A swastik made of peacock feathers at the Shikhi pad keeps this devta active 24 hours a day, all year and for life, without elaborate rituals. The teacher called it the biggest brahmastra and remedy for Shikhi.
Peacock feathers (mor pankh), arranged as a swastik
A continuous lamp of desi cow ghee in the agneya (SE) of the kitchen, lit in sagun, drives away negative energy and increases wealth; it is called the biggest brahmastra, worth more than all other interior work.
Swastik drawn in the kitchen
South-East (agneya kon) of the kitchen; it can also burn in a SE room or in a kitchen in the NW
Where a problem persists, create a window at the point where the sun's gold-bearing rays fall at sunrise; if no opening can be made, draw a symbol such as a swastik there so that it captures the energy and fills the place with it.
Swastik or a similar energising symbol
The point where the sunrise rays strike the house, factory or premises
After strong negative entities (bhoot-pret) are removed from a place, it is sealed with a protective grid of solid mercury keels (nails) in the four directions and four corners, so the removed energy cannot return. In severe cases 12 or 16 points are sealed and mercury pyramids and mercury swastiks are added.
Mercury swastiks, for severe cases
Four directions and four corners of the property, along the boundary walls; 12 or 16 points in severe cases
When a boring in the South or another wrong zone is abandoned for a new one, close the old pit permanently with five haldi, five supari, panch ratna and a silver swastik, then fill it with sand.
A silver Om with a swastik on the floor of the Shikhi pad spreads the energy of Om through the house; Om stands for Jupiter and silver for the Moon, the two planets of this devta.
Om and swastik symbols in silver
Floor of the Shikhi pad, E1; also the Parjanya pad, E2, when the main door is there
When work is never done on time and people do not keep time, place an ankush (elephant goad) at the Surya pad in the East and bury it in the ground, or bury a gold swastik there.
When there is too much lying in the house, draw a kesar swastik on a banyan leaf in an auspicious muhurta during chandra swar and place it at the Satya devta pad.
The special treatment of Jayant: a round silver symbol of two moons joined into a full moon with a swastik engraved, placed at E3; for a major E3 dosh a silver tortoise is buried there.
Round silver full-moon (purnamasi) symbol made of two moons joined, with a swastik engraved (available ready-made)
E3 (Jayant) pad: tortoise in the ground, chhatra and moon on the wall
The special treatment of Mahendra is a silver moon engraved with a swastik (and the marks drawn in class), hung at the E4 pad at its time while the chandra swar flows with water or earth tatva.
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.
Gomti chakra, purified and energised, enough to form a swastik on each plate
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 defect or wrongly placed door between the South-East and the East, the gomti chakra swastik is made on a copper plate of 5 x 5 inch or of a size that gives aay 3.
A potli of purified, energised gomti chakra mixed with a little yellow mustard, made on a swayam siddh muhurta in red cloth for illness, yellow for business and white for studies. With a kesar swastik and a wish on every gomti chakra it becomes a jadoo ki potli (magic potli) that keeps fulfilling the wish.
Kesar (saffron) for the swastiks
Red: with the patient or tied to the bed; yellow: at the business place; white: on the study table or near the books; in the pocket for business meetings
Five gomti chakra, or a number matching your mulank, each marked with a kesar swastik, are kept in the tijori. In a locker, at least 25 g of yellow mustard can be kept along with at least five or seven gomti chakra.
People who are not getting political success draw a swastik on gomti chakra and, while drawing it, hold and write their wish. Being calcium phosphate, gomti chakra links that intention quickly with the universe.
Varun and Pushpadant in the West fulfil the wishes of the mind. Keep your written application or wish in the West with a special swastik, a mirror, a pyramid, navratna and five-element symbols, and place it at the three sandhya times.
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.
A Saraswati picture, a saffron swastik in the child's eye line and on the table, a peacock-feather swastik on the West wall and a picture of a revered guru support a child's studies.
Kesar (saffron) for drawing a swastik
Study room: kesar swastik at eye level and on the table, peacock-feather swastik on the West wall
Make round discs of desi cow dung, mark a swastik on each and string them into a bandhanwar for the main door. The teacher calls it his Kohinoor: it ends the defects of a door built in any wrong place.
