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A cut or extended corner is corrected without construction by hanging a cloth potli filled with gomti chakra in that corner: white in the North-East, red in the South-East, yellow in the South-West and white in the North-West.
In older vastu practice mirrors were the main tool of dosh nivaran: a mirror can make a cut area look larger or an oversized extension look smaller.
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.
As taught in class, a convex mirror makes a small space look bigger and extends it, while a concave mirror makes a big space look smaller; so a convex mirror treats a cut and a concave mirror treats an extension. A plain mirror can also extend a cut.
A wife whose husband does not get along with her cooks his food for seven days in purity while holding only positive thoughts about him and recalling good moments; however much he is against her, he becomes positive towards her.
For a defect or wrongly placed door between the South-East and the East, the gomti chakra swastik is made on a copper plate of 5 x 5 inch or of a size that gives aay 3.
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.
Keep court case files, cheque book, cash book and the diary of money owed to you in the NE, the zone of clarity, so that they get energy and speed. The NE also charges any symbol or article whose power you want to increase.
A picture of a cow suckling its calf is an energy creator: it shows energy being given directly and received. It is placed in the North-West (air element).
When Venus is exalted (sign 12) or swagrahi (signs 2 or 7), a painting of a cow or bull in the South-East, the zone of Venus, brings luxury, money and comforts.
When work has slowed or stopped, the mind is blocked or orders have dried up, drill the relevant one-eighth part of the Shikhi pad with a core cutter and fill it with crystal; energy builds up very fast.
Burying crystal quartz points or slices at the Parjanya pad exactly five angul below the surface, touching the soil, restores production and removes obstacles in work.
Keep a box at home, put in a small amount for feeding cows first thing every morning, and donate the collection at a gaushala.
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.
Staircases represent Mercury: broken or shaky stairs make the business shaky, while well-made, decorated stairs with wooden railings strengthen it.
A deer picture removes negative energy and negative thoughts; it is used in the West and WSW zones, where negative energy tends to be high.
In a building whose East-West axis is longer, place the deity (prabhu) in the exact West so that it faces East. When the deity looks to the East, the direction corrects itself.
When troubles persist and the bed stands in a wrong zone such as SSW or WNW, plaster the floor under the bed with desi cow dung and sleep there; the teacher guarantees good results from ten years of trials.
Spraying desi cow urine mixed with water on furniture and surfaces finished with PU, oil-based paint or strong adhesives reduces their harmful effect.
Make round discs of desi cow dung, mark a swastik on each and string them into a bandhanwar for the main door. The teacher calls it his Kohinoor: it ends the defects of a door built in any wrong place.
A small desi cow ghee diya and above all a bhimseni kapoor lamp, the fragrance Shikhi likes most, correct a cut, raised, dirty, uneven or toilet-affected Shikhi pad and a blocked mind.
When a planet is debilitated, nothing of it should be put up at home; instead its grain or items are donated to balance it.
Grate dried coconut (gola), mix it with white sandalwood and ghee, and perform a havan at the Bhrisha pad to remove confusion and decide quickly and correctly.
An eagle figure facing North, and an Ashoka Pillar where government support is needed, are energising symbols for the office.
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.
An earth element mandna in golden yellow with white (water, the friend of earth), light yellow inside and a dark orange centre is drawn when there is a defect in the South-West.
For a defective East door, hang a toran of wood and brass or of metal with gems, or a green square swastik bandhanwar made on leaves or another base, put up on a Monday.
Mars with Rahu forms Angarak yoga, the accident yoga, and with the Moon added it also troubles the mind; a painting of an elephant with raised trunk bathing in water in the South-West or South protects against it.
Bhrisha loves the champa and firdaus fragrances; use firdaus ittar when offering bhog or havan samagri, and apply it when the mind cannot concentrate or reach a decision.
If the fire element is imbalanced a factory will not run and business stops, and lighting a fire is not always possible, so a fire element mandna (containing a swastik) is made in the South-East.