Recording: Vastu diploma class 6 - Dowsing
When a family sleeps far too much, the home sits on a lazy, dormant land whose fire element has fallen to zero; a havan, an eight-day cow ghee akhand jyot in the South-East and daily dhoop with Bhimseni kapoor restore the fire and correct the sleep.
South-East zone of the home
A cold or sinus blockage reverses the swar, with the Chandra swar running more; deliberately running the Surya swar, by force if needed, clears the accumulated kapha over time.
At griha pravesh, the earthen kalash brought from the temple and carried in through the door is set on wheat in the North-East corner of the kitchen; the wheat sprouts from the kalash's moisture and shows the energy of the new home.
Ishaan (North-East) corner of the kitchen
A beginner trains with a pendulum by asking questions whose answers can be checked, such as the name of the person in front or where a coin is hidden, until the answers come out right every time.
A dowsing L-rod is made of solid copper about 8 to 10 mm thick, with a short handle bent at one end; ideally it is cast on Guru Pushya or Ravi Pushya yoga with a little gold and silver, and it must be cleaned after every use.
Pendulums are metallic (copper, silver, steel, brass) or non-metallic (quartz and its variety amethyst); a genuine, heavy pendulum is cleaned in salt water, purified with fragrant dhoop and given the intention to work with you before any use.
If the foundation stone (shilanyas) has been laid in the wrong direction, the earlier shilanyas is formally dissolved and a fresh one is performed in a new auspicious muhurta.
A built-in scanner: in Surya swar the arms are spread wide and the palms brought slowly together; the distance at which a tingling current stops them shows the energy of the land or flat.
Any spot on the land or in the flat
A water-filled coconut is thrown at least 10 feet straight up from the centre of the land; where it lands, drawn by the land's positive or negative force, shows whether the land is good for living, for labour or for industry.
From the Brahmasthan of an open plot
A swastik drawn with kesar on a whitewashed surface stays bright for 24 to 48 hours where the energy is good; if it fades or vanishes, the energy is disturbed or an outside negative influence (bahari hawa) is present.
Main door or any whitewashed wall; kitchen tiles can also be used
An earthen kalash full of water, topped with a coconut and five mango leaves, is set on a heap of wheat in the North-East of a built home; the colour, shine and growth of the javare that sprout from the wheat show the energy of the home.
Ishaan (North-East) corner of the home
A ghee diya with white, red and yellow wicks pointing to the four directions is lit on a water-filled earthen ghat in the North-East, over a mantra written in kesar; a wick that goes out before the ghee ends points to the direction holding a defect.
Ishaan (North-East) corner of the house or flat
Dowsing is a natural quality of highly sensitive people rather than something learnt; certain sensitivities, and a current felt in the hands while holding a rod, show that a person is a dowser.
Walking a land with two copper L-rods in Surya swar, the intensity of their turning shows how energetic the land is; an anticlockwise turn marks a negative-energy element buried below, and rods that stick still and heavy mark an obstructed, cursed land.
Walk over the whole land, marking the spots
Holding two copper rods, the dowser watches them turn slowly as a person stands and moves in front; the distance at which the rods join gives that person's aura, normally about 18 feet for a woman and 21 to 22 feet for a man.
A Y-shaped stick cut from a wood that holds much water, such as guava or jamun, is held in both hands and carried over the land; it twists hard where the energy or the ground water is strong.
Over the land being searched
A long, dry coconut with a heavy kernel is carried on a flat palm over the land; the hydro current rising from underground water, or from a mineral pocket after a mental command, makes it move, jump or dip.
Over the land being searched
A water-filled coconut is carried on the palm across the land; where it keeps moving and feels lighter the energy is very good, and where it stays still and grows heavier the energy is locked and not good.
Across the whole land
Commanded to turn clockwise for positive and anticlockwise for negative, a pendulum held over the land or over a chart answers whether the energy is positive, in which direction a vastu defect lies, and what will correct it.
