What it does
To test any land, plot, house, school, college or industry with the breath alone.
Where
On the land, starting from the point of entry
When
Check the swar before entering, then throughout one full round
Cautions
Explanation and notes
Removing shoes is best, though wearing them does not spoil the test: the breath that meets the land carries the reading, and barefoot the current also enters through the bhoomi chakra of the earth element in the right big toe. The breath works like a stethoscope that never fails. Just as one smells sandalwood on someone 50 feet away, the breath reports the land's energy, and with practice an expert can tell from the elements within the elements whether the defect lies in the South-West, North-West or North-East. Reading from a distance, when someone calls from the plot, also becomes possible. Swar vigyan was called the greatest of all methods: it works where astrology, vastu, tantra, mantra and yantra fail, and costs nothing, so even a poor family's vastu can be balanced with swar alone. First comes karma (karmoday), then swar (swaroday).
When selecting a plot, flat or industrial land, the energy of the land itself decides about 70 percent of the result, more than slope, shape or surrounding structures. A building made fully as per directional vastu can still fail on land with bad energy.
The threshold (dehleez) of the home acts as a testing machine: the moment you step over it to go and see a plot, flat or factory, your breath and body signal whether that property is good. Equal flow in both nostrils or left-side body signs warn against it; earth or water element in the breath and right-side signs approve it.
Shakun shastra (nimitta gyan) reads the signs met on the way to a property; certain sights and events on the journey warn that the plot or flat is not good. They arise because the land's energy is already acting on the visitor's body chemistry.
Certain mangalik (auspicious) sights on the way to a property show that the plot or flat is very auspicious and will keep filling life with happiness.
Where a bird's droppings fall on the visitor's body or clothes, where the visitor gets hurt, or where itching starts on the way to or while walking a land points to the matching part of the Vastu Purush where a defect or buried bone (shalya) lies.
The behaviour of street dogs, jackals and crows at a plot or flat reveals its quality: a crow cawing while facing East or North is a good sign, while crying dogs and a crow on a dry tree are grave warnings.
Twitching of an eye on reaching a land shows its quality, read in opposite ways for men and women: the right eye is auspicious for a man and the left eye for a woman.
What one first sees and hears on stepping onto a land or into a flat indicates its energy: black items, broken things, snake holes and harsh sounds are bad signs, while a conch, aarti or auspicious songs, a rainbow or a joyful sky are good ones.