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Sri Lankan Gods & Goddesses

Deities worshipping in Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan Goddesses

About Researching on Sri Lankan Gods & Goddesses

People have had doubts about the existence of gods for a long time, so it is often that we hear god's stories from folktales or fictitious details in our literary books. LankaWisdom has researched about gods by talking with people who possess mind power and have the ability to talk with gods as well as others who can link with gods via mantra science & light reading. We have summarized these details and referenced it with the Theravada Sutra Pitakaya. Now we are going to reveal some important details about gods & goddesses for the benefit of mankind. We started to research about deities since 1996 & all those findings were used to prepare this webpage. Within this period we had encountered lot of experiences related to deities while doing our astrology terms and while helping our clients. We want to give a big thank you to all light readers, clairvoyants, spiritual professionals & Buddhist Theros who have helped us for our research about deities. We wish them success in their spiritual life!
If you have any real life experiences with these gods & goddesses such as Kataragama, Vishnu, Satarawaram Gods, Sakra Devendra, etc then please send us your experiences. We will publish them on our page or use those details for our research which will be a help to all of us. Also, if you believe some details need to be corrected, then please send us such comments too. For this task, you or someone you know must have the direct ability to talk with gods via mind power, mantra science, hypnotism, light reading, etc.
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Intention of this web page is motivate you to attain path and fruition of Buddhism, encourage you to attain telepathy & clairvoyance and motivate you to links with deities & research about them.

Who are Gods & Goddesses

Gods and goddesses are powerful energy beings who have performed big merits through donations, precepts and meditations in their past life times. Gods don't like come physically close to the human world or to humans. They only like to look at us and use their mind waves to help us. Often gods thoughts are powerful which means they have the ability to create physical objects from their mind. Gods look at people who perform merits and use their mind power to help them, in order to make their lives easier. This is called as Devatha Dushti which means Attraction of Gods. We can get their attraction mainly by giving merits to them. In Sri Lanka gods & goddesses are called as Deviyo. Some low power gods & newly born gods are called as Devatha or Deva Putta. Apart from gods, there also exists other types of energy beings which are detailed below: 

Naga - Water Angels - They are powerful inhumans who mostly live in the fresh water resources such as rivers, lakes, ponds, etc, but like to do merit and have the same power as gods. When they want to physically appear, they are seen as serpents. Some of them have big bodies & possess powerful mind power.
Yakka / Yaksha - Demons / Devils - Beings who are cruel and look uglier than gods. Most of them don't show respect to the five precepts. Some have fearful faces and body color which is dark black. They like to eat meat, fish, eggs & oiled meals.
Praytha - Hungry Ghosts - Beings who did sins in their past life and now stay without food, clothing, body and housing. Commonly these inhumans cause trouble to us with spell bindings & hunting our homes and bodies.
Bahirawa - Gnomes - The same as ghosts but are only located in certain areas & protect that area as their own. Bahirawa only trouble us when we try to reside in their area. In that type of situation, we need to do a Bahirawa Puja to get their permission.
Asura - Ocean Angels - Heavenly beings that have the same power as gods, but don't respect precepts or virtuous people. They do jokes & cause trouble to good people and sometimes fight with gods too. They stay in the ocean or nearby areas where have sea water resources.
Mara - Bad Ones of Dead - Inhuman beings that have great power for controlling all living beings including gods and then attach them to lust, ill-will & ignorance. They cause trouble only to Buddhist followers in the human world or heavens and also help bad people or negative inhumans. Lot of clairvoyants had seen main Mara King as demon who had very dark colored & haired, husky body which tall about 3 feet height.

Gods don't enter or hunt into the human body like hungry ghosts, nagas or devils do. But some devils do actually observe the five precepts, show respect to Buddhism & practice the Buddhist teachings.
Some gods live in heaven (Sadiuya Loko Devo) and some live in the human world called as Earthy Angels (Bumatu Devo) or sky near the Earth and they are called Sky Angels (Wassawalahaka Devo). Sky angels have ability to make rainfall. Some deities live based in trees, so they are called as Forest Angels (Vruksha Devathas). In Maha Samaya Sutta, Lord Buddha said there are gods existing in all other planets and stars (Nakkhattàni Purakkhatvà...) such as our Sun, Moon, Venus, Mars, etc. Gods who do not belong to the lust world stay in the Brahma Worlds (Brahma Loko Devo) & gods who are in Anagami state (being who has removed lust) stay in the Pureland heavens (Suddawasa Devo). Some low power gods who perform entertainment for higher gods with art, music and dances are called as Artistic Angels (Gandrauwa). They mainly live in some part of heaven of the four regions.
A popular Buddhist teaching states that People, who have gone to the Buddha for refuge, will not go to the plane of hells. On discarding the human body, they will fill the hosts of devas in the heavens.

How We Can Attract Gods & Goddesses?

It is very difficult to get god's attraction within a small amount of time such as one day. Sometimes it takes two or more months in order to get the attraction from a particular god. However Buddhist people can get their attraction from mind requesting every day after worshiping the triple gem. But some people can get their attraction much quicker because of past life relationships with gods. But god's attraction formula is simple, which is shown below: 


Merits (Good Deeds) + Precepts + Tidiness + Sweet Odors + Chanting Dhamma (Parittas - Mantra - Verses)

Lord Buddha has said it is wise to transfer merits to gods by doing Buddhist merit activities such as: giving alms or medicine, clothing donations to the sangha, help to build temples or rooms for meditative Buddhist monks, doing meditations, observing precepts, teaching dharma, learning dharma, helping to poor people, etc...  Earth Based gods and goddesses are attracted to - sweet odours such as water flowers, sandalwood, jasmine, pichcha, some oils, fruits or clean places such as clean ponds, rivers, big trees, nice gardens, stupa and temples. If you keep such odours, trees or flowers inside your home, rooms or garden then gods will have a likeness to your home.  Also keeping a Buddha worshiping place such as altar (neat room or tall table with Buddha statue, leaf of the Bodi tree & small stupa, where you can offer flowers, incense sticks & oil lamp to Lord Buddha) in your home is another way to get the attractions of gods. If all family members worship to Buddha in this place, then all of them will be attracted by kindly gods. After you get a sign from your ishta devatha or other gods attracted to you, it is not good to wear or use Amulets (Yantras) or use sound science (Mantras) to cure your problems. Then gods think you have neglected their power, so they remove their attraction from you or your family. Instead of Mantras, you can use Buddhist poems or Parittas (Gods especially like to hear Karaniya Metta sutta & Maha Mangala Sutta as we got direct message from Gana God). It is good if you talk about these matters with your family Astrologer. If you reduce your merit works then gods also reduce their attraction by the same amount from you & your family. The Dhammapada said that a person who does not get angry, who speaks the truth & who gives donations becomes closer to gods!