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.
Green swastik bandhanwar, square, made on leaves or another base
Hang a bandhanwar of good mango leaves, ideally with Om and swastik tied on and a swastik drawn in kesar, on a main door built on a wrong pada. It reduces the ill effect of the door by about 50 percent.
For a main door on a wrong North pada, hang a toran of flowers or of wood and silver, or a blue swastik bandhanwar of 9, 11, 13 or 15 swastiks in a crescent shape. Mercury rules the North and is pleased by flowers.
Blue swastik bandhanwar with 9, 11, 13 or 15 swastiks, crescent (moon-like) or five-sided in shape
Main door on a wrong North pada, such as N1, N2, N6 or N7
Have an Om or swastik made of sandalwood and paste it on the main door. It brings very good results, following the royal practice of mixing sandalwood into door wood.
For a main door on a wrong South pada, hang a toran of stones or gems, a toran of copper and wood, or a red triangular swastik bandhanwar put up on a Saturday or Tuesday.
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.
Yellow or white swastik bandhanwar, round or oval (square was also mentioned)
A painting of auspicious symbols for people not getting success in business: the kalash fixes the goal of touching the sky, the ancient Om stands for the universe, a kesar swastik is made on the business premises, and four shell-like circles stand for the four purusharth.
Painting with ancient Om, kalash, swastik and the four purusharth symbols
If the fire element is imbalanced a factory will not run and business stops, and lighting a fire is not always possible, so a fire element mandna (containing a swastik) is made in the South-East.
Fire element mandna design with swastik (shown in class)
A newly built house catches nazar (evil eye) as soon as people start entering; a small swastik drawn with kajal at the four corners or at the entrance removes nazar dosh, and it is essential in business premises.
Four corners or the entrance of a new home or business
A set of swastik designs drawn with kesar for specific problems: low energy, bad energy, blocked energy, protecting energy, attracting energy, removing negative energy, gaining energy, fear and a wrongly placed kitchen.
Swastik designs shown in class
At the affected spot; in the kitchen for the kitchen design
A well older than 25 years is a seat of Varun devta and must not simply be filled in. Do the vastu registry with a coconut, asking the deities of the well to enter it, do three pradakshina, and after a few hours leave the coconut in another well in daily use. Lower a kalash marked with a swastik and filled with haldi and other items, add soil or sand of five rivers (or sea sand), and fill the well with good soil.
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.
Are the symbols used in these treatments, such as the swastik, Vedic or newly made?
The symbols are taken from the Vedic tradition, such as the swastik, but they are designed with an added element that generates and spreads their energy, and the material they are engraved on matters. Each piece was to be shown physically in class.
Can a swastik or other devta symbols be used in a bathroom or toilet?
No. Every item has rules: the height at which it is fixed, placing it inside, never at foot level and never in a toilet. A swastik is never put in a toilet at any cost, and there is no reason to activate devtas inside a toilet, since that gives their place to the toilet.
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.
No. The swastik and Om are the most sacred symbols, and a swastik generates about 10 lakh bovis of energy; when such bricks end up in toilets and floors, people walk and relieve themselves on it, and the same amount of negative energy is generated in the house, harming all work. In one case a family built a whole house of swastik bricks, and within three months of griha pravesh three members died in an accident and another later died of a heart attack. Recommend plain burnt clay bricks (fly ash bricks are not good either); where swastik bricks are already laid, spray gomutra (cow urine) on them before plastering.
My main door is in the South; how should it be treated?
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.
How thick should the dehleez be, and of what material?
The dehleez should be 3 inches thick and made of high-grade, artistic wood. The door too should be artistic: old doors carried symbols such as Om and Swastik, mantras and creeper motifs, which increase the door's power.
What results do flush, plywood, fiber and glass main doors give?
The main door should be only of wood, best of teak, and royal doors were of sandalwood or had a little sandalwood mixed in. Flush doors are made from plywood of thorny shrubs, so even a house costing crores with a cheap flush main door does not get good results, because energy takes on the chemistry of the material it passes through. A sandalwood Om or Swastik pasted on the door also gives very good results.
Which toran should a vastu consultant (vastuvid) hang?
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.