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For a door in a bad position, five potlis of yellow mustard are made in the five colours of the five elements and hung at the door, hidden behind mango leaves or a mango-leaf bandanwar. This reduces the door's defect to the minimum.
An E3-E4 main door is the best for chances of going abroad; those not getting a visa should sleep with their feet towards the West and keep the West and South heavy and well built.
Four energised pieces of shami wood, each 11 angul long and tied with raksha sutra, buried at the four corners of a plot in an auspicious muhurta remove the vastu doshas and negativity of the land and guard it.
The vajra dand or mudgar, the mace (gada) of Hanuman ji, drives away all negativity; keeping a gada or its portrait in the ENE gives relief in court cases and brings government help.
Whatever zone the kitchen is in, move the burner to the South-East of that kitchen and set it so the cook faces East, or North if East is impossible. This is the best kitchen treatment and removes many doshas.
Shilpa Ratna describes the types of land and their correction with minerals. Land holding asura (demonic) minerals, such as coal, lignite, manganese and other black minerals, lacks prosperity; placing gems inside such land (ratna prabha bhoomi) changes its chemistry and composition.
A solid cube-shaped platform (chabutra) built in the South-West corner balances the earth element and Rahu-Ketu, which in turn balances the entire house.
Giloy, an ayurvedic creeper, grown in the East lets the morning sunrays pass through it into the rooms, which improves the immunity of the residents even if they do not consume it.
When work is never done on time and people do not keep time, place an ankush (elephant goad) at the Surya pad in the East and bury it in the ground, or bury a gold swastik there.
For a couple heading for divorce or living apart, at least five gomti chakra bearing both names and about 125 g of yellow mustard are tied in a potli and kept under the mattress of the partner who wants the relationship, with a daily command.
For a patient who is not improving and on whom medicines are not working, a gomti chakra tied with silver wire at the head side of the bed and earthed into the ground drains away the negative energy.
One gomti chakra kept in a pocket of a child's school bag stops the negative energy of other children and places from affecting the child and the bag.
A potli of purified, energised gomti chakra mixed with a little yellow mustard, made on a swayam siddh muhurta in red cloth for illness, yellow for business and white for studies. With a kesar swastik and a wish on every gomti chakra it becomes a jadoo ki potli (magic potli) that keeps fulfilling the wish.
A ring with a gomti chakra set in the middle, worn on the finger, ends fear and keeps away nazar, spirits and negative energy. It suits small children who often catch nazar and get frightened.
Gomti chakra spread under the mattress, or kept under a child's pillow, sharpens the mind and prevents bad dreams. It also gives restful sleep to people who have to sleep in a wrong zone such as the South-South-West or West-North-West.
Writing the name of an enemy, or of anyone you want as a friend, with kesar on one gomti chakra and keeping it in your pocket turns that person friendly.
Bricks stamped with a swastik create strong negative energy once laid in toilets or under the feet, because the sacred symbol is dishonoured. Where such bricks are already used, spray the brickwork with gomutra before plastering.
Where fly ash bricks are already laid, as in a director's chamber, sprinkling gomutra and a cow-based purifier over the brickwork before plastering changes its chemistry.
Painting a school or study room in green (Mercury, intellect) and ivory (Jupiter, education) restores children's health and concentration.
Where the air element is disturbed, for example in a rented flat that causes gastric trouble, use green colour in the North-West, put up a flag (dhwaj) there, preferably a five-element flag, and open the North-West with a window.
Lush green scenery without mountains belongs in the North and North-East; when the NNE is raised or closed and cannot be opened physically, this picture opens it through the mind.
Shikhi is itself a guru, so a picture of a great guru such as Adi Brahma or Adinath, their disciples, your own guru, a sadhu or a yogi, or their teachings written in a granth, kept at this pad balances it.
A small turmeric plant, or better a daru haldi plant, kept in a pot at the Parjanya pad captures the sun's energy and releases it all day, bringing riddhi, siddhi, prosperity and happiness.
The dehleez (threshold) represents the earth element; when the main door has been made at a wrong place, building a high dehleez stabilises it and balances the earth element.
When a corner is cut and there is no space to build on it, the foundation (bunyaad) is joined underground to complete the regular shape. The current then flows in the full shape, so the cut above ground causes no defect.
A newly built house catches nazar (evil eye) as soon as people start entering; a small swastik drawn with kajal at the four corners or at the entrance removes nazar dosh, and it is essential in business premises.
A water kalash with five mango leaves and a coconut, set on a cow-dung-plastered spot with rangoli at the Shikhi pad, with white mustard, yellow mustard or pukhraj added by need, makes the yogi Shikhi fulfil the wishes of the residents.
For a North-East cut, for example with an exalted Ketu whose diagonal points to the North-East, a kalash is installed in the North-East with mirrors fixed all around it.
The kalpavriksha (wish-fulfilling tree) of the bhog bhoomi age fulfilled every wish; a kalpavriksha painting hung in the West lets a person stand before it and have desires fulfilled. It represents the air element.
A picture of a Kapila or Swarna Kapila cow brings welfare and good business relations, as Kamdhenu gives nourishment; the panchgavya of a Swarna Kapila cow spread on land makes even dead land energetic.