Shani Beej Mantra Jaap — 23,000 Count, Vidhi, Benefits and Booking in Ujjain

The beej (seed) mantra of Shani (Saturn) is:For a full Shani Shanti Jaap, it is recited 23,000 times — the count prescribed for Shani (Saturn) — followed by a havan of one tenth of that number. Our pandits in Ujjain perform it with the sankalp in your name and gotra, on a Saturday, the day kept for Shani (Saturn).

Shani (Saturn) is the karaka of work and service, discipline, delay, longevity, and the results of past karma. The jaap is usually taken up in these situations:

• Sade Sati (7½ years) or Dhaiya (2½ years) running on your Moon sign
• Running a Shani mahadasha or antardasha
• Work that is delayed again and again, job loss or hard, thankless labour
• Long-running joint, bone or nerve trouble, alongside treatment
• Saturn debilitated in Aries, or afflicting the Moon

Shani (Saturn)’s mahadasha lasts 19 years in the Vimshottari system, which is why the remedy is so often taken up during it.

Each of the nine grahas has its own jaap count, based on the number of syllables and the tradition of the mantra; for Shani (Saturn) it is 23,000. The texts also say that in Kaliyug a jaap should be done four times over — hence the second count of 92,000, done by 26 pandits, for a long dasha or a heavier affliction. Neither count is a guarantee; a larger count is a larger prayer. See the jaap counts of all nine grahas side by side.

• Sankalp — your name, gotra and the purpose are stated
• Ganesh pujan and navagraha sthapana, then Shani (Saturn) is invoked
• 23,000 recitations of the beej mantra, shared among 7 pandits and counted on the mala
• Dashansh havan — a tenth of the count offered into the fire — then tarpan, marjan and brahman bhojan

You do not need to be in Ujjain: the sankalp is taken in your name, you can watch on a video call, and prasad is sent to your address. The date is fixed by the panchang and told to you before you pay.

• On Saturdays, light a mustard-oil lamp under a peepal tree.
• Give black sesame, black urad, mustard oil or iron in charity on a Saturday.
• Read the Hanuman Chalisa on Saturdays, and serve workers and the elderly.

If you chant the beej mantra yourself, 108 times a day on a rudraksha mala, with a steady mind, is the usual practice.

Not everyone going through a hard time has an afflicted Shani (Saturn). Whether this jaap is the right remedy is read in your own kundli — check it free in Find Your Puja: enter your birth details and the problem, and the kundli is read for it. During Sade Sati itself, many families book the Shani Sade Sati Puja, a single-sitting puja for that period. To book: Shani Shanti Jaap in Ujjain, from ₹7,600.