It is the chanting of specific Vedic mantras (sounds) by professionally trained and dedicated Vedic Pandits. The Pandits also may make offerings of flowers, ghee, incense, camphor or other oblations, depending on the yagya.
No. Just the first time.
No. It pays the cost of the first A level planetary yagya which you commission.
We can use yagyas as often as we feel we may need them. When a planet changes its position in the zodiac, like when it moves from one ‘sign’ to another is a good time to do one. When a new Dasha or planetary period is entered is also a good time to do a yagya.
Sometimes a planet is in a difficult placement in the chart. These planets are usually given a yagya twice a year, about 6 months apart. If you have only been studying jyotish for a few years, it is best to allow Pandit Dixit to make planetary yagya recommendations for you. You may request special intention yagyas at any time.
It is a good idea to do a yagya when starting something – a new business, a big trip, a new business deal. It’s like insurance.
One may do a special intention yagya without doing the planetary recommendations. Try it and see how it works for you. Some people have a lot of success, I suspect because they have cleared out a lot of their old karma and are ready to move forward.
Planetary yagyas help to resolve old karma and are highly suggested before special intention yagyas. In some cases, doing a Mahamrityunjaya, Gayatri, or Rudrabhishek yagya at A level will be an adequate substitute for planetary yagyas.
Yagyas are also called yagnas, yajnas. Yagya is a northern Indian term, yajna, a southern Indian term.
Pandit Dixit organizes a large group of pandits in Kanpur, India. He examines kundali (birth charts) and makes yagya recommendations. He leaves the chanting to younger men. His current short term goal is to employ 251 pandits at the Ashram, year round. Nearly 6000 clients from around the world have used the VLF’s services. The United States, Europe, Austrailia, South America, Russia, India, China and Japan all send their yagya orders to the VLF. You are invited to come to Kanpur and visit the Vedic Life Foundation. Please arrange your trip through Chuck and Annette Hunner.
Planetary yagyas may be performed at two levels. At ‘A’ level, the mantra is repeated 110,000 times and ‘B’ level, the mantra is repeated 55,000 times.
One pandit can, at the most, repeat the planetary mantra 10,000 times each day. Our pandits usually repeat a planetary mantra 7,000 times each day so that the yagya may progress smoothly and evenly.
I answer email in the morning and evening, Eastern US time. Sometimes Panditji or I are traveling so our schedule gets off a bit. If you’ve not received an answer within 36 hours, please resend your email to me.
Send your deposit of $275 to us. We accept Paypal payments through our account there. Panditji will look at your chart and recommend yagyas according to the chart and your desires.
We still need your birth information to make the chart. The pandit who chants your yagya will use the chart to connect with you. In the Puja that begins the yagya each day the Pandit mentions your name, rising sign, nakshatra, and the current gochar(current transiting planetary positions).
Sometimes the results of yagyas are not obvious. I’ve even been told by one pandit that one must sometimes wait life times to see the results of yagyas!