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Four practices protect a person from even a thousand vastu doshas or a wrongly placed door: a daily navgrah herb bath, tirth darshan in eclipses and vyatipat yoga, full use of swar all day, and daily abhishek with charan raj.
Daily routine of the person and the home
A continuous lamp of desi cow ghee in the agneya (SE) of the kitchen, lit in sagun, drives away negative energy and increases wealth; it is called the biggest brahmastra, worth more than all other interior work.
South-East (agneya kon) of the kitchen; it can also burn in a SE room or in a kitchen in the NW
Rise before sunrise and do Surya namaskar; for better results fast on Sunday with one salt-free meal, or at least keep a one-hour fast without water after sunrise.
Keep water in a gold vessel, or in a copper lota covered with a pyramid, at the Surya devta pad and drink it on waking to absorb the power of Surya.
E5 (Surya devta) pad, wherever it falls in the house
Melting a little Bhimseni camphor an hour before sleeping drives negativity away, giving deep, dreamless sleep and harmony between husband and wife.
Bedroom
Keep a box at home, put in a small amount for feeding cows first thing every morning, and donate the collection at a gaushala.
At home
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.
Toilet seat
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.
Toilet seat on the North-South axis
Sprinkle a little water on the main door threshold every morning and make a rangoli to welcome the Sun. For a wrongly placed door, plaster the ground in front with cow dung daily and make the rangoli in the colour of that zone.
Main door threshold and the ground in front of it
Energised yellow mustard is thrown towards each direction in turn while chanting the dig vandana mantra, or with a command and Om, to clear the negative energy coming from every side. It is done daily for a shop that is not running and before any work on unknown land.
Facing each direction in turn at the shop, house or land
Sagun means doing an act while holding the breath. A lamp lit in sagun burns many times longer on the same ghee, and a shankh blown in sagun with a wish in mind drives negative energy out of the house.
Kitchen, puja room or anywhere in the house
Washing both hands and feet before a meal cools the mind; food eaten calmly and joyfully nourishes, while food eaten in anger acts like poison.
Dining area
Blowing a conch sends the energy of the body's 72,000 nadis through the calcium phosphate particles of the shankh into the air, driving negativity out of the whole house or factory and removing bhoot-pret badha.
Whole home, factory or plot
Do not build a temple in the kitchen; keep a small Mangal kalash at the agneya kon with a small photo of your Guru or ishta, and draw a swastik in front of your eyes so the food cooked becomes like amrit.
Kitchen: kalash and photo at the SE; swastik at eye level in front of the cook
In swar vigyan the water element flows in the body for 16 minutes of every hour; that period is the joyful time of the hour, and work done in it succeeds.
Nadi shodhan can be done at any time on an empty stomach, for example at 3 or 4 pm, provided the last meal was about four hours earlier.
Each outer devta has a 45-minute active time, starting with Shikhi from 3:00 to 3:45 am and moving on by 45 minutes per devta: Jayant 4:30, Mahendra 5:15, Surya 6:00, Satya 6:45.
Chant Om Bhaskaraya Namah from before sunrise until the Sun rises, sitting at the Surya pad or aligned towards it, to balance the fire element and Surya devta.
E5 (Surya) pad, facing East
Surya, the fifth devta at the centre of the East, lights the three worlds, destroys darkness and negativity, gives energy to all planets and never misses its time. Balanced, it gives fearlessness, good decisions, speaking power, fame, leadership, government support and perfect time management.
Pad E5, the centre of the East, 84.375 to 95.625 degrees (East zone)
The human body has its own poles, with the head as its north pole and the feet as its south pole. With the head to the South, the poles of body and earth lie opposite and attract; with like poles together they repel, and sleep does not come.
Bed in the bedroom, head side to the South
Sun rays are described as miracle rays that carry silver, gold, iron, mercury, lead and other minerals as well as vitamin D and vitamin B12, each at a particular time around sunrise. No electric light can supply these.
The East is ruled by Indra, its planet is the Sun, its gem is ruby (manik), its symbol is the vajra and its vehicle the Airavat elephant; in the Vastu Purush it is the mouth. A strong East brings production, talent, children's progress, health and immunity.
East zone
A person who does daily routine work according to swar suffers only a minimal effect from vastu defects, however many there are, because controlling one's own elements is like holding the steering of a car.
When neither the planets nor the vastu support a person, doing every daily task by swar still brings success: not tithi, nakshatra, vaar or graha, but swar.
The kitchen is the most important part of the house because the food made there shapes the mind, thoughts and blood of everyone; its old name chauka means a place of four purities.
Kitchen
If the sleeping zone cannot be changed, changing the direction of the feet gives about 50 percent of the benefit. Feet towards North is best, West is second, East only for children and early risers, and South never.
Bed in any bedroom
During study, meditation, puja, bhajan, meals and bathing, one should face North or East.
Study table, puja place, dining area and bathroom
When leaving the house, first move clockwise, to your right, from the main door. A door from which people go out anticlockwise is called heen bahu dwar and gives less of its result.
Main door and the path just outside it
Windows and ventilators work on the lighter, higher layers of energy and are needed to let negativity out. Place them on the allowed padas, make them open outward, keep them in even numbers and ideally two-shuttered, and open them every morning.
All windows and ventilators; a window and its ventilator on the same pada
The left side is the chandra nadi, used for stable and timely work, and the left hand represents the North, where Mercury, the planet of clocks, lives; so the watch is worn on the left hand.
Left wrist
Getting up at about 2 or 3 am to pass urine is not counted as waking up. The tithi swar is checked at the moment you actually wake from sleep; it has nothing to do with the time of sunrise.
At any time on an empty stomach, for example at 3 or 4 pm, provided the last meal was about four hours earlier. Wear clean clothes and keep the body free of negativity.
Each outer devta has a sadhana period of 45 minutes, so the 32 outer devtas complete the 24 hours (32 x 45 minutes) and come back to the same point. Shikhi's period runs up to 3:00 am and Parjanya's from 3:00 to 3:45 am. Havan and offerings made in a devta's own period wake and activate it quickly.
It is a 45-minute period. The count starts with Shikhi devta from 3:00 to 3:45 am, and each next devta takes the next 45 minutes.
There is no need to worry: an East kitchen is moderate. It suits early cooking, with the morning meal ready by about 9 to 9:30 am as in the kitchens of sadhus, so simply cook early.
Face North or East during study, meditation, puja, bhajan, meals and bathing.
A door is placed by pada, but a window does not work on the surface current: currents are dense near the ground and lighter higher up, so positive energy stays higher, which makes ventilation a must. Windows and ventilators bring in clean air and push the negativity of the house out, so they should open outward, while the main door opens inward; sliding windows are acceptable. Keep windows in even numbers, two-shuttered if possible, in one row at one level, with a window beside the main door; open all windows in the morning and keep the left (Chandra swar) window open during the day.
When you step out of the main door, first go to the right, even a step or two, and then turn left; then there is no dosh. People do the same with cars, moving them a little in the clockwise direction first. Leaving the house anti-clockwise is called heen bahu dwar.