Buddhist Gods & Goddesses

Buddhist people don't take refuge in gods but only ask for their help. Buddhist people can associate deities as spiritual teachers, guides & friends. Many Buddhist gods can be attracted to you by mind requesting. If they take your request into consideration, they will show it by a dream or some sign. These dreams can be seen by you or a family member who has the best precepts. You then need to transfer merits for that god by doing big merit work yourself. Lord Buddha said the practicing of - devotion to the triple gem, observing the five precepts, dharma learning, donations & developing wisdom helps us to be born in our desired heaven. Among these six heavens, Tusita heaven is a special heaven where only real Buddhist gods, Buddhist goddesses and Bodhisattva gods exist. Heavens including Yamaya and above are locations for gods & goddesses who do not act with conflict, anger or jealousy. Here are brief descriptions about the six heavens:

Name of Heaven Heaven Of Name of Main God Life Time in Human Years
Caturr Maha Rajika Four Regions Satarawaram Gods 9 million
Tawatimsa Thirty-three Kingdoms Sakkra Devendra 36 million
Yamaya Hazards free Deities Suyama 144 million
Tusita Deities stay in Happy Santusita 576 million
Nimmana Rati Deities love Creations Sunimmita 2304 million
Paranimmita Vasawatti Deities have all Lust Vasawatti 9216 million

There also exists the 20 great heavens called Brahma Loka, where beings can have a life time of up to more than 9216 million years. To be born in Brahma Loka we need to achieve contemplation or jhana or smadhi in deep meditation. Lord Buddha said if someone practices Metta Meditation in the correct way, he will surely be born in Brahma Loka as similar to waking up from sleep. Here are given names for the 20 Brahma Loka Realms:

Servants of Brahma (brahma parisajja deva), Ministers of Brahma (brahma purohita deva), Great Brahmas (maha brahma), Brahmas of Small Radiance (parittabha deva), Brahmas of Infinitive Radiance (appamanabha deva), Brahmas of Streaming Radiance (abhassara deva), Brahmas of Small Glory (parittasubha deva), Brahmas of Infinitive Glory (appamanasubha deva), Brahmas of Refulgent Glory (subhakinna deva), Brahmas of Very Fruitful (vehapphala deva),  Brahmas of not Falling Away (aviha deva), Untroubled Brahmas (atappa deva), Beautiful Brahmas (sudassa deva), Clear-sighted Brahmas (sudassi deva), Brahmas of Non-junior (akanittha deva), Infinite Space (akasanañcayatanupaga deva), Infinite Consciousness (viññanañcayatanupaga deva), Unconscious beings (asaññasatta), Nothingness (akiñcaññayatanupaga deva), Neither-perception-nor-non-perception (nevasaññanasaññayatanupaga deva).

Satarawaram Gods: Four main gods rule in four directions of the world four inhuman types from Heaven of four region or Caturr Maha Rajika. These four gods also called as Satarawaram gods stay under ruling of god Sakra Devendra. These four gods separate some devil leaders to protect virtuous Buddhist people. Dutarathta (East) rules Gandrawa, Virullha (South) rules Ghosts, Virupakka (West) rules Naga  Kuwera (North) rules Devils.

Below we discuss some other Buddhist gods who are detailed in the Sutra Pitakaya. 

  • Brahma Gods: Brahma Sahampathi god who lives in Brahma Loka was enlightened into Anagami state during Kasapa Lord Buddha's time and helped our Gautama Buddha. People who do meditation can get attraction of this god. Also this god is good to ask help for education. Another Brahma god is Sanath Kumara who lives in Brahma Loka, helped during our Buddha's Bodhisattva times. He is the main Dharma talker or adviser in the six heavens. Tissa Brahma is another god who helps us to understand Buddhist sutras and advanced Buddhist teachings. He became Anagami state from our Lord Buddha's time as he stayed as an educated monk in his past life. Gatikara Brahma is an Anagami god who was a close friend of our Buddha's bodhisattva time. He also helps to Buddhist people. Color which is tuning to these Brahma gods is luminous white, gray, yellow and brown. Gem stone for get attraction from these gods is Cat's Eye Stone and related planet is Kethu. If you keep puja for normal Brahma gods, you should light only 7 Ran Tabili (rose or golden color king coconut) oil lamps. You can keep following crystals in your altar for get attraction from this god: Amber or Yellow Calcite.
  • Pure Land Gods: Suddhavaso devas are gods who attain Anagami (non-returning to lust worlds) and Arahant states who give help to Buddhist people. They are real gods who take care of the Dharma and honest Buddhist people. These gods have a huge number of lifetimes and higher powers compared with other gods. It is mainly these gods who help Buddhist people to work hard in attaining path and fruition of Buddhism towards Nibbana. These gods finished their spiritual path into the final level and always look at the human world to support noble followers and seers. There are five pure land Brahma Lokas called as - Aviha deva, Atappa deva, Sudassa deva, Sudassi deva and Akanittha deva. Sahampathi Maha Brahma is the one of the most senior main Brahma in Akanittha Loka. That why He had ability to inviting Lord Buddha to preach Dharma to Worlds. Currently he helps to great followers of Lord Buddha who tries to attain paths and fruitions. His aura color is light yellow color. If you keep puja for these Brahma gods, you should light only 7 sandalwood oil lamps.
  • Sakkra Devendra: Main god of both Tawatimsa & Caturmaha-Rajika heavens. Sometimes he looks at the human world & helps to virtuous Buddhist people. This god attained soovan state (stream-enterer), so he sometimes comes as a poor beggar to check our precepts. This god takes decisions related to human world more than other gods. Buddhist people can say their problems to this deity.
  • Kuwera or Vaissawana: Leader of the Yakka group among Satarawaram gods, sometimes helps to poor people who follow with Buddhism. He gives permission to his servants (devils) or low power gods to say future prediction at Devalas. This action is called as giving -waram. In our kings time, people keep Bara to get wealth and money with the help of Kuwara god. He is said to be a good talker but also a cruel god. People who do businesses can ask help from this god to develop wealth & success in their firms.
  • Datharaththa: Leader of the Gandrauwa group among Satarawaram gods, who likes both the art and music field. So Buddhist people who do art works or esp. music can ask help from this god.
  • Indra Deva: All sons of Satarawaram gods are called Indra gods. They take care of other gods & goddesses. In Atanatiya Sutta, there are details of these gods. You can ask help from these gods too. These gods especially help to virtuous Buddhist people when troubles occur related to inhuman attractions.
  • Visaka Goddess: Visaka is said to have attained soovan state (stream-enterer) at the age of seven and helped our Lord Buddha. Also she helps to poor people. Now she lives as a powerful goddess in Nimmana Rathi heaven. Therefore Buddhist females who practice Dharma can ask help or attraction from this goddess.
  • Matru Divya Raja: Our Lord Buddha's real mother was called Mahamaya Davi reborn as a male god in Tusita heaven. This god helps all Buddhist people and especially female Buddhists.
  • Matali God: Official driver & close friend of Sakkra Devendra god. People who do work related to traveling can ask help from this god. Sometimes this god informs to other gods about good people in the human world.
  • Panchasika: Official musician of heaven Tawatimsa. Buddhist people who are doing works related to music can get attraction of this god. In his past life, he was a poor young boy who helped develop his village with his body power. He also played the Vina and flute, so his merit resulted his rebirth as a god in Caturmaha-Rajika heaven.
  • Janasabha or Janawasabha: A whole sutra in the Sutra Pitakaya is related to this god whose past life was one of a soovan or stream-entered king called as Bimbisara, killed by his own son. He lives under Kuwera god, sutra said he works as messenger for Satarawaram Gods. He was mentioned as one of the devil leaders in Atanatiya sutra who helps Buddhist people to cure devil & ghost problems.
  • Anatapindika Deva Putra: Lord Buddha's main laic care, bank owner called Anatapindika is another soovan god, (stream-enterer) who lives in Tusita heaven. He will give help to any Buddhist person for their life problems.
  • Viswakarma God: In Tawatimsa heaven exists a god called as Viswakarma who has the ability for engineering works, sometimes help to engineers in the human world for their creations. People who do technology, can get help from this god. Also this god helps to poor and honest people by creating properties.

