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Guru Ashtakam Homa

Name: Guru Ashtakam Homa
Brand: AstroBhava

Also spelled Guru Ashtakam Homam

गुर्वष्टक होम

Eight verses of Adi Shankara, offered into the fire — a rite of surrender at the lotus feet of the Guru, streamed live to 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

Choose Your Package Why This Homa

The Ritual and Its Weight

The Guru Ashtakam Homa is built around the Gurvashtakam, eight verses composed by Adi Shankaracharya. Each verse names something the world calls success — a fine body, a devoted spouse, renown, wealth heaped like Mount Meru, learning, lineage, mastery over the senses — and then asks one question. If the mind is not fixed at the Guru's feet, what of it? The refrain returns four times in every verse, like a bell struck again and again until the heart hears it.

To offer these verses into fire is to make that question your prayer. In our tradition, no knowledge ripens and no sadhana holds without the Guru's grace; the Guru is the doorway through which the divine becomes personal. Devotees turn to this Maha homa when study feels dry, when practice has become mechanical, when the inner life needs a teacher's hand. Qualified priests perform the guru ashtakam homam at our Yagna Ashram in your name, and you watch the fire live.

शरीरं सुरूपं तथा वा कलत्रं यशश्चारु चित्रं धनं मेरुतुल्यम् । मनश्चेन्न लग्नं गुरोरङ्घ्रिपद्मे ततः किं ततः किं ततः किं ततः किम् ॥ Though the body be beautiful, the spouse devoted, fame bright and wealth as vast as Mount Meru — if the mind is not fixed at the Guru's lotus feet, what use is any of it, what use, what use, what use?

Why Devotees Book This

The tradition prescribes this homa for the inner life — for the turning of the mind toward the Guru and toward the divine. Here is what devotees seek when they book it.

Surrender at the Guru's Feet

The Gurvashtakam is a rite of letting go. Devotees offer it to cultivate bhakti toward the Sadguru and to soften the pride that keeps a seeker from being taught.

Steadiness in Sadhana

When japa, study or meditation has grown mechanical, this homa is offered to restore warmth and continuity to daily practice.

Clarity of Mind

The verses strip away what the world calls achievement and leave one clear question. Devotees seek that same clarity — a mind less scattered, priorities set straight.

Inner Peace

Fire, ghee and eight repeated verses have a quieting effect. Many book the guru ashtakam homa simply to be held in that stillness for an hour.

Grace Upon Learning

Because the Guru is the source of all vidya, students, teachers and lifelong learners offer this rite before beginning a course of study or a new discipline.

Blessing at Life's Turning Points

Before initiation, before a pilgrimage, before a vow taken up in earnest — devotees seek the Guru's sanction through fire first.

Brahmashree Shivaaya, Guru and Head of Astrological & Spiritual Solutions at AstroBhava — **Brahmashree Shivaaya**Guru, Head of Astrological & Spiritual Solutions

Who performs your homa

Under the guidance of Brahmashree Shivaaya

Every priest who performs your Guru Ashtakam 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.

Meet our priests →

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 yantra

Before you book

What a Maha Homa is

Not every fire ritual is performed at the same scale. A Maha Homa is our largest form. This is what that means.

Performed at full scale

More priests, and a fire that burns for as long as the rite itself requires rather than a shortened sitting. The exact figures for this rite are stated with its price above.

Chanted complete

The whole sequence the rite calls for, in unison, never a representative portion of it and never chanted in rotation.

Telecast entire

Every minute, from the sankalpa in which your name is spoken to the final aarti. Nothing is performed off camera.

A Maha Homa is performed for one devotee and their named family, exactly like any homa we conduct. What the scale changes is the weight of the offering, and it is reserved for the intentions that warrant it.

Book your Guru Ashtakam Homa

One rite, one price

There is nothing to choose. Unlike most of our homas, the Guru Ashtakam Homa is not offered at several priest counts. It is performed one way, as the rite requires — 5 priests, 5 hours — with the free energised Vishnu Yantra sealed in its silver amulet, the live telecast, and free worldwide delivery of your prasadam all included in the one price.

