Why are main doors made with two shutters?
The two shutters correspond to the Ida and Pingala nadis: we breathe through one nostril and then the other, each flowing for about an hour, so a door with two shutters brings energy in and lets it out easily, while a single shutter struggles to do both. Doors thousands of years old, and even the small room doors of old palaces, were always made with two shutters. The main door must have two shutters; inner doors should preferably have two as well, though one shutter is acceptable there.
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In the main door picture, which were the jharokhas and which were the niches (aale)?
The small niches were made for lamps; they are the eyes of the door, and lamps placed in them open its eyes. The jharokhas beside them are the ears. Lamps must be lit in the niches on festivals such as Diwali, Dussehra, Holi and Raksha Bandhan, and in royal houses they were lit daily; a house whose eyes stay open keeps a right watch over everyone. If a door, even one in a wrong place, is decorated like this with small desi cow ghee lamps in the niches, its defects do not apply.
What does a window do, and why should it open outward?
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.
What is door power?
When the main door is installed in a muhurta, its four-piece frame (chaukhat) is set up and the base piece of wood is the dehleez (threshold). Door power means installing that dehleez in a muhurta combined with the right swar, with the prescribed samagri, such as silver and pancha ratna, placed in the ground beneath it. Done this way, even a door in a wrong place has about 50 percent of its defect removed. The full door treatment is part of the complete course.
What results do flush, plywood, fiber and glass main doors give?
The main door should be only of wood, best of teak, and royal doors were of sandalwood or had a little sandalwood mixed in. Flush doors are made from plywood of thorny shrubs, so even a house costing crores with a cheap flush main door does not get good results, because energy takes on the chemistry of the material it passes through. A sandalwood Om or Swastik pasted on the door also gives very good results.
A relative's flat had its door at E1. After buying the adjoining flat and removing the common wall the entrance came onto N4, and soon their ancestral land was acquired for a bullet-train project and they received crores. Is this the N4 effect?
Yes, this is chhappar phaad wealth, which comes as soon as N4 opens. E3, N4 and W4 are the three vipul sampada dwar (abundant-wealth doors). Opening them virtually gives perhaps 1 percent of the actual result, so do not believe the heavy promotion of virtual doors; it is the actual opening that brings the result.
A shop shutter often spans four padas, such as S3, S4, S5 and S6. Which pada decides the results?
Do not worry that S3 and S6 are also open: if the good pada, S4, is open within the shutter, the shop gives the results of S4, because when energy enters from every part, positive and negative, the result follows the positive. Trouble comes only when the good part is closed and the bad parts are open; then keep the shutter closed and open a small door on the good pada instead. In combination doors for business, always keep the favourable pada fully open.