Recording: Vastu Diploma Class 17 - door, Basement and Underground tank
Four practices protect a person from even a thousand vastu doshas or a wrongly placed door: a daily navgrah herb bath, tirth darshan in eclipses and vyatipat yoga, full use of swar all day, and daily abhishek with charan raj.
Daily routine of the person and the home
On a full moon day, plaster the floor at the three Mahalakshmi door spots with desi cow dung and draw a rangoli with a small flower.
Floor at the N4, E3 and W4 spots
An E3-E4 main door is the best for chances of going abroad; those not getting a visa should sleep with their feet towards the West and keep the West and South heavy and well built.
Main door on E3-E4; heavy West and South; feet towards the West while sleeping
Instead of a boring in the West, keep a water source as a tub built above the surface level and grow a lotus in it.
West zone, above ground level
When a boring in the South or another wrong zone is abandoned for a new one, close the old pit permanently with five haldi, five supari, panch ratna and a silver swastik, then fill it with sand.
Old boring pit in the South or another wrong zone
When a two-shutter main door is not possible, correct the single-shutter dosh with a painting, door power, door decoration or a door bandhan hung outside.
Outside of the single-shutter main door
For an auspicious journey or an important meeting, leave the house and first move the vehicle clockwise, even if the road later turns the other way.
Route from the main door through the boundary gate
Multiply the door length by its width and divide by 8; the remainder is the aay of the door, which decides which direction that size suits.
Any door, especially a main door on a wrong pad
A well older than 25 years is a pujya (revered) seat of Varun devta and must never be filled in without a vidhi: transfer its deities into a coconut, lower a kalash, fill it with river sand and soil, and leave the coconut in a working well.
Old dug well in any wrong zone, such as the South-West or West
A bhatti (furnace) that has been in the ground of a house should be closed only after digging out and throwing away the soil all around it.
Furnace in the ground of the house
N4, E3 and W4 are the Mahalakshmi doors through which Lakshmi enters; a house with all three open sees a heavy flow of money and many sources of income.
N4 (Bhallat), E3 and W4 (Pushpdant) on the outer walls
A main door on an auspicious pad still fails when the route to the gate is wrong, when there is any vedh in front, when the house faces a cremation ground, or when the door is out of plumb.
Main door and the area in front of it
A main door that leans inward or outward even by half a degree to two degrees stops giving results; check it with a plumb line (soot-saval) and a water level.
Main door and its frame
When the main door of the building and the boundary wall gate stand face to face in one line, the arrangement is utsang (sammukh) dwar, the best door coordination in any direction.
Main door and boundary wall gate opposite each other in one line
Coming out of the main door and reaching the boundary wall gate by moving clockwise forms purna bahu (complete arm) dwar, which completes the purpose of every outing.
Boundary wall gate placed clockwise from the main door
Leaving the main door and reaching the boundary wall gate by moving anti-clockwise forms heen bahu dwar, which cuts the results of even a correctly placed door.
Boundary wall gate placed anti-clockwise from the main door
When the boundary gate is on one side but the main door is opened at the back, so that one walks around the whole house to enter, the arrangement is prishth bhang dwar and gives no results.
Main door at the back of the house, opposite the side of the boundary gate
A house whose front faces a cremation ground does not give results even with correct facing and a correct door; most of the hard work drains away.
Front of the house facing a cremation ground
Main doors on N8, N7, W3, W6 and S6 are karz (debt) doors: however much is borrowed, the family or factory stays in debt and cannot repay it.
Main door on N8, N7, W3, W6 or S6
Certain main door pads bring particular mishaps: road, fire and electrical accidents, raids, government trouble, illness and labour strikes.
Main door on N1, N2, E1, E5, the South-East, S8 (South-West), W5 or W6
An E2 main door brings the birth of daughters, while N3, N4 and W4 main doors bring sons.
Main door on E2, N3, N4 or W4
Each of these main door pads creates differences in the family for a particular reason, from anger and lies to poverty and crooked relatives; N6, S6 and S8 set father and son against each other.
Main door on N6, N7, N8, E5, E6, S2, S3, S6 or S8
Main doors anywhere from S5 through S6, S7, S8 and W1 to W2 are shri heen (without Lakshmi): the family can neither earn well nor save money.
