Thila Homam
Also known as Thila Homa · Thila Havan
तिल होमBlack sesame and ghee poured into a living flame — the old remedy for doshas that shadow a horoscope and unsettle the planets in your chart.
- Never a group ceremony — only the names you give are spoken
- Muhurta fixed from your own birth chart, confirmed within 24–48 working hours
The Ritual and Its Weight
Thila Homam is a fire rite built around one humble ingredient: thila, the black sesame seed. In the Vedic order, sesame is the substance of release. It is offered to Agni for the ancestors, offered on Amavasya, offered wherever something needs to be settled and let go. When a horoscope carries doshas — planetary afflictions, ancestral debts, combinations that keep pressing on the same house life after life — the tradition reaches for sesame and fire together.
The logic of the rite is simple and old. Agni takes what you give him and carries it where words cannot reach. Handful after handful of thila goes into the flame with the prescribed mantras, each offering standing for a knot in the chart you are asking to be loosened. Nothing is bargained for. You place the burden in the fire, in your name and your gotra, and let the mantras do what mantras have always done — steady the pattern, quiet the affliction, bring the grahas back into some workable balance.
ॐ अग्निमीळे पुरोहितं यज्ञस्य देवमृत्विजम् । होतारं रत्नधातमम् ॥ I invoke Agni, the priest who stands before the sacrifice, the divine officiant and summoner of the gods, the bearer of the greatest treasure.Benefits of the Thila Homam
Devotees turn to the thila homam when the same difficulty keeps returning and the chart shows why. These are the intentions the tradition assigns to the rite.
Dosha Nivarana
The central purpose. Sesame is offered into Agni with sankalpa naming the specific dosha in your horoscope that you wish softened.
Planetary Balance
Where one graha dominates or sits afflicted, the offerings are made to bring the chart's forces back toward equilibrium.
Ancestral Peace
Thila is the classical offering to the pitrs. Families carrying an unresolved ancestral debt book this rite in the elders' names.
Release of Old Patterns
Prescribed for those who feel a repeating obstruction — the same block in career, marriage or health matters returning without cause.
Clearing Before a Beginning
Performed before a marriage, a new home, a new venture, so that the undertaking starts on cleaner ground.
Steadiness of Mind
The tradition holds that watching your own sankalpa carried into fire settles the heart and loosens the grip of fear.
Under the guidance of Brahmashree Shivaaya
Every priest who performs your Thila Homam 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
Choose your homam
- The complete Thila Homam, 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
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 Agni Gayatri — so 108, 324 or 540 in all, by package.
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Send your name, date, time and place of birth and your concern; our astrologers tell you which rite to perform, from your chart (by Prashna if your birth time is unknown). We do not answer questions about the future, such as marriage or jobs. Reply within 24–48 hours.
A different number of ahutis prescribed? Our priests arrange a customised homam — WhatsApp or call; they confirm the count, the priests, the duration and the price before you book.
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 homam — tracking email once your prasadam is on its way.
The most auspicious days for a Thila Homam
Thila Homam is fixed to days when sesame offerings are held to travel furthest.
The new moon day is the classical time for sesame and fire. Mahalaya Amavasya and Thai Amavasya are especially sought for this rite.
The fortnight given to the ancestors. Devotees addressing an ancestral dosha in the chart prefer these days above all others.
Both stars are traditionally linked to ancestral and karmic matters, making them favoured for offerings intended to settle old accounts.
The waning fortnight and Saturn's day suit rites of release, when what is being let go matters more than what is being gained.
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 homam on one of the days above, tell us at checkout and we will fix the muhurta within it.
What you receive
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 homam in real time from the ashram. Streamed openly on our YouTube channel by default — or request an unlisted telecast at checkout.
Prasadam, shipped free
Sacred vibhuti, sandalwood powder & kumkum from your fire — delivered to any country.
How your Thila Homam is performed
Sankalpa
The priest states your name, gotra and nakshatra — and those of up to four family members — with the intention this homam 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.
Agni Avahana
The Agni Sukta and Agni Gayatri are 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 Agni Gayatri — 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 and kumkum are then packed and shipped free to your door.
Agni
First among the gods invoked in the Rigveda, Agni is the fire that stands between the human world and the divine. The opening verse of the Rigveda calls him the priest of the sacrifice, the summoner, the holder of treasure — and that verse is the one chanted here. He is pictured with two faces and seven tongues of flame, ruddy-limbed, riding a ram, ghee dripping from his mouth. Every offering placed in a homam reaches its intended recipient only through him; he is hota, the one who carries. Black sesame given to fire has long been the substance of release, offered for the ancestors and on Amavasya. Devotees turn to Agni in this form because he receives what cannot be spoken and takes it where words do not travel.
In this homam 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 and prasadam remain exactly as promised.
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