During Construction

Gomutra Spray on Brick Masonry Before Plastering

Once the brick masonry is complete and before plastering, spray desi cow urine over the entire masonry, the way water is sprayed for curing.

All brick masonry walls of the building

Lime Layer Over the Whole Plot Before Construction

Before construction, spread lime dissolved in water over the entire land below the flooring. Given as a brahmastra and one of the sanskars of land, it nullifies geopathic negative energy.

Entire plot, below the lowest floor

Crystallised Hexagonal Quartz Under the Floor to Nullify a Bad Zone

Natural four-axis crystallised hexagonal quartz spread under the flooring energises a room or plot and nullifies the defect of a room built in an unsuitable zone.

Under the floor of the whole office, room or plot, especially rooms forced into zones such as SSW, WNW, SE or ESE

Joining a Cut Corner Through the Underground Foundation

When a corner is cut and there is no space to build on it, the foundation (bunyaad) is joined underground to complete the regular shape. The current then flows in the full shape, so the cut above ground causes no defect.

The cut corner of the plot

Continuous Aahuti Until Fragrance Comes, to Drive Out Land Negativity

When negativity shows on a land at the start of work, keep performing havan with aahuti and mantra jaap until the smell turns fragrant; the negative energy then leaves on its own.

On the land where work is starting

Six-Foot Soil Fill and 16 Sanskars Over Buried Bones

If at least 6 ft of soil is filled above the place where a bone lies, even a cremation ground beneath causes no trouble, provided the 16 sanskars of the land are then performed on top.

Over the spot where a bone or a cremation ground lies

Shami Wood Under the Steel in Four Corners for a Debilitated Saturn

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

Copper Pyramid at the Base of Every Column to Neutralise Iron

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.

Bottom of every column

Gomutra Spray Before Plaster for Swastik-Stamped Bricks

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.

All walls built with swastik-stamped bricks

Mud-Mortar Room or Wall in the North-East for NE Doshas

A room built with mud as the adhesive instead of cement mortar carries the highest energy; in the Ishan (NE) it removes many NE doshas.

North-East (Ishan) of the house

Bhav: Honour the Mason, Contractor and Consultant First at Bhoomi Poojan

At the shilanyas or bhoomi poojan of any house or factory the first tilak goes to the mason (shilpi), contractor or Vastu consultant, not the pandit, and they are given the best clothes and a shriphal (coconut). Their goodwill enters the building, while a craftsman's tears of hurt in the mortar act like a buried bone (shalya dosh).

When Vastu Pooja Must Be Performed

Vastu pooja is the prana pratishtha of a house: just as an idol is not worshipped until its prana pratishtha, a house is established only through Vastu pooja. It is due at fixed stages of construction and again whenever the house is disturbed.

Finding the Degree of a Vacant Plot from Roads or Neighbouring Buildings

When nothing is built on or around a plot yet, ask the engineer to draw the surrounding roads on the plan, straighten the road in the map and take the road's degree. Alternatively, take the degree of a parallel neighbouring building, ask the engineer which line the house will follow, or visit the site.

Redoing a Shilanyas Laid in the Wrong Direction

If the foundation stone (shilanyas) has been laid in the wrong direction, the earlier shilanyas is formally dissolved and a fresh one is performed in a new auspicious muhurta.

Purifying Land After a Buried Bone Is Removed

The full purification done where a bone has been dug out, the land's equivalent of the rites after a death: vastu registry with five coconuts, removal of the affected soil, agni sanskar with mango wood, water, gomutra and cow-dung purification, lime and sulphur, a 24-hour lamp and mercury.

The spot where the bone was found, the surrounding soil, and the four corners of the plot

Taking Soil for Filling: Right Sources and Asking Permission

Filling soil should come only from fertile fields or mountains, never from polluted or inauspicious places, and should be taken after giving a coconut and asking permission of the place's devta.

Plinth and floor filling of the house

Gomti Chakra in Brahm Nabhi, Chabutra, Dehleez and Door Power

Gomti chakra are laid as a circle in the brahm nabhi, as a square in a chabutra and as a full line in the dehleez, and are used in every kind of door power. Each one must be laid with its smooth white face up.

