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Telecast Live Vintage devotional illustration of eight-armed Goddess Drishti Durga seated on a protective lion
Protection & Negative Energy Removal · standard Homa · Live from our Yagna Ashram

Drishti Durga Homa

Also spelled Drishti Durga Homam

दृष्टि दुर्गा होम

When a stranger's glance, an envious word or an unseen working clings to your life, the Mother's fire is where it is cut away.

  • 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 Drishti Durga Yantra, sealed in a silver amulet, shipped worldwide at no charge
From$177 6 packages · free energised Drishti Durga Yantra · free worldwide delivery · all-inclusive
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The Ritual and Its Weight

Drishti means the look — the gaze that carries envy, resentment or ill will, whether it is cast knowingly or not. The tradition holds that such a gaze settles on a person, a child, a shop, a new house, and slowly turns things heavy: sleep breaks, plans stall, quarrels start over nothing. The Drishti Durga Homa is the fire rite prescribed for exactly this. Durga is invoked in her form as the remover of the harmful gaze, and every offering into the flame is a request that what has attached itself be burnt clean.

This homa is also turned to when the disturbance feels deliberate — abhichara, black magic, the unease of a place, the sense of being watched in the mind. The Agamas treat fire as the one element that does not carry impurity forward. What is placed in it is finished. Priests chant the Durga mantras, offer ghee, red flowers, guggulu and the prescribed dravyas, and complete the raksha for the person named in the sankalpa. You watch it happen live, from wherever you are.

सर्वाबाधाविनिर्मुक्तो धनधान्यसुतान्वितः। मनुष्यो मत्प्रसादेन भविष्यति न संशयः॥ By the Mother's grace a person is released from every affliction and obstruction, and is blessed with sustenance, grain and progeny — of this there is no doubt.

Why Devotees Book This

Devotees come to the Drishti Durga Homa for one reason above all — to be shielded. These are the intentions the tradition attaches to the rite.

Removal of drishti dosha

The core purpose of the drishti durga homa: to lift the effect of an envious or ill-meaning gaze from a person, a child or a household.

Protection from black magic

Where abhichara or deliberate harmful working is suspected, the Durga mantras are chanted as raksha and the residue offered into the fire.

Shielding the mind

Invoked against psychic disturbance — persistent fear, broken sleep, heaviness with no cause you can name.

Cleansing a place

Traditionally performed for a new home, a shop or a plot of land that has felt uneasy, so the space is entered under the Mother's guard.

Guarding children and new beginnings

Among the most cited durga homa benefits — infants, students, brides, new ventures, anything openly admired and thought to need covering.

Ongoing kavacha

The energised Drishti Durga Yantra couriered to you is worn as a continuing shield after the fire is complete.

Brahmashree Shivaaya, Chief Operating Officer & Head of Astrological & Spiritual Solutions at AstroBhava
Brahmashree ShivaayaChief Operating Officer & Head of Astrological & Spiritual Solutions
Who performs your homa

Under the guidance of Brahmashree Shivaaya

Every priest who performs your Drishti Durga Homa 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 — with Yantra Pujas inside our consecrated sanctum.

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 Drishti Durga Yantra
Book your Drishti Durga Homa

Choose your homa in two steps

In every package
  • The complete Drishti Durga Homa, 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 Drishti Durga Yantra, sealed in a silver amulet
What changes

Only the number of priests: 1, 3 or 5. Every priest makes their own offerings, and all of them perform at the same time, in one ceremony.

108 ahutis by each priest, with the mula mantra of Drishti Durga — so 108, 324 or 540 in all, by package.

Step 1 How many priests will perform your homa?

Has your astrologer prescribed a different number of ahutis? Our priests can review it and arrange a customised homa. Call our Devotee Relationship Team on +91 96295 55442 — they confirm the count, the priests, the approximate duration and the total price before you book.