Over the land, or over a chart at home
A rudraksha bead, or a full 108-bead mala with three beads hanging below, is used as a pendulum; it is very good for land energy and for questions connected with spirituality.
A stone held on the palm while walking a land jumps where energy, ground water or minerals are present; even a heavy stone of 10 to 20 kg has been seen to jump.
Over the land being searched
The ring worn on one's own finger, cleaned and tied to a thread, can be used as a pendulum for dowsing.
A fused tubelight held by both ends and carried over the land lights up fully where ground water lies below; it is also used to read energy.
Over the land being searched
Besides measuring how many angul the breath reaches, the active element (tatva) can be recognised from the state of the mind: steadiness, joy, restlessness, anger or indifference.
If the land energy is good, a building can still succeed despite mistakes in orientation; if the orientation is 100 percent correct but the land energy is zero, no effort brings results. Land energy is read best by your own soul and subconscious mind, not by equipment alone.
A person who does daily routine work according to swar suffers only a minimal effect from vastu defects, however many there are, because controlling one's own elements is like holding the steering of a car.
Dowsing is the method of making an unknown or hidden object known, whether in the ground or in the body. The person is the dowser; a rod, pendulum or coconut is only a bridge that shows the movement, triggered by the hydro and geopathic currents rising from the earth.
A building receives two energies: geopathic energy rising from the earth, which is the main support and stays the same on every floor, and cosmic energy from the air, which can differ from floor to floor with orientation. So the ground floor and basement energy is checked first.
Ground floor and basement of the building
The zone of an element can bear any amount of that element, so increasing fire in the South-East or South-South-East does not bring theft, fire or accidents, just as raising the South-West only strengthens its earth element.
South-East and South-South-East (fire); South-West (earth)
One mantra of the five elements cleanses any object that has absorbed energy, such as a dowsing rod or pendulum after use.
When someone phones from a land and asks about its energy, a trained swar expert reads the answer from his own element; when asked next about vastu defects, the element that becomes active points to the defective direction, such as air for the North-West and fire for the South-East.
When someone comes with a coconut to ask about a land's energy, the quality of that coconut mirrors the land: a ripe, sound coconut means good land, while a light or rotten one means poor land energy.
A yes or no question put to a prepared pendulum, such as whether to open a general store or which subject to study, is answered by a clockwise (yes) or anticlockwise (no) turn.
Take a water-filled coconut for the toss; the coconut thrown in the demonstration was water-filled. A dry coconut is used instead when dowsing for ground water.
In hand scanning, hold the breath only while spreading the arms; then release it and bring the hands together slowly without holding it. While throwing the coconut, take a breath and let it go as you throw.
No, do it in open ground. Thrown to a low height, the coconut naturally falls close by and shows nothing; it must go up at least 10 feet.
Always with the pointed end upward, just as a person walks with the head up. A coconut has three eyes, a head and a tail, and it is the only fruit in which all five elements are perfectly present.
Yes, all the methods taught here are to be done in Surya swar; the kesar swastik in particular is drawn in the earth (prithvi) tatva of Surya swar.
Use a ghat that holds 1 litre of water, with a capacity of about 1.25 litres. Fill it with water only; nothing else goes inside.
Write it on the floor, not on the kalash, using kesar. Once the method is complete, the mantra has to be wiped clean with a cloth.
Do not think of it as a lamp burning for 24 hours in the Agneya (South-East). Use a small diya and place it in the Ishaan (North-East), because the devtas seated in the Ishaan, such as Shikhi, help a great deal.
It can be made on kitchen tiles, but a whitewashed surface is a must for the test. Make it in the earth (prithvi) tatva of Surya swar.
There is one mantra of the five elements for cleaning any object that has absorbed energy. It follows the Bhoomi Jagran Mantra but names the rod's own space (mam rod kshetre) in place of the land; exact words: refer to the class recording.
Yes. Pendulums can be metallic or non-metallic, and brass can be used because it contains copper.
