Guru Homa
Also spelled Guru Homam
गुरु होमThe fire that carries your prayer to Brihaspati — teacher of the devas, keeper of wisdom, dharma and the widening path of your life.
- 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 Brihaspati Yantra, sealed in a silver amulet, shipped worldwide at no charge
The Ritual and Its Weight
Guru Homa is the Vedic fire rite offered to Brihaspati, the graha Jupiter. In your chart Jupiter governs wisdom, teachers, children, marriage, scripture, wealth of knowledge and the sheer capacity to grow. When Jupiter sits weakened, combust, retrograde or hemmed in by difficult company, the tradition does not call it misfortune — it calls it a planet whose voice has grown quiet. The homa is how you turn the volume back up.
Ghee meets fire. The Brihaspati mantra is chanted the prescribed number of times. Each offering is spoken with your name, your nakshatra, your gotra. Yellow flowers, chana dal, peepal samidha — the substances Jupiter answers to — go into the flame in order. What the shastra prescribes this rite for is clarity of judgement, right guidance, steadiness in study and dharmic conduct. Guru puja has been kept alive this way for generations, and the fire is still the oldest way to ask.
ॐ देवानां च ऋषीणां च गुरुं काञ्चनसन्निभम् । बुद्धिभूतं त्रिलोकेशं तं नमामि बृहस्पतिम् ॥ I bow to Brihaspati, teacher of the gods and the sages, radiant as gold, the very embodiment of intelligence and lord of the three worlds.Why Devotees Book This
Guru homa is offered when Jupiter needs strengthening, or when its benefic gaze needs to reach further into your life. These are the intentions devotees bring to the fire.
Pacifying an afflicted Jupiter
When Jupiter is debilitated, combust or under difficult aspect, the homa is the traditional remedy — offered to settle the graha and restore its natural generosity.
Clarity and right judgement
Brihaspati is buddhi itself. Devotees facing a decision they cannot see through offer this homa to ask for a clear head and a dharmic choice.
Studies, teaching and scripture
Students sitting examinations, scholars, teachers and those beginning spiritual study invoke Guru for steadiness of mind and retention of what is learned.
Marriage and progeny prayers
Jupiter rules the fifth and seventh significations in classical practice. Families offer guru puja when praying for a suitable alliance or for children.
Guidance and the right teacher
The rite is offered by those seeking a guru, a mentor or elders whose counsel can be trusted at a turning point in life.
Guru Chandal and Guru transit periods
During Guru Chandal yoga, Jupiter mahadasha or antardasha, and difficult Guru transits, devotees book this homa to soften the pressure and draw out Jupiter's benefic side.
Under the guidance of Brahmashree Shivaaya
Every priest who performs your Guru 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 Brihaspati Yantra
Choose your homa in two steps
- The complete Guru 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 Brihaspati Yantra, sealed in a silver amulet
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 Brihaspati — so 108, 324 or 540 in all, by package.
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.
* Your Brihaspati 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.
All prices are all-inclusive — no shipping charges, no additions at checkout. See everything included →
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 homa — tracking email with how and when to wear the Brihaspati Yantra.
The most auspicious days for a Guru Homa
Jupiter answers on his own day and under his own stars.
Jupiter's weekday. The standard and most sought day for Guru Homa, especially in the morning hours of the Guru hora.
The three nakshatras ruled by Brihaspati. A homa performed under them is held to reach the graha most directly.
When Jupiter changes rashi, families offer the homa for the new twelve-month cycle. Also observed at the start of Jupiter mahadasha or antardasha.
Guru Purnima honours the principle of the teacher itself, and is a favoured day for guru puja and this fire 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.
What you receive
The sealing of the Brihaspati Yantra
The Brihaspati 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 Brihaspati 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.
How to wear your energised Brihaspati Yantra
Your auspicious time to wear it
Wear it for the first time on a Thursday, 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 Guru Homa is performed
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.
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.
Brihaspati Avahana
The mula mantra of Brihaspati is chanted, inviting the deity's presence into the fire — by one, three or five priests as your package sets.
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 Brihaspati — 108, 324 or 540 in all, by package.
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 Brihaspati Yantra are then packed and shipped free to your door.
Brihaspati
Golden-hued and calm, the preceptor of the devas sits in the sky as the planet Jupiter, holding a rosary, a water pot and a staff, seated on a lotus or drawn by pale horses. The Rig Veda praises him as Brahmanaspati, lord of sacred speech, the priest who guards the rites of the gods and counsels Indra himself. Among the nine grahas he is the great benefic, said to govern wisdom, scripture, teachers, children, marriage, generosity and the dharma by which a life keeps its shape. Yellow is his colour, Thursday his day, the peepal his tree. Devotees turn to him when study feels heavy, when guidance is scarce, or when judgement needs steadying and the mind seeks its rightful teacher.
In this homa that grace is invoked through fire, with your own name and birth details spoken in the sankalpa.
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Frequently asked
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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Other rituals devotees book alongside this one
Budha Homa
For a strained Mercury — clarity of speech, study, memory, trade and steady nerves.
Chandra Homa
For an afflicted Moon, restless sleep, unsettled emotions and the mother's wellbeing
Chandra Ketu Grahan Dosh Homa
For charts where Moon and Ketu sit together — grahan dosha shanti and inner steadiness.
Maha HomaLet Brihaspati's name be spoken with yours
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