What it does
Choosing the correct devta grid so that doors, rooms and devtas fall in their right places.
Cautions
Explanation and notes
49 pad: jeernoddhar (renovation or rebuilding), because when a building is broken and rebuilt the devtas shift to different places. 64 pad: village (gram), town (nagar) and certain temples; Vishwakarma Prakash gives the 64 pad mandal for temples and murti pratishtha. 81 pad: every house, and always a goshala (cowshed). 100 pad: all types of temples. 144 pad: rath shala, ashwa shala and gaj shala (chariot, horse and elephant sheds), with a much larger Brahma area. 169 pad: special royal durbars, like a parliament house today; opinions differ on it. 196 pad: wells, ponds and stepwells (baori), detailed in Raj Vallabh. 1000 pad: forts, where Brahma alone takes 100 padas (10 by 10). A pad is one of the equal sections of the grid. The Brahmasthan covers a different number of padas in each grid. The division into pishach, manushya, dev and brahma bhoomi is taught separately.
In Vedic vastu the five elements arose one from another in a fixed order: Space, then Air, Fire, Water and Earth, after which the cycle returns to Space. This order, described in the Shiv Puran, is the base for knowing which element creates or destroys another.
The five chakras from the throat downwards hold the five elements in the same order as creation: Vishuddhi holds space, Anahata air, Manipur fire, Swadhishthan water and Muladhara earth.
Both geopathic and cosmic energy exist in the form of the five elements. The universe, the body, the nine planets and every material, food, metal and artifact represent one element or another, so a building is balanced by balancing its elements.
Land (geopathic) energy, which is the earth element, carries 70 percent of the result of a building, while orientation and zoning carry 30 percent. A site with zero land energy fails however good its orientation and interiors are.
The earth element is golden yellow, square, located in the South-West and solid, heavy and dense by nature; in a house it is represented by the land energy, the plot shape and the slope. Balanced, it gives the greatest stability and success; disturbed, it brings business uncertainty and unhealthy relationships.
The South-West holds the earth element, whose nature is solid, heavy and dense, so this zone is kept solid, heavy and compact with the fewest openings. Infrared rays also arrive from the South-West at a particular time of day, another reason to keep it closed.
The taste of the earth element is sweet, so where the people of a house speak sweetly the earth element is balanced, and where people in a home, factory or business speak bitterly it is disturbed.
Ivory, a very light yellow, represents the earth element, which is why ivory floor tiles are the most preferred and generate the most energy in a house.