if you are a Hindu the puja, pooja, the prayer ritual can be done at different occasions, frequency and settings.

A puja can be done at home, at temples, daily or at occasional ceremonies and annual festivities. It may be a few lifetime events such as a birth of a baby or  wedding.

Pu or Pushpam means flower and Ja stands for  Japa or chanting the holy names of Gods/Godesses. Offering flowers to Deities is an important part in Hindu worship.

when offering the flowers it transmits the persons “bhava”, emotion and the hindu is literally requesting the God/Godess to grant health, wealth and happiness.