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How to worship Lord Brihaspati?

You can worship Brihaspati by chanting his mantras and shlokas and also by performing his puja and havan. Donation of yellow clothes and materials such as turmeric, chana dal, jaggery, salt, gold, and yellow sapphire pleases Brihaspati. He is the deity of knowledge. Donating Study Books and educational materials also pleases him. Thursday is his day. You can visit his temples on Thursdays and also wear yellow clothes.

Ravana sacrifices nine heads

Vaishravana (Kubera), after performing intense penance, received the position of one of the Lokapalas and the Pushpaka Vimana. Following his father Vishrava's instructions, he resided in Lanka. Seeing Kubera's grandeur, Kaikasi, the second wife of Vishrava, encouraged her son Ravana to achieve similar greatness. Inspired by his mother, Ravana, along with his brothers Kumbhakarna and Vibhishana, went to Gokarna to perform severe penance. Ravana performed this intense penance for 10,000 years. At the end of every thousand years, he would offer one of his heads into the fire as a sacrifice. He did this for nine thousand years, sacrificing his nine heads.In the tenth thousand year, as he was about to offer his last head, Brahma appeared, pleased with Ravana's penance. Brahma granted him a boon making him invincible to gods, demons, and other celestial beings, and restored his nine sacrificed heads, thus giving him ten heads.

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