Navagraha Homa🔗

Homa is a fire ritual, and an intense spiritual practice which becomes a powerful meditation technique when performed with devotion. During homa, one invokes the cosmic energy and visualizes it in the fire. Offerings to the planet deity through the fire are made at the same time.

Through the mantra chanted and the purification effect of the fire; the body, the space in which the ritual happens and the people attending the prayer are benefited, and the planetary effect decreased.

When this homa is done as a personal spiritual practice, the energy is brought from the nirvanic to the physical layer of the body through all subtle energy layers, healing the person and raising his level of energy-allowing him to transform his destiny.

Navagraha pūja and homa services are available in all Nithyananda Vedic Temples throughout USA, and Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam ashrams throughout India.

Find out your nearest Temple in India on www.nithyananda.org and www.nithyanandavedictemple.org for USA, contact them to have more details if you are interested in benefiting from these services.

Aum hrīṁ Nityānandāya namaḥ (Om Hreem Nithyanandaya Namaha)

In this mantra, Aum is the primordial sound and is the representation of Śiva’s energy, the male aspect of the universe. Actually, Aum is the cosmic sound that pervades the grahas, their movements and their effects on us.

The Bīja mantra (seed sound), Hrīm, has no linguistic meaning but encloses a powerful vibration which attunes you to the primordial energy from which the grahas originate: the female energy, Śakti.

Nithyananda means Eternal Bliss and invokes the truth which is our true nature, and the nature of our own intelligence. It is the pūrṇa mūla mantra (the complete mantra) because it represents a straight path to both Śakti (success in this world) and to Śiva (success in the cosmic world) which is ‘enlightenment’.

Namaḥa means 'I surrender' my ego to Existence, to the Master. Thus this sacred mantra awakens the completeness and fulfillment inside us and balances the male and female energies which exist inside every one of us.

The repetition of this mantra is a powerful technique which can be performed throughout the day as you go about your daily routine. It can also be uttered aloud 108 times every morning. The number 108, which is a multiple of 9, has been sacred since time immemorial. That is because the number 9 is the limit of all numbers: 0 to 9 is all one needs to make up an infinite amount of numbers. Therefore, 108 symbolizes and connects you to infinity.

Its beautiful sound should be pronounced clearly and as loudly as possible and from the navel region.

Eventually, this mantra will replace your inner chatter and create silence in your mind. Your whole being integrates itself towards enlightenment which leads you out of the dynamic of karma and planetary effects.

Let go of ego!

You sometime feel you're going through some identity crises... You feel you are not being acknowledged by others as you'd like to be. These blockages seem out of reach. Observe. You hold yourself to ahaṅkār, the identity you project to the outer world. People's not acknowledging you as you want seems like a death, a negation of your existence. Drop that! Be free. Never live on expecting others to give you substance. After all, you exist! Is anything else necessary?

Be responsible!

Maturity is to accept the responsibility to be oneself, whatever may come. It is risking everything to be fully oneself. There is no age to unfold it in you. Going beyond thoughts and feelings to become pure being is what maturity is. This maturity gives you intelligence, a very sharp intelligence that becomes an asset for the community in which you live. To use one's experience and wisdom in a humanitarian way; to harness it to become a living example of one's master's message, is the greatest service one can perform for his guru.

How can you change the world? To make the whole world blissful and happy, you don't have to do anything. Just change your center. When the inner awakening happens, the higher emotions happen. It all finally boils down to your own experience of what is happening. If you want to save the world, all you need to do is save yourself! Everything is actually happening in this world: spiritual sessions where enlightenment is being shared and at the same time terrorist training camps where violence is being shared. According to what you tune into, the world that you attract and see will also appear to be. You will attract the same type of people and situations in your life.

Existence has many ways to teach us through experience. It would make you more insecure, more uncertain, because that’s how life is, that’s how existence is. When there is more insecurity, more danger, the only way to respond to it is with awareness. Just stand in your sincerity and authenticity. Money is not the aim of the cosmic constitution; your soul’s journey is the aim! The learning that stands behind the experience is the goal. Ultimately, whatever you have now will leave you when death comes. Trust life to take care of you! Envision the problem under a bigger scope, a cosmic scope, which will give you great freedom and insight into the inner mysteries of life!

It is time to fight your indulgence. One should better face the problem instead of running away to hide in one’s room, to do useless things which will not help you to grow. Now, only intensity will help to fight your inertia. After all, problems are not eternal. When we are depressed, we feel we will be depressed forever. No! It is not possible. You are constantly changing, people are constantly changing, and problems are also constantly changing. Nothing is fixed in Existence. What is required is a little patience to wait for things to move, and a little courage to face situations without making big problems out of them. And lo, in no time, the whole thing is forgotten!

Śani (Saturn god) as represented in Tiruvannamalai Ashram(India). Around Saturn stand the other 8 Navagraha deities (deities associated with the nine planets), along with their Navagraha trees (trees associated with the nine planets), to bless all with abundance. The circle of deities is placed around the main deities of the temple, Sri Anandeshwara and Anandeshwari; located near a powerful energy field of 1008 Śiva lingas radiating Śiva's cosmic energy in an extremely auspicious atmosphere.