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Devi Sukta Homa

Also spelled Devi Sukta Homam

देवी सूक्त होम

The oldest hymn in which the Mother speaks of herself, offered into living fire — chanted for you, streamed to you, wherever you sit.

  • Performed for you alone — never a group ceremony
  • Muhurta fixed from your own birth chart, confirmed within 24–48 working hours
  • Free energised yantra, sealed in a silver amulet, shipped worldwide at no charge

The Ritual and Its Weight

The Devi Sukta Homa is built around one of the boldest hymns in the Rigveda. In the tenth mandala, the seer Vak Ambhrini does not praise the Goddess from a distance. She speaks as the Goddess: I move with the Rudras and the Vasus, I hold Mitra and Varuna, I am the one who bends the bow. When these verses are offered into fire with ghee and havis, the rite is not a petition sent upward. It is a remembering that the power addressed outside you is the same power breathing inside you.

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This is why the Devi Sukta Homam sits in the Spiritual Growth and Devotion tradition rather than among rites of quick relief. Its fruit is inward: steadiness in sadhana, warmth in bhakti, a quieting of the noise that keeps the mind from its own centre. Devotees turn to it when japa has grown dry, when a new spiritual practice is being begun, or simply when the heart wants to sit at the Mother's feet and be held. Performed at Maha scale, with the full Sukta repeated in ordained counts, it is one of the most complete Devi rites AstroBhava conducts.

अहं रुद्रेभिर्वसुभिश्चराम्यहमादित्यैरुत विश्वदेवैः। अहं मित्रावरुणोभा बिभर्म्यहमिन्द्राग्नी अहमश्विनोभा॥ aham rudrebhir vasubhiś carāmy aham ādityair uta viśvadevaiḥ | aham mitrāvaruṇobhā bibharmy aham indrāgnī aham aśvinobhā || The Goddess declares that she moves with all the shining powers of the universe and herself upholds every one of them — she is the single force sustaining all that is worshipped.

Why Devotees Book This

The tradition prescribes the Devi Sukta Homa for the inner life. These are the intentions with which devotees ask for it.

Depth in Devotion

The Sukta is offered to soften a heart that has become mechanical in worship, so that bhakti feels alive again rather than dutiful.

Steadiness in Sadhana

Sought by those beginning japa, mantra diksha or a daily discipline, and by those who wish to return to a practice they let slip.

Inner Quiet

The rite is traditionally taken up for calm of mind — for the settling that lets you hear your own prayer over your own restlessness.

Grace of the Mother

Devi is invoked as the sustaining power of all beings. Devotees offer this homa asking to remain within that grace through every turn of life.

Clarity of Speech and Purpose

The hymn is revealed by a seer of Vak, sacred speech. It is offered by teachers, singers, reciters and writers who wish their words to carry truth.

Shelter from Negative Influence

Because Devi is invoked here as the wielder of the bow, the Sukta is also chanted in the tradition of protection — for a home and mind kept clear of hostile energy.

Brahmashree Shivaaya, Guru and Head of Astrological & Spiritual Solutions at AstroBhava
Brahmashree ShivaayaGuru, Head of Astrological & Spiritual Solutions
Who performs your homa

Under the guidance of Brahmashree Shivaaya

Every priest who performs your Devi Sukta Homa is trained in a traditional Padashala and personally recruited by Brahmashree Shivaaya — Guru and Head of Astrological & Spiritual Solutions at AstroBhava. Your ritual is conducted at our own Yagna Ashram — never a rented venue — with temple rites performed across our seven temples in Tamil Nadu and Kerala.

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Before you choose

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.

Priests5 or 10Chanting in unison, never in rotation
The fire burnsApprox. 2 hoursFrom the sankalpa to the final aarti
ChantedIn fullThe complete sequence the rite calls for, not an excerpt
TelecastEvery minuteNothing is performed off camera

A Maha Homa is performed for one devotee and their named family, 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.

Book your Devi Sukta Homa

Choose how many priests will chant

Both packages are the same rite. The complete Devi Suktam, all thirty-one verses, over approximately two hours, with the same offerings, the same free energised Surya Yantra sealed in its silver amulet, and the same live telecast. What changes is how many trained voices carry the hymn at once.

Your packageDevi Sukta Maha Homa5 Priests · approx. 2 hours · Free Surya Yantra
₹36,850

All prices are all-inclusive — no shipping charges, no additions at checkout. See everything included →

1

You book — and send birth details at checkout.

2

Within 24–48 working hours — your muhurta is confirmed by email.

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The day before — your telecast link arrives by email.

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After the homa — tracking email with your personal time to wear the yantra.

Sacred Timing

The Devi Sukta Homa may be offered on any day the Mother is worshipped. These occasions are held especially potent, and our priests will fix the muhurat with your nakshatra in view.

Navaratri

The nine nights of Devi are the foremost window for this rite, with Ashtami and Navami counted as the most powerful days to offer the Sukta into fire.

Fridays and Full Moon

Friday is the Mother's weekday, and Pournami is her fullness. Both are classical days for Devi Sukta Homam.

Ashtami and Chaturthi Tithis

The eighth and fourth lunar days of either fortnight are prescribed for Shakti upasana and are often chosen for sadhakas beginning a new practice.

Moola, Chitra and Pooram Nakshatras

These asterisms are traditionally linked to Devi worship and are favoured when the homa is offered for growth in devotion.

Every package, and the 48-day option

What you receive

The sealing of the 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 a private, unlisted telecast at checkout.

Free energised Devi 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.

