Ancient texts call yellow mustard Siddhartha, the giver of success wherever work, land, building or business fails. Once washed and energised it always protects, nullifying black magic, tantra, the effect of buried bones and even natural vastu defects.
Potlis, under mattresses, in the cash box, in the ground with buried remedies, at doors and corners
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
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.
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.
When someone feels their shop, marriage or work has been bound (bandhan) by black magic, a havan of yellow mustard is done with the person seated before it; its smoke frees them from the binding.
When troubles persist and the bed stands in a wrong zone such as SSW or WNW, plaster the floor under the bed with desi cow dung and sleep there; the teacher guarantees good results from ten years of trials.
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.
Extract the juice of mango leaves and plaster it beneath the place where the unmarried girl or boy sleeps. Marriage and other auspicious events that were stuck then get completed.
Under the bed or sleeping place of the person concerned
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.
At the affected spot; in the kitchen for the kitchen design
After a birth or death in the family (sutak or patak) the Vastu devtas are affected too, so the whole house is purified: clothes are washed, raw clay vessels are thrown away, a dhoop kund is carried through the house and offerings are made to the Vastu devtas.
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.
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.
The spot where the bone was found, the surrounding soil, and the four corners of the plot
Gomti chakra bought from a shop are washed with gangajal, shown fire through a havan or burning camphor, then given a command and energised with mantra. Only then do they carry out the work assigned to them.
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.
Blowing a conch sends the energy of the body's 72,000 nadis through the calcium phosphate particles of the shankh into the air, driving negativity out of the whole house or factory and removing bhoot-pret badha.
Vastu devta pooja bears fruit only when done by someone who represents Brahmin qualities by conduct rather than birth: vegetarian, of good character and pure in mind and feeling.
With which mantra should a dowsing rod or pendulum be cleaned?
There is one mantra of the five elements for cleaning any object that has absorbed energy. It follows the Bhoomi Jagran Mantra but names the rod's own space (mam rod kshetre) in place of the land; exact words: refer to the class recording.
After placing sweets and later chanting the mantra 27 times at a devta place, I felt strong heat in my body. Why?
It shows a defect or imbalance at that pad. When an offering reaches a defective place the defect tries to come out, as when granite tiles at one devta pad cracked during a group havan, and the body reacts. The uneasiness is a signal: the pad must be purified and activated with the method being taught (havan samagri, bhog samagri, mantra or the samagri to hang), so wait for the full method before trying again.
Someone who represents Brahmin qualities by conduct, not by birth: a vegetarian of good character with a pure mind. A person who eats non-veg, drinks or does wrong deeds turns the pooja into a mere show. Wear the janeu, purify yourself and wear clean or new clothes.
A bone was found on a plot meant for an industry. What must be done before building there?
Removing the bone is not enough; the land needs its rites, just as a house is purified after a death. Do a vastu registry with five coconuts (four corners and the bone spot), remove the affected soil, do agni sanskar with mango wood, ghee and camphor in 16 places and float the ash in flowing water, purify with water and mantra, sprinkle gomutra and plaster with cow dung, put lime and sulphur in the pit, keep a lamp burning there for 24 hours, and mix a little mercury into the soil and the four corners. If the shilanyas had already been done, it is broken and must be redone after purification.
Can energised yellow mustard be bought ready-made, or should we prepare it ourselves?
Yellow mustard is available everywhere in India, and it is better to clean and energise it yourself, because energised items lose their power in transport, for example if they lie on the ground or someone's foot touches them. If you cannot read the mantra, chant Om 108 or 27 times; there is no greater mantra.
A consultant had 2.5 kg of yellow mustard kept under a bed in the South-West; a year later dowsing showed strong negativity and there were daily quarrels. Can yellow mustard create negativity?
Yellow mustard that was washed, energised and commanded cannot give negativity. Mustard simply bought from the market and placed without purification and command does not work, even a ton of it in a shop, and it may bring negativity from wherever it came. Incomplete knowledge is very dangerous.
When energising yellow mustard with the mantra, must the fingers be placed in it?
Yes. While chanting, dip the middle and ring fingers into the mustard, or hold it in the fist, for example by taking it from the bowl into the whole fist, and energise it with the raksha mantra.
Chauka means the place of four kinds of purity: of mind, speech, body and food (man, vachan, kaya and aahar). The kitchen was the place where the one cooking kept all four pure; today hardly any of these purities remains.
Ashopalav leaves look like mango leaves and are widely used in bandhanwars in Rajasthan. Can they be used instead?
No. What counts is composition and quality, not appearance; ashopalav leaves have a different composition, so they do not carry the properties of mango leaves. Mango leaves have many special qualities: their juice is used for purifying land, and where marriage is not happening or auspicious functions keep failing, mango leaf juice is applied as a lepan beneath the place where the girl or boy sleeps, after which the auspicious events take place.