Why were silver and pancha ratna placed under the dehleez in temples, palaces and old buildings?
When the thresholds of thousand-year-old temples, forts and palaces were lifted, silver coins and pancha ratna were found beneath them. The dehleez itself stops negative surface currents and tantric attacks from crossing into the house; silver stops negative energy from entering and cancels the ill-effects of the door, and the pancha ratna make positive energy flow through the dehleez and multiply on every festival as it enters the house. Roots of certain plants, such as black dhatura, were also placed in the dehleez so that no ghost or evil obstruction could enter.
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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.
Should every door have a dehleez, or only the main door?
It is essential in the main door, and very good if every door has one. In a house the teacher built in Surat, every door was given a dehleez with silver placed under it.
Should the main door's chaukhat, the dehleez, be slightly higher than floor level?
Yes, it must be higher than the floor; only then can it stop the energy. It should be made of wood in particular.
What exactly goes into the mangal kalash?
A silver sava rupaya coin, 1 gram of mercury (or Bhimseni kapoor), haldi, supari, peeli sarson and panchratna, along with a silver swastik and saptadhanya.
A South boring was abandoned and a new one dug in the right place. How should the old pit be closed permanently?
Put five haldi, five supari, panch ratna and a silver swastik into it, then fill it completely with sand.
All doors should be at one level, yet the main door's dehleez is raised. Does that mean the other doors also need a dehleez?
One level means that all the doors stand on the same floor level. The chaukhat and dehleez are always set above the floor, so every door is reckoned from that same floor level.