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Sri Suktha Homa

Also spelled Sri Suktha Homam

श्री सूक्त होम

Fifteen ancient verses to Mahalakshmi, offered into living fire on your behalf — for income that steadies and debts that lighten.

  • 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 Sri Suktha Homa takes the Sri Sukta — a hymn appended to the Rig Veda, fifteen verses long — and offers it into consecrated fire, syllable by syllable. Each verse calls Mahalakshmi by a different quality: she who is golden, she who is moist with rain, she who arrives with the horse and the elephant and the sound of them, she who removes want. Where recitation alone speaks the hymn, the homa gives it a mouth. Agni carries every line to the Goddess along with ghee, lotus, bilva and grain.

This is the rite the tradition prescribes when wealth will not settle. Money that comes and vanishes. Income that arrives in bursts and then stops. Debt that grows faster than repayment. The Sri Sukta does not ask only for gold; it asks for sthira Lakshmi — prosperity that stays, and the discipline, opportunity and clear judgement that let it stay. Held at the Maha tier, the homa is performed at length, with full ritual measure, at our Yagna Ashram and telecast live to wherever you sit.

हिरण्यवर्णां हरिणीं सुवर्णरजतस्रजाम् । चन्द्रां हिरण्मयीं लक्ष्मीं जातवेदो म आवह ॥ O Agni, knower of all beings, bring to me that Lakshmi who is golden-hued and radiant, garlanded in gold and silver, luminous as the moon and made of gold herself.

Why Devotees Book This

The Sri Sukta homam benefits the tradition names are not about sudden fortune. They are about wealth that holds its shape. Devotees book the Sri Suktha Homa for these intentions.

Steady income

Offered when earnings arrive irregularly, for the settled, repeating flow the hymn calls sthira Lakshmi.

Relief from debt

Prescribed by tradition for those carrying loans and dues, seeking the means and clarity to close them in order.

Prosperity that stays

The Sri Sukta asks not merely for gain but for wealth that does not leak away — the removal of alakshmi, want and disorder.

Stability in business and livelihood

Taken up by shopkeepers, traders and professionals before a new venture, a new season, or a difficult stretch.

Grace on the home

Lakshmi is invoked as one who dwells where cleanliness, order and dharma are kept, blessing the household as a whole.

Clarity in money decisions

The hymn asks for buddhi alongside dhana — the discernment to hold and use what comes.

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 Sri Suktha 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 →
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 Sri Suktha Homa

Choose how many priests will chant

Both packages are the same rite. The complete Sri Suktham, 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 packageSri Suktha Maha Homa5 Priests · approx. 2 hours · Free Surya Yantra
₹26,850

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.

3

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

Our priests fix the muhurat for your Sri Suktha Homa from the panchanga, and confirm the date and streaming time with you before the fire is lit. These are the occasions the tradition favours.

Fridays

The day of Shukra and of the Goddess. The most common day chosen for Sri Sukta offerings.

Shukla Paksha, especially Purnima

The waxing fortnight mirrors increase. Full moon nights are held to be particularly fitting for Mahalakshmi rites.

Varalakshmi Vratam, Navaratri and Diwali Lakshmi Puja

The great Lakshmi occasions of the year, when devotees across households turn to her together.

Rohini, Shravana and Uttara Phalguni nakshatras

Stars associated with abundance, sustenance and settled fortune, chosen when the calendar allows.

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 Mahalakshmi 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 Mahalakshmi 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.

02

Purify the amulet

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

03

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.

06

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 Sri Suktha Homa is performed

01

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.

02

Ganapati Puja

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

03

Agni Pratishtha

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

04

Mahalakshmi Avahana

The Mahalakshmi Sukta and Mahalakshmi 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

Mahalakshmi — the goddess of knowledge itself

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

The complete guide

Mahalakshmi: story, mantras & how to chant

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

Read the Mantra Guide →
Not sure this is the right homa?

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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.

Questions

Frequently asked

Yes. The Sri Yantra is kept in homes across the tradition, most often in the puja room facing east or north, on a clean raised surface. Keep it wiped, offer kumkum and a lamp, and treat the space around it with the order Lakshmi is said to favour. When you book the Sri Suktha Homa with AstroBhava, an energised yantra is couriered to you after the rite along with prasadam, wherever in the world you live.
The Sri Suktha Homam is a fire ritual in which the fifteen verses of the Sri Sukta are chanted and offered into consecrated Agni for Mahalakshmi. Ghee, lotus, bilva leaves, grain and sesame go into the flame with each mantra. It belongs to the Finance and Wealth group of rites and is taken up for prosperity, steady income and financial stability.
A homa at home needs a properly built kunda, correctly kindled Agni, precise mantra pronunciation and an unbroken sequence from sankalpa to purnahuti — which is why it is traditionally entrusted to trained priests rather than attempted alone. Many devotees cannot arrange this at home at all. AstroBhava exists for exactly that reason: our priests perform the homa on your behalf at our Yagna Ashram, take your sankalpa in your name and gotra, and telecast the fire live to you.
It is the offering of the Rig Vedic Sri Sukta into fire. The hymn addresses Mahalakshmi as golden, moon-bright, lotus-seated, and asks her to drive away want and to remain. Its significance lies in the request itself — the Sri Sukta seeks not a windfall but prosperity that endures, together with the food, cattle, dwelling and clear mind that make prosperity liveable. Chanting the hymn is meritorious; offering it through Agni is the fuller form the tradition prescribes.
Tradition prescribes this homa for steady income, relief from the burden of debt, stability in business and livelihood, prosperity that does not drain away, grace upon the household, and clarity in matters of money. It is performed as a prayer and an offering. No rite is a guarantee of a particular result; what the Sri Suktha Homa does is place your intention, in your name, into the fire with the Goddess's own hymn.
The homa itself must be performed by priests trained in Vedic recitation and fire ritual — the Sri Sukta's svaras have to be exact. The sankalpa, however, is yours. Devotees who book it include those with irregular earnings, those clearing loans, business owners entering a new financial year, families seeking stability, and anyone in a Shukra or wealth-related planetary period. You need not attend; the rite is performed on your behalf and streamed to you.
Fridays are the most favoured, being sacred to Shukra and to the Goddess. The waxing fortnight, and Purnima in particular, are held to be auspicious. Varalakshmi Vratam, Navaratri and Diwali are traditional occasions, as are the Rohini, Shravana and Uttara Phalguni nakshatras. Our priests select the muhurat from the panchanga and confirm the date and live-telecast time with you in advance.
The sri suktha homam procedure runs in order: purification of the space and the ritual articles; sankalpa taken in your name, gotra and nakshatra; Ganapati puja to clear obstacles; kalasha sthapana and invocation of Mahalakshmi; Agni pratishtha, the kindling and consecration of the fire; the chanting of the Sri Sukta with an offering at each verse; the sri sukta homa mantra repeated for the appointed count; purnahuti, the final full oblation; and aarti with the distribution of prasadam. Samagri includes cow ghee, red lotus, bilva and tulasi, sesame, rice, jaggery, navadhanya, dry fruits, camphor, kumkum and specified ritual woods.
Book on this page from any country. Give your name, gotra and birth star so the sankalpa can be made correctly for you. Our team confirms the muhurat and sends you the link to watch the fire live from our Yagna Ashram. Afterwards, prasadam and an energised yantra are couriered to your address free of shipping charge. Details of what each package includes, along with the sri suktha homam cost for your country, appear in the booking section on this page.
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