Brahm nabhi (centre of the brahmasthan), chabutra, dehleez (threshold) and doors

Adding Special Soils to the Flooring for Peace, Business or a Temple

Mixing a handful to about a kilo of a chosen soil into the flooring raises the energy for a purpose: cowshed, mountain or elephant-stable soil for peace, yellow soil for business, white or yellow soil for homes, and pilgrimage or river soil for temples.

Flooring of the house, factory or temple

Door Power: Dehleez Installation in Muhurta with Silver and Pancha Ratna

Door power means installing the dehleez, the base wood of the four-piece door frame, in a proper muhurta and swar with protective samagri placed in the ground beneath it. Done this way it removes about 50 percent of the dosh even of a wrongly placed door.

Under the threshold of the main door

Mangal Kalash in the North-East Filled with Samagri

After Om and swastik the kalash is the greatest symbol and is established before every beginning (wedding, business start, construction, any of the 16 sanskar). A filled mangal kalash with a coconut in the North-East of every home, factory and office forms Gajkesari yoga and balances the five elements.

North-East of every home, factory and office; a clay kalash can go in any direction

Start Auspicious Work Only in Daytime, While the Sun Is Up

Griha arambh (start of construction), griha pravesh, factory opening and other auspicious (mangalik) events are held in daytime, because work begun with the sun's energy goes well. After sunset creation is considered asleep.

Kaal: Shilanyas Muhurta from the Owner's Rashi, Avoiding Moon in 4, 8 or 12

Before construction of a house or factory begins, the muhurta for the shilanyas or start of work is fixed from the rashi of the owner. If the Moon falls 4th, 8th or 12th from his rashi, money stays short however good the Vastu and the door.

When to Perform Vastu Poojan of the 45 Devtas

Vastu poojan is done not only at the start of construction but at several stages and family events; at griha arambh and griha pravesh it is essential.

The whole house, with an offering at every devta pad

Seed Germination (Fertility) Test of a Land

Seeds of five grains sown in a small watered patch of the land show its energy by how fast they sprout: within three days is excellent, five days moderate, and no sprout in seven days marks an inferior, infertile land.

A 2 x 2 feet patch at the site of the planned building

Tracing Buried Bones (Shalya) with Dowsing Rod, Pendulum and Swar

Locates bones and other shalya (harmful objects) buried in a plot. A dowsing rod or pendulum turning anti-clockwise over a spot, or the breath (swar) shifting into sushumna while standing there, confirms that something negative is buried at that point.

Any raw plot or existing building, at the spot where the rod turns anti-clockwise

Identifying Male and Female Bricks and Stones by Their Sound

Bricks and stones are male or female: when struck, one gives a khan sound and the other a jhan sound. Joining a male with a female, like plus with minus, makes them hold each other for ages.

Brick and stone masonry

Gravitational Force: Keep the Whole Building Level and in Plumb

Gravitational force acts between the earth and every building, object and person. When columns, beams, walls, plaster and elevation are aligned with plumb line and level, the force stays balanced and the occupants remain healthy and alert; misalignment brings obstacles, illness and loss.

Plinth beam, columns, beams, walls and elevation

Avoid Fly Ash Bricks: Ash Counts as Shalya

Ash of any kind, including thermal power plant fly ash, is treated as shalya (an impure defect, like buried bone). However good the Vastu structure, sun rays falling on fly ash bricks reflect onto the occupants and affect them negatively.

Four Controlling Factors of Vastu: Dravya, Kshetra, Kaal and Bhav

Vastu results depend equally on four factors: dravya (the money used), kshetra (the land), kaal (the muhurta) and bhav (the feelings of the builders and residents). A perfectly planned house still fails if any one of them is wrong.

Keep Columns, Pits and Studs Off the Vastu Purush's Marma Points

Every house, however small, carries the Vastu Purush's eyes, nose, ears, hands, feet, heart, navel and other parts, including the marma and ati-marma (vital) points. A column, pit or stud on these points harms the occupants, just as a speck of dust in the eye or an injury to a vital organ harms the body.

Marma and ati-marma points of the Vastu Purush on the plan