Bricks (Ishtika)

Gomutra Spray on Brick Masonry Before Plastering

Once the brick masonry is complete and before plastering, spray desi cow urine over the entire masonry, the way water is sprayed for curing.

All brick masonry walls of the building

Gomutra Sprinkling Before Plastering Fly Ash Brick Walls

Where fly ash bricks are already laid, as in a director's chamber, sprinkling gomutra and a cow-based purifier over the brickwork before plastering changes its chemistry.

Walls built of fly ash bricks, such as an office or director's chamber

Gomutra Spray Before Plaster for Swastik-Stamped Bricks

Bricks stamped with a swastik create strong negative energy once laid in toilets or under the feet, because the sacred symbol is dishonoured. Where such bricks are already used, spray the brickwork with gomutra before plastering.

All walls built with swastik-stamped bricks

Purifying Land After a Buried Bone Is Removed

The full purification done where a bone has been dug out, the land's equivalent of the rites after a death: vastu registry with five coconuts, removal of the affected soil, agni sanskar with mango wood, water, gomutra and cow-dung purification, lime and sulphur, a 24-hour lamp and mercury.

Bricks to rest the wood on (optional)

The spot where the bone was found, the surrounding soil, and the four corners of the plot

Identifying Male and Female Bricks and Stones by Their Sound

Bricks and stones are male or female: when struck, one gives a khan sound and the other a jhan sound. Joining a male with a female, like plus with minus, makes them hold each other for ages.

Bricks or building stones

Brick and stone masonry

Material Vastu: Excess Adhesives and Oil-Based Paints Harm the Lungs

Building materials affect health: the lung diseases common today are linked to the heavy use of adhesives and oil-based paints. Bricks, stones and other materials for a home should be chosen with care.

Avoid Fly Ash Bricks: Ash Counts as Shalya

Ash of any kind, including thermal power plant fly ash, is treated as shalya (an impure defect, like buried bone). However good the Vastu structure, sun rays falling on fly ash bricks reflect onto the occupants and affect them negatively.

Land Used as a Brick Kiln Loses Its Soil Chemistry

Where a brick kiln has run for a long time, the chemistry of the soil is destroyed and its elements turn to ash. Such land should not be taken for any project even free; treatments exist for those who already own it.

Plots that were used as brick kilns

Never Bury a Plot Corner Under a Heavy Mass

The corners of a plot are its biggest sources of energy, and energy flows diagonally from corner to corner through the brahmasthan like a highway. Piling or filling a huge mass over a whole corner zone creates a serious defect.

The four outer corners (vidishas) of the plot at the boundary wall

Avoid Fly Ash Bricks: Ash Is Treated as Shalya

Bricks made from thermal plant fly ash mixed with sand and adhesive materials are wrong according to Vedic vastu, which likens ash (raakh) to shalya (an impurity such as bones buried in land).

Brick masonry of the whole building

Energy-Friendly Construction Materials: Bricks, Lime, Wood and Road Metal

Natural materials hold planetary energy while petroleum by-products hold none. Use fire-baked clay bricks, lime where possible, no more than two or three species of wood and black basalt road metal, and build walls in plumb with a honeycomb bond.

Clay bricks baked in fire

Whole building