Guru Chandal dosha forms when Brihaspati — the planet of wisdom, dharma and good counsel — sits with or is closely aspected by Rahu or Ketu. Jupiter's light is not lost in such a chart, but it is filtered. Astrologers describe the effect as a teacher speaking through smoke: guidance arrives, yet doubt, haste and misplaced trust crowd the hearing. The Guru Chandal Dosha Nivaran Homa is the classical remedy prescribed for this placement, offered so that Guru's counsel may reach you clean.
In this Maha homa, priests kindle the fire, invoke Brihaspati with his own mantras, and offer to Rahu and Ketu in the same sitting — for the tradition does not fight the shadow planets, it settles them. Yellow flowers, chana dal, ghee and pipal samidha go into the flames while your name, gotra and nakshatra are spoken over each ahuti. The rite is done on your behalf at our Yagna Ashram and telecast to you live, wherever in the world you are seated.
देवानां च ऋषीणां च गुरुं काञ्चनसन्निभम्। बुद्धिभूतं त्रिलोकेशं तं नमामि बृहस्पतिम्॥ I bow to Brihaspati, teacher of the gods and the sages, golden in radiance, the very form of intelligence and lord of the three worlds.
Why Devotees Book This
Devotees whose charts carry Guru with Rahu or Ketu turn to this homa for these traditional intentions.
Softening the Guru-Rahu conjunction
The rite is prescribed to ease the friction between Jupiter and the shadow planets and let Guru's karaka qualities express more freely.
Clarity in judgement
Offered when decisions feel clouded, when advice keeps arriving late, or when the same wrong turn repeats.
Steadiness in faith and dharma
Guru governs shraddha, teachers and moral footing. This homa is done to restore that anchor when it feels loosened.
Balance across the Navagraha
As a dosha nivarana rite, the fire is offered so that no single graha in your chart is left straining against another.
Support in study, teaching and counsel
Students, advisors, lawyers and teachers book this homa when Guru — their own significator — sits afflicted.
Relief for marriage and progeny matters in the chart
Where Guru's aspect on the 7th or 5th is compromised, the tradition prescribes his propitiation before other remedies.
Brahmashree ShivaayaGuru, Head of Astrological & Spiritual Solutions
Who performs your homa
Under the guidance of Brahmashree Shivaaya
Every priest who performs your Guru Chandal Dosha Nivaran 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.
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 Guru Chandal Dosha Nivaran Homa
Choose how many priests will chant
Both packages are the same rite. The complete Guru Chandal Dosha Nivaranm, 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 packageGuru Chandal Dosha Nivaran 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 →
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You book — and send birth details at checkout.
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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
Brihaspati's own day and his nakshatras carry this fire best. Our panchang team fixes the muhurat for you.
Thursday (Guruvara)
Brihaspati's weekday, and the standard choice for any Guru remedy. Morning hours are preferred.
Punarvasu, Vishakha and Purva Bhadrapada
The three nakshatras ruled by Guru. A homa timed to these is held to reach him most directly.
Guru Pushya and Guru Peyarchi
Pushya falling on a Thursday, and Jupiter's transit into a new sign, are both considered powerful windows for this homam.
Your Jupiter or Rahu dasha-bhukti period
Many devotees begin the rite as a Guru or Rahu period opens in their chart, or during Jupiter's retrograde phase.
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 Brihaspati 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 Brihaspati 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.
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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.
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Offer dheep & dhoop
Show lamp and incense to the amulet before wearing it.
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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.
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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 Chandal Dosha Nivaran 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.
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Brihaspati Avahana
The Brihaspati Sukta and Brihaspati Gayatri are chanted, inviting the goddess's presence into the fire — by one, three or five priests as your package sets.
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Ahuti
Ghee, white flowers, akshata and honey are offered in sequence with mantra — the offerings traditional to her worship.
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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
Brihaspati — the goddess of knowledge itself
Brihaspati 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 — Brihaspati Kataksham — is invoked through fire with your own name and birth details spoken in the sankalpa.
Sarathi, our free AI ritual guide, recommends the traditional ritual for your situation instantly. For a full reading of your chart, book a live session with our astrologers — the fee is fully credited when you book any ritual.
It is a Maha dosha nivarana fire ritual for horoscopes in which Brihaspati (Jupiter) is conjunct or closely afflicted by Rahu or Ketu — the combination classical texts call Guru Chandal yoga. Jupiter signifies wisdom, dharma, teachers and good counsel; when the shadow planets share his house, that counsel is said to reach the native clouded. The homa invokes Brihaspati with his own mantras and offers ahuti to Rahu and Ketu in the same sitting, so the planets in your chart sit in better relation to one another.
The tradition prescribes it for clarity of judgement, steadiness in faith and dharma, relief from repeated misjudgements, and overall balance among the Navagraha in the birth chart. It is also taken up when Guru's aspect on matters of marriage, progeny, study or teaching is compromised. The rite is an offering, not a guarantee — devotees undertake it as prescribed practice and leave the fruit to the graha.
Anyone whose horoscope shows Jupiter with Rahu or Ketu in the same house, or under their close aspect, and anyone advised by an astrologer that Guru Chandal dosha is active in a running dasha or bhukti. Students, teachers, advisors and those in law or counsel often book it, as Guru is their significator. Families book it together on behalf of a member, and there is no restriction of age, gotra or country.
Thursday, Brihaspati's own day, is the usual choice, especially in the morning hours. The Guru nakshatras — Punarvasu, Vishakha and Purva Bhadrapada — are held to be strongest, as are Guru Pushya days and the period around Guru Peyarchi, Jupiter's transit into a new sign. Share your birth details when you book and our panchang team will fix the muhurat for you.
Priests begin with sankalpa in your name, gotra and nakshatra, followed by Ganapati puja and punyahavachana. The kalasha is established and Brihaspati invoked, with Rahu and Ketu propitiated alongside. Agni is kindled in the kunda and ahutis offered through the Guru mantra and Navagraha mantras. Samagri includes cow ghee, pipal (ashvattha) samidha, chana dal, yellow flowers, turmeric, honey, navadhanya and traditional havan dravya. The rite closes with purnahuti, aarti and prayer for shanti, after which the yantra is energised in the fire's presence.
Book online from any country. Choose the homa on this page, enter the name, gotra, birth star and sankalpa of everyone to be included, and confirm. We fix the muhurat, share the schedule with you, and our priests perform the guru chandal dosha nivaran homam at our Yagna Ashram on your behalf. You watch the fire live from wherever you are, and prasadam with an energised yantra is couriered to your door worldwide.
