The fire receives every name the same. That is the first thing to know about our prices, and everything on this page follows from it.
When a Brahmin in Vrindavan reads a name into the fire, it is the same fire whichever price the name arrived with. The same mantras, spoken with the same care. For those who hold the tradition's beliefs, the fire's regard for a name freely given is equal and complete at every price. So the honest question about our prices is what the money actually buys, and here is the answer, plainly.
One name, one scheduled fire, one video within a day. The single ceremony is complete. It is the same rite the members receive, performed by the same Brahmins, filmed the same way. Most people should start here, and for many people it is also the right place to stay: a name placed a few times a year, at moments that matter, is this tradition working exactly as it has always worked.
The Sattva 27 holds twenty seven names. That number is the design: it is small enough that every name is held with care through all fifteen of a month's fires, month after month, and small enough that the people in it are a circle rather than a crowd. Care is the one thing in this work that refuses to scale, so we sized the tier to the care. What a member pays for is that attention, and the belonging that comes with a seat among twenty six others whose intentions go into the same fire.
The Sattva 27 is the first circle, and it is the one we are filling now. The tradition's own numbers run 27, 108, 432, and they are not decoration. There are 27 nakshatras (nuk·shuh·truhs), the lunar mansions the moon crosses, about one a day, so that in roughly 27 days it has been through the whole sky and started again. Each mansion divides into four padas (pah·duhs), quarters, and 27 fours are 108, the beads of the mala. Four times 108 is 432, the number that measures the ages. The ladder is the sky's own arithmetic, and each of those numbers will hold a circle of its own, at its own price, when its time comes. We open them one at a time, smallest first, so that the care we promise is real from the first day of each. Whatever amount fits your life, a circle is coming that holds it, and the $37.50 single ceremony is open to everyone today.
Once-a-year rites, like the ancestor ceremonies of Pitru Paksha, cost more because more is physically done: more Brahmins, longer rites, and real goods given in your family's name. When more is performed, the price says so, and the recording shows it.
Two promises hold all of this together. Prices here are flat and public. $37.50 is $37.50 for everyone, on every day of the year, and the price stays the price. And everything we do is on the public page: a calendar, a fire, a name, a video, open to anyone of any faith or none. If $375 a month would be a strain, take the single and our blessing with it. We would rather read a name freely given a few times a year than have any name arrive carrying worry.
Start with one. A single ceremony is $37.50. It is the whole rite, the same fire the members receive, and the recording comes back within a day. Put a name in the next one and judge it by what arrives, before you decide anything larger. Put a name in the fire.