What it does
Shows which points of a plot, house or flat must be kept open and free of structures and heavy or dirty items.
Where
The nine ati marma points, mostly in and around the Brahmasthan of a regular plot; in an irregular plot they can fall elsewhere and must be marked
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Explanation and notes
Ati means excess: these points give excessive pain when they are hurt. The nine points form the grid through which energy spreads across the plot, so a column, heavy object, piercing or wall on them blocks it, just as a knot (gathan) inside an outwardly beautiful body can turn into cancer. Like the inner nadis of swar vigyan, the land has inner channels; when they are blocked the residents suffer vata, pitta and kapha diseases. That is why ancient texts advise an aangan (courtyard) or open space in the centre, or an area kept free of regular stable activity and heavy items. Every crossing of grid lines across the plot is a marma, and there are many; the nine ati marma matter far more. Cases were seen where a column or toilet on an ati marma left the owner with a long illness that lasted to the end, and each ati marma harms in its own way.
When a house built to good Vastu suddenly sees quarrels, business loss, restless children, bad dreams or a family member who stays ill, check what sits on its ati marma points. Shoes, a dustbin, a used plate or heavy goods placed there can trigger such trouble, and moving them brings quick relief.
Blocked marma and ati marma points are opened with injection-like remedies: special herbs are placed under marma points, while metal kurma (tortoise) figures, metals and precious minerals are installed on the ati marma. They reopen the blocked energy channels of the land.
In the 81 pad (9 x 9) Vastu mandala the ati marma are found by drawing six lines between pairs of outer devtas: the two corner diagonals and two lines parallel to each of them. Their nine crossing points are the ati marma.
On a real plot of any shape, the ati marma are marked by finding where the twelve devtas of the six ati marma lines meet the plot boundary and joining those points. With the zoning chakra this takes one to two minutes and needs no computer.
The tilt of a house is read on Google Earth with the ruler tool and then transferred to the paper map as a north line drawn from the centre. On an irregular plot that line is drawn parallel to the wall whose degree was taken.
Once north is marked, a map of any shape is divided into 16 zones of 22.5 degrees by starting 11.25 degrees on either side of the north line. It takes about two minutes on regular and irregular maps alike.
For 32 zoning each pad is 11.25 degrees, with N5 centred on the exact north (0 degrees). Start 5.62 degrees on either side of north and mark every 11.25 degrees, or mark the black lines of the zoning chakra.
The plot is divided into Brahma, Dev, Manushya and Pishach bhoomi by measuring the line from the centre to every corner and marking 0.333, 0.555 and 0.777 of its length. Joining the matching points gives four bands that follow the real shape of the plot.