali in India). You get the booking reference by SMS, WhatsApp and email at once.
१६ गुरुवार माँ तारा साधना — उद्यापन पूजा तारापीठ में
१६ गुरुवार माँ तारा साधना में साधक लगातार सोलह गुरुवार अपने गुरु द्वारा दिए गए माँ तारा मंत्र का जप करता है (प्रायः १६ माला), उस दिन सात्विक आहार रखता है और घर पर छोटी पूजा करता है। सोलहवें गुरुवार को साधना का उद्यापन (उज्जापन) किया जाता है — तारापीठ में माँ तारा के चरणों में आपके नाम-गोत्र से अंजलि पूजा या व्यक्तिगत हवन। हम वही पूजा आपके लिए तारापीठ में करते हैं: पूजा का फोटो/वीडियो व्हाट्सऐप पर, प्रसाद कूरियर से आपके घर। जप आपका अपना है — हम उसकी पूर्ति की पूजा करते हैं। बीच में कोई गुरुवार छूट जाए तो साधना टूटती नहीं, अगले गुरुवार से गिनती आगे बढ़ती है।
১৬ বৃহস্পতিবার মা তারা সাধনা — উদযাপন পূজা তারাপীঠে
১৬ বৃহস্পতিবার মা তারা সাধনায় সাধক পরপর ষোলো বৃহস্পতিবার নিজের গুরুর দেওয়া মা তারার মন্ত্র জপ করেন (অনেকে ১৬ মালা), সেদিন নিরামিষ-সাত্ত্বিক আহার রাখেন এবং বাড়িতে ছোট পূজা করেন। ষোড়শ বৃহস্পতিবারে সাধনার উদযাপন হয় — তারাপীঠে মা তারার চরণে আপনার নাম-গোত্রে অঞ্জলি পূজা বা ব্যক্তিগত যজ্ঞ। সেই পূজাই আমরা আপনার হয়ে তারাপীঠে করি: পূজার ছবি/ভিডিও হোয়াটসঅ্যাপে, প্রসাদ কুরিয়ারে আপনার বাড়িতে। জপ আপনার নিজের — আমরা তার পূর্ণতার পূজা করি। মাঝে কোনো বৃহস্পতিবার বাদ গেলে সাধনা ভাঙে না, পরের বৃহস্পতিবার থেকে গণনা এগিয়ে যায়।
Frequently Asked Questions
Choose "I have completed all 16" in the booking box above, pick the Thursday for your Udyapan puja, choose Anjali Puja or a personal Hawan, and continue to the form. We perform it at Tarapith in your name and gotra, send the photo/video on WhatsApp and courier the prasad to you.
No — and we would not want to. The japa is your own offering to Maa; follow your Guru's instructions for it. What we do is the Tarapith side: the Udyapan puja on your 16th Thursday, and if you choose, a weekly sankalp in your name and gotra on each remaining Thursday.
The sadhana is not broken. Continue on the following Thursday — the count moves by one week. When you book, choose "I am in the middle" and tell us how many Thursdays you have completed; we work out your 16th Thursday from that.
Anjali Puja is the simple, complete offering at Maa Tara's feet with your name and gotra — most devotees choose it. A personal Hawan is a yagna performed live on video call in your name, gotra and wish, ending with purnahuti — the fuller form of Udyapan. Both complete the sadhana.
Yes — the sadhana lives on Thursdays, so its Udyapan is offered on your 16th Thursday (or a later Thursday if you have already finished). The booking box only offers Thursdays. If you need another day for a different reason, book a regular Puja as your Date.
Yes. The puja is performed at Tarapith in your name; the photo/video comes on WhatsApp; prasad can be shipped abroad (an international shipping charge applies and cash on delivery is not available).
Yes. In the form, write every name you want read in the sankalp, with the gotra. If you don't know your gotra, tick "I don't know my Gotra" — the puja is then offered with Yatha gotra, as is the custom.
If you are starting or midway, we can read your name and gotra in the Thursday sankalp at Tarapith on every remaining Thursday until your 16th — alongside the daily pujas. It is optional and priced per Thursday (₹51 each); the exact number of Thursdays and the amount are shown before you book. There is no prasad or photo for these weeks.
For Anjali you receive the puja photo on WhatsApp the same day; for Hawan you join the live video call. You also get SMS, WhatsApp and email updates with your booking reference, and the prasad arrives by courier within about 7 days — trackable from Track Your Prasad.
Tara Mata Sebait Souvik Chatterjee and his father Sri Manik Chandra Chatterjee offer the puja at Maa's feet on your behalf; Hawans are performed by a tantrik priest at Tarapith. You are welcome to meet them at the temple any time.
Udyapan is the formal conclusion of a vrat or sadhana — the offering made to the deity when the vow is complete, with gratitude. For the 16 Thursday Maa Tara Sadhana it is the puja or hawan offered at Maa Tara's feet on the 16th Thursday.
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