Also known aswaterpani
Four practices protect a person from even a thousand vastu doshas or a wrongly placed door: a daily navgrah herb bath, tirth darshan in eclipses and vyatipat yoga, full use of swar all day, and daily abhishek with charan raj.
Bath water
Daily routine of the person and the home
Before construction, spread lime dissolved in water over the entire land below the flooring. Given as a brahmastra and one of the sanskars of land, it nullifies geopathic negative energy.
Lime (choona), dissolved in water
Entire plot, below the lowest floor
Standing outside, circle seven lumps of sea salt clockwise in front of the main door while the right nostril is active, throw the negativity out and discard the salt. Given as a great brahmastra, it brings relief from quarrels and unrest within 24 hours.
Water to discard it in, flowing water if possible
Outside the main door
Instead of a boring in the West, keep a water source as a tub built above the surface level and grow a lotus in it.
Water tub or trough built above floor level
West zone, above ground level
A coconut set on a small water-filled clay kalash at the Parjanya pad, with the water poured into tulsi and refilled daily, activates Parjanya; when the coconut sprouts, the devta is awake.
Water
Parjanya pad, E2; it can also stand outside a door that falls at E2
A water kalash with five mango leaves and a coconut, set on a cow-dung-plastered spot with rangoli at the Shikhi pad, with white mustard, yellow mustard or pukhraj added by need, makes the yogi Shikhi fulfil the wishes of the residents.
Kalash filled with water
Shikhi pad, E1
Keep water in a gold vessel, or in a copper lota covered with a pyramid, at the Surya devta pad and drink it on waking to absorb the power of Surya.
Water
E5 (Surya devta) pad, wherever it falls in the house
Where the mind stays disturbed, the house feels empty, or people sense a shadow or someone following them, a glass bowl filled with gomti chakra in water is kept and the house is mopped with that water.
Water
Glass bowl kept in the house; its water used for mopping
Yellow mustard energised with the raksha mantra is spread over the whole house or factory on Saturday night, swept up in the morning with a peacock-feather broom and put into flowing water, taking the negative energy with it.
The whole floor of the house or factory
Water absorbs about 60 percent of the Moon's energy; a silver pot of water kept in the Sharad Purnima moonlight becomes a strong medicine for acidity.
Water to fill it
Under open moonlight
Fire and water in the kitchen should be at least four feet apart; when they are closer, stand a vertical slab of the same platform stone between them.
Kitchen platform, between burner and sink
Sprinkle a little water on the main door threshold every morning and make a rangoli to welcome the Sun. For a wrongly placed door, plaster the ground in front with cow dung daily and make the rangoli in the colour of that zone.
Water
Main door threshold and the ground in front of it
Spraying desi cow urine mixed with water on furniture and surfaces finished with PU, oil-based paint or strong adhesives reduces their harmful effect.
Water
Furniture, shutters and painted surfaces
A spray of neem and tulsi water, or burning a powder of dried neem and tulsi leaves like a havan, gives relief from PU and other chemical finishes.
Water
Rooms and furniture with PU or chemical finishes
Vedic vastu describes that a water body in the West, the place of Varun, with one lotus blooming in it reduces all the vastu doshas of the house. It must be raised above the ground, never dug.
Large tub or a water body built above floor level
West
A lotus painting (water and air element) brings happiness; and a shallow kund built slightly above floor level in the West, filled with water with a blooming lotus, pacifies most of the house's doshas.
Shallow kund (tank), water and a lotus plant
West
At griha pravesh, the earthen kalash brought from the temple and carried in through the door is set on wheat in the North-East corner of the kitchen; the wheat sprouts from the kalash's moisture and shows the energy of the new home.
Earthen kalash brought from the temple, filled with water
Ishaan (North-East) corner of the kitchen
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.
Water for jal shuddhikaran
The spot where the bone was found, the surrounding soil, and the four corners of the plot
Mustard carries the energy of every hand that touched it, so it is washed or rubbed in a wet cloth and then energised with the raksha mantra, dipping two fingers into it or holding it in the fist. The same mantra energises gomti chakra.
Water or a wet cloth
Washing both hands and feet before a meal cools the mind; food eaten calmly and joyfully nourishes, while food eaten in anger acts like poison.
Water
Dining area
Grow a lotus in water in a small kund or an earthen pot at the Mahendra pad; a lotus that grows, blooms fully and spreads fragrance shows Mahendra is active.
Earthen pot (mitti ka patra) or a small water kund
E4 (Mahendra) pad in the East
Where the floor is already laid, plenty of quartz soaked in water in a glass bowl charges the water, which is then used to mop the office.
Water
Office or room whose flooring is already finished
The ishaan is the place of Jupiter and water belongs to the Moon, so a kalash filled with water in the North-East creates Gajkesari yoga (Moon with Jupiter) in the home.
