Kaala Sarpa Dosha Shanti Homa
Also spelled Kaala Sarpa Dosha Shanti Homam
कालसर्प दोष शान्ति होमWhen every planet sits between the serpent's head and tail, the fire is lit to loosen that grip and let your chart breathe again.
- 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 Kaala Sarpa Dosha Yantra, sealed in a silver amulet, shipped worldwide at no charge
The Ritual and Its Weight
Kaala Sarpa Dosha is read when all seven grahas fall on one side of the Rahu–Ketu axis, as if held between the serpent's mouth and its tail. Classical texts describe such a chart as tightly coiled — effort that circles back, delays that arrive without warning, a sense of moving through a corridor rather than open ground. The Kaala Sarpa Dosha Shanti Homa is the remedial fire the tradition prescribes for exactly this pattern. It is not a rite against your horoscope. It is a rite of reconciliation with the two shadow grahas that shape it.
In this Maha homa, priests kindle the fire, honour Rahu and Ketu by name, and offer to the Naga devatas who preside over the serpent's coil. Durva grass, black and white sesame, milk, and the prescribed samidha go into the flames with each mantra. Your name, gotra and birth star are spoken into every sankalpa, so the offering carries your chart and no one else's. The Kaala Sarpa Dosha Shanti homa is performed on your behalf at our Yagna Ashram and telecast to you live, wherever you are.
ॐ रां राहवे नमः । ॐ कें केतवे नमः ॥ Salutations to Rahu and salutations to Ketu — may the two shadow grahas turn their gaze upon me with grace.What a Maha Homa is
Not every fire ritual is performed at the same scale. A Maha Homa is our largest form — more priests, a longer fire, and the complete chanting sequence the rite prescribes rather than an abridged one. This is what that means in practice.
A Maha Homa is never a group ceremony, the same as any homa we conduct. What the scale changes is the weight of the offering — ten trained voices holding one hymn for two hours is a different undertaking from one voice for an hour, and it is reserved for the intentions that warrant it.
Benefits of the Kaala Sarpa Dosha Shanti Homa
Devotees come to this fire when the chart shows the serpent's hold. Here is what the tradition prescribes the rite for.
Pacifying the Rahu–Ketu axis
The homa is offered specifically to the two shadow grahas whose alignment forms the dosha, seeking their goodwill rather than their absence.
Shanti for a coiled chart
Where every graha is hemmed between the nodes, the rite is performed to ease that compression and restore balance across the houses.
Relief sought from repeated delay
Texts associate the dosha with obstruction and effort that returns unfinished. The fire is lit to ask that the path open.
Naga devata propitiation
Offerings are made to the serpent deities of the coil, honoured in the tradition as guardians of hidden karma and ancestral debt.
Steadiness in marriage and progeny matters
Families whose astrologer flags Kaala Sarpa in these houses undertake the homa before major decisions, as shanti and preparation.
An energised Kaala Sarpa Dosha Yantra to wear
After the fire, a yantra charged in the same homa is couriered to you, along with vibhuti and prasadam from the altar.
Under the guidance of Brahmashree Shivaaya
Every priest who performs your Kaala Sarpa Dosha Shanti 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.
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 Kaala Sarpa Dosha Yantra
Choose how many priests will chant
- The complete Kaala Sarpa Dosha Shanti 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 Kaala Sarpa Dosha Yantra, sealed in a silver amulet
Only the number of priests: 5 or 10. Every priest makes their own offerings, and all of them perform at the same time, in one ceremony.
216 ahutis by each priest, with the mula mantras of Rahu and Ketu with the Naga Devatas — so 1,080 or 2,160 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.
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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 Kaala Sarpa Dosha Yantra.
The most auspicious days for a Kaala Sarpa Dosha Shanti Homa
Kaala Sarpa shanti follows the rhythm of the nodes. These are the windows the tradition favours.
The day of the serpent deities, held across the tradition as the most fitting occasion for any Kaala Sarpa Dosha Shanti Homa.
The new moon, particularly when it falls on a Sunday or Tuesday, is long used for propitiating Rahu, Ketu and the Nagas.
The star ruled by the Nagas. When the moon transits Ashlesha, priests consider it a strong window for this offering.
Nodal hours and the days around an eclipse are traditionally chosen for shadow-graha shanti, fixed by panchanga for your birth details.
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 Kaala Sarpa Dosha Yantra
The Kaala Sarpa Dosha 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.
This is what arrives at your door, at no extra cost, with your prasadam.
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 Kaala Sarpa Dosha 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.
How to wear your energised Kaala Sarpa Dosha Yantra
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.
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 Kaala Sarpa Dosha Shanti 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.
Rahu and Ketu Avahana
The mula mantras of Rahu and Ketu with the Naga Devatas are chanted, inviting the deity's presence into the fire — by five or ten priests as your scale sets.
Ahuti
Ghee and akshata, with the flowers, grains and dravyas proper to this deity, are offered in sequence with mantra. Each priest makes 216 of these offerings with the mula mantras of Rahu and Ketu with the Naga Devatas — 1,080 or 2,160 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 Kaala Sarpa Dosha Yantra are then packed and shipped free to your door.
Naga
The Nava Naga Stotram, also written Navnag Stotra, is the verse most often recited as the Kaal Sarp Dosh Mantra: a short traditional Sanskrit hymn that simply names nine serpent lords: Ananta, Vasuki, Shesha, Padmanabha, Kambala, Shankhapala, Dhritarashtra, Takshaka and Kaliya. No author or scripture is attached to it; it has come down as an anonymous devotional verse. Its first verse is the whole of the naming. The next lines are the phala shruti: they call these the nine names of the great-souled nagas and say that one who recites them evening and morning has no fear of poison and is victorious everywhere. Printed directly after it is a widely recited Naga Gayatri, 'Om Navakulaya Vidmahe', which addresses the serpent as lord of the nine clans and as the one with poison-bearing fangs. Kaal Sarp dosha itself is an astrological reading, made when all seven grahas fall between Rahu and Ketu in a birth chart; the hymn is recited by those whose chart is read this way.
In this homa that grace is invoked through fire, with your own name and birth details spoken in the sankalpa.
Nava Naga Stotram: 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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