Step 2 Enhance with the 48-Day Anushthan? (optional)

* Your Drishti Durga Yantra is a copper plate approx. 1–2 inches, rolled and sealed inside a silver amulet approx. 2–4 inches. Sizes are approximate and the amulet's design varies between supplier batches — shape, metal and consecration remain the same.

Your packagePancha Agni Drishti Durga Homa5 Priests + Free Yantra
$537

All prices are all-inclusive — no shipping charges, no additions at checkout. See everything included →

1

You book — and add birth details on the next page, straight after payment.

2

Within 24–48 working hours — your muhurta is confirmed by email.

3

The day before — your telecast link arrives by email.

4

After the homa — tracking email with how and when to wear the Drishti Durga Yantra.

Sacred timing

The most auspicious days for a Drishti Durga Homa

Drishti Durga is a Shakti rite, so the days sacred to the Mother carry it best.

Tuesday and Friday

The two weekdays traditionally given to Durga. Protection rites and raksha homas are most often set on these days.

Ashtami, Navami and Chaturdashi

The tithis associated with the fierce, guarding aspect of the Goddess — long held as strong for removing drishti and abhichara.

Navaratri and Ashada Navaratri

The nine nights of Shakti. Protection homas performed in this window are considered especially potent in the Agamic reckoning.

Bharani, Ashlesha and Moola nakshatras

Stars linked to Durga worship. Every nakshatra is workable; these are simply the ones the tradition prefers for this specific rite.

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 homa on one of the days above, tell us at checkout and we will fix the muhurta within it.

Every package, and the 48-day option

What you receive

The sealing of the Drishti Durga Yantra

The Drishti Durga 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 homa, receiving the energies raised in the fire. When your homa 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 homa performed at our ashram can still reach a devotee ten thousand miles away: what the fire raised travels to you, sealed.

Personal sankalpa

Your name, gotra & nakshatra — and up to four family members if you wish. No one else is named.

Live telecast

Watch your own homa in real time from the ashram. Streamed openly on our YouTube channel by default — or request an unlisted telecast at checkout.

Free energised Drishti Durga 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.

Yantra Pujas inside our consecrated sanctum

48-Day Anushthan (optional) — daily pujas for 48 days — the 27 Nakshatras + 12 Rashis + 9 Planets — then sealed in a silver amulet of approximately 2–4 inches. Performed in our consecrated sanctum at the Yagna Ashram.

A note on sacred tradition

As per strict Agama vidhi, no videography is permitted inside the temple sanctum — this preserves the pure sacred energies and undisturbed divine focus of the ritual. The main homa is respectfully telecast live from outside the sanctum.

Homas are telecast openly on our YouTube channel so that devotees everywhere may witness the rituals — and because we believe you should be able to see our work before you trust us with yours. Your sankalpa names you and any family members you add, so if you would rather your ceremony were not public, choose the private telecast option at checkout and it is streamed as an unlisted link, which does not appear on our channel or in search, though anyone who has the link can watch it and share it.

We state this plainly — transparency about what tradition forbids filming, and about what is public, is part of performing these rituals honestly.

After it arrives

How to wear your energised Drishti Durga Yantra

01

Your auspicious time to wear it

Wear it for the first time on the day named in your dispatch email, 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.

02

At a funeral

Take the yantra off before you attend a funeral.

03

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.

04

Keep the energy intact

You may repeat this energising once a week or once a month.

Inside the fire ritual

How your Drishti Durga Homa is performed

Priests performing the Drishti Durga Homa at AstroBhava's Yagna AshramThese seven steps, as they happenFrom a live telecast at our Yagna Ashram
01

Sankalpa

The priest states your name, gotra and nakshatra — and those of up to four family members — with the intention this homa is performed for.

02

Ganapati Puja

The customary invocation to Ganapati, clearing obstacles before the deity is approached.

03

Agni Pratishtha

The fire is consecrated in the homa kunda and Agni invoked as the carrier of every offering that follows.