Council of Gods & Goddesses

With the exception of some gods, all other famous gods & goddesses belong to Bumatu Deva or Yakka or Nagha sector under the Satarawaram Gods. Even in heavens which have a lot of gods, only some powerful gods take care of the human world. They are called as the Council of Gods (Deva Mandalaya). These gods can be named as guardian gods, because every 20 years by 20 years they take care of the human world. Some of them live in sub heavens which are located between earth surface and the main six heavens. The birth of gods in heavenly realms are a result of their meritorious deeds performed in their human life. There is a wide truth that gods do really exist and can influence our life. When Lord Buddha visited Sri Lanka three times & Arahant monk Mihidu Thero came to Sri Lanka, consequently a lot of gods & goddesses in Sri Lanka became soovan (stream-enterer) & higher states. Therefore we can conclude all areas in our country have those powerful gods who take care of Buddhist people around their regions. One Tree Based Goddess told us every tree in Sri Lanka, Stupa, Bodi and temples have gods. Even in other countries. But they don’t like to link with people. She told it is difficult to find tree without earth based gods. She told, if someone cut tree that has tree based god, then some such gods punish to such tree cutters. In other countries people who did good deeds are born as earth based gods then stay in churches & shrines. When people come to such religious places for worshiping they help to those people as angles. Same as other religious deities live in relevant countries. There have different look like among Buddhist gods & other religious gods. For link with gods we need big merits, big devotion to gods and past life connection with that gods. Otherwise it is very difficult to get help from gods. But in public shrines or temples like places gods help to people. Some powerful gods come to such places then help even they stay based on another places. Gods helping vary with our devotion to that gods.

We want to say any of following discussions on gods or goddesses are not fictitious and that they really do exist. Because many gods stories come from myths, we conducted real life investigations about gods with people who have the power to talk with gods via light reading (Anjanam or Divine Screen) or mind power, personal experiences & monks who do meditation. We found this information related to the gods below. Also here we want to give our thanks to all light readers, clairvoyants, spiritual professionals & Buddhist Theros who helped us during our research with deities and also wish them to success in their spiritual life! (Cite: Based on the researching did in 2014 & 2015 years with more advanced clairvoyants & light readers, some details had been changed in this section. So we are inviting our old visitors to read again this webpage for update their knowledge. New updating is effecting since 2016/01/01.)

Colors which are tuning to each deity means aura color of each deity's energy body. It is color of halo (or radiation) which is emitted from god's energy body. We asked those colors from those deities themselves. Also each deity's most liked oil smell for keeping lamps, flowers & fruits (or alimentary offerings) were asked from those deities via powerful divine screen. Here we want to mention that gem stones which are tuned to each deity may not compatible to your horoscope. You can see image gallery of these deities in online shrine.