Main door on S5, S6, S7, S8, W1 or W2
The S8 door is called mrityu dwar (death door) and should never be made, even by mistake.
S8, the South side next to the South-West corner
Main doors on E8 and E7 are chor dwar (theft doors): thefts keep happening in such houses and businesses.
E8 and E7, the East side next to the South-East corner
Main doors on W8 and N1 are rog dwar (disease doors): one family member after another falls ill, and the head of the house suffers long illness.
W8 and N1, on either side of the North-West corner
Main doors on N6, N7, N8, E1, E6, E7, W6, W7, W8 and N1 cause insomnia, even when people sleep in a correct room and direction.
Main door on N6, N7, N8, E1, E6, E7, W6, W7, W8 or N1
To make children excel in studies, for example to become IAS officers, correct the main door first; N3, E3 and E4 are the best doors for study.
Main door on N3, E3 or E4
A house with E4, N4 and W4 doors all open has religious, devout and theist people who keep up pooja and faith in God.
Doors on E4, N4 and W4
A house with doors open on all four number-four pads, N4, E4, S4 and W4, is a sarvatobhadra house; no vastu dosh affects it, whatever defects lie inside.
Doors on N4 (Bhallat), E4, S4 (Grihakshat) and W4 (Pushpdant)
A house with three doors on N4, E4 and S4 is a nandavart house; children born there are very good and rise high in education, politics or religion.
Doors on N4, E4 and S4
A house with two doors on N4 and E4, common in many homes, is a vardhaman house; it brings prosperity, happiness, peace and growth of sons and grandsons.
Doors on N4 and E4
A house with only the E4 door open is a swastik dwar house; the residents are good and religious, wealth and grain grow, and they are service-minded.
Single door on E4
The main door should have two shutters opening inward and a height twice its width; doors and windows should be even in number, and window shutters should open outward.
Main door and windows of the house
An obstruction in front of the main door counts as vedh only within twice its reference height; for a 7 ft main door, anything within 14 ft is a vedh, and beyond double the distance it is not.
Area in front of the main door
In flats and dense areas, a door facing the main door, a lift right in front, stairs going down in front, or the corner of another building pointing at the door all create dwar vedh.
Directly in front of the main door
Pits, wells, drains, poles, big trees, garbage, a road hitting the door or a long-vacant house in front of the main door each bring a specific harm, from disease to loss of lifespan.
Directly in front of the main door
A basement is a fully dug (100% underground) floor where sun rays and cosmic energy cannot reach, making it a dead part where the planets cannot spread their energy.
Below-ground floors
Build a basement only in the North, NNE, NE, East and ENE, or as a full basement that lets sun rays in; never in the South, South-West or the Brahmasthan.
N, NNE, NE, E and ENE; W and WNW only with the NE included
A basement without sunlight should not be used for sleeping or staying, a kitchen, a toilet, a patient or a locker; its entry should come from the North or East and its walls should be white.
Basement
A boring, dug well, pit or underground water tank gives very different results in each of the 16 zones: the North and North-East zones attract wealth, while the South, South-West and the centre bring death-like suffering and money loss.
All 16 zones and the centre of the plot
The best place for a swimming pool is NNE and the North-East through ENE up to the East, leaving out the exact North-East diagonal (Shikhi devta); a sunken pool in the North-West is not good.
NNE, NE (off the diagonal), ENE up to East
Make the septic tank in WNW as the first option and ESE as the second, never in the East or under the stairs, and run the underground drainage line clockwise from the South-West to the North-West.
WNW (first choice) or ESE (second); drainage line from SW to NW
An overhead tank can be built anywhere from the West to the North-West; NNW and the South-West are wrong, and a tank over the staircase is best avoided.
Roof, from the West to the North-West
Stairs carry geopathic currents from below up through the building; stairs that turn clockwise increase the current, while stairs that turn anti-clockwise cause loss.
Staircase of a house or flat building
Use one whole glass mirror rather than small pieces, keep every mirror at least two feet above the floor, and never use plastic mirror film in place of a mirror.
North wall at an entrance, and any wall of the house or temple
Place the boundary (compound) wall gate in ENE for an East-facing plot, SSE for a South-facing plot, WNW for a West-facing plot and NNE for a North-facing plot.
