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South (Dakshin)

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Every remedy, rule and answer for this direction or space, with the samagri and goals involved.
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Also known asSdakshin

Remedies, methods and rules

Remedyआम के पत्तों का बंदनवार

Mango Leaf Bandhanwar with Om and Swastik for a Wrongly Placed Door

Hang a bandhanwar of good mango leaves, ideally with Om and swastik tied on and a swastik drawn in kesar, on a main door built on a wrong pada. It reduces the ill effect of the door by about 50 percent.

Remedyअंगारक योग

Elephant Bathing in Water Painting for Angarak Yoga (Mars, Rahu and Moon)

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.

Questions and answers

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When you speak of the North and South poles, do you mean the directions, and which length should be longer?

Yes, they are the directions. The length of a place in the North-South direction should be longer than its East-West length; such a place is considered the best because it holds the strongest magnetic field.

Why is a dying person laid with the feet toward the South?

So that life leaves the body quickly without getting stuck, because of the magnetic poles of the earth and the body. For the same reason a living person should never sleep with the feet toward the South; keep the head to the South instead.

What happens to a temple that has a big river flowing to its South?

Most people answer that it would fail, but Raj Vallabh says such a temple becomes not just a tirth but a mahatirth, because for a temple water is the element of peace. Nemawar and Siddhavarkoot near Omkareshwar, with rivers to their South, are among the most powerful places.

Our rented house had the South and West very low and the North and East high; my husband's work stopped and loans piled up. Our present house also slopes to the South with water collecting there. What can be done?

Such slopes explain the trouble. How to correct the slope fully, or partly when a full correction is not possible, is taught in the treatment classes. Slope plays a very big role: maintaining the slope alone removes about 50 percent of zone defects.

I have booked a flat in a building that has a river flowing in the South, across the road. Is that a defect?

No. When a road runs between the property and the source of a vedh, such as a river, the defect does not apply.

What is the effect of a deep pit or a large pond to the South of a temple?

It harms the temple. It is not a direct problem for the person who had the temple built, but the shilpi (temple architect) who builds vastu defects into a temple also has to bear their ill effects.

My bedroom is in the South and its floor also slopes to the South. What should I do?

That is wrong; correct the slope first, because slope matters most. More important than treatments such as changing the sleeping zone is maintaining the slope of the room, which alone removes about 60 percent of the dosh.

If a house faces South or West, must its slope also be toward the South-West, as in many houses?

There are two types of slope, which will be covered again. If water flows underground toward the South, it is not a big defect: electricity and water move underground everywhere without regard to direction, so an underground flow against the ideal direction does not create a dosh. People living where underground water flows to the South and West are also found to be happy.

Fire is the enemy of water. What can be done if the water source of a house lies in the South?

Remedies for such anti-element placements are taught later, in the remedy classes. First learn each element, its zone, its friends and its enemies; the corrections for a water source in the wrong zone come when the course reaches remedial vastu.

Does a toilet in the North-East always cause cancer, and is every South-facing house bad?

No. If it did, the owners of five and seven star hotels, which commonly have toilets in the North-East, would suffer first, and every South-facing owner would be ruined. Vastu must be read together with the planets of the person, which are exalted and which debilitated, instead of blindly applying one rule to everyone.

Does the centre taken from the boundary wall also decide where on the plot to construct?

Where to construct is taught later; for example, on a North-facing plot the building is placed in the South and West part. The pishach bhoomi is always left open on all sides. People abroad leave space all around and keep large backyards and live prosperously, while many people here leave no space at all for energy to come in.

The lower body relates to the earth element. Can an entrance in the South or South-West cause related health problems?

Yes, it definitely does. Doors and their effects are taught in detail in the door classes.