  • Natha God: This virtuous god lives in Tusita heaven and will become the next Lord Buddha as Maitreya. He is the most powerful god in heaven and possesses ultimate merit powers. He uses most of his time for meditation and observing strict precepts. Sometimes he comes to the human world and helps good people no matter what religion they follow. If you mentally request, this god can read your thoughts and can surely help you. His main devala is in Kandy, Temple of the Tooth. Therefore people identify him as Senkadagala God. Good for asking help related to family development. This god most likes to white flowers and most likes fruits are grapes with milk cup. Color which is tuning to this god is White mixed with Gray. Gem stone for get attraction from this god is Cat's Eye Stone with White Sapphire or White Pearl and related planets are Kethu, Venus & Moon. You can keep following crystals in your altar for get attraction from this god: Selenite, Hematite, Labradorite, Merlinite, Ocean Jasper, Pietersite, Shiva Lingam, Smithsonite or Smoky Quartz. Also it is good if you can keep Clear Quartz near it. His most liked oil is very clean mixer of king coconut oil, coconut oil & mustard (brassica/aba) oil. (Picture of Sri Natha God)
  • Kataragama God: Sri Lankan people give special attention to this god more than other gods. Kataragama god stays in the Sellakataragama area in Sri Lanka and is also protecting the temple of Kiriwahera and related Bodhi tree. Main devala is in Kataragama. Since our king’s ages, people get help from this god to gain unique educational skills, bring back lost properties, increase mind power, develop courage to face enemies, lottery winnings, get new properties, develop personality & all areas in our life. A lot of people saw this god as wearing brown color clothing like a seer & practice meditation in forest areas in Kataragama. Main duty of this god is helping businessmen to develop their businesses.
    Kataragama god is also called Skanda Kumara God who was a person who came to Sri Lanka from India. He helped Sinhala people from his mind power by donating his time & hard working. These merits help him to become a powerful god. He is jokey, somewhat libidinous god, but also gives big punishments to people who don't remove onus at the right time. But this god always likes to help people without considering their nationality, religion or caste. This god has two wives named Tavani Amma & Walli Amma. This god most likes to dark red flowers (Rath Mal) and most likes fruits are pineapple, pears & grapes. Color which is tuning to this god is Red. Gem stone for get attraction from this god is Ruby and related planets are Sun & Mars. You can keep following crystals in your altar for get attraction from this god: Hematite, Jasper or Red Garnet. His most liked oil is citronella oil.
  • Upulwan God : (or Vishnu) This god is the main god protecting Buddhism in Sri Lanka and is another bodhisattva god. Upulwan means god with blue color complexion & clothing. Main devala is located at Devinuwara town near the southern region in Sri Lanka. From research done with light reading, we found that Vishnu god uses his time for meditation & observing precepts and therefore does not waste his time looking at every devala worldwide. He sends his minister gods to look at worldwide devalas. When someone asks help from Vishnu god, he appoints his messenger gods to help him. This god most likes to Blue Butterfly flower (holy flowers) and Visnu Kranthi flowers (Common evolvulus, Slender dwarf morning glory, Evolvulus Alsinoides) and most likes fruits are mango & orange with fresh water cup. His main duty is giving protection to good people (also for gods) from bad people, enemies & other evil powers. Also he helps to solve family conflicts. He also has a consort who is Lakshmi Goddess & Vishnu god is one who knows about love very well. In his past life, he stayed as a rich salesman then became a Buddhist monk when our Gautama Buddha preached the dharma. After that, again he was born in India as King Krishna. Then because of his great merits forces of helping to all people, he became the main god in his heaven. Color which is tuning to this god is Blue. Gem stone for get attraction from this god is Blue Sapphire and related planet is Saturn. You can keep following crystals in your altar for get attraction from this god: Sugulite, Turquoise, Aquamarine or Lapis Lazuli. His most liked oil is coconut oil.
  • Sumana Saman God: This god is worthy among all other gods. It is because this god was the first Sri Lankan god who attained stream entry state. His power is mainly located in Samanala or Sri Padha Mountain in Sri Lanka. God Saman's duty is to protect Buddha's relic foot mark located at the top of the mountain, to protect people who come to worship Buddha's relics & temple on the mountain. This god doesn’t go to every devala island wide such as other gods, so we only can get blessings from this god at the Samanala rock area. This god most likes to white pichcha flowers and most likes fruits are avocado pears. Saman god comes & helps people looking like a normal village person in his area, a lot of time as a very old person wearing white colored clothing. Main devala is located in Sabaragamuwa area. Sumana was his name during his human life time while Saman is said because he protects the Adam's Peak Mountain. Color which is tuning to this god is Yellow mixed with White. Gem stone for get attraction from this god is Yellow sapphire with White Sapphire or White Pearl and related planet is Jupiter, Moon & Venus. You can keep following crystals in your altar for get attraction from this god: Yellow Calcite with Clear Quartz. His most liked oil is very clean coconut oil & want to put two camphor coins to oil before lighting. (Picture of Sumana Saman God)
  • Dadimunda God: This god is the governor of all hungry ghosts & devils in Sri Lanka. Consider his trendy is emitted all over Sri Lanka. He is one minister of Sri Vishnu god, army leader of Kataragama god & grandson of Kuwara god. His father was Purnaka the devil leader and mother was Erandathi the naga queen. Main devala is located in Aluth Nuwara area near to Mawanella town. Dadimunda means god of steady minded and bearded face. This god asked dharma from our Gautama Buddha & took words to protect Buddhist people. Even if we consider Dadimuda as a god, but actually he is a devil leader. He is a Buddhist & observes higher precepts, hence he can be treated as a god. People can ask help from this god for problems related to hungry ghosts, devils, evil powers, sicknesses, spell bindings & curses of negative people. From our research we found that this god can give herbal medicine, because he has vast knowledge about herbal medicine, astrology & mantra sciences. Past life time this god was herbal doctor who gave medicine to people. This merits were helped him to be a god. This god most likes to mixer flowers of yellow, red, orange and most likes fruits are five fruits including banana, mango & pears. Color which is tuning to this god is Yellow. Gem stone for get attraction from this god is Yellow sapphire or Topaz and related planet is Jupiter. You can keep following crystals in your altar for get attraction from this god: Yellow Jasper, Amber or Yellow Calcite. His most liked oil is mixer of very clean coconut oil & mustard (brassica/aba) oil. (Picture of Dadimunda God)
  • Siddha Suniyam God: Suniyam god is the protector of all villages & houses in Sri Lanka, traveling village to village at midnight wearing white clothing. This god's traveling can be known from sudden jasmine smell & sometimes dogs barking at the same time. He gives punishments to bad people while helping to good people. This god stays in two states as a god and a cruel devil. Suniyam god is a very cruel god when he is giving punishments to bad people. In his human life, he was a person who protected the law in society during Skanda Kumara's human life. Before that in another life time, he was a prince who helped to poor people. Siddha Suniyam means this god needs to be invited when using mantra science & related works; He gives permission to activate mantras. Suniyam god stays under ruling of Kataragama god & Iswara God. It is true that he has a white horse & wife too. This god's main devalaya is located at Kuliyapitiya, Kabalawa village in the North-West province of Sri Lanka. This god most likes to white pichcha flowers and most likes fruits are any fruits essentially with roasted rice & honey cup. Color which is tuning to this god is White. Gem stone for get attraction from this god is White Sapphire or White Pearl and related planets are Moon & Venus. You can keep following crystals in your altar for get attraction from this god: Clear Quartz. His most liked oil is ghee oil.
