Purpose-driven group tantric practice centered around Sri Sukta, 16 mantras dedicated to the Divine Mother Sri
Continuation of the transformative six-month practice held in Khajuraho, India
Accessible practice levels for both longtime practitioners and those newer to Sri Sukta
14-day immersion with a 12-day practice combining daily group recitation, havan (fire ceremony), and personal meditation
Opportunity to deepen spiritual growth while contributing to healing and nurturing collective consciousness
Overview
Maha Sri Yaga represents a rare convergence of practice, purpose, and community. This laser-focused tantric practice brings the fully matured energy of our six-month Khajuraho practice to the Sri Vidya Shrine at our Honesdale campus, creating a powerful energetic bridge between the sister Sri Vidya shrines in Khajuraho and Honesdale.
Offered in two sessions (July 13–27 and October 9–23), Maha Sri Yaga Honesdale invites Sri Sukta practitioners of all levels to participate in this transformative group practice. Whether you’re beginning your Sri Sukta journey, deepening an established practice, or serving as an anchor practitioner, you’ll contribute meaningfully to a collective force for healing, abundance, and inner awakening. The practice combines daily group recitation of Sri Sukta, sacred fire offerings, and personal meditation—all designed to accelerate personal growth while infusing collective consciousness with divine grace.
Following the completion of the six-month Maha Sri Yaga practice at our Khajuraho campus in India, members of our global Sri Sukta community expressed a heartfelt wish to bring this rare practice to Honesdale. With great enthusiasm, we honor that calling.
The richness, depth, and transformative energy cultivated at our Sri Vidya shrine in Khajuraho now continues in the United States with equal vitality. A group of dedicated anchor practitioners will maintain the same continuity and integrity established during the India sessions, ensuring a seamless energetic transition between the sister shrines.
Maha Sri Yaga offers us an opportunity to elevate our sadhana and deepen our relationship with inner reality. This practice skillfully influences external reality to become gentler, kinder, more loving, and more sensitive. It strengthens the sacred bond between the Sri Vidya shrines of Honesdale and Khajuraho, energizing both for the benefit of present and future practitioners.
The Himalayan Institute community is deeply grateful for the privilege of hosting this unprecedented event. We invite you to join us and immerse yourself in this rare and beautiful experience.
What is Maha Sri Yaga?
Maha Sri Yaga is an extremely rare, Sri Sukta-based group practice designed to accelerate personal growth while infusing collective consciousness with the positive energy of self-trust, trust in divine providence, and trust in the underlying force that governs both our inner and outer lives. Its purpose is to upgrade the quality of the mind and to overcome forces of aggression, divisiveness, and hatred.
Simply stated, Maha Sri Yaga is a practice for restoring the vibrancy of humanity and the natural world.
In times of escalating climate challenges, social polarization, and collective anxiety, we need practices that create positive change in consciousness potent enough to counterbalance destructive forces of fear and scarcity. Maha Sri Yaga is the sages’ way to cool the fires affecting our personal and collective lives, to heal and rejuvenate the natural world, and to reinfuse the human spirit with divine abundance.
The Purpose of Maha Sri Yaga Honesdale
Share this unique practice and its transformative shakti with the Himalayan Institute community in the United States
Emphasize the spiritual connection between the Sri Vidya Shrines in Honesdale and Khajuraho
Further energize both shrines for the benefit of future practitioners
Expedite spiritual growth with the support of like-minded, inspired souls
Contribute to a collective consciousness powerful enough to transform forces of fear, anger, confusion, and division
Infuse collective consciousness with a desire to share, serve, and make a difference
Strengthen our connection with Mother Nature and restore the vibrancy of the natural world through constructive and nurturing actions
The Main Practice
Every participant in Maha Sri Yaga will engage in the main practice, which offers richness and depth for practitioners of all levels. This 12-day practice includes an opening ceremony followed by daily group recitation of 20 rounds of Sri Sukta in the shrine (approximately 43 minutes), daily havan centered around fire offerings with Sri Sukta mantras, and daily personal meditation practice in the Sri Vidya Shrine.
For those wishing to undertake or complete a stage 1 practice (10 recitations per day for 80 days), you may time your practice so the 80 days conclude during your Maha Sri Yaga session, or begin your stage 1 practice immediately following Maha Sri Yaga and continue from home. The main practice of Maha Sri Yaga will form the foundation of your stage 1 practice.
For those undertaking stage 2 practice during Maha Sri Yaga, you will complete 47 recitations of Sri Sukta daily for 12 days as personal practice in addition to the 20 daily group recitations. Stage 2 practice has a firm prerequisite of having previously completed a stage 1 practice.
