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Telecast Live Vintage devotional illustration of two-armed Lord Surya holding red lotuses in a chariot drawn by exactly seven white horses above a Surya Homa altar
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Surya Homa

Also spelled Surya Homam

सूर्य होम

The Sun answers in fire. Priests kindle the flame for you at our Yagna Ashram, and you watch it burn, live, from wherever you are.

  • Performed for you alone — never a group ceremony
  • Muhurta fixed from your own birth chart, confirmed within 24–48 working hours
  • Free energised Surya Yantra, sealed in a silver amulet, shipped worldwide at no charge
From$177 6 packages · free energised Surya Yantra · free worldwide delivery · all-inclusive
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The Ritual and Its Weight

Surya is the visible god — the one graha you can see burning overhead each morning. In your chart he governs vitality, bone and eye, the father, authority, and the confidence that lets you stand in a room and be seen. When the Sun sits weak, combust by placement, hemmed in by malefics or dimmed in debilitation, the tradition does not read this as ruin. It reads it as a lamp needing oil. The Surya Homa is that oil.

The homam works by the oldest logic in the Veda: Agni carries what you offer to the deity you name. Through measured ghee, wheat, red flowers and the Aditya mantras, the priests place your sankalpa — your name, gotra, nakshatra and intent — into the fire on your behalf. This surya homam is performed at our Yagna Ashram in Pollachi, Coimbatore District and telecast to you live. You do not travel. You sit before the screen at the appointed hour, and the fire is yours.

ॐ ह्रां ह्रीं ह्रौं सः सूर्याय नमः॥ जपाकुसुमसङ्काशं काश्यपेयं महाद्युतिम्। तमोऽरिं सर्वपापघ्नं प्रणतोऽस्मि दिवाकरम्॥ I bow to the Maker of Day — radiant as the hibiscus bloom, son of Kashyapa, of great splendour, enemy of darkness and destroyer of all sin.

Why Devotees Book This

The tradition prescribes the surya homam where the Sun is afflicted in the chart, and where its benefic side needs strengthening. These are the intentions devotees carry into the fire.

Pacifying an afflicted Sun

Offered when the Sun is debilitated, combust in effect, or pressed by malefic aspect — the classical remedy for Surya dosha in the birth chart.

Vitality and inner fire

Surya rules ojas, the body's core warmth. Devotees invoke him for steady energy and resilience through demanding seasons of life.

Standing and authority

The Sun signifies rank, recognition and command. Sought by those facing examinations, promotions, government matters or public roles.

For the father's wellbeing

Surya is karaka of the father. Many book this homa in a parent's name, or when the father's health and fortunes weigh on the family.

Clarity and freedom from confusion

Called tamo-ari, the enemy of darkness. The rite is turned toward mental clarity, honesty of purpose and release from clouded thinking.

Strength during Sun dasha or transit

Devotees begin Surya Mahadasha, Antardasha or a difficult Sun transit with this homam, asking that the period yield its benefic side.

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 Surya 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.

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  • Certified Vedic priests — trained in traditional Padashalas
  • 100% Agama Vidhi — as prescribed in the scriptures
  • Individual, never group — one ritual, one devotee's sankalpa
  • Muhurta from your chart — date fixed to your birth details
  • Free worldwide delivery — prasadam & energised Surya Yantra
Book your Surya Homa

Choose your homa in two steps

Step 1 How many priests will perform your homa?
Step 2 Enhance with the 48-Day Anushthan? (optional)

* Your Surya 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 packageTrayi Surya Homa3 Priests + Free Yantra

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 Surya Yantra.

Sacred timing

The most auspicious days for a Surya Homa

Surya is honoured at first light and on his own weekday.

Sunday, at sunrise

Ravivara belongs to the Sun. The Brahma muhurta and the first hour after sunrise are the classical window for Aditya worship.

Ratha Saptami

The seventh tithi of Magha shukla paksha, marking Surya's chariot turning north. The most auspicious day of the year for surya homam.

Uttara Phalguni, Krittika and Uttarashadha

The three nakshatras ruled by Surya. Homa on these stars is held to carry the offering with particular directness.

Makara Sankranti and monthly Sankramana

The Sun's entry into a new rashi, especially into Makara and Mesha, is a traditional hour for graha shanti of Surya.

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 Surya Yantra

When your homa concludes, the yantra that stood in the fire is rolled and locked inside its silver amulet according to Agama vidhi — the practice by which the energies raised in a ritual 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 — for you and up to five family members.

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 Surya Yantra, sealed in a silver amulet

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. Immediately afterwards it is rolled and sealed inside a silver amulet by Agamic rite, locking those energies within, and 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 your family, 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 Surya Yantra

The energised yantra is carefully rolled and sealed inside a sacred silver amulet before shipping. Wearing it is itself a small ritual.

