Description
Why Perform Lakshmi Homam?
Purpose | Benefits |
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To invite wealth, prosperity, and good fortune | Ensures financial stability |
Facing debts, losses, or poverty | Removes financial blocks |
For business success, promotions, and growth | Attracts abundance |
To bless the home with peace and health | Ensures family well-being |
For marriage, childbirth, and harmony | Fulfills life desires |
During festivals like Diwali, Akshaya Tritiya, Fridays | Intensifies results |
Before starting new ventures or housewarming | Brings auspiciousness |
Best Times to Perform Lakshmi Homam:
Occasion | Reason |
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Fridays (Lakshmi’s day) | Energetically aligned with Shri |
Pournami (Full Moon days) | Auspicious for divine grace |
Akshaya Tritiya, Dhanteras, Diwali | Multiply wealth and dharma |
During business openings, housewarming (Griha Pravesh) | Long-term prosperity |
Who Should Perform?
- Business owners, entrepreneurs
- Homemakers seeking household harmony
- Students and professionals seeking growth
- Couples praying for marriage or fertility
- Anyone wishing to attract health, wealth, and happiness
Mantras Used in Lakshmi Homam:
Moola Mantra:
ॐ श्रीं महालक्ष्म्यै नमः
Om Shreem Mahalakshmyai Namah
Lakshmi Gayatri Mantra:
Om Mahalakshmyai Vidmahe Vishnu Patnyai Dheemahi Tanno Lakshmihi Prachodayat
Optional:
- Sri Suktam (most important hymn for Lakshmi)
- Lakshmi Ashtottara Shatanamavali (108 names)
- Kanakadhara Stotram (by Adi Shankaracharya)
Lakshmi Homam Procedure:
- Sankalpam – Stating name, rasi, nakshatra, and purpose
- Ganapathi Puja – To remove obstacles
- Kalasha Sthapana & Lakshmi Avahanam – Inviting Mahalakshmi
- Sri Suktam Parayanam – Reciting hymns of Lakshmi Devi
- Maha Lakshmi Moola Mantra Japa – 108 or 1008 times
- Homa Offering:
- Ghee, lotus flowers, turmeric, rice, kumkum, honey, sugar
- Cardamom, jaggery, cow’s ghee sweets
- Purna Ahuti – Final offering and blessings
- Theertham / Prasadam Distribution
Items Required for Lakshmi Homam:
- Ghee, honey, sugar, cow’s milk
- Rice, cardamom, dry fruits
- Turmeric, kumkum, saffron
- Lotus or red flowers, especially Red Lotus / Senkazhuneer Poo
- Betel leaves, nuts, coconut
- Sweet prasadam (Kesari / payasam / milk sweets)
Benefits of Lakshmi Homam:
Area | Benefits |
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Wealth | Ensures financial inflow and reduces debts |
Business | Attracts clients, projects, success |
Family | Brings unity, happiness, peace |
Health | Removes disease and brings well-being |
Spiritual | Bestows divine energy and contentment |
Marriage/Fertility | Brings divine blessings for family life |
Where to Perform:
- Home (with homa kundam and priest)
- Vedic temples or Lakshmi shrines
- During special pujas like Lakshmi Deepam, Navaratri, etc.
- During Griha Pravesham (Housewarming), Vastu Puja, or Ayush Homam
Additional Remedies for Attracting Lakshmi:
Remedy | Result |
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Lighting ghee lamp with red lotus on Fridays | Invites Mahalakshmi |
Chanting Sri Suktam daily or every Friday | Strengthens financial energy |
Donating rice, turmeric, yellow cloth, or sweets | Increases punya |
Keeping a clean altar or pooja space at home | Ensures Lakshmi stays with you |