Yellow mustard spread under the mattress helps whoever is in trouble. A cushion (gaddi) filled with 5 or 10 kg of mustard is made for the owner to sit on, and a sick child or a child who cries all night is laid on bedding filled with yellow mustard.
Under the mattress, on the owner's seat, in the child's bedding
Yellow mustard is always tied into the marriage knot (gathbandhan) so the bond stays firm and no negative energy cuts it, and into the bride's knot at vidai so nothing affects her on the way.
The dehleez (threshold) represents the earth element; when the main door has been made at a wrong place, building a high dehleez stabilises it and balances the earth element.
When a home suffers constant quarrels or illness, paint it pista (pistachio green) if the owner's Mercury is not debilitated, or white if the Moon is not afflicted, and add peace symbols and friendly element shapes.
When a person with a debilitated Shani (Saturn) builds, small pieces of shami wood are placed in all four corners first and the iron (steel) is laid on top of them.
All four corners of the structure, beneath the iron or steel
Keep court case files, cheque book, cash book and the diary of money owed to you in the NE, the zone of clarity, so that they get energy and speed. The NE also charges any symbol or article whose power you want to increase.
Varun and Pushpadant in the West fulfil the wishes of the mind. Keep your written application or wish in the West with a special swastik, a mirror, a pyramid, navratna and five-element symbols, and place it at the three sandhya times.
Shoes bring outside energy, so the shoe rack stays near the entrance: on the NW side of a north-facing entrance and on the ESE side of an east-facing entrance. Where neither is possible, make the rack of wood and place muscovite (abhrak) under it.
Near the main entrance: NW side of a north-facing door, ESE side of an east-facing door
A bell or ghanta made of ashtadhatu contains the metals of all nine planets, so ringing it spreads vibrations through the whole house and pacifies the planets.
Inside the house, where its sound reaches every room
Steel reinforcement raises the electromagnetic current in modern buildings; a copper pyramid of a particular angle placed at the bottom of every column nullifies this negative energy.
When troubles persist and the bed stands in a wrong zone such as SSW or WNW, plaster the floor under the bed with desi cow dung and sleep there; the teacher guarantees good results from ten years of trials.
Whatever zone the kitchen is in, move the burner to the South-East of that kitchen and set it so the cook faces East, or North if East is impossible. This is the best kitchen treatment and removes many doshas.
Bricks stamped with a swastik create strong negative energy once laid in toilets or under the feet, because the sacred symbol is dishonoured. Where such bricks are already used, spray the brickwork with gomutra before plastering.
A closed kalash filled to the brim in sagun with turmeric knots, supari, yellow mustard and a sawa rupaya, kept in the kitchen's NE, ensures the kitchen never runs short however many guests arrive.
Making the bedroom, bed, bedsheet and mattress all of seven aay keeps husband and wife together like a magnet, even when the horoscope shows a divorce yoga.
Use a bed without a storage box, keep the floor under it swept and keep peeli sarson under the mattress; the negativity picked up during the day drains away and bad dreams stop.
If stairs must be built in the North, leave some space from the North side and make them of wood, which also represents Mercury; a cement structure needs even more space left.
Four round natural stones of about 100 to 150 g each, kept on the study table or in the room, support a child's memory, confidence, creativity and concentration.
Turning the toilet seat so the user faces North or South, never East or West, corrects about half the dosh of a toilet even when it stands in a wrong zone.
Why do the same treatment items give results for some practitioners and not for others?
Often because the items, such as pyramids or silver and gold nandavart, were not placed at water level. Unless an item is set at zero degree the gravitational force does not act on it, and it gives no result however valuable it is.
A rectangular plot is built up on three sides and open only on the West, so its energy is low. How can it be extended?
Do not extend it. Instead, place energy-giving items and capture the energy from all four sides to raise the energy level; this is covered in the energy chapter.
My neighbour's house in the East has two storeys and mine has one. What is the effect?
You are losing, because the East (the sun) gives all the energy. Either build a second storey or put up a flag: a metal flag of brass in the South-West of your roof, higher than their building, so that your building starts receiving cosmic energy.
If a home has defects in the North-East, Brahmasthan and South-East that cannot be corrected and the family cannot move out, can correcting the land energy help?
Yes. Land energy carries 70 percent of the role, so changing and correcting it can give about 50 to 60 percent relief. Many large hotels have toilets in the Ishaan and still prosper because 6 to 10 feet of soil was dug out and thrown away, removing the land's negativity. In vastu, dasha (land energy) matters more than disha (direction).
A client's family sleeps all the time, late at night, until noon and again in the day; what is the reason and the remedy?
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.
Fire is the enemy of water. What can be done if the water source of a house lies in the South?
Remedies for such anti-element placements are taught later, in the remedy classes. First learn each element, its zone, its friends and its enemies; the corrections for a water source in the wrong zone come when the course reaches remedial vastu.
From which corner should the kilan nails be fixed first?
From the South-East. Whenever nailing work is done anywhere, it is started from the South-East, not from the South and West or from the North and East.
Which four things make a person immune to vastu dosh even when the house has many defects?
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.