Devi Sukta Homam
Also known as Devi Sukta Homa · Devi Sukta Havan
देवी सूक्त होमThe oldest hymn in which the Mother speaks of herself, offered into living fire — chanted for you, streamed to you, wherever you sit.
- Never a group ceremony — only the names you give are spoken
- Muhurta fixed from your own birth chart, confirmed within 24–48 working hours
- Free energised Devi Sukta Yantra, sealed in a silver amulet, shipped worldwide at no charge
The Ritual and Its Weight
The Devi Sukta Homam is built around one of the boldest hymns in the Rigveda. In the tenth mandala, the seer Vak Ambhrini does not praise the Goddess from a distance. She speaks as the Goddess: I move with the Rudras and the Vasus, I hold Mitra and Varuna, I am the one who bends the bow. When these verses are offered into fire with ghee and havis, the rite is not a petition sent upward. It is a remembering that the power addressed outside you is the same power breathing inside you.
This is why the Devi Sukta Homam sits in the Spiritual Growth and Devotion tradition rather than among rites of quick relief. Its fruit is inward: steadiness in sadhana, warmth in bhakti, a quieting of the noise that keeps the mind from its own centre. Devotees turn to it when japa has grown dry, when a new spiritual practice is being begun, or simply when the heart wants to sit at the Mother's feet and be held. Performed at Maha scale, with the full Sukta repeated in ordained counts, it is one of the most complete Devi rites AstroBhava conducts.
अहं रुद्रेभिर्वसुभिश्चराम्यहमादित्यैरुत विश्वदेवैः। अहं मित्रावरुणोभा बिभर्म्यहमिन्द्राग्नी अहमश्विनोभा॥ aham rudrebhir vasubhiś carāmy aham ādityair uta viśvadevaiḥ | aham mitrāvaruṇobhā bibharmy aham indrāgnī aham aśvinobhā || The Goddess declares that she moves with all the shining powers of the universe and herself upholds every one of them — she is the single force sustaining all that is worshipped.What a Maha Homam is
Not every fire ritual is performed at the same scale. A Maha Homam is our largest form — more priests, a longer fire, and the complete chanting sequence the rite prescribes rather than an abridged one. This is what that means in practice.
A Maha Homam is never a group ceremony, the same as any homam we conduct. What the scale changes is the weight of the offering — ten trained voices holding one hymn for two hours is a different undertaking from one voice for an hour, and it is reserved for the intentions that warrant it.
Benefits of the Devi Sukta Homam
The tradition prescribes the Devi Sukta Homam for the inner life. These are the intentions with which devotees ask for it.
Depth in Devotion
The Sukta is offered to soften a heart that has become mechanical in worship, so that bhakti feels alive again rather than dutiful.
Steadiness in Sadhana
Sought by those beginning japa, mantra diksha or a daily discipline, and by those who wish to return to a practice they let slip.
Inner Quiet
The rite is traditionally taken up for calm of mind — for the settling that lets you hear your own prayer over your own restlessness.
Grace of the Mother
Devi is invoked as the sustaining power of all beings. Devotees offer this homam asking to remain within that grace through every turn of life.
Clarity of Speech and Purpose
The hymn is revealed by a seer of Vak, sacred speech. It is offered by teachers, singers, reciters and writers who wish their words to carry truth.
Shelter from Negative Influence
Because Devi is invoked here as the wielder of the bow, the Sukta is also chanted in the tradition of protection — for a home and mind kept clear of hostile energy.
Under the guidance of Brahmashree Shivaaya
Every priest who performs your Devi Sukta Homam is trained in a traditional Padashala and personally recruited by Brahmashree Shivaaya — Chief Operating Officer & Head of Astrological & Spiritual Solutions at AstroBhava. Your ritual is conducted at our own Yagna Ashram — never a rented venue.
Meet our priests →- Certified Vedic priests — trained in traditional Padashalas
- 100% Agama Vidhi — as prescribed in the scriptures
- One chart, one sankalpa, one fire — never a group ceremony
- Muhurta from your chart — date fixed to your birth details
- Free worldwide delivery — prasadam & energised Devi Sukta Yantra
Choose how many priests will chant
- The complete Devi Sukta Homam, with the same ritual stages and the same kinds of offerings
- A private ceremony for you and up to four family members, never combined with anyone else’s booking
- Live telecast from our Yagna Ashram, and prasadam shipped free
- The energised Devi Sukta Yantra, sealed in a silver amulet
Only the number of priests: 5 or 10. Every priest makes their own offerings, and all of them perform at the same time, in one ceremony.
27 complete recitations of the Devi Sukta by each priest — so 135 or 270 in all, by package.
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Send your name, date, time and place of birth and your concern; our astrologers tell you which rite to perform, from your chart (by Prashna if your birth time is unknown). We do not answer questions about the future, such as marriage or jobs. Reply within 24–48 hours.
