Shanti homam
Shanti homam is performed where a household is unsettled — illness that will not lift, obstacles that keep returning, a house that feels wrong since something happened in it. The purohit performs the punyahavachanam, the navagraha pooja and the homam, and closes with the udaka shanti sprinkled through the house.
Families ask for this in vaguer terms than any other karyam, and that is fair enough: they know something is not right and cannot name it. We ask what has been happening and for how long, and then say which form is called for. Sometimes it is this homam. Sometimes what is needed is a Mrityunjaya homam for an illness, or a navagraha japam for one graha, and we say so.
It runs about three hours, with the homam and the poornahuti, and the shanti jalam sprinkled through the house at the end. We bring the kundam, the samidhalu, the havis and the danam items.
No prices are listed here. Each karyam is quoted on the phone, once we know the date, the place and the custom your family follows.
Questions about this karyam
When should a shanti homam be done?
When trouble in a house keeps returning without a cause you can name. Tell us what has been happening and we will say whether this is the right one.
How long does it take?
About three hours including the udaka shanti at the end.
Is it different from the shanti poojas after a death?
Yes. Those close the ashaucham of a bereaved house. This one is for a household that is unsettled for other reasons.
Should the whole family be present?
The householder and his wife sit for the sankalpam, and the rest of the family should be in the house even if they do not sit through it. Where someone the homam is chiefly for is away, their name, nakshatram and gotram go into the sankalpam and that is enough.