There is no need to fill anything; do not use a hollow rod at all. Solid copper rods, 8 or 10 mm thick, are sold wherever copper is sold; simply bend one into an L.
Use the pit water method taught in the previous class. With swar, walk the whole land: if the same swar keeps running with the water or earth element throughout, whether it is Chandra swar or Surya swar, the land is good.
There are two energies: geopathic energy from within the earth, which gives growth, and cosmic energy from the air, which supports it. The ground energy reaches every floor, as a building rests on its foundation, so check the ground floor and basement energy first; the cosmic energy can differ from floor to floor with orientation, as was found in a 17-floor building. Basement energy matters most, just as fertiliser and water go into the soil, not onto the leaves.
It is located where the pendulum turns clockwise or anticlockwise, at the spot under the hand, about an arm's length of one and a half to two feet from the body. It is not where a jumping coconut finally falls, but where the movement began.
Any of them, because the dowser is the person; the tool is only a bridge, a medium in which the current produces movement. Some people dowse with bare hands, and some sway or tremble where water is. Only a person whose body reacts to the energy can check it; people who live in a negative place get used to it, like a worm content in a drain.
On a Guru Pushya or Ravi Pushya yoga, have a goldsmith mix them into the copper and make the rod. If that cannot be done, take ready-made rods and have silver and gold fixed at their solid point.
No, they are not weaknesses; they show the sensitivity of a dowser. Practise pendulum dowsing: ask your spouse or children to hide a coin and try to find it with the pendulum.
Do nadi shodhan for six months; even then, not everyone becomes a dowser. At a training in 2021, dowsers from across the country, many carrying scanners and lecher antennas, could not find a single one of the bones hidden at five places. Practise with a coin hidden in the house or in someone's hand, and consider yourself a dowser only when the answers come out right about 2500 times.
Yes, the swar becomes reversed; during a cold the Chandra swar runs more. To clear accumulated kapha, change the swar and run the Surya swar, forcibly if needed; congestion built up over many days takes time and will not clear in a day. The body stays warm inside however cold it is outside, just as borewell water comes out warm in winter.
It needs proper tatva swar training; the element is known from how many angul the breath reaches. It also shows in the mind: steadiness means the earth element, joy the water element, restlessness the air element, anger the fire element and indifference the space element.
It is a lazy, dormant land where the energy is disturbed and the fire element has fallen to zero, since sleep comes with coolness. Perform a havan with samagri, light a cow ghee akhand jyot in the South-East for eight days, and burn dhoop daily with Bhimseni kapoor on the lamp's upper plate; within eight days everyone starts waking up.
No, this idea is wrong and should be removed from the mind. An element's own zone can bear any amount of that element: kitchens burn daily in the South-East, factories run furnaces there day and night, and a plant in Goa melts quartz in its South-East without such problems; high mountains in the South-West only strengthen the earth element there.
Take the pendulum with all its precautions and ask, for example: should I open a general store? If yes, turn clockwise; if no, anticlockwise. If it turns clockwise, select that business. Do not ask the next question at once; dip the pendulum in salt water again first. It can also tell whether a running business will do well later.
The swar running at that moment decides it. Dowsing must be done in Surya swar, in its earth element; when it is done in the wrong swar the instrument does not move or gives wrong results.
Fix a fresh auspicious muhurta for shilanyas, dissolve (khandit) the earlier one, and perform it again in the new muhurta. It is dissolved the way an installed kalash is removed: by addressing the devtas who supported the earlier shilanyas with a request about it.
Stop where the hands stop on their own, when you feel some energy resisting them, a current connecting the two palms, a vibration trying to stop you. That distance is the aura of the land.
Rudraksha dowsing is very good for questions connected with spirituality. Rudraksha is bhavana vardhini and bhavana nashini: it strengthens or dissolves a feeling, and the pendulum finds its own way according to that feeling, so a sincere feeling progresses.
Ask the swar expert early in the morning, between 6 and 7 am, when the answer can be given; meanwhile keep searching yourself. Dowsing can also be used to find lost and hidden objects.