Navgrah Shanti Puja Vidhi — Signs & When You Need It

Navgrah Shanti is the collective pacification of all nine grahas — Surya, Chandra, Mangal, Budh, Guru, Shukra, Shani, Rahu, and Ketu. Where a single-planet shanti (a Shani puja, a Mangal puja) treats one affliction, the Navgrah Shanti addresses the whole chart at once: each graha is invoked, worshipped with its own mantra, colour, grain, and samidha (sacred wood), and offered into the havan. The shastras prescribe it when multiple planets afflict a kundali simultaneously, at the junctions of major dashas, and before every significant beginning. That is what our Navgraha Shanti Puja performs in Ujjain, with the Bhaat offering to Mars included.

Consider this puja when troubles arrive from several directions at once rather than one recurring pattern — health, money, and relationships disturbed together; when a mahadasha or antardasha changes and the new period opens badly; during overlapping afflictions like sade sati running alongside a Rahu dasha; after repeated setbacks that follow no single explanation; and before major beginnings — a marriage, a new business, grah pravesh — where the tradition performs it to clear the path. If you have your kundali, our pandits will check it on WhatsApp and tell you whether a full Navgrah Shanti or a single-graha remedy fits your situation better.

Ujjain's standing in jyotish is unique: the prime meridian of Hindu astronomy passes through it, the Tropic of Cancer touches it, and Varahamihira — the greatest astronomer-astrologer of classical India — worked here. It is also Mahakal's city, and the grahas are pacified most completely under the authority of Shiva, their lord. This is why the gravest planetary remedies — Kaal Sarp Dosh, Mangal Dosh in Ujjain, and comprehensive Navgrah Shanti — are traditionally referred to Ujjain from all over India.

The complete Navgrah Shanti takes about 2.5 to 3 hours. At Mahakal Darshan it runs in four steps. It opens with Ganesh and Ambika pujan, with the sankalp in your name and gotra. Then the Navagraha puja — the nine grahas worshipped in order, Surya with red flowers and wheat, Chandra with white rice, Mangal with masoor, and so on through Rahu and Ketu. Then the havan with Vedic mantras, in which the nine samidhas — one sacred wood for each planet — are offered with ghee and til. It closes with the offering of rice (bhaat), which is the Bhaat Pooja, joining Mangal's pacification to the shanti of all nine.

At Mahakal Darshan the complete Navgrah Shanti + Bhaat Pooja includes all samagri including the nine samidhas, pandit dakshina, sankalp in your name and gotra, the havan, live WhatsApp video of the full ritual, the recording, and prasad delivered to your home.

Navgrah Shanti can be performed on any day the panchang clears; Sundays (Surya's day) and the weekday of your most afflicting graha are commonly chosen, as are dasha-change dates and the month of Sawan, when all Shiva-connected remedies are amplified. To book, open the Navgrah Shanti booking page, pick your date, and enter your name and gotra. You will see the entire ritual on a live WhatsApp video call and receive prasad at home — the same complete vidhi whether you attend in Ujjain or from abroad.