Your bookingGuru Ashtakam Homa5 Priests · 5 hours · free energised yantra

₹197,350

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

You book — and send birth details at checkout.

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 your personal time to wear the yantra.

Sacred Timing

Any day chosen with care serves, and our priests will fix a muhurat for you. These occasions are held to be especially fitting.

Guru Purnima

The full moon of Ashadha, the day given wholly to the Guru. The most auspicious occasion of the year for this homa.

Thursdays (Guruvara)

The weekday of the Guru principle. A Thursday sunrise, with Pushya or Punarvasu nakshatra running, is a favoured window.

Shukla Paksha Panchami and Ekadashi

The waxing fortnight supports rites of growth and devotion; Panchami and Ekadashi are chosen for sadhana-related homas.

Before Initiation or a New Study

On the eve of receiving a mantra, beginning Veda adhyayana, or entering a formal course, devotees offer the Gurvashtakam first.

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 Sadguru 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 Sadguru 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.

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.

Purify the amulet

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

Face East or North

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

Offer dheep & dhoop

Show lamp and incense to the amulet before wearing it.

Wear it

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

Keep the energy intact

Repeated offering of dheep and dhoop keeps the energisation alive.

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 Guru Ashtakam Homa is performed

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.

Ganapati Puja

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

Agni Pratishtha

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

Sadguru Avahana

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

Ahuti

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

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 yantra are then packed and shipped free to your door.

Who is invoked

Sadguru — the goddess of knowledge itself

Sadguru 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 — Sadguru Kataksham — is invoked through fire with your own name and birth details spoken in the sankalpa.

The complete guide

Sadguru: story, mantras & how to chant

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

Read the Mantra Guide →

Questions

Frequently asked

It is a Maha homa in which the Gurvashtakam — eight verses composed by Adi Shankaracharya — is chanted into the consecrated fire with offerings of ghee, havan samagri and sacred woods. Each verse weighs a worldly attainment against devotion to the Guru and asks, if the mind is not at the Guru's lotus feet, what of it? The rite is significant because in our tradition the Guru is the doorway to all spiritual knowledge; this homa is an act of surrender at that doorway, invoking the grace of the Sadguru, of whom Dakshinamurthy is the primordial form.

The tradition prescribes the guru ashtakam homam for spiritual growth and devotion — deepening bhakti toward the Guru, restoring steadiness to a practice that has grown dry, quieting a scattered mind, and seeking grace over one's learning. It is also offered before initiation, before beginning serious study, and at turning points where a seeker wants the Guru's blessing before stepping forward. It is a rite of inner cultivation, not a promise of any specific outcome.

Anyone drawn to the Guru principle may sponsor it — a disciple with an initiating Guru, a seeker still searching for one, a student or teacher, a family offering it for a child's education, or a devotee whose sadhana needs renewal. The homa itself is performed by qualified priests at our Yagna Ashram on your behalf, with your name, nakshatra and gotra in the sankalpa. You do not need to attend or to know the chanting yourself.

Guru Purnima is the finest occasion. Failing that, a Thursday morning in the waxing fortnight is traditionally chosen, especially with Pushya or Punarvasu nakshatra. Devotees also fix it just before an initiation or the start of a course of study. Tell us your birth details when you book and our priests will select a muhurat suited to your chart and the ritual calendar.

The priests begin with achamana, Ganapati puja and punyahavachana, then take the sankalpa in your name, gotra and nakshatra. Agni is invoked in the kunda and fed with palasha and other prescribed samidha. The eight verses of the Gurvashtakam are chanted with ahutis of cow ghee, havan samagri, honey, akshata, sesame, dry fruits and fragrant herbs, followed by the Guru dhyana shlokas. The rite closes with purnahuti, arati, pradakshina and the distribution of prasadam and vibhuti — which, along with an energised yantra, is couriered to you.

Book online from any country on this page. Share your name, gotra and birth star; our team confirms the muhurat and sends you a private link to watch the homa telecast live from our Yagna Ashram in Coimbatore. Afterwards, prasadam, vibhuti and the energised yantra are couriered to your address anywhere in the world, free of shipping cost.