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I also have a query:

We all have on numerous occasions been invited by our friends & relatives to join in the ‘Satnarayan katha’. I have gone to this pooja and heard the priest tell all of us of 3-4 stories, one of the stories goes something like this: A merchants’s ships loaded with goods got lost in Sea & when the merchant performed the ‘Satnarayan katha’, he found his ships and again become prosperous & happy.

But strangely enough, ask a priest or anyone else what was this ‘Satnarayan katha’ that the man performed that helped all his ships to return safely, half the people don’t understand the question itself and others insist this itself is ‘Satnarayan katha’. I tell them there are examples of people who performed “Satnarayan katha’ and found happiness but what are the contents of ‘Satnarayan katha’ that these people, whose example is given, performed and no one has a clear answer to this question.

Could this be another example of people performing a ritual for decades but having now forgotten what was the main story of ‘Satnarayan’ in the first place? Could anyone on this forum clarify what was the original ‘Satnarayan katha’ as I have never really got a satisfactory answer from anyone I have talked to so far…