  • Gana God: Gana or Ganesha god was the brother of Sakanda Kumara during their human life & had wise brain power. He helped Sakanda Kumara & other people to take the right decisions in their life. Ganesha also came to Sri Lanka from India. Stayed on Wadihitikanda mountain in south of Sri Lanka. Because of his merit works of helping wise people to attain wisdom, he also became reborn as a god. Ganesha especially helps to lovers to find success in their love life from negative people. He is jokey god who doesn’t punish humans. Ganesha god helps people who are doing their higher education, occult subjects, mantra works & yantra preparing. This god most likes to white pichcha flowers and most likes fruits are any fruits essentially with woodapple & piece of the sugarcane. As well as his brother Kataragama God, this god also hopes our offerings and gratitude. Color which is tuning to this god is White. Gem stone for get attraction from this god is White Sapphire or White Pearl and related planets are Moon & Venus. You can keep following crystals in your altar for get attraction from this god: Clear Quartz. His most liked oil is ghee oil.
  • Iswara God: People can get help to solve their money problems, job problems & success in household properties from Iswara god. His main duty is helping people to build their owner house & removing objections for it. Iswara god is also calledShiva God in heaven. In his past life, he was the father of Sakanda Kumara and had mind power (esp. in healing) which gave help to poor people. Iswara reborn as a god because of his virtues of helping to old women, pregnant women and mothers as if they were his own mother. Iswara god helps people who do yoga, energy healing, light reading, attaining psychic powers, clairvoyance, mantra & yantra activities. This god most likes to red flowers and most likes fruits are banana. Iswara god has a goddess as consort and she is named as Parwathi in heaven. Iswara God likes to playing flute, so he helps to musicians as well. Color which is tuning to this god is Red. Gem stone for get attraction from this god is Ruby and related planets are Sun & Mars. You can keep following crystals in your altar for get attraction from this god: Hematite, Jasper or Red Garnet. His most liked oil is coconut oil.
  • Maheswara God:This god was the cousin brother of Iswara in his human life and also practiced kundalani yoga & meditation. Maheswara became reborn as a god because of his merits on helping poor people and donating a cup of bee honey to Kasapa Lord Buddha. Maheswara god takes care of the human world & helps to good people while punishing bad people. If you stay with Buddhist precepts & become vegetarian, Maheswara god will surely help you to get success in your life. From our research, we found Maheswara god has more power than Iswara god. Maheswara God helps to real yogis who do kundalani meditation in deep forests. His main duty is giving spiritual knowledge. This god most likes to light yellow flowers & blue flowers and most likes fruit is Beli Fruit. Color which is tuning to this god is Yellow mixed with Light Green. Gem stones for get attraction from this god are Yellow sapphire or Topaz with Emerald and related planets are Jupiter & Mercury. You can keep following crystals in your altar for get attraction from this god: Yellow Jasper, Amber or Yellow Calcite. Also you want to keep Fluorite or Malachite near it. His most liked oil is king coconut oil.
  • Wibisana God: He was the brother of King Rawana, but was also more virtuous than him. (Rawana-Rama story is half correct as we had researched, but not all the facts are true as told in myths). Rawana is a powerful king in Sri Lanka who knew mantra science very well. As we researched, Rawana had an aero vehicle called "Dadumonara" which can be controlled by the power of sounds (i.e. mantras). As prince, due to his virtuous merit works mainly on protecting peace in country & stopping killing people (at Rama-Rawana War), reborn as a powerful god who now helps us. In his human life he didn't like to war & he was sage like person. He had worshiped deities of the peace for bring peace to Sri Lanka at Rama-Rawana war season. Wibisana god's ruling area and his main devala is in Kelaniya Temple which is near Colombo. His main duty is protecting justice in the country and removing injustice. This god most likes to white flowers and most likes fruits are mango & water melon. Color which is tuning to this god is White. Gem stone for get attraction from this god is White Sapphire or White Pearl and related planets are Moon & Venus. You can keep following crystals in your altar for get attraction from this god: Clear Quartz. His most liked oil is sandalwood oil. (Picture of Wibisana God)
  • Rawana God: As King Rawana did service to mankind as a herbal physician which was written in many books in medicine and found out about many technologies for mankind, he was born as a powerful god in heaven. He helps herbal medicine physicians and people who are involved in new technology. As we researched, after his death Rawana stayed as devil state hoping to become god. Recently Sri Lankan people started to transfer merits to him, which was helped to him upgrade as powerful divine state quickly. This god most likes to light yellow flowers & Ranawaramal and most likes fruit is water melon. Color which is tuning to this god is Light Purple. Gem stone for get attraction from this god is Beryl or Cinnamon Stone and related planets are Rahu. You can keep following crystals in your altar for get attraction from this god: Clear Quartz with Amethyst. His most liked oil is very clean coconut oil.
  • Parwathi Goddess: She is also named as Uma, Umayangana, Gayatri or Gauri. She became goddess cause of her meritorious power of helping to defenceless women, esp. to disabled & poor women. Also as her husband Iswara, she also helped to pregnant women. Her main duty is helping to women and helping to attain babies for those who don't have lucky to become mothers. This goddess most likes to white flowers & Namal flowers and most likes fruits are pears, mango & green color fruits. Color which is tuning to this goddess is Orange mixed with Yellow. Gem stones for get attraction from this goddess is Yellow sapphire or Topaz with King Sapphire and related planets are Jupiter & Sun. You can keep following crystals in your altar for get attraction from this goddess: Carnelian, Citrine with Yellow Jasper, Amber or Yellow Calcite. Her most liked oil is camphor oil.
  • Pattini Goddess: Pattini goddess is another Buddhist goddess who hopes to be born male as a Bodhisattva in her future life time. She helps people by the truth of her power of chastity. Main devala is in Nawagamuwa. It is true that the female devil Kali Amma is a helper of Pattini goddess. This goddess likes to earn merit from Kiriamma Dana which is a tradition in Sri Lanka. People began to boil milk when starting new auspicious task to also get attractions from Pattini goddess. But this milk must not from animal's milk and only made from coconut or soya. She helps to cure sicknesses and mainly protect new born babies from all evils and sicknesses. She mainly help to children & remove their stresses. In her past life time, she helped to old people & children. Pattini goddess has seven middle power goddesses who are treating her as their daughter. This goddess most likes to yellow flowers and most likes fruits are mango, pineapple & banana. Color which is tuning to this goddess is Yellow. Gem stone for get attraction from this goddess is Yellow sapphire or Topaz and related planet is Jupiter. You can keep following crystals in your altar for get attraction from this goddess: Yellow Jasper, Amber or Yellow Calcite. Her most liked oil is coconut oil.
  • Lakshmi Goddess: She stays under the ruling of Kataragama god, but really she helps people with matters of businesses, money, lottery winnings, gems & properties. In her past life she helped poor people by giving money & free education for students when Skanda Kumara ruled in the Kataragama area. That merit helped her to become a goddess. But she can't give money to you, she can only remove your obstacles in order to make you work hard to earn money. In those cases she asks permission from Kataragama god before helping you. This goddess most likes to yellow & white flowers and most likes fruits are apple, pears & grapes with fresh & very clean milk cup. Sandalwood oils are suitable in lighting lamps for Lakshmi Goddess. She likes that her devotees do metta meditation, stay with loving kindness & positive thinking. Color which is tuning to this goddess is White. Gem stone for get attraction from this goddess is White Sapphire or White Pearl and related planets are Moon & Venus. You can keep following crystals in your altar for get attraction from this goddess: Clear Quartz. Her most liked oil is coconut oil.