The Anchor Practice is a rare shakti practice, and a grounding force in Maha Sri Yaga. Maha Sri Yaga requires the participation of a minimum of 100 individuals who have completed the Anchor Practice in a highly disciplined and coordinated manner. The practitioner who has completed a Sri Sukta Stage 2 practice at least once may undertake the Anchor Practice.
During Maha Sri Yaga, Anchor Practitioners participate in all aspects of the main practice plus additional practices which may include mantra japa or recitation of Sri Sukta. Further instructions will be given during orientation after you arrive. As a part of one’s personal sadhana, the Anchor Practice is the gateway to additional practices of Sri Sukta.
The essential preparation for Maha Sri Yaga is knowledge and practice of Sri Sukta. A regular practice of Sri Sukta is the foundation for your participation. Wherever you find yourself in your personal Sri Sukta sadhana, please join us and start your dedicated, purpose-driven practice.
We encourage you to undertake a Sri Sukta stage 1 practice before Maha Sri Yaga. Details of the stage 1 practice are outlined in Panditji’s book, Sri Sukta: Tantra of Inner Prosperity.
You are prepared to become an anchoring force of Maha Sri Yaga—an opportunity for your own inner awakening and to serve humanity and the natural world.
Continue your daily practice of one to ten recitations of Sri Sukta as well as three repetitions of the anchor practice. If you are doing any other advanced practice of Sri Sukta, continue per the guidance you have already received. You will receive further guidance about the appropriate course of practice for you to do during Maha Sri Yaga at the program orientation when you arrive at Honesdale.
Study Track
Prajapati Sukta: Invoking the Spirit of Humanity An In-depth Study of Prajapati Yaga
Just as Sri Sukta is the bedrock of Maha Sri Yaga, Prajapati Sukta is the bedrock of Prajapati Yaga. Maha Sri Yaga guides us in reclaiming our inner wealth, while Prajapati Yaga restores and nurtures the dynamic forces of life itself. Thus, Prajapati Yaga is the natural evolution of Maha Sri Yaga as well as many other Sri Sukta–based practices.
In this in-depth study intensive, we’ll explore the inner dynamics of Prajapati Yaga—its foundational principles, the clear steps that lead to the practice, and the proper application of the ten mantras of Prajapati Sukta. The course also offers a detailed examination of the broader family of mantras that orbit the shakti of Prajapati Sukta and how they are skillfully deployed in the practice of Prajapati Yaga.
The Relationship Between Prajapati Yaga and Sri Sukta
Prajapati Yaga unfolds through multiple layers and expressions, each presided over by a specific sage. For practitioners grounded in Sri Sukta, Prajapati Yaga is presided over by Sage Kardama, who serves as its anchoring force. Kardama is invoked in mantra 11 of Sri Sukta.
This study reveals how to lift the veil concealing the fourfold secret meaning of mantra 11—an understanding the tradition has long regarded as forbidden to non-Sri Suktis.
The Significance of Prajapati Yaga and Prajapati Sukta
The purpose of Prajapati Yaga is to restore our living connection with the spirit of humanity—our Creator and Her intention in placing us at the heart of Her creation.Through this practice, we cultivate a refined sensitivity to nature’s subtle forces, enabling us to serve the natural world skillfully while receiving its support in return.
Prajapati Yaga enriches the present by opening access to the most benevolent achievements of the human race, preserved within the wisdom of the past. Expressed through the light of Sri Sukta, this practice helps us reclaim the wonder of who we are, as well as the wonder that impels us to share, serve, and care for one another. It kindles the twin flames of wisdom and compassion, ensuring that we continue to receive love, protection, and nourishment from higher sources.
At the heart of Prajapati Yaga lies a cluster of ten mantras known collectively as Prajapati Sukta—a gift from the sages as precious and transformative as Sri Sukta itself. In this course, we will study and learn Prajapati Sukta, as well as the supporting mantras that carry its shakti to its intended destination within Prajapati Yaga.
In a time when the world is gripped by fear and uncertainty, awakening the shakti of calmness and stability is our dharma. This study intensive helps us fulfill that dharma by empowering us to become a force of positive change in the world.