Kalash (mangal kalash) filled with water
North-East (ishaan)
After Om and swastik the kalash is the greatest symbol and is established before every beginning (wedding, business start, construction, any of the 16 sanskar). A filled mangal kalash with a coconut in the North-East of every home, factory and office forms Gajkesari yoga and balances the five elements.
Water
North-East of every home, factory and office; a clay kalash can go in any direction
A person, house or business struck by nazar (evil eye) is cleared by circling yellow mustard over it seven times and floating the mustard in flowing water.
Over the affected person or place
To find whether a floor or plot is low toward the South-West or slopes toward the North-East, pour water on it and watch where it flows; a spirit level, or a contour map for land, gives the same answer.
A bucket of water
Floors and open land
Where no pit can be dug, such as a flat on the 27th floor, a round earthen vessel filled with water shows the flat's energy by the direction in which the water moves and how clean it stays.
Pure water
Inside the flat being tested
The root, bark, fruit, flower and leaves (panchang) of a tree growing on the land are boiled in water: calm boiling shows good land, while splashing, jumping or crackling shows negative energy, because the tree grows from the land's soil chemistry.
Water, half a litre
A tree growing on the land being tested
Pure water poured with a mantra into a small pit dug in the North-East, East or Brahmasthan swirls clockwise on good land and anticlockwise on negative land; the speed of the swirl and the place and behaviour of the air bubbles show the whole plot's energy and its buried defects.
Pure water
North-East, East or Brahmasthan of the land
Seeds of five grains sown in a small watered patch of the land show its energy by how fast they sprout: within three days is excellent, five days moderate, and no sprout in seven days marks an inferior, infertile land.
Water
A 2 x 2 feet patch at the site of the planned building
Check with a water level (spirit level) or a contour map, or simply pour a bucket of water on the floor: the direction in which it flows is the direction of the slope.
If the bubbles move to the sides and quickly vanish, merging into the water, the land does have a defect, but it will be resolved with treatment. The water then turning clear confirms this. Observing the practical properly takes about an hour.
No. The test is not possible everywhere: on sandy land, on land with very high porosity and permeability that absorbs the water as soon as it is poured, or on fractured land with many cracks, the water cannot show any movement. The test works on solid land.
Panchang means the five parts of any tree: its root, bark, fruit, flower and leaves. Boil them in water and watch whether any sound comes, like the crackling heard when ghee or oil is used for tempering. Quiet boiling shows good land; jumping and crackling show negative energy.
Use a ghat that holds 1 litre of water, with a capacity of about 1.25 litres. Fill it with water only; nothing else goes inside.
No. Water lines reach every zone anyway through washrooms and taps, and lines inside the ground do not have much effect. Only dirty water lines matter, which is why they should run clockwise.
When Adi Prabhu (Shiva) did sadhana on Kailash, the friction produced heat that began to melt the mountain, so water matters most for cooling this place; Shikhi's energy stored with water also spreads through the house and keeps removing about 50% of its vastu doshas. In the drawing room the family sits as if in sadhana and makes its plans and policies, and in a conference room others are convinced with one's ideas and vision and given targets. Worship of Adi Prabhu (Shiva) in a puja room here raises the energy further; an office and a borewell also suit this pad.
Yes. In a flat seen on a recent visit, whose door is exactly at E2 (Parjanya), the resident keeps a water-filled kalash with a coconut on it outside the door and changes the water daily; the coconut has grown into a large plant, and the resident reported very good results for ten years without needing any planetary remedies. This is exactly the remedy prescribed for Parjanya.
Yes. Water stored anywhere, including on the roof, represents the water element. But if the tank is built in a square shape, it moves to the earth element, because the square is the earth element's shape, and it becomes an earth combination.
Underground water movement 1.5 to 2.5 feet below the surface is not treated as directional, just as groundwater flows in every direction under the land; it becomes a dosh only when water is drawn up. So the drainage pattern itself is not a dosh. But a drain inspection chamber built at a wrong place and left open causes trouble, and dirty water flowing anti-clockwise has a considerable negative effect.
The sun's rays take about 8 minutes 20 seconds to reach the earth, and only about 55% of their energy arrives; the other 45% is lost on the way. Of what arrives, trees and plants capture about 95%, mirrors 80%, yantras 60 to 90%, pyramids 65% (which is why fruit kept under a pyramid stays fresh), water 60% (mainly the Moon's energy), metals 45% and stones 35%. Plastic and other petroleum by-products capture none, so interiors should rely on natural materials and on indoor and outdoor plants chosen for the planet of each direction.
Nowhere: an aquarium is fancy vastu, not Vedic vastu. Keeping any creature captive is not right, and water kept impure for a long time disturbs the water element further; just as being shut in a 6 x 6 room for life with food provided would feel wrong, it is wrong to imprison living beings. An aquarium does not remove vastu dosh, it creates one, and no one's wealth has grown from keeping one.