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Telecast Live Gayatri Homa for clarity of mind and devotion: five-faced ten-armed Goddess Gayatri Devi seated on a lotus with a swan
Spiritual Growth & Devotion · standard Homa · Live from our Yagna Ashram

Gayatri Homa

Also spelled Gayathri Homa / Gayathri Homam

गायत्री होमम्

The mother of the Vedas invoked in fire — offerings made in your name for clarity of mind, steady devotion and grace on your inner path.

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

The Gayatri Homa is the fire offering built around the Gayatri Mantra, the verse the Vedic tradition calls the mother of all mantras. Every syllable of that verse is a prayer for light — not the light of the sun alone, but the light by which the mind sees clearly. In the homa, that verse is chanted in measured count while ghee, samidha and sacred grains are offered into the consecrated fire, sankalpa taken in your name and gotra.

Householders have turned to the gayatri homa at the turning points of the inner life — before beginning study, before taking up a discipline of japa, when the mind has grown restless, when devotion feels dry. The tradition prescribes it as a rite of purification and renewal: the fire receives what is offered, the mantra sets the intent, and the devotee is placed under the care of the Goddess who presides over understanding itself.

ॐ भूर्भुवः स्वः । तत्सवितुर्वरेण्यं भर्गो देवस्य धीमहि । धियो यो नः प्रचोदयात् ॥ We meditate upon the adorable radiance of the divine Sun who sustains the earth, the mid-region and the heavens — may that light awaken and guide our understanding.

Why Devotees Book This

The Gayatri Homa is sought for the inner life. Here is what the tradition prescribes it for.

Clarity of Mind

The Gayatri verse is a prayer for illumined understanding. Devotees offer this homa when thought feels clouded and discernment is needed.

Steadiness in Devotion

For those whose sadhana has grown irregular, the homa is performed as a renewal of intent — a fresh beginning to daily japa and worship.

Inner Peace

The tradition regards the fire and the sustained chant as a settling influence on an agitated mind. Devotees sit with the stream and let the rhythm do its work.

Purification of Past Deeds

Agni is the mouth of the gods. Offerings made through him are understood to cleanse accumulated karmic impressions that weigh on the spirit.

Divine Grace and Protection

Gayatri is invoked as mother. The homa places the devotee and the household under her protective regard.

Support for Study and Learning

Students and seekers of knowledge have long turned to the gayatri homa before examinations, initiations and long courses of study.

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 Gayatri 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 Gayatri Devi Yantra
Book your Gayatri Homa

Choose your homa in two steps

In every package
  • The complete Gayatri 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 Gayatri Devi 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 Gayatri Devi — 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 Gayatri Devi 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 Gayatri 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 Gayatri Devi Yantra.

Sacred timing

The most auspicious days for a Gayatri Homa

The gayatri homa is performed by daylight, and certain days carry particular strength for it.

Sunday and the Sandhya hours

Sunday is ruled by Surya, whose radiance the Gayatri verse invokes. Dawn and midday sandhya are the classical windows for the offering.

Gayatri Jayanti

Falling in the month of Jyeshtha on Shukla Ekadashi, this is the day the tradition honours as the descent of the Gayatri Mantra.

Upakarma and Avani Avittam

The annual renewal of the sacred thread is traditionally accompanied by intensive Gayatri japa, and the homa is offered alongside it.

Hasta and Punarvasu nakshatras

These stars are held favourable for rites of learning, purification and spiritual beginning. Our panchanga team also fixes a muhurat by your own birth star.

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 Gayatri Devi Yantra

The Gayatri Devi 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.

Hear yours read back, as the priest will say it →

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 Gayatri Devi 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 Gayatri Devi Yantra

01

Your auspicious time to wear it

Wear it for the first time on a Sunday, 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 Gayatri Homa is performed

Priests performing the Gayatri 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

Gayatri Avahana

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

Who is invoked

Gayatri Devi

Devotees know her as Vedamata, the mother of the Vedas, the goddess in whom the great Savitri verse takes living form. Iconography shows her with five faces turned to the four directions and upward, ten arms bearing lotus, conch, discus, noose, goad, book and rudraksha, seated on a lotus with the swan near her. The verse itself addresses Savitr, the light-giving power of the sun; she is that light held as a goddess who presides over understanding. The tradition places her at the beginning of Vedic study, in the daily sandhya of the twice-born, and in the discipline of japa. Students, seekers and householders turn to her when the mind grows scattered and clear seeing is what is asked for.

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

Not sure this is the right homa?

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Questions

Frequently asked

You can book the Gayatri 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 Gayatri 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.
The Gayathri Homa, also written Gayatri Homa, is a Vedic fire ritual to Gayatri Devi, centred on the Gayathri Mantra, the verse revered as the mother of the Vedas. Ghee, samidha and sacred grains are offered into a consecrated fire, with the sankalpa taken in your name and gotra. Its significance lies in what the verse asks for — illumined understanding, the light by which the mind sees clearly. The tradition prescribes the homa as a rite of inner purification, undertaken when a seeker wishes to steady the mind, renew devotion or begin a serious course of study or sadhana.
The tradition prescribes the Gayathri Homa for clarity of thought, steadiness in daily practice, inner calm and the cleansing of karmic impressions through offerings made into Agni, the mouth of the gods. Devotees also seek it for the protective grace of the Goddess over the household, and students book it before examinations, initiations and periods of concentrated learning. It is offered as prayer; the fruit of any homa rests with the deity and with your own continued practice.
Anyone drawn to the inner life may have the Gayathri Homa performed on their behalf: seekers beginning japa, those whose devotion has grown dry, students, and householders who wish to bring the light of the Gayathri into family life. It is open to devotees of any age and background, and you need no training in the mantra or prior initiation. The ritual is conducted by qualified priests at our Yagna Ashram in your name, and you watch the live telecast. It is a private ceremony for you and up to four family members, never a group rite.
Our priests perform the Gayathri Homa around a consecrated fire at our Yagna Ashram, beginning with achamana and Ganapati puja, then declaring the sankalpa in your name, gotra and nakshatra. Punyahavachanam purifies the space, the kalasha is established and Gayatri Devi is invoked into it. Agni is kindled in the kunda and consecrated, and the ahutis are offered: cow's ghee, palasha samidha, havis, rice, sesame, honey and navadhanya, every priest making their own offerings. Purnahuti, deeparadhana and prasadam close the rite. All samagri is arranged by the ashram, and you watch it all on live telecast.
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 Gayatri Devi — a Sunday, in the dawn or midday sandhya, Gayathri Jayanti on the Shukla Ekadashi of Jyeshtha, the Upakarma or Avani Avittam season, or Hasta 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 Gayathri 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 Gayathri 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 Gayatri Devi Yantra are couriered to you anywhere in the world, free of shipping cost.
Every Gayathri Homa package includes the energised Gayatri Devi 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, usually reaching you in 1–2 weeks within India and 2–4 weeks internationally from the homa’s completion; 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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Pancha Agni Gayatri Homa5 Priests + Free Yantra · live telecast · personal sankalpa
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