04

Drishti Durga Avahana

The mula mantra of Drishti Durga is chanted, inviting the deity's presence into the fire — by one, three or five priests as your package sets.

05

Ahuti

Ghee and akshata, with the flowers, grains and dravyas proper to this deity, are offered in sequence with mantra. Each priest makes 108 of these offerings with the mula mantra of Drishti Durga — 108, 324 or 540 in all, by package.

06

Purnahuti

The final complete offering seals the sankalpa stated at the opening.

07

Aarti & Dispatch

Aarti is performed live on your telecast. Vibhuti, sandalwood powder, kumkum and your energised Drishti Durga Yantra are then packed and shipped free to your door.

Who is invoked

Drishti Durga

Drishti Durga is the particular aspect of the goddess invoked where the harmful glance—drishti—is understood as a real force that can settle on a person, a child, or a household. She is not a separate deity invented in modern times but a specialised face of Durga recognised in domestic and temple practice across Tamil Nadu, Andhra, and parts of Karnataka, where the evil eye is treated as an affliction requiring a named counter-presence. In this form she is addressed as the one who intercepts and dissolves the concentrated envy or admiration that tradition holds can cling like an unseen residue. Her imagery often retains the lion and the weapons, yet the ritual focus narrows to the eyes: the gaze that wounds and the gaze that unbinds. She remains fully Durga, only oriented toward this single, intimate danger.

In this homa that grace is invoked through fire, with your own name and birth details spoken in the sankalpa.

The complete guide

Drishti Durga: meaning, pronunciation & how to chant

The mantra word by word, how it is pronounced, and how devotees chant it at home.

Read the Mantra Guide →
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Questions