  • Saraswathi Goddess: Goddess who stays under ruling of God Ganesha. She happens to help people in matters of music, dancing, art & general education. But she can't force you to learn or give answers in exams. She can only remove your obstacles in your education. She can help you to strengthen your mind via her mind power. It is highly advisable to students with problems in education to do Saraswathi Puja at a real devala. In her past life times, she helped to poor people and removed their objection in life. So she likes to help people regarding any matter such as illnesses or objections in life. This goddess most likes to white flowers and most likes fruits are any fruits with milk rice mixed with jaggery. Color which is tuning to this goddess is Yellow mixed with White. Gem stone for get attraction from this goddess is Yellow sapphire with White Sapphire or White Pearl and related planet is Jupiter, Moon and Venus. You can keep following crystals in your altar for get attraction from this goddess: Yellow Calcite with Clear Quartz. Her most liked oil is mixer of coconut oil & mustard (brassica/aba) oil.
  • Devol God: In his last human life, he had helped people as he could and esp. supported to poor people. Those merits helped him to became a powerful god. Mainly he gives help to cure sicknesses, protecting people from spells, helping herbal medicine doctors and also to mantra related activities. He also looks after and gives punishments to false priests and to untruthful people practicing astrology, mantra yantra works and herbal medicine. This god has power to give clairvoyance ability and increase vision in light reading. Even mentioned as god his state also devil leader (such as Dadimunda God) who stays under Pattini Goddess. This god most likes to yellow flowers or any other light color flowers and most likes fruits are any fruits including mango & pineapple except papaya. Color which is tuning to this god is White. Gem stone for get attraction from this god is White Sapphire or White Pearl and related planets are Moon & Venus. You can keep following crystals in your altar for get attraction from this god: Clear Quartz. His most liked oil is coconut oil. (Picture of Devol God)
  • Ayyanayaka God: This god's main duty is ruling Minneri region and protect virtuous people in that area. In his past lifetime, he had helped virtuous people, also helped to people & monks who practice meditation & Dharma. He had protected such innocent people in his last human life. In era of Anuradhapura Kingdom, he protected & helped many Buddhist people as a god. This god most likes to yellow flowers, white flowers & light blue flowers and most likes fruit is fully ripe mango. Color which is tuning to this god is White. Gem stone for get attraction from this god is White Sapphire or White Pearl and related planets are Moon & Venus. You can keep following crystals in your altar for get attraction from this god: Clear Quartz. His most liked oil is very clean coconut oil mixed with own extracted (in own home) golden king coconut oil (Ranthabili Thel). (Picture of Ayyanayaka God)
  • Kali Amma Goddess: Actually she is a female devil leader. In the past she stayed as a rude devil eating human meats, but according to advices from Lord Buddha & Pattini Goddess, now she became good inhuman who respects the five precepts. She is a main helper of Pattini Goddess. Because she is of goodness now, in heaven she is named as Bhadhra Kali. She is one goddess who can be attracted very soon. Sometimes she helps for the success of mantra works too. Best way to treat her is, give Kiriamma Dana, and then transfer merit to her as well as Pattini Goddess. Because now this goddess observes five precepts, she doesn't like the killing of animals to get her attraction. This goddess most likes to blood red color flowers and most likes fruits are red banana. Color which is tuning to this goddess is Blood Red. Gem stone for get attraction from this goddess is Dark Red Stones and related planet is Mars. You can keep following crystals in your altar for get attraction from this goddess: Hematite, Jasper or Red Garnet. Her most liked oil is mustard (brassica/aba) oil.
  • Walli Amma Goddess: One wife of Skanda Kumara God. Some people get help from her and ask future predictions from this goddess in some Devalas or herbal medicine centers. This goddess helps to remove problems of ghosts or devils and cure sickness with heavenly medicine. In her past life time, she helped to attain babies to women who don't have babies by using herbal medicine. Now also she helps to such women. This goddess most likes to light red flowers and most likes fruits are any fruits with milk rice mixed with honey. Color which is tuning to this goddess is Light Red. Gem stone for get attraction from this goddess is Ruby and related planets are Sun & Mars. You can keep following crystals in your altar for get attraction from this goddess: Hematite, Jasper or Red Garnet. Her most liked oil is mustard (brassica/aba) oil.
  • Kadawara God: Lives under the ruling of Kataragama God. His main duty is protecting families who have land errors and removing such errors and then helps them to attain prosperous life. Kadawara God became as god because he had helped to poor people as he could in his human life. This god most likes to white flowers and most likes fruit is water melon. Color which is tuning to this god is White. Gem stone for get attraction from this god is White Sapphire or White Pearl and related planets are Moon & Venus. You can keep following crystals in your altar for get attraction from this god: Clear Quartz. His most liked oil is very clean mixer of coconut oil & king coconut oil.
  • Bandara Devathavo: Village leaders, herbal medical doctors, astrologers & teachers who did little merits in their human life are considered to be reborn as gods called Bandara Devatha. Lot of times, they are tree based deities & mountain based deities who have middle level power. These bandara devatha can be seen as wearing white colored long clothing with matted hair. There are a lot of Bandara Devatha in every village in Sri Lanka. i.e. Kande Bandara, Sapumal Bandara, Pichchamal Bandara, etc. Color which is tuning to these gods is White. Stone for get attraction from these gods is Clear Quartz and related to any planets. You can keep following crystals in your altar for get attraction from these gods: Clear Quartz. This gods most like to white flowers and most like fruits are any fruits. Their most liked oil is coconut oil. (Vary with individual deities.)
  • Gambara Devathavo: Gambara Devathas are chief of bandara devathas who take care of each and every village or town in Sri Lanka. So many villages have gambara devathas, who tell about their villages & people to Gambara Siddha Suniyam god. Also gambara devathas takes care of the Kataragama devalas in their villages and towns. Kataragama God, Upulwan God, Wibisana God & Saman God are deities who protecting Sri Lanka. These designations were given by Lord Buddha mainly for protect Buddhism. Before Natha God rebirth in Tusita heaven, he also stayed as protecting god in Sri Lanka. After his graduation from earth based god to Tusita god that post went into Wibisana God. Main city of deities in Sri Lanka is Kataragama. Sri Lankan gods are gathering as council in Kataragama area and take decisions. Color which is tuning to these gods is White. Stone for get attraction from these gods is Clear Quartz and related to any planets. You can keep following crystals in your altar for get attraction from these gods: Clear Quartz. This gods most like to white flowers and most like fruits are any fruits. Their most liked oil is coconut oil. (May vary with individual deities.)
  • Graha Devathavo: These sky based gods can influence us with our negative or positive karmic forces. Hence these nine gods try to reduce our karmic objections or help us during each of our dasa periods. As example in Buda main dasa & Shani sub dasa period, we get the attraction of gods in Mercury & Saturn planets. These nine main gods are staying under the ruling of Sri Vishnu God. When we keep pujas for gods with regards to problems for a particular planet, it can reduce such problems. But they can't remove such karmic effects from us completely. A famous Sri Lankan ancient astrologer called Kotmale Ganitaya had seen Sikuru Grahaya and received gold ornaments and golden-leaf astrology books as folklores. These gold ornaments were donated to the Temple of Tooth Relic. Colors which are tuning to these nine gods are orange, tawny, red, green, yellow, white, blue, purple and gray. Related oils are sunflower oil, citronella oil, mustard (brassica/aba) oil, wormwood (kohombha/margosa) oil, olive oil, sandalwood oil, gingelly (sesame) oil, pasthel oil (mixer of five varieties of oils) & king coconut oil.

