Nav Graha Shanti Puja

What's included

• Pandit ji availability and booking
• Auspicious muhurat chosen for your family
• Puja samagri exactly as listed by pandit ji
• Havan samagri with mango sticks
• Pious utensils required for the puja
• Mandap for the puja including murtis
• Setup and decoration at your venue
• Kaleen, cushion and aasan for yajman and pandit ji
• Fresh fruit, dry fruit and prasad
• Fresh flowers and one small garland
• Fresh mango leaves
• Used samagri collected afterwards for disposal

Why families perform it

The navagraha puja honours all nine planetary influences of Hindu astrology in a single ceremony. Each graha is associated with a different area of life, and the ritual is performed to settle their combined effect rather than to petition any one of them.

In brief, the traditional associations are:

• Surya — vitality and standing
• Chandra — the mind and emotional balance
• Mangal — drive, property and prosperity
• Budha — intellect, speech and commerce
• Guru — learning, wisdom and good counsel
• Shukra — relationships, art and comfort
• Shani — patience, discipline and detachment
• Rahu — resilience and worldly reach
• Ketu — release and family wellbeing

What the ceremony brings

Where a graha sits awkwardly in a birth chart, the tradition holds that sincere worship softens its harder effects and strengthens the favourable ones. Families most often ask for this puja during an unsettled stretch — health, work, study or a run of setbacks.

It is also performed preventively, before a move, a marriage or the start of a new business, so that the year ahead begins on steady footing.

Choosing the muhurat

Because this puja is tuned to the yajman's chart, the date carries more weight than usual. Our pandit ji will ask for birth details and then propose a muhurat that gives the ceremony its full effect while still working around your family's schedule.