Questions and Answers

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.

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.

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.

If there is no road in between, it is wrong. If a road runs between the door and the temple, the dosh ends.

The main door works like the two nostrils of the body: close both and life ends, and breathing through the mouth alone never feels right. In the same way the main door takes in the energy given by nature, which arrives as rays of different composition at each angle, and distributes it through the whole house, much as breath reaches the 72,000 nadis; it also lets out the negative energy created inside. That is why it is called the door of fortune and carries the most marks of any part of the house. If the main door is wrong, even a well-placed bedroom and kitchen will not give their results, because the right energy never comes in.

The two shutters correspond to the Ida and Pingala nadis: we breathe through one nostril and then the other, each flowing for about an hour, so a door with two shutters brings energy in and lets it out easily, while a single shutter struggles to do both. Doors thousands of years old, and even the small room doors of old palaces, were always made with two shutters. The main door must have two shutters; inner doors should preferably have two as well, though one shutter is acceptable there.

Because it is the most sacred and pure place, entering there with shoes and slippers is a serious problem. Shikhi devta, who sits at E1, then produces his fire, and his anger brings agni bhay (fear of fire), a greater chance of fire breaking out in the house. So E1 should not be used for the main door, even though people commonly praise it.

Before sunrise the Sun produces rays at E3 that carry minerals, vitamins and a gold composition. A well-decorated two-shutter door open at E3 therefore brings abundant wealth, and there is no shortage of money. E3 is one of the three vipul sampada dwar (abundant-wealth doors), along with N4 and W4.

Vedic vastu says the defects of a wrongly placed door can be removed through the decoration of the door itself: auspicious symbols, yantras, paintings and artworks made on the door, door power at the threshold, and a bandhanwar (toran) hung on it. This class therefore treats wrong doors with symbols, torans, bandhanwars and colours rather than structural changes.

Do not worry that S3 and S6 are also open: if the good pada, S4, is open within the shutter, the shop gives the results of S4, because when energy enters from every part, positive and negative, the result follows the positive. Trouble comes only when the good part is closed and the bad parts are open; then keep the shutter closed and open a small door on the good pada instead. In combination doors for business, always keep the favourable pada fully open.

Chhappar phaad ke means wealth that arrives while you sit quietly, for example someone leaving you a fortune worth thousands of crores in a will. The N4 door of Bhallat devta, the best of all 32 door padas, is called the vipul sampada dwar and brings money in overflowing measure. In one well-known case a childless industrialist family left its entire estate by will to the chartered accountant who had served them, and the beneficiary's house had a complete N4 door decorated exactly as an N4 door should be; former employees became the owners of a huge group.

In interior vastu a wrong door is treated only with symbols and similar items, since the full door treatment alone would take about five classes. For South door defects the class gives bandhanwars of stone or gems, a toran of copper and wood, and a red triangular swastik bandhanwar hung on a Saturday or Tuesday. In the South only S4 is a good pada, and it suits those with Kark, Makar or Kanya rashi, mulank 9, or an exalted or own-sign Mars.

Yes. N8 is the door of poverty (nirdhanta): a shortage of money persists and one keeps borrowing from others and from banks. The North-East corner padas around N8 and E1 are the doors that make a person poor, which is why the main door should not be in the Ishaan corner. Close it if that is at all possible.

A dosh does not act all the time. Any defect gives its bad effect only when the related planetary dasha, mahadasha, antardasha or pratyantar dasha runs; fear of fire comes when a Mars period such as Angarak yoga is active. Fear can also take other forms, such as constant insecurity about the future.

N8 is the location of Jupiter (Guru), so it relates to the Guru mahadasha. The fear connected with it appears when combinations such as Jwalamukhi yoga or Angarak yoga form. Otherwise some fear, such as insecurity about the future, tends to remain anyway.

Yes, this is chhappar phaad wealth, which comes as soon as N4 opens. E3, N4 and W4 are the three vipul sampada dwar (abundant-wealth doors). Opening them virtually gives perhaps 1 percent of the actual result, so do not believe the heavy promotion of virtual doors; it is the actual opening that brings the result.

There are three types of doors: the boundary wall door (for example the entrance of a multi-storey building or the gate of a bungalow), the main door through which you enter your own home, and room doors such as the kitchen or bedroom door. The interpretation applies mainly to the main door. The boundary wall door also plays a role, but much less, because even after entering the gate you cannot get into the house if the main door is locked.

No. The North is large, running from N1 to N8, so first locate the pada of your door, whether N6, N7, N1 or another. Mostly it is N1 that is bad: it brings death-like suffering and should never be used for a door.

When the main door is installed in a muhurta, its four-piece frame (chaukhat) is set up and the base piece of wood is the dehleez (threshold). Door power means installing that dehleez in a muhurta combined with the right swar, with the prescribed samagri, such as silver and pancha ratna, placed in the ground beneath it. Done this way, even a door in a wrong place has about 50 percent of its defect removed. The full door treatment is part of the complete course.

Use the zoning chakra shown on the first day, or draw it: from the centre of the map draw the four directions 90 degrees apart and the corner directions at 45 degrees, then halve again to 22.5 degrees and once more to 11.25 degrees, which gives 32 padas (360 degrees shared by the 32 guardian devtas). Starting from E1 next to the North-East line, go round clockwise from E1 to E8, then S1 to S8, W1 to W8 and N1 to N8, on the 81-pada grid. Practise this as homework.

Yes. With the person's astrology as the base, the door is chosen according to whom it will suit. The class covers three ways, by rashi, by exalted and debilitated planets in the birth chart, and by mulank, and the birth chart carries the most weight.

Mulank is the digit sum of the birth date: born on the 1st it is 1, on the 11th 1 + 1 = 2, on the 13th 1 + 3 = 4, on the 18th 1 + 8 = 9. Indian astrology gives it little weight because India runs by tithi, not by date; if dates mattered, tides, amavasya, purnima and eclipses would fall on fixed dates. Doors by mulank follow the planet of each number (1 Sun East, 2 Moon North-West, 3 Jupiter North-East, 4 Rahu and 7 Ketu South-West, 5 Mercury North, 6 Venus South-East, 8 Saturn West, 9 Mars South), but the rashi and the birth chart should decide.

It should always be rectangular, with a full chaukhat of four pieces of wood; a three-piece frame does not give the same results even on N4. Its height should be twice its width, for example 7 feet high for a 3.5-foot width, so do not run doors up to the full height of the room as some new buildings do. Where the 1:2 ratio cannot be kept, calculate the aay (length x width divided by 8; the remainder is the aay) and make a door of 1 or 3 aay. Avoid triangular doors (trouble for women), shakat doors (trouble for the family head), supa and sun-shaped doors (loss of money), bow-shaped doors (family disputes) and round doors (trouble for children, more girls born).

The main door should be only of wood, best of teak, and royal doors were of sandalwood or had a little sandalwood mixed in. Flush doors are made from plywood of thorny shrubs, so even a house costing crores with a cheap flush main door does not get good results, because energy takes on the chemistry of the material it passes through. A sandalwood Om or Swastik pasted on the door also gives very good results.

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.