Devala and Deva Puja

Most of the main gods & goddesses have ministers (who are middle power gods), while under those ministers there are a lot of low power gods who specialize in giving help in certain areas. As well as low power gods, all main gods have groups of devils or powerful hungry ghosts who are used to give punishments to people who do bad things. This is because it is god's duty to keep good in the world & reduce the bad. Devala/Devale or Deity Shrines (or Temples/Fane) is a place where low power gods such as Bumathu Devas, devils or ghosts reside. These low power gods tell about us to their ministers. Quite often these low power gods give help for our success & onus by asking help from their minister gods. As an example, Kataragama god's minister god separates a lot of low power gods to all Kataragama Devala's in Sri Lanka & worldwide. 

People offer fruit's & flowers to gods. This is done because some gods absorb such meals by taking in the smell, colors & lights. In the Sutra Pitakaya, there are a collected group of sutras called Gandabbakaika Sanyuttaya, which discuss about these kind of gods by Lord Buddha. To correctly undertake a god's blessing ceremony or Deva Puja (offering to gods), firstly we need to clean four trays, seven cups and take new oil lamps (about one to seven). Then you need to make those four trays as per below:

  • First tray must be kept with herbal leaves spread, seven fruits with a small stick of sugar cane, king coconut fruit & seven sweet meals. For herbal leaves, you can use betel leaves. Fruits must not be cut, eaten by insects or animals, dirty and too young or ripe. Sweet meals must be made in-house and must not be eaten before offering deva puja.
  • Normally we use a small stick of sugar cane, apple, pears, wood apple, beli fruit, pineapple, bananas, grapes & mangoes as suitable fruits for a deva puja. As we were asked from gods, most of them like to pears. (fruits number can be five, seven or nine.)
  • Second tray must be kept with herbal leaves spread, seven varieties of flowers and lighted incense sticks. Flowers which are offered to gods must not be big and of dark red color. But for water flowers, we can use a red lotus. All gods love to Jasmine Flowers.
  • Third tray must be kept with seven herbal leaves spread, seven coins & lighted seven camphor coins on shaded coconut fruit. Here coins are used only to represent money, you do not need to keep big money. After this puja, you can donate these coins to a Buddhist temple.
  • Seven cups want to be filled from clean fruit juices, hot herbal drinks or fresh water.
  • Lighted seven oil lamps in the fourth tray, normally oils must be extracted from sandalwood, king coconuts or coconuts. Oil for deity lamps must not be from animal oils except ghee oil.
  • We used number seven for represents seven virtues of deities such as: devotion to the triple gem, observing the five precepts, fear to doing sins, shyness for doing sins, dharma learning, donations & developing wisdom.

People who can't offer such a big puja can prepare a small puja with a steel tray with spread betel leaves, five fruits, three sweet meals, white flowers, lighted incense sticks and lighted camphor coins on shaded coconut fruit.

It is appropriate to use a steel, brass or golden tray. This tray must only be used for keeping puja for gods. You need to consult a good astrologer for doing the correct deva puja, It needs to be prepared in a certain way, according to your problem and also different gods like different type of leaves, odors, flowers, fruits, oils, meals & smells. After keeping these trays into altar or Devala, we can request their attractions. Gods have a likeness for neat & clean environments, hence we need to choose a clean place to perform deva puja. Every devala has a priest who helps to do deva puja. He is a practicing vegetarian and knows well about the god in his devala. You can consult a priest at a devala to undertake this deva puja. But you also can keep such puja in a devala or near the Bodhi tree by yourself and then request to take your puja. As you can understand this puja is not eaten by gods but they only use it's smells, colors or light & only to bring happiness to their minds. One hour after the puja, you & your family members can eat the fruits & sweet meals or give it to another family, otherwise feed it to birds. Often, these items have the blessings of gods which can make your mind & body healthy.  

Keeping Of Bara - Agreements with Gods

Some people keep an agreement or onus with gods which called Bara. This is done by tying a coin with a twisted white new cloth (cloth's colors must be same as god's aura color) at a devala or near a tree. This coin is called Padura. This coin must washed from a mix of lime juice & turmeric & the cloth must be same color as god's aura color & recently purchased. It is advised to all people to remove Bara by as you promised once god has helped to you. Otherwise some gods do carry out severe punishments to us, until we remove Bara. These punishments undertaken are called Deva Dosha. You do not need to keep an agreement with gods for things which you can't do, gods only expect a little puja such as fruit, flowers, oil lamp, candle light, etc as a mark of respect. If you reside in another country, you can do the same deva puja in a Hindu temple or devala in those countries. But it is not advisable to do deva puja in the garden or outside of homes because some ghosts and devils hunt those smells. They can create new problems for you. Some countries such as Japan, devotees write down their wishes in colorful paper and tying near shrines. This also another method of keeping agreement with gods. In this case paper color should be belongs to relevant aura of each deities or color of the planet which is most powerful in your horoscope. Paper size must be squared rather than rectangle. You can arrange a deva puja just below the Buddha worshiping place or puja room. In that case use the following steps below:

  • Take a photo of your preferred god and keep it little below the Lord Buddha statue, on a table with white cloth.
  • Firstly keep flowers, light an oil lamp & light incense sticks to triple gem in Buddha worshiping place.
  • Worship Lord Buddha by saying verses or your own prayer.
  • Then chant parittas of Karaniyametta sutra, Ratana sutra and Maha Mangala sutra.
  • Then observe the five precepts.
  • Then remember your most recent performed merit activities for a small period of time.
  • Then light another oil lamp for god in front of god's photo. Oils must be from coconut oil or non-animal oil.
  • Offer lighting oil lamp and then transfer merits what you recalled to god such as "I did these good deeds, so my dear god (or name of the god), now I give the same meritorious energies to you as well...".
  • Then ask help from gods by keeping bara via mental requesting.
  • After that day, you no need to light lamp for god every day.
  • Gods will show you some omen (sometimes in a dream) related to your request within 14 days.
  • You can go to a light reading place to confirm that god has accepted your request

Can god's can tell about our future? (Soothsaying)

Many gods can speak about our future from their mind power. However, hungry ghosts & devils can mislead us at a devala by saying the truth about our past but saying incorrect information about future. Ghosts & devils cannot speak about our future as accurately as gods. Therefore you must be careful when you go to ask future predictions from some devalas. It is good to determine firstly about that devala's residing god or ghost by talking with main priests. Gods don't like to waste money, but ghosts do try to collect money from people who come to the devala. They then give that money to priests, because they have a past life relationship with those priests. But gods don't like mislead people in that way.

In Sinhala, these types of future predictions or prophesies are called as Sattara. In western parapsychology this action is widely researched as opening channel connects or channeling. Gods, devils, naga's and ghosts can read our mind by entering into our mind images. A lot of the time they can read our past lives through our mind. It is ESP power which they possess. They then determine what kind of things happen in our future through our karmic forces. Often naga, ghosts & devils hunt our body to read our mind. This is known as trance or Awasha. In a trance state, the person vibrates his body along with his head & answers the clients problems. But some powerful devils, naga & gods don't like to hunt the human body, instead they link with our mind or nervous system via telepathy & their divine-eye. This is because gods view the human body as dirty or unclean. In this case, the priest doesn't enter into a trance or awasha, instead he can know receive messages by gods via some objects such as a oil lamp, leaves, white paper, water cup, etc. Sometimes priests give Herbal Medicines via asking from gods, in that case before taking such medicines, it is important to check with an experienced Ayurvadic Doctor whether those medicines are valid according to traditional Ayurvadha. So here are simple methods to identify if a devala has gods or other type of inhumans:

  • Ask the name of the gods or goddesses when he gets into trance or awasha, often gods will say their names, details of heavens, what merits they did to become god, etc. But other inhumans get angry when we ask about their details. (Those inhumans say asking those details will help to get punishment from gods.)
  • Gods or goddesses don't like trance or to hunt the human body.
  • Gods & goddesses are kind but other inhumans try to instill fear in us.
  • Devala which have inhumans (not gods), try to take money from customers, by make fearing us such as telling we have big spell bindings, going to die, becomes sick, etc...
  • Devala must be nice & clean for get attraction of any kind of gods.

