When the neighbouring house in the East is taller than yours, you lose the energy of the sun. Either add a storey or raise a metal flag of brass in the South-West of your roof, higher than the neighbour's building, so that your building starts receiving cosmic energy.
Blocked marma and ati marma points are opened with injection-like remedies: special herbs are placed under marma points, while metal kurma (tortoise) figures, metals and precious minerals are installed on the ati marma. They reopen the blocked energy channels of the land.
Silver, gold, ashtadhatu or brass
Herbs under the marma points; metal kurma, metals and gems on the ati marma points
The elephant (Airavat, the many-trunked mount of Indra) is the symbol of Mahendra; an elephant placed at E4 brings the devta to sit there and give results.
Elephant figure or picture with raised trunk (Airavat with several trunks); brass suits Mahendra items
A swastik made of gomti chakra on a 5 x 5 inch brass plate is fixed on both sides of a door in the South-South-West, West-South-West or East. It corrects the door defect without demolition and also works when those zones have another defect or are low-lying.
Brass plate, 5 x 5 inch (gives aay 1), one for each side of the door
Both sides of the main door when the door is in SSW, WSW or East, or on the wall of a defective or low-lying SSW, WSW or East zone
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.
For a main door on a wrong West pada, hang a metal toran of copper, brass, bronze, mixed metal or ashtadhatu made as the ashtamangal symbols, or a yellow or white swastik bandhanwar put up on a Saturday.
Metal toran of copper, brass, bronze, mixed metal or ashtadhatu, made as ashtamangal (eight auspicious symbols)
When the Sun is exalted (sign 1) or swagrahi (sign 5) and sits in a kendra, a rising sun picture or a brass sun in the East brings name, fame and success in politics.
Photo or painting of the rising sun, or a brass sun memento
The tortoise represents Shani and belongs in the West (earth and water element); a brass or quartz crystal tortoise, or a painting, placed there gives long life when it faces North or East.
Brass tortoise, or quartz crystal tortoise, or a tortoise painting
The elephant represents Rahu, whose zones run from South to South-West (SSW, SW, WSW). In south-facing or nairitya-facing houses with the entry there, two brass elephants with raised trunks pacify the door dosh.
Two brass elephants with raised trunks
South to South-West at the entrance, facing North or East
Pendulums are metallic (copper, silver, steel, brass) or non-metallic (quartz and its variety amethyst); a genuine, heavy pendulum is cleaned in salt water, purified with fragrant dhoop and given the intention to work with you before any use.
Pendulum of copper, silver, steel or brass, or of genuine quartz or amethyst
Shikhi, also called Shiva, is the first outer devta of the pishach bhoomi, at E1 near the North-East corner. A mahayogi and a highly sensitive maha-dowser, its pad reacts at once to anything done there; it governs vision, foresight and decisions.
Damru, and a Nandi in brass or silver with gold polish
E1 pad, 39.375 to 50.625 degrees from North, outer pishach bhoomi at the North-East corner
Mahendra (Indra), the fourth devta of the East, is the king, sustainer and administrator who brings the energy of the planets, Sun, Moon and 27 nakshatras to earth and spreads it evenly through the house. It gives control over the mind and senses, right decisions, government support, contacts, name and fame.
Metal: brass for every treatment item, frame or portrait
Pad E4 of the East side, 73.125 to 84.375 degrees (East-North-East and East zones)
Vastu was traditionally divided into eight branches, among them griha (home), yantra, nagar (town), bhoomi (land), prasad (temple), vimaan (aircraft) and udyan (garden and tree) Vastu. None of them advises demolition.
E4 suits an administration chamber, office, main door, drawing room, study and bedroom and gives both wealth and peace; a toilet here brings defamation, loss of wealth and disease.
The earth element has a square shape, golden yellow colour, South-West location and brass as its metal; land energy, plot shape, slope, surroundings, POP plaster and the dehleez represent it.
Only about 55 percent of the Sun's energy reaches the earth. Of that, trees and plants capture about 95 percent, mirrors 80, pyramids 65, water 60, yantras 60 to 90, metals 45 and stones 35, while plastic and petroleum by-products capture none.
Metal objects such as iron, gold, silver, brass, copper, ashtadhatu and bronze: about 45 percent
Room decoration in general; plants are chosen by planet and direction
Each direction is the seat of a planet with its own metal; keeping that metal in that direction captures and multiplies the planet's energy there and neutralises negative energy.
Teak is the best furniture wood, ideally with a little sandalwood mixed in and joined with wooden pegs or copper or brass nails. Asan wood drives away negativity and disease, while tendu must never be used and mango must never be used for a bed.
My neighbour's house in the East has two storeys and mine has one. What is the effect?
You are losing, because the East (the sun) gives all the energy. Either build a second storey or put up a flag: a metal flag of brass in the South-West of your roof, higher than their building, so that your building starts receiving cosmic energy.
Should the gomti chakra swastik plate be fixed inside the wall, or can it hang outside where people see it?
It need not be hidden. The swastik is the most energetic symbol, and you already hang curtains and many other things that people see. Hang it or stick it as the space allows; if you keep worrying about what people will say, it will not give results.
Which planet and metal belong to each direction, and why place that metal there?
In Vedic vastu each direction represents a planet: East is the Sun (gold and copper), South-East is Venus (white metal), South is Mars (copper), South-West is Rahu-Ketu (panchdhatu), West is Saturn (iron), North-West is the Moon (silver), North is Mercury (kansa and brass) and North-East is Jupiter (gold and brass). The planets cannot be held in a fist, but their energy can be deposited in the home: the material representing a direction's planet captures that planet's energy there, multiplies it, raises the power of the place and nullifies negative energy.
What is the treatment for a South-West washroom that cannot be changed?
All around the toilet seat (the W.C., including the flush), insert mercury, only 10 to 15 grams, in brass strips so the bacteria of the toilet cannot spread. This gives the best results in the South-West.