Gati Puja is a prayer ritual that involves offerings, visualization, and mantra recitation. It is performed to receive blessings from enlightened beings, to accumulate merit, and to remove obstacles and negative circumstances.
Puja is a significant ritual in Hinduism, where it is an act of offering light, flowers, water, or food to the divine. The worshipper sees the divine in the image, and the divinity sees the worshipper. The interaction between the human and deity is called a Darshanam.