What it does
Shows which South padas to avoid and why S4 is the one to use.
Where
Main door on the South side, from the South-East corner to the South-West corner
Cautions
Explanation and notes
S2: lack of children and fear of fire. S3: servitude (dasta), the person stays a loyal servant all his life and barely runs his own house. S4 (Grihakshat): the only fully good South door, giving happiness, peace, prosperity and profit; many South-facing businesses with an S4 door were found very prosperous. S5: trouble up to death-like suffering. S6: the door of selfish people with no gratitude. S7: karz dwar, poverty, loans turning into NPAs, drowning in debt. S8 (South-West corner): constant trouble, father-son discord, heavy expenses and death-like illness, since residents there are most affected by Rahu. In one case the South-West was lowered, an S8-W1 combination door sat at the lowest level, the South-West was open and an underground water tank pit was dug beside it; the owner got cancer and died within a year of moving in. A South door (S4) suits people of Cancer, Capricorn or Virgo rashi (some include Taurus), mulank 9 (born on the 9th, 18th or 27th), or with Mars exalted (Capricorn) or in its own sign (Aries, Scorpio). If such people open S5 or S6 instead, severe problems follow.
The main door is the door of fortune: like the two nostrils it draws nature-given positive energy into the whole house and lets negative energy out. Its two shutters stand for ida and pingala, the two breaths that alternate roughly every hour.
Design the main door like a face: two shutters as the nostrils, two small niches as the eyes, two jharokhas as the ears, an Om or swastik as the tilak, and the threshold and upper frame as the lips. Ancient texts say such decoration multiplies the power of the main door many times.
Divide the 360 degrees around the centre of the house into 32 padas of 11.25 degrees each, one for each of the 32 guardian devtas of the outer ring, named E1 to E8, S1 to S8, W1 to W8 and N1 to N8. The pada in which the main door falls tells its result.
In the East, E3 is the best door with abundant wealth and E4 brings government support and respect, while E5 suits administrators only. E1, E6, E7 and E8 should not hold the main door.
In the West, W4 (Pushpadant) showers wealth and W5 (Varun) also gives wealth, while W1, W2, W3, W6, W7 and W8 bring short life, overspending, loss of money, government trouble, disease and a destructive mind.
In the North, N3 brings sons and wealth, N4 (Bhallat) is the best of all 32 doors with windfall wealth, and N5 gives wealth with dharma and fame. N1, N2, N6, N7 and N8 bring suffering, enemies, family stress, faults in women and poverty.
Large business doors and shop shutters often span two to four padas. When the favourable pada, for example S4, is fully included and open, the door gives the results of that pada.
E3, N4 and W4 are the three vipul sampada (abundant-wealth) doors. Virtual doors marked on these padas are heavily promoted, but they give only a tiny fraction of the result of an actually opened door.