Session Titles:
Session 1 — The Genesis of God: A Tantric View
Session 2 — The Seven Sages and their Role in Creation
Session 3 — Prajapati: Metamorphosis of God and Infusing Creation with His Attributes
Session 4 — Prajapati Kardama: Infusing Water and Soil with Consciousness
Session 5 — Assimilation Session #1 with Ishan Tigunait
Session 6 — Prajapati Sukta: Mantras 1-5
Session 7 — Prajapati Sukta: Mantras 6-10
Session 8 — Supportive Mantras Used in the Practice of Prajapati Yaga, Part 1
Session 9 — Supportive Mantras Used in the Practice of Prajapati Yaga, Part 2
Session 10 — Assimilation Session #2 with Ishan Tigunait
Session 11 — Q&A & Concluding Session
Schedule
General Schedule
July 13 | 4–6pm Arrival and check-in, 7:30pm Welcoming session July 14 | Opening Ceremony and Practice Orientation July 15–26 | 12-day practice of Maha Sri Yaga & Prajapati Sukta study track July 27 | 12pm Checkout
Sample Daily Schedule
6am | Prayers of the Tradition 6–8am | Garbha Griha open for Darshan 6–8am | Personal Practice or Hatha Yoga class 7:30–8:30 | Breakfast 10am–12pm | Daily Havan 12:30–1:30pm | Lunch Afternoon | Free time, chai socials, or nature walks on select days 4–6pm | Garbha Griha open for Darshan 5–5:45pm | Group recitation in Sri Vidya Shrine 6pm | Prayers of the Tradition 6–7pm | Dinner 7–8:30pm | Prajapati Sukta study track session
Yes. If you feel inspired to join Maha Sri Yaga Honesdale but are new to the practice of Sri Sukta, we recommend beginning your preparation by reading the Sri Sukta: Tantra of Inner Prosperity book, taking the Sri Sukta Course, and establishing a regular daily Sri Sukta practice. These steps are prerequisites for attending Maha Sri Yaga Honesdale and will help ensure you are well prepared for the depth of the practice.
Your personal understanding and intuition regarding your preparation and inspiration is the best guide to know what you are ready for.
If you’ve been practicing Sri Sukta regularly at home and have the capacity to do 10 recitations in about 20-30 minutes, and are inspired to enhance your Sri Sukta practice, start a stage 1 practice (10 recitations per day, for 80 days) from home before you come to Maha Sri Yaga. You’ll want to time this stage 1 practice so that the 80 days conclude just before your trip to Maha Sri Yaga Honesdale.
If you’ve done stage 1 and are ready to intensify your Sri Sukta practice by undertaking a stage 2 practice we encourage you to prepare to do this during Maha Sri Yaga Honesdale. Initial preparation begins with committing to a regular daily practice of 10 recitations per day prior to coming to Maha Sri Yaga. You can begin this preparation any time, but the sooner the better, so that you build a strong foundation for the undertaking of your stage 2 practice. Your capacity should also include being able to recite the Sri Sukta in its entirety from memory, and with a fluency of about a 2-minute pace per recitation.
Often the answer to this question really is about taking some time to reflect on the degree of enthusiasm and inner calling you personally feel for the practice. If you’re inspired, and wish to be prepared to do it, but just don’t know if you’re prepared, then it’s a good sign that you’re ready. If there’s doubt about whether or not you want to do it or can actually do it, then it’s best to fortify yourself and your practice a bit further before committing to serve as an anchor.
Proficiency in Sri Sukta recitation is only part of the preparation. Our inner preparation that comes from studying the meaning of the mantras, reflecting on them, and cultivating a meditative mind through regular daily meditation is a big part of the preparation. The technical aspects of preparing for the anchor practice unfold from there, and are largely concerned with gaining proficiency in a unique application of Sri Sukta mantras in the form of internal (silent) japa.
Yes. When registering, select a Shared Standard Room package. You will be assigned a roommate of the same gender unless you indicate the name of a preferred roommate.
Please note that as part of a Stage 2 practice within Maha Sri Yaga, you will complete 47 recitations of Sri Sukta daily as your personal practice, in addition to the 20 recitations done with the group. Many participants prefer to complete their personal recitations in their room, which requires some coordination with a roommate in shared accommodations. While a private room can be a helpful support for this level of practice, it is entirely possible to coordinate schedules respectfully and harmoniously within a shared room as part of the larger collective experience.
For assistance with accommodation selection, please contact Guest Services at (800) 822-4547 or through our Contact Us form.
Yes, the study track will be available as a live webinar on HI Online. In-person participants of Maha Sri Yaga Honesdale will receive complementary lifetime access to this webinar and its recordings.
Please note that all havans, recitations, and experiential practice components of Maha Sri Yaga Honesdale are offered exclusively in person and will not be livestreamed or recorded. Registration for the online-only webinar will open approximately three months prior to the start of the program.
Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, PhD
Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, PhD, is a modern-day master and living link in the unbroken Himalayan Tradition. He is the successor to Sri Swami Rama of the Himalayas, and the spiritual head of the Himalayan Institute. As the author of numerous books, including his autobiography Touched by Fire: The Ongoing Journey of a Spiritual...
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