Get helps from Gods & Goddesses

According to our problems, deities have the ability to help ease our pains or they help us to achieve our life goals like as detailed below. However deities do not have a responsibility to help us. If they have a desire to, they will help us. If we have big negative karmic debts to pay, then they will stay silent. Gods can't be misled by giving pujas or by visiting shrines, cause they know every thing about us. Before we get help from these gods, you must know that whether you have an Ishta Devatha for you or an attraction of a particular god or goddess. If you have, then that ishta devatha can act as an representative and ask help from these main gods on behalf of you. Therefore you should consult your family astrologer to know which particular god is good for your problems. However if you trust the power of a particular god, you can request help from that god via your own mind.

Ishta Devatha are our past life relations or friends, soul contractors with us from non-physical realms before coming into this lifetime or past life teachers who were reincarnated as deities due to their past life merits. Commonly they are addressing in many forms such as spiritual colleagues, tutelary deities, guardian angels, ascended masters, godheads & spiritual guides. In Buddhist sense of the view, they are lower power or middle power sky based or earth based deities. Some deities become friendly with us after seeing our good deeds in our current life. You can consult a light reader or clairvoyant for know about your ishta devathas, their names and your soul purposes or soul duties. Normally a virtuous person has istha devathas between 4 to 100. Often people receive special help from these deities. Some ishta devathas work on specific tasks and for a fixed time period with us while other deities help us throughout our life. Author of this webpage practices way of connecting with istha devathas since many years and he is achieved sound benefits from it. Method is enlisting your targets of life for forth coming year in December 31st of the final year. Write it in nice paper and nice colors and categorize them as main areas in life such as career life, economic life, marriage life, spiritual life, emotional life, etc. Read it several times in January 1st, then ask blessing from your istha devathas to attain those targets and then keep it on your altar. Every month about two days you want to read this sheet and recall your istha devathas. End of the year you should give thanks to your istha devathas for helping you to win these life goals. Unsuccessful targets can lead to next year or banned from your wish list. You want to remember always, even we can't see our istha devathas but they can see us any time and they already nudge us for fetching us in right track. Lot of people have to perform soul duties in this human life and istha devathas nudge us to do so. Deities don't like to break our Free-Will hence it is better using this method for ask helps from them. Color which is tuning to these gods are Rainbow Colors. Stone & crystal for get attraction from these gods are transparent crystals and planets that link with these deities are 1st & 8th houses in your horoscope.

Many visitors ask from us about Sharing Merits to Deities. Visitors from both sides of the globe are not familiar with giving meritorious energies to deities. So here are the steps for sharing merits: Firstly recall some meritorious and sacred activities which you performed recently (such as helping poor people, donating alms, mediation etc.), then then focus your mind on it for about 3 minutes. When recalling such meritorious and sacred activities, our mind attains a happy and soft feeling, so we can transfer these positive mental energies to deities. In Buddhist Teachings there exists a type of meditation called the Meditation of Donations, which you can practice for about 20 minutes. Recall deities which you respect via their name and picture and then think as the following - "my dear gods/goddesses, please share/take these meritorious energies, which I have collected from these good deeds". Wish that these meritorious energies may help to increase their lifespan, complexion, comfort, power and wisdom. Also wish that they may attain the path and fruition of Buddhism as they hope and that the given meritorious energies may help them. Normally a good method is keeping separate book for writing down merit activities (In this book, in each page you can write down date, time, step by step description of how you did these activities and what you felt in that moment. It is better you read this book two times per month, page by page continually. Then you will remember your meritorious energies forever!), then during a free moment read it page by page and then give merits as per the above system. This system was used by Sri Lankan King Dutu Gamunu who now resides in Tusita Heaven. These meritorious energies help to increase lifespan, complexion, comfort, power and wisdom of deities including our istha devathas. Hence they are able to help us in a more powerful way for our life.

Here we give some tips to get help from gods:

  • Gods can receive your transferred merits & then help or give you blessings. But often gods don't need our merits for their living. Also, a lot of gods especially those in upper heavens can do their own merits activities such as doing meditations, asking Dharma, observing precepts, giving help to poor humans, etc...
  • Gods can give small punishments to people who stay with good precepts, but tend to go on a bad path. Also some gods give big punishments when we neglect to remove bara. But gods don't punish to people who blame, neglect or refuse the existence of gods, but they also don't help such people.
  • On every full moon day & weekly poya days, gods observe higher precepts. Therefore it is not good to ask help from them on full moon days or visit devalas on such days. The God's council normally gather at a time between 10pm to 4am every night, so this is a suitable time ask help from your most liked or respected god or goddess.
  • Not all gods can give help with regards to your request. Each god has their own subject & limitations. This subject or skills have been achieved by their merits of their past human life. Some god have many skills. Also we need merits to get help from such gods, meaning they can't help us when we are facing big negative karma.
  • Gods can see every thing at once and they can also go anywhere as soon as they feel the need. But gods & goddesses are not all mighty or powerful as we have heard. God's precepts & wisdom are different with other gods because they achieved such powers from their past life merits. Sometimes gods are also facing negative karma, when they go through such periods they become somewhat powerless.
  • The appearance of gods are not the same as what you see on images at temples, shrines or shops. Even the names are the same, but gods past life stories are different from folk & myths stories. When we researched, we had seen that a lot of deities wear simple but charming cloths & very small amount of gold ornaments.
  • Aura colors of deities may not equal to above mentioned as they appear in different people in different look likes. As an example Kataragama God considered as red color aura but may appear to someone in white color aura, so it can be vary with occasion and person. As same way to modern girl who does Western music, Saraswathi Goddess may come as modern European girl. This concept is named as Avatar of Deities.
  • When you wish to get help from gods & goddesses, Always remember god's attraction formula: 
    " Merits + Precepts + Tidiness + Sweet Odours + Chanting Dhamma (Parittas) "
  • Common verses or mantras for deities which were formulated by ancient seers might not compatible with your Lagna, Name and Nakatha. So it is better creating suitable Seth Kavi or Remedial Verses which should compatible with your birth time and name which was created from skillful writer of Remedial Verses. This verse can write and use as daily worshiping verse for your favorite deity/deities. After worshiping Lord Buddha, then at the deva puja season you can chant these verses. (For details please refer: Astrology for Success Life)
  • When you give merits to gods, always wish to increase their: lifetime, complexion, luxury, power and wisdom. Specially bodhisattva gods have a likeness to receive wishes to increase their wisdom.
  • If you have real life experiences about gods & goddesses in Sri Lanka, please send us your experiences. We can publish them in this page or use those details for our research which will be helpful for all of us. For that case, you or someone you know must have ability to talk with gods via mind power, light reading, meditation, etc.
    You also can join our Facebook group: Buddhist Deities

Recommended Books for your Reading:

Life After Death | Ancient Deities | Ascended Masters | World Fairies | Messages from the Masters
Awakener | Journey of Souls | Atlantis Angels | Enchantment of the Faerie Realm | Opening Channel

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