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Telecast Live Vintage devotional illustration of eagle-faced Lord Garuda with folded hands and outspread wings
Protection & Negative Energy Removal · standard Homa · Live from our Yagna Ashram

Garuda Homa

Also spelled Garuda Homam

गरुड होम

The wings that no venom can touch. Garuda is called into the fire for you — for shelter from drishti, occult harm and the negativity you cannot name.

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

Garuda Homa is a protection rite. Garuda, the great eagle who carries Vishnu, is the traditional refuge against poison, sorcery and unseen malice. Where he arrives, serpents scatter. In the homa, his mantras are offered into consecrated fire with ghee, herbs and specific dravyas while your name, gotra and nakshatra are recited — so the shelter is asked for you by name, not in general.

Devotees turn to garuda homa when a household feels heavy for no reason. Sleep breaks. Work that was steady begins to unravel. A child is unsettled after a crowd. The tradition does not always name a cause; it prescribes a remedy. Garuda puja and this fire rite belong to that older, practical layer of worship — you do not argue with the darkness, you light something stronger and stand behind it.

ॐ पक्षिराजाय विद्महे स्वर्णपक्षाय धीमहि। तन्नो गरुडः प्रचोदयात्॥ We contemplate the king of birds, we meditate on him of golden wings — may that Garuda inspire and impel us.

Why Devotees Book This

The garuda homa benefits described in tradition — and the reasons devotees write to us — centre on shelter, clarity and a quieter home.

Shelter from evil eye

Garuda is invoked against drishti — the heaviness that follows envy, crowds or unwanted attention on your success, your child, your new home.

Against sorcery and occult harm

The tradition prescribes this rite where black magic, abhichara or deliberate ill-will is suspected. The mantras are offered for the removal of such influence.

Freedom from psychic disturbance

Devotees seek it for recurring nightmares, unexplained fear, a sense of being watched, or a room in the house that never feels right.

Protection for the household

Garuda puja is offered for the whole family — children, elders, those who travel, those living far from home under your care.

Steadiness in body and mind

Garuda is the classical remover of visha, poison of every kind. Devotees offer this homa when illness lingers without clear cause, alongside their medical care.

Courage to act

Fear makes people wait. The garuda homa is asked for the nerve of the eagle — to move, to decide, to stop shrinking from what must be faced.

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 Garuda 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 Garuda Yantra
Book your Garuda Homa

Choose your homa in two steps

In every package
  • The complete Garuda 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 Garuda 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 Garuda — 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 Garuda 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 Garuda 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 Garuda Yantra.

Sacred timing

The most auspicious days for a Garuda Homa

Any day the fire is lit with sankalpa carries weight, yet the tradition favours certain windows for Garuda worship.

Garuda Panchami

Shukla Panchami of Shravana, the day set aside for Garuda and for freedom from serpent-fear. The most sought-after date for this homa.

Saturdays and Ekadashi

Days sacred to Vishnu carry his vahana with them. Devotees favour these for garuda puja through the year.

Shravana and Punarvasu nakshatra

Stars associated with Vishnu worship are chosen when protection for the whole household is the intent.

At the onset of trouble

When drishti or occult harm is suspected, the rite is not postponed. Our panchanga team fixes the nearest clean muhurat for you.

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 Garuda Yantra

The Garuda 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 Garuda 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 Garuda Yantra

01

Your auspicious time to wear it

Wear it for the first time on a Saturday, 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 Garuda Homa is performed

Priests performing the Garuda 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

Garuda Avahana

The mula mantra of Garuda 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 Garuda — 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 Garuda Yantra are then packed and shipped free to your door.

Who is invoked

Garuda

Son of Kashyapa and Vinata, the great eagle serves as the mount and standard-bearer of Vishnu. Images show him with a human torso, a sharp beak, powerful wings of gold, and hands folded before his lord or grasping serpents in his talons. The Mahabharata tells of his flight to seize the amrita to free his mother from bondage, and of the enmity between him and the Nagas that follows from it. For this reason tradition holds him lord over venom, and healers have long invoked him against poison and sorcery. He is Vainateya, Suparna, Pakshiraja, king of birds. Devotees turn to him when trouble has no face and no name, trusting the swiftness of one who moves faster than harm.

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

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Questions

Frequently asked

The Garuda Homa, or Garuda Homam, is a Vedic fire ritual in which Garuda — the golden-winged king of birds and the vahana of Vishnu — is invoked and offered ghee, herbs and specified dravyas in your name, gotra and nakshatra. Its significance lies in Garuda's role as the destroyer of poison and the fearless guardian who scatters what is hostile: where he arrives, serpents scatter. The rite is traditionally prescribed as a protective measure for individuals and households facing negative energy, the evil eye or occult interference.
Tradition prescribes the Garuda Homa for protection from the evil eye and drishti, for relief from suspected black magic and abhichara, for freedom from psychic disturbance and unexplained fear, for the safety of the family and its travellers, and for courage where fear has taken hold. Garuda pooja is offered for the whole family, and because Garuda is the classical remover of visha, poison of every kind, devotees also offer it when illness lingers without clear cause. It is offered as prayer, and alongside medical care, never in place of it.
Anyone who feels the need for protection may book the Garuda Homa; there is no restriction of age, gender or region. It is commonly booked by those who suspect drishti or ill-will, families moving house, parents worried for a child who has grown unsettled, people recovering after a long unsettled period, and those advised by an astrologer following a chart reading. Qualified priests perform it on your behalf at our Yagna Ashram, and you watch the live telecast from wherever you are. It is a private ceremony for you and up to four family members, never a group rite.
Our priests perform the Garuda Homa around a consecrated fire at our Yagna Ashram, beginning with achamana, Ganapati puja and punyahavachana, then a sankalpa naming you, your gotra and your nakshatra. Garuda is invoked into the kalasha and honoured with the Garuda puja, shodashopachara. Agni is kindled in the kunda and the ahutis are offered with ghee, samidha, black sesame, rice, dried herbs and the protective dravyas prescribed for this rite, every priest making their own offerings. Purnahuti closes the fire, followed by mantra pushpam, and you watch it all on live telecast.
You can book the Garuda 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 Garuda 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 Garuda — Garuda Panchami, the Shukla Panchami of Shravana, a Saturday or Ekadashi, or Shravana or Punarvasu 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 Garuda 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 Garuda 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 Garuda Yantra are couriered to you anywhere in the world, free of shipping cost.
Every Garuda Homa package includes the energised Garuda 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.

Read the full refund and cancellation policy.

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