Questions and Answers
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Why should one not sleep with the feet towards the main door?
Energy keeps entering through the main door every moment, and at night spirits, devas and angels also move about and enter the house; if they find feet pointing at them they take it as disrespect, as if being kicked, and the sleeper suffers ill effects. The rule dates from when large families made some children sleep in the main door hall. For the same reason never point the feet towards the temple or God, a cow, religious books or the tijori where Lakshmi resides.
How can I choose the colour that awakens my fortune for my bedroom if I have no horoscope or cannot read it?
Take a colour catalogue and turn its pages with your own eyes: the colours you are drawn to are the ones that awaken your fortune. Use that colour along with the colour of the zone you sleep in, and if possible match it with your horoscope; it usually matches. Sleeping steadily for eight hours in that colour lets its planet act on the whole body.
What happens if there is a mobile tower above the bedroom?
It is completely wrong: its electromagnetic currents spoil health, prevent deep sleep and, above all, cause loss of energy.
Where should shoes be kept?
Shoes can be kept almost anywhere except pure North, North-East and East.
What should be done if the TV is in front of the bed?
Cover the TV while sleeping, for example by putting a cloth or curtain over it. Electronic items should not be close around the bed in any case, as their electromagnetic currents make a person ill.
I sleep on the first floor and the overhead tank is on the third floor; will it have an effect?
No, it will not have any effect. Only the roof directly above the bedroom should not carry an overhead tank.
Where should an aquarium be kept?
Nowhere: an aquarium is fancy vastu, not Vedic vastu. Keeping any creature captive is not right, and water kept impure for a long time disturbs the water element further; just as being shut in a 6 x 6 room for life with food provided would feel wrong, it is wrong to imprison living beings. An aquarium does not remove vastu dosh, it creates one, and no one's wealth has grown from keeping one.
Is it right to build a temple in the kitchen?
No, building a temple in the kitchen is not right at all. Keep only a small kalash in the Agni kon (South-East) and a small photo of your guru there; that is not a temple. Guru (Jupiter) and Mars are friends, so the guru's grace supports the kitchen.
What should be done if the overhead tank is directly above the bed?
Paste a thin layer of muscovite (mica) on the ceiling, or give the room a wooden ceiling. Sleeping under an overhead tank generates hydro currents that raise the risk of heart problems.
What should be put in the kitchen kalash?
Only three items: as many whole turmeric (haldi) knots as it can hold, supari (betel nut) and peeli sarson (yellow mustard), plus sava rupaya (1.25 rupees).
In which direction should a fountain be placed?
Place a fountain in the North-East zone, but leave out the exact North-East diagonal.
When the kitchen is gridded separately, are the devtas gridded as well?
No. The separate kitchen grid marks only the zones, not the devtas.
Should a picture of Lakshmi ji be put in the kitchen?
No. Put up a picture of your own isht (chosen deity) or of the guru you follow.
Should the kitchen kalash be kept open, or with a coconut on top?
Do not keep the kalash open; keep it closed.
Stairs represent Mercury and Mercury lives in the North, so why should stairs not be built in the North?
Every structure represents a planet, the roof Rahu and the stairs Mercury, but a heavy staircase in the North suppresses the North and with it Mercury. Stairs in the North cause loss of career and of magnetic attraction and end opportunities, so they are not built there.
If stairs have to be built in the North out of compulsion, how should they be made?
Leave some space in the North and build the stairs of wood, since wood also represents Mercury and is light. If a cement structure is unavoidable, leave even more space. Never make them anticlockwise or spiral: anticlockwise and rounded stairs should not be built anywhere in the house.
What does the Marwari saying jiske sammukh hove naal, uske sar par hove kaal mean?
In Marwari the staircase is called naal, and the saying means that whoever has a staircase directly facing the main door has death hovering over the head, so mishaps keep happening. Marwaris decide where the naal will go even before the door when planning a house, because the stairs run the business. In one house with stairs right at the front main door, many children fell and were hurt, and there were accidents and even a suicide.
How should the number of stairs be counted, and how many should there be?
Count the risers: each time the foot rises to the next level (each tappa) is one stair. Keep the number odd, and since stairs carry three currents named Indra, Yama and Raj (like ida, pingala and sushumna, or plus, minus and neutral), count Indra, Yama, Raj in turn and make the last step fall on Raj or Indra, never on Yama, as the 8th would. Then the current reaches the upper floor positive.
Is a wooden staircase in the middle of the house leading to the basement right or wrong?
Wooden stairs can be anywhere, but no staircase should be in the Brahmasthan. Because it is wooden, it reduces the dosh by about 50%.
If the stairs are in front of the main door but about 20 feet inside, is there still a dosh?
No. When the stairs are at least twice the door's height away, for example beyond 14 feet for a 7-foot door, they are not counted as facing the door and cause no dosh even if they are in front. Create some interior feature in between as well.
Can black granite steps be used for stairs in the North-West?
Use kota stone for steps in the North-West. Granite is best avoided in general, since it develops pin holes in which negativity settles.
Are stairs that rise from the middle and go to both sides proper?
Yes, they are perfectly fine; the palaces of kings and maharajas had stairs on both sides.
Is it all right to have an electric board under the stairs?
No, an electric board under the stairs is not good. Cover it with plywood or wood.
In which direction should stairs going to the basement be built?
Basement stairs follow their own rules: they are built in the very directions where stairs to the upper floors are not built.
Is there a proper place to keep folding steel stairs (a ladder) in the house?
Yes, keep them in the South-South-West, South-West or South.