Sun rays are described as miracle rays that carry silver, gold, iron, mercury, lead and other minerals as well as vitamin D and vitamin B12, each at a particular time around sunrise. No electric light can supply these.
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.
The water element is shown by a silver or white half moon, its colour is white, its zone runs from North to North-East and its metal is silver; water bodies and mirrors represent it.
Silver
North to North-East; avoid the opposite South-East
When a flat or house cannot be altered, interior vastu balances the disturbed element by placing that element's shapes, symbols, artifacts, idols, showpieces and materials in the zone. This nullifies the defect, just as a doctor's supplement corrects a deficiency.
Element materials, for example silver for the Moon
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.
A dehleez is essential in the main door and good in every door. Make it of wood for a soft nature or of stone for firmness, keep it above the floor and mount the door on top of it.
Planet-direction rules for metals apply to items placed above the ground, where cosmic energy acts. Underground, minerals are not laid out by direction, so silver and similar samagri can be buried wherever needed, for example under every door.
Interior work done without vastu can ruin a business even when all directions are correct: anti-element materials and colours, the most harmful (marak) colour of the owner's kundli, or a main table placed with zero aay all cause losses. Symbols, swastiks and corrected colours can restore it.
Underground, copper is the best metal because copper and land both belong to Mars; it ionises the land and generates a current. Planet-wise metals are used when orienting to cosmic energy above ground, so a silver kalash goes above ground in the North-East.
Silver kalash for above-ground North-East placement
Why do the same treatment items give results for some practitioners and not for others?
Often because the items, such as pyramids or silver and gold nandavart, were not placed at water level. Unless an item is set at zero degree the gravitational force does not act on it, and it gives no result however valuable it is.
On a Guru Pushya or Ravi Pushya yoga, have a goldsmith mix them into the copper and make the rod. If that cannot be done, take ready-made rods and have silver and gold fixed at their solid point.
Shikhi lies in the pishach bhoomi, so where should one sit for its jaap?
One cannot sit in the pishach bhoomi itself. Sit facing East in padmasan or sukhasan, project your vision to the devta's place as if through a telescope and visualise it, and chant the Shikhi mantra on a silver or gold mala, as many rounds as possible, in the period up to 3:00 am; with aahuti the mantra ends in swaha. It helps when the mind is blocked, business ideas do not come or children cannot memorise. Exact words: refer to the class recording.
The house door falls on Parjanya (E2) and the family has more girls; why, and what can be done?
A door at Parjanya makes the house female dominated: females are more in number, more female calves are born and the first child is often a daughter, though this also depends on the fifth house of the horoscope. The remedy is to make the Om and swastik symbol taught for Shikhi at that door.
In a flat the structure cannot be changed. What can be done?
That is exactly what interior vastu is for: balance the element with its shapes, symbols, artifacts, idols, showpieces and materials to nullify the defect. For example, silver represents the Moon, so a silver artifact or a moon figure can be placed there. Like a doctor's supplement for a vitamin deficiency, the missing element is supplied; Ayurveda, allopathy, jyotish and vastu all run on the elements.
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.
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.
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.
Does it matter in which direction silver, iron or other metals are placed underground?
No. Direction rules for metals apply above the ground, where the cosmic energy of the planet's location acts, not underground. If they applied underground, silver would be found only in the North-West, gold only in the East and iron only in the West. Iron rods are laid through the whole slab anyway, so cutting a zone with an iron strip means nothing; learn vastu with logic and science.
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.