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.

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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.

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.

• 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

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 internal havan centered around offerings with Sri Sukta mantras, and daily personal meditation practice in the Sri Vidya Shrine.

Prerequisites for the Main Practice:

• Required:
  • Complete the Sri Sukta Course
  • Read Sri Sukta: Tantra of Inner Prosperity
  • Practice of Sri Sukta
• Recommended:
  • Sri Sukta stage 1 or stage 2 practice
  • A daily practice of Sri Sukta
  • Vishoka Meditation

This October program marks the culmination of the year-long practice of Maha Sri Yaga, which began in India and is being completed in the United States. This program is special not only because it brings Maha Sri Yaga to its conclusion, but also because it is carried out in the samaya method of Sri Vidya, which is our tradition.

In this session, our daily fire offering will be internal, and held in the sacred space of the Sri Vidya shrine. As a guided practice, Panditji will lead you to light the inner fire at your solar plexus and carry it to the crown chakra. There he will assist you in making the fire offerings. Thus, in the process of concluding the year-long practice of Maha Sri Yaga, you will get a first-hand experience of practicing tantra in samaya-style of the Sri Vidya tradition.

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.

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