Compound wall gate in ENE, SSE, WNW or NNE according to the facing
When the route to the boundary gate is heen bahu (anti-clockwise) or prishth bhang (circling the house), when there is any dwar vedh in front such as a T-point, shool vedh, pole, tree, pit or garbage, when the house faces a cremation ground, or when the door is out of plumb and leans inward or outward. In any of these cases even doors on N3, N4, E3, E4, S4 or W4 do not give their results.
A house facing a cremation ground drains about 90% of the effort, and changes made in it give only about 10% results. Mercury and mercury nails placed all around give some relief but not full results. Plan to leave the house and take another one in time to secure the future of the children.
N4, like N3 and W4, is a door that brings sons. Open an E2 door, which brings the birth of daughters. A home without a daughter is not a complete home.
First check whether the door is in plumb and level with a plumb line and water level, and whether a wall or another door stands in front of it. In this case the entrance was fine; the real cause was a full basement in the South and West portion, together with a problem in the North-East.
A daily bath in water in which a potli of the herbs of the nine planets has been dipped; tirth darshan during every eclipse and during vyatipat yoga; using swar in every daily activity from waking to sleeping; and daily abhishek of the consecrated deity, applying the dust of the feet of the deity on the forehead and sprinkling the abhishek water in the house above navel height.
No. A lift creates dwar vedh only when it is exactly in front of the main door, where it obstructs luck and delays work. Its remedies are taught with the other remedies.
No, there are many options. Virtual doors and the other ways of opening an entry are taught in the door remedy classes.
Not all banks keep lockers in the basement. A study found that banks with lockers in the basement had the most NPA accounts, and such banks were also looted by big frauds. A locker should never be kept in a basement.
Yes. Work that needs no sun rays, such as vehicle parking, suits a basement, and bars and discos also run there. In Europe the heating system is placed in the basement, because vastu depends on local geography and climate; Indian principles do not apply as they are abroad, and foreign vastu is taught separately.
Degrees can still be taken: place the compass parallel to the axis, or draw the line with the Google Earth compass, and read the degree from it.
Functions that need no sun rays, such as storing materials, can be in a basement. X-ray machines can be used in a basement because they do not need sun rays; sunlight actually creates trouble for them.
The entrance is counted where the door begins, so the basement entry is counted from the top.
Only about 25% of the results, because the subtle currents do not come in; only the surface cosmic currents reach.
Yes, a chabutra can be built in the basement, and building it there gives results.
No, a swimming pool in the North-West is not good; only one built above floor level is acceptable there.
Yes, the same rules apply to farm land.
Borings in the North, NNE, NE and ENE are very good, and the North-East is the best. Never bore exactly on the North-East diagonal corner, the seat of Shikhi devta.
NNE and the North-East, leaving out Shikhi devta on the diagonal, and from the North-East through ENE up to the East.
No, there is a world of difference between them, and they follow different rules and locations.
The underground drainage line should run from the South-West towards the North-West, that is clockwise, and leave the plot at the North-West; that is good.
No. Water lines reach every zone anyway through washrooms and taps, and lines inside the ground do not have much effect. Only dirty water lines matter, which is why they should run clockwise.
Put five haldi, five supari, panch ratna and a silver swastik into it, then fill it completely with sand.
They are the mason tools for checking that a wall or door is true: a plumb bob hanging on a thread like a pendulum shows whether it is in one line from top to bottom. Masons also use a guniya (L-shaped square) and a water level, and a vastu consultant should carry the plumb line and water level.
WNW is the first option and ESE the second.
Absolutely not; a septic tank cannot be in the East.
No, a septic tank does not work under the stairs.
Yes, but only if it includes the WNW portion, for example 70% in WNW and 25 to 30% in NW. It then gives the results of WNW.
In the same places prescribed for underground and overhead water tanks; there is no separate location, whether the water is for the labour or for the owner.
Yes. Above floor level it works in the North and in the North-West, and in the North-West it can also be built high up like an overhead tank. A tank at ground floor that is raised, with no pit, is acceptable.
When a chamber or tank goes deep enough, below navel level, it does not attract dosh, because in the human body, which follows vastu, the dirty matter also lies below the navel. A dirty chamber near the surface is not acceptable.
