Hayagreeva Homa
Also spelled Hayagreeva Homam
हयग्रीव होमThe horse-faced Lord of learning, invoked in fire for the student who must remember, reason and answer well when the hour comes.
- 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 Hayagreeva Yantra, sealed in a silver amulet, shipped worldwide at no charge
The Ritual and Its Weight
The Hayagreeva Homa is a fire offering made to Hayagreeva, the horse-necked form of Vishnu who recovered the stolen Vedas and returned speech and scripture to the world. Ghee, white sesame, payasam and havis are given to Agni while the priests chant the Hayagreeva mantra and the Vedic suktas of learning. Tradition places this rite at the head of every scholarly undertaking — the beginning of study, the eve of an examination, the start of a research year, the day a child is first taught to write.
Among the many types of homa, this one is prescribed specifically for the mind. Where other rites address the household or the planets, the Hayagreeva Homa addresses vidya: the ability to grasp, hold and speak what you have learned. Devotees book it when concentration scatters, when memory feels slippery under pressure, or when a result matters enough to be placed before the fire. The homa benefits sought here are steadiness of attention and clarity of expression — the conditions in which effort can do its work.
ज्ञानानन्दमयं देवं निर्मलस्फटिकाकृतिम्। आधारं सर्वविद्यानां हयग्रीवमुपास्महे॥ We worship Hayagreeva, the deity who is pure knowledge and bliss, formed like flawless crystal, the foundation and support of all learning.Why Devotees Book This
The hayagreeva homa benefits named in tradition all circle one point — a mind that stays where you place it.
Sharper concentration
Sought by students whose attention wanders during long study hours and needs to settle.
Retentive memory
The rite is traditionally offered so that what is read is held, and what is held can be recalled.
Steadiness before exams
Booked in the weeks before board exams, entrance tests, competitive papers and vivas.
Clarity of speech
Hayagreeva presides over vak. Devotees offer this before interviews, presentations and oral defences.
Support for research and higher study
Scholars, doctoral candidates and teachers offer it at the start of a difficult project or academic year.
A child's beginning in learning
Offered around Vidyarambham, first schooling and the start of a new class, as a blessing on the years of study ahead.
Under the guidance of Brahmashree Shivaaya
Every priest who performs your Hayagreeva 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 Hayagreeva Yantra
Choose your homa in two steps
- The complete Hayagreeva 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 Hayagreeva 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 Hayagreeva — 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 Hayagreeva 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 Hayagreeva Yantra.
The most auspicious days for a Hayagreeva Homa
Certain days carry this homa well.
The star of listening and learning, held especially apt for rites to Hayagreeva.
Shravana Purnima, the appearance day of Hayagreeva, is the most sought-after date of the year for this homa.
The traditional day for beginning study, when children are first led to letters.
Guru's day suits offerings for wisdom; devotees also choose the days just before an examination.
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 Hayagreeva Yantra
The Hayagreeva 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 Hayagreeva 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 Hayagreeva 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 Hayagreeva 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.
Hayagreeva Avahana
The mula mantra of Hayagreeva 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 Hayagreeva — 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 Hayagreeva Yantra are then packed and shipped free to your door.
Hayagreeva
Hayagreeva is the horse-headed manifestation of Vishnu who embodies pure, unobstructed knowledge. White-complexioned, seated or standing with four arms that carry the conch, discus, and two hands in the gestures of blessing and instruction, he is the form that recovered the Vedas when they had been stolen from Brahma. Madhva, Vedanta Desika and the Sri Vaishnava acharyas regard him as the inner controller of speech and memory, the deity whose very neigh is the origin of sacred sound. Unlike other knowledge deities who remain anthropomorphic, Hayagreeva’s equine head marks the transcendence of ordinary human limitation, signalling that the highest learning arrives from a source beyond the merely human. Temples at Thiruvahindrapuram and elsewhere preserve this iconography without admixture of other avatars.
In this homa that grace is invoked through fire, with your own name and birth details spoken in the sankalpa.
Hayagreeva: 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
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
Saraswati Homa
The goddess of knowledge invoked for learning, memory, speech and the arts — booked before examinations and at Vidyarambham.
Medha Dakshinamoorthy Homa
Shiva as the cosmic Guru, invoked with the Medha Sukta for retention, recall and grasping power.
Vidya Ganapathi Homa
For students facing exams — steady focus, retention and a clear path through study.
Maha HomaLet Hayagreeva's name be spoken with yours
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