Questions and Answers

Paste a thin layer of muscovite (mica) on the ceiling, or give the room a wooden ceiling. Sleeping under an overhead tank generates hydro currents that raise the risk of heart problems.

No, an electric board under the stairs is not good. Cover it with plywood or wood.

There are three remedies; the first is to build a pyramid-shaped mumty (stair head-room) over the stairs. Anticlockwise stairs set the current, and the mind, turning the wrong way, and the pyramid mumty turns that current positive.

It is sand from the sea (samudra), which has special qualities. If it is not available, use ordinary river sand. When you travel to the coast in the South, bring back 2 to 5 kg of sea sand.

Yes. However wrong the zone, merely correcting the direction of the deity corrects your condition; the full method is given in the next class.

Vedic vastu says the defects of a wrongly placed door can be removed through the decoration of the door itself: auspicious symbols, yantras, paintings and artworks made on the door, door power at the threshold, and a bandhanwar (toran) hung on it. This class therefore treats wrong doors with symbols, torans, bandhanwars and colours rather than structural changes.

In interior vastu a wrong door is treated only with symbols and similar items, since the full door treatment alone would take about five classes. For South door defects the class gives bandhanwars of stone or gems, a toran of copper and wood, and a red triangular swastik bandhanwar hung on a Saturday or Tuesday. In the South only S4 is a good pada, and it suits those with Kark, Makar or Kanya rashi, mulank 9, or an exalted or own-sign Mars.

The teacher left it to the students; their suggestions, a mango leaf swastik toran and a toran of cow-dung cakes, were both called correct. He then gave his best (Kohinoor) bandhanwar for any wrongly placed door: make round discs of desi cow dung, draw a swastik on each, fix them on a bandhanwar strip and hang it on the main door, and the defects end. The alternative, a daily desi cow-dung lepan in front of the main door with a rangoli in the colour of its zone, is hard to keep up every day, so the permanent bandhanwar is better.

Fix it outside the door. Hang it in a U shape, exactly the way the English letter U is written, with the open end upward.

Put up nothing for the Sun. Donate its grain, wheat, on a Sunday to benefit.

It shows disturbed karma from a past life, and the chart is a graph of karma, so do good deeds now. Strengthen Jupiter, the most powerful planet, through dharma, spirituality, devotion, mantra jaap and sadhana, and keep a kalash in the North-East; the enemy planets slowly start turning friendly.