Yes. A correctly placed door with an anti-clockwise (heen bahu) exit gives fewer good results than it should. A door on a negative pad such as E5 or E6, whose route runs clockwise to a gate on W4 or W5, gives much less negative effect than the pad alone would.
A well inside the house gives good results when it is in the right direction and bad results when it is in a wrong direction.
The gems of the benefic planets, with the Sun also counted as benefic here: the gems of the Sun, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter and Venus.
Yes. Not knowing makes no difference: the sun gives its rays whether or not someone believes in it, and a person who knows nothing of vastu still gets its doshas. A wrongly placed tank, boring, septic tank or sewer line affects the residents whether they know about it or not.
A well older than 25 years is a seat of Varun devta and must not simply be filled in. Do the vastu registry with a coconut, asking the deities of the well to enter it, do three pradakshina, and after a few hours leave the coconut in another well in daily use. Lower a kalash marked with a swastik and filled with haldi and other items, add soil or sand of five rivers (or sea sand), and fill the well with good soil.
No, it is not right at all.
Not in NNW. An overhead tank can be built from the West up to the North-West; making it in the South-West, as many people do, is wrong. Build it in the North-West.
No, in that case an E4 door is completely wrong.
No. The chaukhat is the four-piece frame, and a window or glass above it is not counted in the door aay, because fixed glass stays closed; glass that opens and closes would be counted. Fixed glass above a door is itself used as a remedy.
No. If the pit outside the gate is permanently covered, it causes no problem.
Only if the stairs are in the North-West; otherwise not. Basically an overhead tank should not be built over the stairs, because hydro currents move as you walk below it and the mind becomes unsettled.
Lime is dissolved and spread over the whole land at the bottom. The complete method is taught with the 16 sanskar of land.
Use one whole mirror on the North wall. Do not join small pieces of mirror for a design; that turns mangal (auspicious) into amangal.
Yes, a carelessly closed bhatti can ruin a whole generation. Dig out the soil all around it and throw it away, and only then close it.
Yes. The North results then start coming, though not fully; you get as much as is open. Through a window only air comes in, whereas people come in through the door.
Even with good doors, if the basement is wrong, the house gets the results of that wrong basement.
At a large scale it works: a city may have a river, lake or pond in its West, and a big industrial unit may have a large pond in the West, the place of Varun devta.
Yes, stairs right in front of the main door are wrong even when they go downward.
No problem. As taught in interior vastu, make one symbolically, and if that is not possible, make a figure (picture) of it.
Correct it with a painting, door power, door decoration (door sajja) or a door bandhan hung outside. Where the door has one shutter, keep a bandhanwar always hung on it and the dosh is not counted.
Yes, whether the mirror is in the house, the temple or anywhere else.
No. It is part of the door system and is sealed with a lens or glass, so it is not a chhidra yukt dwar. Only a hole passing right through the door makes a chhidra yukt (holed) door.
Any door opening outward slowly drains the energy of the house, that is its money, wealth and other good things.
By definition it is at 0 degrees with doors in all four directions, but it can be made otherwise too: build the doors on whichever pads fall on Pushpdant, Grihakshat, Bhallat and E4.
No. The darpan is considered auspicious and is used even in pooja; do not replace it with plastic films.
Outward. The door brings energy into the house, while the window is there to throw out the negativity created inside, so its shutters should open outward.
Yes, it is fine. The wooden door counts as the main door; the mesh door is only a protection door.
Yes, if the offset is within one pad (11.25 degrees). For example, a gate on N4 with a main door spread over N4 and N5, mostly in N4, or a main door on N4 with the gate on the N4-N5 junction, still counts as utsang (sammukh) dwar.
It is a dosh, not a vedh. Stairs carry the geopathic currents from below up the building; a current moving clockwise grows while one moving anti-clockwise is lost, just as spinning clockwise and anti-clockwise feel very different.
They apply to the main door of the house, not to room doors. The people in whose name the house is and who invested in it feel the effects most, but other members can be affected too.
Convert the inches into points, for example by multiplying by 10, and then calculate the remainder.
No. Only the door itself is measured; the chaukhat and the upper and lower thresholds are not.
Multiply the length by the width and divide by 8; the remainder is the aay. For example, a door 36 inches wide and 72 inches (6 ft) high gives 36 x 72. Remember that even x even always gives an even remainder.
Yes, it can be made in a flat too.