A different ritual count prescribed? Our priests arrange a customised homam — WhatsApp or call; they confirm the count, the priests, the duration and the price before you book.
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You book — and add birth details on the next page, straight after payment.
Within 24–48 working hours — your muhurta is confirmed by email.
The day before — your telecast link arrives by email.
After the homam — tracking email with how and when to wear the Devi Sukta Yantra.
The most auspicious days for a Devi Sukta Homam
The Devi Sukta Homam may be offered on any day the Mother is worshipped. These occasions are held especially potent.
The nine nights of Devi are the foremost window for this rite, with Ashtami and Navami counted as the most powerful days to offer the Sukta into fire.
Friday is the Mother's weekday, and Pournami is her fullness. Both are classical days for Devi Sukta Homam.
The eighth and fourth lunar days of either fortnight are prescribed for Shakti upasana and are often chosen for sadhakas beginning a new practice.
These asterisms are traditionally linked to Devi worship and are favoured when the homam is offered for growth in devotion.
You do not need to wait for one of these days. Whenever you book, our astrologers calculate the muhurta from your own birth chart — a date chosen for you personally, which tradition regards as more precise than a calendar date chosen for everyone. If you would like the homam on one of the days above, tell us at checkout and we will fix the muhurta within it.
What you receive
The sealing of the Devi Sukta Yantra
The Devi Sukta Yantra is consecrated over three days — Jala (holy-water consecration with mantras), Prana (life force through pranayama & chants) and Jeeva Pratishta (awakened with 108 recitations & offerings) — then present through your homam, receiving the energies raised in the fire. When your homam concludes, it is rolled and locked inside its silver amulet according to Agama vidhi — the practice by which those energies are held within a consecrated object rather than dispersing. It is why a homam performed at our ashram can still reach a devotee ten thousand miles away: what the fire raised travels to you, sealed.
This is what arrives at your door, at no extra cost, with your prasadam.
Personal sankalpa
Your name, gotra & nakshatra — and up to four family members if you wish. No one else is named.
Hear yours read back, as the priest will say it →Live telecast
Watch your own homam in real time from the ashram. Streamed openly on our YouTube channel by default — or request an unlisted telecast at checkout.
Free energised Devi Sukta Yantra, sealed in a silver amulet
Shipped to you with your prasadam.
Prasadam, shipped free
Sacred vibhuti, sandalwood powder & kumkum from your fire — delivered to any country.
How to wear your energised Devi Sukta Yantra
Your auspicious time to wear it
Wear it for the first time on a Friday, between 6.30 and 7.30 in the morning. Bathe first, place the yantra on your pooja altar and offer your prayers, then wear it around your neck or your waist, on a red or black thread or a silver chain.
At a funeral
Take the yantra off before you attend a funeral.
Purify the amulet
Whenever the yantra has been taken off, or if it was worn at a funeral, dip it in raw milk or Ganga jal, show it incense, dhoop or attar (perfume), and then wear it again.
Keep the energy intact
You may repeat this energising once a week or once a month.
How your Devi Sukta Homam is performed
Sankalpa
The priest states your name, gotra and nakshatra — and those of up to four family members — with the intention this homam is performed for.
Ganapati Puja
The customary invocation to Ganapati, clearing obstacles before the deity is approached.
Agni Pratishtha
The fire is consecrated in the homa kunda and Agni invoked as the carrier of every offering that follows.
Devi Avahana
The Devi Sukta is chanted, inviting the deity's presence into the fire — by five or ten priests as your scale sets.
Ahuti
Ghee and akshata, with the flowers, grains and dravyas proper to this deity, are offered in sequence with mantra.
Purnahuti
The final complete offering seals the sankalpa stated at the opening.
Aarti & Dispatch
Aarti is performed live on your telecast. Vibhuti, sandalwood powder, kumkum and your energised Devi Sukta Yantra are then packed and shipped free to your door.
Devi (Durga)
The Devi Suktam, also called the Vak Sukta, is hymn 125 of the tenth book of the Rigveda: eight verses in which the goddess of speech describes herself and no worshipper ever addresses her. The Rigvedic index names its seer as Vak, daughter of the sage Ambhrina, and gives the same Vak as its deity, so the one who sees the hymn is also its subject. Seven of the eight verses open on aham, 'I'; the fourth opens on maya, 'through me'. Verses 1 and 2 list the gods she moves with and upholds. Verse 3 calls her rashtri, the queen who gathers wealth. Verses 4 and 5 make her the power by which anyone eats, breathes and hears, and by which a chosen person becomes a seer. Verse 6 has her draw Rudra's bow, verse 7 places her birth in the waters of the ocean, and verse 8 leaves her grown beyond heaven and earth. The metre is trishtubh, with verse 2 in jagati.
In this homam that grace is invoked through fire, with your own name and birth details spoken in the sankalpa.
Devi Suktam: meaning, pronunciation & how to chant
The mantra word by word, how it is pronounced, and how devotees chant it at home.
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Frequently asked
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