What it does
Explains the logic behind door, slope, water tank, kitchen and toilet placements so they can be reasoned out rather than memorised.
Where
Whole house: doors in NE, E and N; slope to E and N; underground water tank in NE; kitchen in SE; toilet in WNW
Explanation and notes
Facing East, the left hand is North, the right hand South and the back West. The eyes, nose and ears, the doors of the body, are all in front, so doors and windows belong in the North-East, East and North. Lying down, the belly slopes away from the navel on all sides, so the plot should slope to the East and North; the navel is the body's exact Brahmasthan. The left foot is slightly lighter and smaller than the right, as shoemakers know, so North is kept light and South heavy. The front of the body is soft while the back is strong, so the East side should stay light and open while the West and South are heavy. Water drunk collects in the stomach towards the North-East, so the underground water tank goes in the NE. Food is digested by the jatharagni (digestive fire) towards the South-East, so the kitchen goes in the SE. Waste leaves the body from its West-North-West, so the toilet belongs in the WNW, and urine flows towards the NE, which is why the slope goes there.
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.
The drawing room is the place for exchanging ideas, so its furniture is set in a square or rectangle, the person putting forward his views faces North, the colours are light and windows give cross-ventilation.