What it does
Matches the home temple's location to the deity and purpose of worship.
Where
Best: West. By deity: North, NNE, NE, East, South, SW (ancestors), WSW, WNW, NW, NNW. No puja: SE, SSE, SSW.
Samagri used
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Cautions
Explanation and notes
North: Saraswati, Gautam Ganadhar and Ganesh puja. NNE: prana shakti sadhana and breath practice. NE and East: meditation, study and contemplation. South: Hanuman puja, and the zone for Devi puja; an idol of any Lord or Tirthankar can be kept in the South zone facing North. SW: photos of ancestors (pitra). WSW: Saraswati puja. West is the best direction of all: it grants dharma, artha, kama and moksha, riddhi-siddhi, prosperity, happiness, peace and growth of wealth and dharma, which is why the famous temples listed in the Guinness records have the Lord seated in the West facing East. WNW is the place of the yakshinis, and NW and NNW are used for tantric practices.
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.