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Madhurashtakam Homa

Name: Madhurashtakam Homa
Brand: AstroBhava

Also spelled Madhurashtakam Homam

मधुराष्टकम् होम

Eight verses of pure sweetness, poured into the fire for Krishna — for a heart that softens, steadies, and turns towards the divine.

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 Madhurashtakam is Sri Vallabhacharya's eight-verse hymn to Krishna, where every line ends in one word: madhuram, sweet. His lips, his glance, his walk, his flute, his very dust — the poet finds nothing in the Lord that is not sweetness. The Madhurashtakam Homa takes that hymn out of the reading room and into the fire. Each verse is chanted with ghee offered into the agni kunda, so the praise does not stay on the tongue but rises as flame and smoke.

Devotion in the Vedic path is not only discipline. It is rasa — flavour, taste, tenderness. When japa turns dry and the mind grows hard, the tradition prescribes hymns like this one to restore feeling to worship. Performed as a Maha homa, the madhurashtakam homam is undertaken by devotees seeking bhakti that is warm rather than mechanical, and an inner life that is quiet, sweet and unhurried.

अधरं मधुरं वदनं मधुरं नयनं मधुरं हसितं मधुरम् । हृदयं मधुरं गमनं मधुरं मधुराधिपतेरखिलं मधुरम् ॥ Sweet are his lips, sweet his face, sweet his eyes, sweet his smile, sweet his heart, sweet his very walk — everything about the Lord of sweetness is sweetness itself.

Why Devotees Book This

The tradition prescribes the Madhurashtakam Homa for those who want their devotion to have taste again. These are the intentions devotees bring to it.

Bhakti that feels alive

Chanted to soften a practice that has become routine, so prayer is offered with affection rather than obligation.

Inner quiet

The repeated cadence of madhuram is used to settle a restless mind and bring the breath and thought to rest.

Sweetness in speech and conduct

Devotees offer this hymn seeking gentleness in how they speak, listen and carry themselves with family and strangers alike.

Krishna's grace on the sadhana

Undertaken to place your japa, fasting and daily worship at the feet of the Lord of sweetness and ask that they be accepted.

Release of hardness and resentment

The fire is offered with the prayer that bitterness held from old hurts loosens its grip on the heart.

Harmony in the home

Families book the madhurashtakam homam before festivals and beginnings, seeking warmth and understanding under one roof.

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 Madhurashtakam 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 Madhurashtakam Homa

One rite, one price

There is nothing to choose. Unlike most of our homas, the Madhurashtakam 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 bookingMadhurashtakam 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

This hymn belongs to Krishna, so the calendar of his worship guides the muhurat. Our priests fix the date from the running panchanga and confirm it with you.

Krishna Janmashtami

The Lord's appearance day is the most cherished occasion for the Madhurashtakam Homa, with the fire kindled and the eight verses offered as the night deepens.

Rohini Nakshatra

Krishna's birth star. Any month's Rohini is held as a fitting day for hymns addressed to him.

Ekadashi and Purnima

Both tithis are traditionally reserved for bhakti-centred rites; the mind is considered receptive and the offering unhurried.

Brahma Muhurta on Wednesdays

Wednesday carries Krishna's association, and the pre-dawn hour is the classical time to begin a homa of 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 Krishna 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 Krishna 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 Madhurashtakam 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.

Krishna Avahana

The Krishna Sukta and Krishna 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

Krishna — the goddess of knowledge itself

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

The complete guide

Krishna: story, mantras & how to chant

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

Read the Mantra Guide →

Questions

Frequently asked

It is a fire ritual built around the Madhurashtakam, Sri Vallabhacharya's eight-verse hymn in which every attribute of Krishna is described as madhuram — sweet. Priests chant the verses while offering ghee and other oblations into the consecrated fire. Its significance lies in the mood it cultivates: worship offered with tenderness rather than duty. It is classed under Spiritual Growth and Devotion and performed at the Maha tier.

The tradition prescribes it for warmth and steadiness in bhakti, for inner peace when the mind is agitated, for gentleness in speech and conduct, and for the grace of Krishna upon one's ongoing sadhana. Many devotees also offer it seeking harmony at home and release from old bitterness. These are the purposes the rite is undertaken for, not guarantees.

Anyone drawn to Krishna may sponsor it — seekers whose daily practice has grown mechanical, those beginning a new phase of sadhana, householders praying for a gentler home, and devotees who simply wish to honour the Lord on Janmashtami or Rohini. There is no restriction of gender, age or lineage. You sponsor the homa; our qualified priests perform it on your behalf.

Krishna Janmashtami is the foremost occasion, followed by Rohini nakshatra in any month, Ekadashi, Purnima, and Wednesdays in Brahma muhurta. If you have a personal date in mind — a birthday, an anniversary, the start of a vow — our priests will check the panchanga and set an appropriate muhurat for you.

The priests begin with sankalpa in your name, gotra and nakshatra, followed by Ganapati puja, kalasha sthapana and punyahavachana. Agni is invoked in the kunda. The eight verses of the Madhurashtakam are then chanted with ahutis of cow ghee, along with tulasi, sandal, flowers, honey, milk, sugar and other sweet dravyas natural to Krishna's worship. The rite closes with purnahuti, arati, deepa namaskaram and prayers offered in your name.

Book online from any country. Choose the madhurashtakam homam on this page, share your name, gotra and birth star, and our team will confirm the muhurat. The homa is performed by our priests at AstroBhava's Yagna Ashram in Coimbatore and telecast live to you wherever you are. Prasadam and an energised yantra are couriered to your address worldwide, free of shipping cost.