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 Surya Homa is performed

Priests performing the Surya 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 five 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

Surya Avahana

The mula mantra of Surya 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.

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 Surya Yantra are then packed and shipped free to your door.

Who is invoked

Surya

The Sun himself stands as deity here — the one graha the eye can see, crossing the sky in a chariot of seven horses driven by Aruna. Iconography shows him red as the japa blossom, two hands holding lotuses, seated on a lotus, crowned and radiant. Son of Kashyapa and Aditi, he is counted among the Adityas and hymned from the Rig Veda onward, where the Gayatri itself turns toward his light. In jyotisha he is king of the Navagrahas and holds vitality, the bones, the eyes, the father, and rightful authority. Devotees turn to him when strength of body or clarity of purpose feels dim, and at sunrise with arghya offered in cupped water — the oldest daily worship a household keeps.

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

There is no single answer for everyone, but three are used most. The Gayatri Mantra itself is addressed to Savitr, the solar deity, and is the highest. For daily japa, the beeja mantra Om Hraam Hreem Hraum Sah Suryaya Namah is the standard one-pointed Surya mantra. The dhyana shloka Japakusuma sankasham is what most devotees recite at sunrise. In the homa our priests chant the Aditya Hridayam and the Vedic Surya Suktam alongside the beeja mantra, so the full spectrum is covered on your behalf.
Surya Kriya is a yogic practice of postures and breath, distinct from the fire ritual on this page. It must be learned in person from a qualified teacher, because the sequence and breath count matter. What you can do as a household practice is Surya Namaskar and arghya: face east at sunrise, offer water from a copper vessel with both hands so the light passes through the falling stream, and recite the Surya mantra twelve times. The homa is the priestly counterpart to that daily offering, performed in fire.
Approach a trained teacher of the practice — it is transmitted directly, not from text. Separately, the simplest devotional discipline for Surya is the sunrise arghya with copper and water, done facing east, followed by the Aditya Hridayam. If your chart shows the Sun afflicted, the tradition adds the surya homam as the formal remedial rite, which our priests perform for you at the Yagna Ashram while you watch the telecast.
The Surya Homa is a Vedic fire ritual in which offerings of ghee, wheat, red flowers and arka samidha are made into Agni with the Aditya mantras, dedicated to Surya, lord of the Sun. Its significance is graha shanti — pacifying an afflicted Sun in the horoscope and strengthening the benefic qualities he signifies: vitality, authority, clarity of mind and the wellbeing of the father. It is one of the nine navagraha homas and among the oldest solar rites in the tradition.
The tradition prescribes surya homam benefits as relief from Surya dosha, strength during Sun dasha or a hard transit, support for physical vitality and steady energy, favour in matters of rank, government and public standing, mental clarity, and blessings for the father. Devotees also seek it before examinations and interviews. Pages describing surya homam benefits in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi list the same classical intentions. The rite is offered as a prayer, not a guarantee.
Anyone whose chart shows the Sun weak, debilitated in Libra, combust in effect, afflicted by Shani or Rahu, or placed in a difficult house. Those running Surya Mahadasha or Antardasha, people in government service, leadership or public life, and families praying for a father's wellbeing all book it. Men and women of any age, married or unmarried, from any country may sponsor the homa. Our priests perform it in your name and gotra.
Sunday at sunrise is the classical window. Ratha Saptami in Magha month is the most auspicious single day of the year for Surya worship. Krittika, Uttara Phalguni and Uttarashadha — the three solar nakshatras — are favoured, as are Makara Sankranti and the monthly Sankramana when the Sun changes sign. Share your birth details when you book and our priests will fix the muhurat and confirm the telecast time in your timezone.
The surya homam procedure begins with achamana, Ganapati puja and the sankalpa taken in your name, gotra and nakshatra. A kalasha is established and Surya invoked, followed by shodashopachara puja to the deity. Agni is kindled in the kunda, and the priests offer ghee ahuti with the Surya beeja mantra, the Surya Suktam and Aditya Hridayam. Samagri includes cow ghee, arka and palasha samidha, wheat, red hibiscus and lotus, jaggery, rice, honey, red cloth and a copper vessel. The rite closes with purnahuti, arati, pradakshina and prayer for the sponsor.
Choose your package on this page and enter your name, gotra, birth star and your intention. Our coordinators confirm the muhurat and send you the live telecast link, so you can watch the fire from anywhere in the world. After the purnahuti, prasadam from the homa and an energised Surya Yantra are couriered to your address, free, wherever you live. Everything is booked online — there is nowhere to travel to.
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.
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