Questions and Answers

If an open-to-sky space appears right at the entrance, the energy coming in through the main door escapes straight out through it. So the entrance should be a little enclosed.

The teacher left it to the students; their suggestions, a mango leaf swastik toran and a toran of cow-dung cakes, were both called correct. He then gave his best (Kohinoor) bandhanwar for any wrongly placed door: make round discs of desi cow dung, draw a swastik on each, fix them on a bandhanwar strip and hang it on the main door, and the defects end. The alternative, a daily desi cow-dung lepan in front of the main door with a rangoli in the colour of its zone, is hard to keep up every day, so the permanent bandhanwar is better.

They can be either. In the South and West, from where negative energy comes, three doors in a row on padas where doors should not be are inauspicious. In the North and East they are auspicious: temples, all built facing North or East, have three or five doors in a row, as do royal palaces, so the blanket belief that they are bad is a myth.

A door is placed by pada, but a window does not work on the surface current: currents are dense near the ground and lighter higher up, so positive energy stays higher, which makes ventilation a must. Windows and ventilators bring in clean air and push the negativity of the house out, so they should open outward, while the main door opens inward; sliding windows are acceptable. Keep windows in even numbers, two-shuttered if possible, in one row at one level, with a window beside the main door; open all windows in the morning and keep the left (Chandra swar) window open during the day.

In the North anywhere from N1 to N5; from N8 across the East up to E7, but not at E8; in the South on S3, S4 and S5; and in the West on W3, W4 and W5. These are the green-marked padas of the window chart.

Energy behaves like materials of different specific gravity: the densest settles at the bottom, as dirt does, and the lighter the energy, the better it is. That is why ground-floor flats sell cheapest and higher flats cost more. People living on the topmost floors face the fewest vastu doshas, because the winds ventilate the space and keep the energy flowing.

With UPVC systems whole sections can open, so at least open the part that has an opening system, wherever possible. Following the allowed span, the East from E1 to E7 can be opened fully, at least five padas of the North, three padas of the South and three or four padas of the West.

Yes, every entrance has its related profession and the type of disease it can bring, and some padas are rog dwar (doors of disease). The teacher promised two charts, one for diseases and one for professions, since a complete door study takes seven to eight hours; residential and industrial doors are studied in detail in the industrial vastu module.

The Ishaan (North-East) corner belongs to Jupiter, so people whose Jupiter is exalted can keep their door there. This shows how the birth chart decides which door suits a person.

Yes. Both follow the same allowed padas: N1 to N5, from N8 across the East up to E7, S3 to S5 and W3 to W5.

It has been seen that people whose Rahu is exalted, at a good degree and giving good results, had South-West doors without much trouble. Even so, a South-West door should be avoided. Where one exists, do the main door usara with seven sea-salt lumps given in this class, which gives very good results.

No door gives results, however good its pada, if it suffers a vedh such as a pit, tree, T-junction, pillar or column at the door. Here the energy entering through the door falls into the pit of the tank, so close that tank. When the whole plot is built and you enter through one door, that is the main door; generally the main door is the one through which you reach inside the house after the gate. A door made at the back after circling the house (prishtha bhang dwar), or one you leave anti-clockwise, also fails to give full results, even on N4.

Although it is not this class's topic, the chabutra is always built at the corner: in WSW, SW or SSW. All three belong to Nairutya: the southern Nairutya, Nairutya itself and the western Nairutya.

They still have a small effect, about 10 to 20 percent, while the main door used for coming and going counts much more. Some houses have three main doors: if they are on correct padas they are not inauspicious even when they stay shut, so leave them. Doors on wrong padas that have been given the form of a door act as virtual doors.

It depends on the map. If the office has its own separate door, grid it separately, since its work and its door are separate, and grid the home separately too.

Fix it outside the door. Hang it in a U shape, exactly the way the English letter U is written, with the open end upward.

The small niches were made for lamps; they are the eyes of the door, and lamps placed in them open its eyes. The jharokhas beside them are the ears. Lamps must be lit in the niches on festivals such as Diwali, Dussehra, Holi and Raksha Bandhan, and in royal houses they were lit daily; a house whose eyes stay open keeps a right watch over everyone. If a door, even one in a wrong place, is decorated like this with small desi cow ghee lamps in the niches, its defects do not apply.

A frame cannot exist without its upper wood, since it would not stand. The top wood of the frame is the upper lip and the dehleez is the lower lip.

On top of it: the door is fitted above the dehleez, the lower wood of the frame.

One level means that all the doors stand on the same floor level. The chaukhat and dehleez are always set above the floor, so every door is reckoned from that same floor level.

Yes, it must be higher than the floor; only then can it stop the energy. It should be made of wood in particular.

Clockwise only. Standing outside the main door, circle the hand holding the seven lumps clockwise in front of the door for the rounds, then sweep once or twice from the front as if pouring the energy out and throwing it away outside. Do it only while the right nostril (Surya swar) is active; done in the left swar it gives no result and instead invites negativity. Swar vigyan is the base of everything, and without swar, vastu is handicapped.

Yes. 1 + 9 = 10 and 1 + 0 = 1, so the mulank is 1.

It depends on the nature the occupants need. Those who must keep firmness, such as kings and military people, use stone, while wood always represents softness, so those who want a gentle nature use wood. The door and its frame shape the nature of the people: if you need to become tough, make the dehleez of hard stone.

It is essential in the main door, and very good if every door has one. In a house the teacher built in Surat, every door was given a dehleez with silver placed under it.