Frequently asked

The Drishti Durga Homa, or Drishti Durga Homam, is a Vedic fire ritual addressed to Durga in her aspect as Drishti Durga, who removes the harmful gaze. Drishti is the look that carries envy or ill will, cast knowingly or not; its residue is said to settle on people, households and enterprises and make them heavy. Its significance lies in the medium: fire consumes what is offered and does not pass it on. Priests chant, make the prescribed offerings, and complete the raksha for the person named in the sankalpa.
The Drishti Durga Homa benefits the tradition names are protective in nature: relief from drishti dosha, a shield against black magic and abhichara, the calming of psychic disturbance and unexplained fear, the cleansing of a new or uneasy dwelling, shop or workplace, and a covering for children and new beginnings — infants, students, brides, new ventures, anything openly admired. It is offered as prayer.
The Drishti Durga Homa is for anyone who senses an envious or ill-meaning gaze on themselves, a child, a shop or a new venture, who suspects abhichara, or whose household has turned heavy without cause, with plans stalling and quarrels starting over nothing. The rite itself needs priests trained in Shakti upasana and Agamic homa procedure, so our priests perform it on your behalf at our Yagna Ashram while you watch the live telecast; you need not attend, travel or fast. It is a private ceremony for you and up to four family members, never a group rite.
Our priests perform the Drishti Durga Homa around a consecrated fire at our Yagna Ashram, beginning with achamana, Ganapati puja and the sankalpa in your name, birth star and gotra. Punyahavachanam and kalasha sthapana follow, the agni is kindled in the kunda, and the Navagraha offerings are made. Drishti Durga is then invoked, and ahutis of ghee, red flowers, guggulu, samidha, honey and the prescribed dravyas are offered with mantra, every priest making their own offerings. Purnahuti, aarti and mantra pushpam close the rite. The ashram arranges all samagri, and you watch it all on live telecast.
You can book the Drishti Durga Homa with one, three or five priests. Each package is the complete homa, with the same ritual stages and the same kinds of offerings, performed privately for you and up to four family members and never combined with another booking. What changes is the number of priests: every priest makes their own ahutis, the offerings into the fire, and all of them perform at the same time, in one ceremony. An ahuti count is a count of these offerings, not a japa count, which measures repetitions of a mantra. Each priest makes 108 ahutis: 108 in all with one priest, 324 with three and 540 with five, in approximately 1 hour. A larger package adds priests and offerings, not a second ceremony. Choose the scale that fits your intention, preference and budget; the one-priest homa is complete in itself, and no package guarantees a particular result.
Yes. Our listed Drishti Durga Homa packages specify standard ahuti counts and priest numbers. If your astrologer has prescribed a different count, we can arrange a customised homa following review by our priests. Please share your requirements with our Devotee Relationship Team on +91 96295 55442. The team will confirm the ahuti count, number of priests, approximate duration and total price before you book. Your customised homa remains a private ceremony dedicated to your sankalpa, never combined with other customers' bookings.
About an hour, whichever package you choose: the priests perform together and make their offerings at the same time, so three or five priests do not lengthen the ceremony. Your muhurta, the date and time, is confirmed by email within 24–48 working hours of booking, and the live telecast link arrives the day before, so you can follow every stage wherever you are.
You do not need to wait for an auspicious day. 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 prefer one of the days traditionally sacred to Drishti Durga — a Tuesday or Friday, the Ashtami, Navami and Chaturdashi tithis, Navaratri and Ashada Navaratri, or Bharani, Ashlesha or Moola nakshatra — tell us in the notes at checkout and we will fix the muhurta within it. Our Panchang shows the tithi and nakshatra for any date.
Yes. What directs a homa is its sankalpa: the solemn resolve the priest makes before the fire is kindled, stating who the homa is for and what it is offered for. The deity invoked and the ritual remain the same; the purpose is yours, as your astrologer has advised it. So if you have been advised the Drishti Durga Homa for a reason other than those on this page, write that purpose in your own words in the “Your sankalpa” box on the birth-details page, straight after payment, and the priest will state it in the sankalpa with your name, gotra and nakshatra. If the advice also names a date, a number of ahutis or a number of priests, mention it in the notes at checkout, or call our Devotee Relationship Team on +91 96295 55442 before you book.
Book the Drishti Durga Homa online on this page, from India or from any other country; devotees living abroad book it the same way, and prices are shown in your currency. Choose one, three or five priests, and straight after payment add your name, gotra if you know it and your birth star, with your prayer for the homa in the “Your sankalpa” box. Your muhurta is confirmed by email within 24–48 working hours and the live telecast link arrives the day before, so you can watch the entire homa live, wherever you are. Afterwards, prasadam and your energised Drishti Durga Yantra are couriered to you anywhere in the world, free of shipping cost.
Every Drishti Durga Homa package includes the energised Drishti Durga Yantra: a copper plate of about 1–2 inches, consecrated over three days and present in the fire through your homa. It is then rolled and sealed inside a silver amulet of about 2–4 inches, made to be worn, and couriered to you with your prasadam, free of shipping cost; the tracking email gives your personal time to wear it. If you add the optional 48-Day Anushthan, the yantra is also worshipped daily in our consecrated sanctum for 48 days before it is sealed.
Our silver amulets are specially made for everyday wear: copper is added to the silver to make them more durable. With regular use, the amulet may turn black, reddish or brown as it is exposed to heat and reacts with the chemicals in cosmetics. Wipe it regularly with a soft, dry cotton cloth, keep perfume and cosmetics away from it, and clean it by rubbing it gently with a pinch of vibhuti (sacred ash). Every six months, polish it with cotton dipped in a silver cleaner, but never soak or dip the amulet itself. Never open it, as the energies of the yantra are sealed inside. If it is ever damaged, send it back to us, not to a jeweller.

Your ritual date is an auspicious muhurta calculated personally for you — not a slot on a rota. Once it is confirmed, rescheduling from the customer's side is not available, and cancellation does not carry a refund. If we ever have to move your ritual for unforeseen reasons at the ashram, we will inform you immediately and provide a fresh auspicious date at no cost — and your telecast, recording, prasadam and yantra remain exactly as promised.

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