A swastik made of peacock feathers at the Shikhi pad keeps this devta active 24 hours a day, all year and for life, without elaborate rituals. The teacher called it the biggest brahmastra and remedy for Shikhi.
When an underground tank, boring or dug well cannot be made in the water element zone, a moon-shaped symbol of water or a metal representing the Moon placed there creates the water element.
An amla tree planted at the Shikhi pad in the boundary area, an amla plant in a pot, or simply amla fruit kept there lets the devta absorb cosmic energy and keeps the pad full of energy.
A coconut set on a small water-filled clay kalash at the Parjanya pad, with the water poured into tulsi and refilled daily, activates Parjanya; when the coconut sprouts, the devta is awake.
Burying crystal quartz points or slices at the Parjanya pad exactly five angul below the surface, touching the soil, restores production and removes obstacles in work.
When work has slowed or stopped, the mind is blocked or orders have dried up, drill the relevant one-eighth part of the Shikhi pad with a core cutter and fill it with crystal; energy builds up very fast.
A small desi cow ghee diya and above all a bhimseni kapoor lamp, the fragrance Shikhi likes most, correct a cut, raised, dirty, uneven or toilet-affected Shikhi pad and a blocked 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.
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.
A daily havan of makhana (kamal gatta) with desi cow ghee at the Parjanya pad, begun on one's own nakshatra day and continued for 45 days, develops fertility in couples who cannot conceive.
A garland of makhana strung on thread and a picture of a cow suckling its calf, kept at the Parjanya pad, treat poor production and poor results in education.
A silver Om with a swastik on the floor of the Shikhi pad spreads the energy of Om through the house; Om stands for Jupiter and silver for the Moon, the two planets of this devta.
A picture of bright white gandharva nagar clouds, cloud formations that look like palaces, hung at the Parjanya pad fulfils plans and wishes and treats a dosh at E2 without other changes.
A cut or extended corner is corrected without construction by hanging a cloth potli filled with gomti chakra in that corner: white in the North-East, red in the South-East, yellow in the South-West and white in the North-West.
For stock that is not selling or land that will not sell, cleaned yellow mustard is purified by circling a camphor flame over it (prasuk karan), energised with 11 malas of a mantra and, on a Monday or Wednesday, put into pits at the four corners.
Keep court case files, cheque book, cash book and the diary of money owed to you in the NE, the zone of clarity, so that they get energy and speed. The NE also charges any symbol or article whose power you want to increase.
A closed kalash filled to the brim in sagun with turmeric knots, supari, yellow mustard and a sawa rupaya, kept in the kitchen's NE, ensures the kitchen never runs short however many guests arrive.
When Mercury is exalted (sitting with sign 6) anywhere in the chart, pictures of birds, a jungle or bamboo forest, children's toys or a parrot-maina figure in the North zones boost business.
A person with Gaj Kesari yoga should put up a photo of God, or of a Guru giving blessings, in the North, North-East, North-North-East or East to receive the full fruit of the yoga.
When Mercury and Jupiter sit together and both are benefic, a painting of a lion (babbar sher) in the North, North-East or East-North-East gives the power to rule and dominance in one's field.
When Jupiter and Venus are together and benefic, a photo of God riding a chariot in procession (rath yatra) in the North-East brings all-round success.
Mercury and the Moon together promise a luxurious house; a sugarcane painting in the North or North-East supports the comforts of home and garden this combination gives.
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.
If a direction of the house is cut, quartz suited to that direction is put into the ground there to extend it, or kept in a glass bowl when that is not possible.
When a tree stands in a wrong place, such as a tall mango tree in the North-East, and cannot be removed, tulsi plants around it and energy-capturing plants in the North reduce the harm.
When all planets sit in enemy signs, the strongest planet, Jupiter, is strengthened through dharma, devotion, mantra jaap, sadhana and a kalash in the North-East, so that the hostile planets slowly turn friendly.
Should all the rooms of a house, apart from the bathroom, be at the same level?
Yes, all rooms should be at one level. A slope toward the North-East causes no problem, because the earth itself is tilted about 23.4 degrees toward the North-East and following nature counts as level; a slope in any other direction causes trouble.
When a toilet and bathroom are built in the visarjan (disposal) zone, their floor is often raised or sunk to keep water from flowing out. What is correct?
Anything placed on the ground should be at water level, and the floor of the whole house should stay the same. Give the toilet and bathroom floor its slope toward the North-East; water draining toward the South-West is very troublesome.
Why do some homes with a toilet or kitchen in the North-East, or shops facing South, still prosper?
Because their land energy is high. Land energy decides about 70 percent of the result, so on strongly energetic land even an opposite orientation does little harm, while on obstructed or cursed land no orientation helps.
In a house visited earlier an elephant was painted in the Ishaan, yet the elephant is said to be the vehicle of the East. Where does it belong?
The elephant is the vehicle of Indra, lord of the East. Between the East and the North-East lies a 45-degree span with several pads, among them a debt door and a door that makes one rich, and every 11.25 degrees the chemistry and circumstances change, so the exact pad matters.
Why should a toilet, dirt or extra height never be placed in the North-East?
Because the North-East belongs to Jupiter (Guru), the greatest planet, and to its lord Isha. A toilet, dirt or height there blocks Guru's grace, and spoiling the North-East spoils even a strong Jupiter in one's horoscope.
Is a nahar mukhi (lion-faced) plot auspicious if it extends toward the South so that its South-East grows?
No. A South-East or South-West extension is not auspicious, because a plot needs its North-East extended. Even in an East-facing gaumukhi plot with a narrow front where the South-East is a right angle, the North-East gets cut, so it is not auspicious. A nahar mukhi plot gives results only when its North-East is extended.
Some people deliberately build the house with the North-East extended. Does that increase the energy?
Yes. Extending the North-East of the land from the foundation enlarges the place of its devta, who is pleased just as a person is with a bigger room, and it does not bring a South-East negative. But what truly counts as an extended North-East is taught later, because many people extend it the wrong way, for example from the East toward the North-East, and harm themselves.
Our parking area is in the North-East of the plot. Does that make the North-East cut?
Not at all. A plot with its boundary on all sides and the North-East left open as parking or a porch is not cut; the North-East is meant to stay open to the sky with less construction. A consultant who calls it cut lacks even nursery-level vastu knowledge. In one Indore case, a family who believed this left a prosperous house that only had a porch in the North-East and then suffered in two costlier houses.
If a home has defects in the North-East, Brahmasthan and South-East that cannot be corrected and the family cannot move out, can correcting the land energy help?
Yes. Land energy carries 70 percent of the role, so changing and correcting it can give about 50 to 60 percent relief. Many large hotels have toilets in the Ishaan and still prosper because 6 to 10 feet of soil was dug out and thrown away, removing the land's negativity. In vastu, dasha (land energy) matters more than disha (direction).