What it does
Sets the correct direction of idols and of the person worshipping, including during Diwali puja.
Where
Home temple, puja room and festival puja
Samagri used
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Cautions
Explanation and notes
Direction belongs to the Lord: in a classroom the teacher's direction matters, not the students'. When you face a consecrated idol, all directions bow at the Lord's feet and become zero; direction is small and the Lord is great. So a small mandir on a study table may face East, and you sit before it facing North. A temple in a wrong zone can be treated: merely correcting the deity's direction corrects one's condition. For a puja room in the SE, move a consecrated idol; if the idol is not consecrated there is no need to worry, as these rules are for consecrated idols. Paintings and decorative idols also represent planets and should be placed correctly.
The human body, imagined facing East, is built like the Vastu Purush Mandal, and the position of each body function shows where the matching part of a house belongs.
Vedic Vastu texts assign no place to a toilet inside the house and say its wall should not even touch the house foundation; toilets were built outside, and palaces placed them at the rear in the West-North-West.
Zone-by-zone results of a toilet: SSW and WNW are workable, NW and ESE only in an emergency, and every other zone damages what that zone governs.
Four positions are forbidden for a toilet whatever the zone: the Brahmasthan, directly opposite the main door, directly opposite the kitchen and under the staircase.
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.
A toilet should be lined with glazed ceramic tiles, well ventilated, kept in white or grey, and should have no mirror facing the seat.
Sitting on the toilet with the left nostril closed, the teeth pressed together and the feet raised on a small footstool clears the bowels in seconds and protects the teeth and stomach.
A glass bowl layered with sea sand, alum, salt and sea sand again, kept in the toilet where the air flows out, absorbs the negativity of the toilet.