48-Day Anushthan (optional)

Daily temple worship for 48 days — the 27 Nakshatras + 12 Rashis + 9 Planets — then sealed in a silver amulet of approximately 2–4 inches.

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; the daily rituals of the 48-day Anushthan are performed with full devotion but are not telecast.

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 visible only to you.

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 Devi Yantra

The energised yantra is carefully rolled and sealed inside a sacred silver amulet before shipping. Wearing it is itself a small ritual — and even its timing is set for you personally.

01

Your auspicious time to wear it

Our astrologer marks the auspicious date and time to wear the yantra according to your birth details — sent to you in the email carrying your shipment's tracking number.

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Purify the amulet

Dip the silver amulet in raw milk or Ganga jal for an hour before wearing, then clean with normal water.

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Face East or North

Perform the wearing process facing east or north for maximum benefit.

04

Offer dheep & dhoop

Show lamp and incense to the amulet before wearing it.

05

Wear it

Around your neck or waist, on a thread or chain.

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Keep the energy intact

Repeated offering of dheep and dhoop keeps the energisation alive.

07

If you prefer not to wear it

Place the amulet at your puja altar, or keep it in your wallet.

Inside the fire ritual

How your Devi Sukta Homa is performed

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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.

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Ganapati Puja

The customary invocation to Ganapati, clearing obstacles before the goddess is approached.

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Agni Pratishtha

The fire is consecrated in the homa kunda and Agni invoked as the carrier of every offering that follows.

04

Devi Avahana

The Devi Sukta and Devi Gayatri are chanted, inviting the goddess's presence into the fire — by one, three or five priests as your package sets.

05

Ahuti

Ghee, white flowers, akshata and honey are offered in sequence with mantra — the offerings traditional to her worship.

06

Purnahuti

The final complete offering seals the sankalpa stated at the opening.

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Aarti & Dispatch

Aarti is performed live on your telecast. Vibhuti, sandalwood powder, kumkum and your energised yantra are then packed and shipped free to your door.

Who is invoked

Devi — the goddess of knowledge itself

Devi is one of the Tridevi and the mother of the Vedas — the presiding deity of knowledge, learning, memory, speech, music and every art. She is depicted in white upon a white lotus, holding the veena, a book, a rosary and a water pot, with the swan of discernment beside her.

In this homa, her grace — Devi Kataksham — is invoked through fire with your own name and birth details spoken in the sankalpa.

The complete guide

Devi: story, mantras & how to chant

Her full mythology, the beeja mantra and Devi Gayatri word by word, and how devotees chant at home — on our Devi Mantra guide.

Read the Mantra Guide →
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Questions

Frequently asked

The Devi Sukta Homa is a Vedic fire ritual in which the Devi Sukta of the Rigveda — the hymn revealed to the seer Vak Ambhrini, in which the Goddess herself declares that she pervades and upholds all the powers of the cosmos — is chanted while ghee, havis and prescribed dravyas are offered into the agni kunda. Its significance lies in its direction: rather than describing the Mother from outside, the hymn speaks in her voice, and the rite is taken up to awaken that same presence within the devotee. It is classed among the Spiritual Growth and Devotion homas and is performed at Maha scale.
The tradition prescribes this homa for the inner life — for depth in bhakti, steadiness in japa and sadhana, quiet of mind, clarity in speech and purpose, and abidance in the Mother's grace. Because Devi is invoked in the Sukta as the one who bends the bow for the sake of dharma, it is also chanted for a home and mind kept free of hostile influence. What a homa is offered for and what unfolds afterwards are held, in the tradition, to be in the Mother's hands; the rite is your prayer, sincerely made.
Anyone drawn to the Mother may have it offered — there is no restriction of gender, age, lineage or country. It is chosen most often by sadhakas on a Devi or Sri Vidya path, by those about to begin mantra practice or spiritual study, by teachers, reciters and those whose work is speech, and by families who wish the Mother's shelter over their household. You do not perform it yourself: qualified priests at our Yagna Ashram perform it on your behalf, in your name, gotra and nakshatra.
Navaratri is the foremost season, with Ashtami and Navami the most valued days. Fridays, Pournami, and the Ashtami and Chaturthi tithis of either fortnight are all classical windows, as are the Devi-related nakshatras such as Moola, Chitra and Pooram. If you have no particular date in mind, our priests will select a muhurat after looking at your birth details and the current panchanga, and will inform you of the day and time before the homa.
The priests begin with achamana, sankalpa in your name and gotra, Ganapati puja and punyahavachana. The kalasha is established and Devi is invoked into the yantra and kumbha with avahana and shodashopachara puja. Agni is kindled in the kunda and consecrated; the Devi Sukta is then chanted in the ordained number of rounds, each verse followed by oblations of cow ghee, samit of the prescribed woods, havis, payasam, honey, sesame, red flowers and fruit. Sri Sukta and Devi kavacha recitations accompany the offerings. The rite closes with purnahuti, deepa aradhana, mantra pushpam, pradakshina and the offering of your prayer at the Mother's feet. You watch the whole sequence on a live stream; the prasadam and the energised yantra are then couriered to you, anywhere in the world, without charge.
Book online from this page, from any country. Send your name, gotra if you know it, birth star and the intention you wish placed in the sankalpa. Our team confirms the muhurat and sends you the live-stream link before the homa begins. Watch from wherever you are — no travel and no attendance is needed. Afterwards, prasadam from the fire and the energised yantra are despatched to your address, free of shipping cost, with guidance on where to keep the yantra and how to honour it.
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