Questions and Answers

No problem. As taught in interior vastu, make one symbolically, and if that is not possible, make a figure (picture) of it.

Correct it with a painting, door power, door decoration (door sajja) or a door bandhan hung outside. Where the door has one shutter, keep a bandhanwar always hung on it and the dosh is not counted.

Yes, whether the mirror is in the house, the temple or anywhere else.

No. It is part of the door system and is sealed with a lens or glass, so it is not a chhidra yukt dwar. Only a hole passing right through the door makes a chhidra yukt (holed) door.

Any door opening outward slowly drains the energy of the house, that is its money, wealth and other good things.

By definition it is at 0 degrees with doors in all four directions, but it can be made otherwise too: build the doors on whichever pads fall on Pushpdant, Grihakshat, Bhallat and E4.

No. The darpan is considered auspicious and is used even in pooja; do not replace it with plastic films.

Outward. The door brings energy into the house, while the window is there to throw out the negativity created inside, so its shutters should open outward.

Yes, it is fine. The wooden door counts as the main door; the mesh door is only a protection door.

Yes, if the offset is within one pad (11.25 degrees). For example, a gate on N4 with a main door spread over N4 and N5, mostly in N4, or a main door on N4 with the gate on the N4-N5 junction, still counts as utsang (sammukh) dwar.

It is a dosh, not a vedh. Stairs carry the geopathic currents from below up the building; a current moving clockwise grows while one moving anti-clockwise is lost, just as spinning clockwise and anti-clockwise feel very different.

They apply to the main door of the house, not to room doors. The people in whose name the house is and who invested in it feel the effects most, but other members can be affected too.

Convert the inches into points, for example by multiplying by 10, and then calculate the remainder.

No. Only the door itself is measured; the chaukhat and the upper and lower thresholds are not.

Multiply the length by the width and divide by 8; the remainder is the aay. For example, a door 36 inches wide and 72 inches (6 ft) high gives 36 x 72. Remember that even x even always gives an even remainder.

Yes, it can be made in a flat too.

Stairs play no role in the marking itself; the points are found from the plot and the devtas wherever the stairs are. But no staircase, no column and ideally not even a wall should stand on an ati marma. These points should be left empty.

Yes. The ati marma of a flat should also be found and kept free, just as in a house or plot.

Finding the centre was covered in earlier classes. Either use software such as AutoCAD, or use the hanging method: cut out the shape, hang it from one point and mark the vertical line, then hang it from another point and mark again; the crossing is the centre. Joining diagonals gives the centre only for a regular plot.

There is no criterion for finding the centre; the centre is always the centre. The proportion matters for the plot itself: up to 1:1.5 is good (30 x 45 feet is ideal), up to 1:2 (30 x 60) is neither good nor bad, and longer than that is not good, with more loss the longer it gets. In such long plots many devtas fall outside or get cut, and they need treatment.

No special software is needed. Draw the chakra and devta lines once in AutoCAD as short reference lines; for every new map just align them and join the lines, which takes about a minute.

Everything taught today applies to flats as well, except bhoomi vibhajan. In a flat it is already done: the space left around the building during construction is its Pishach bhoomi. Ati marma, zoning and directions all apply inside the flat.

It depends on the house. When a lot of land around the building lies unused, take only the constructed area and zone it separately. For a normal plot of about 2000 sq ft with just a parking and a small front garden, take the whole plot, and mark the devtas and marma on the whole as well. Small houses of 1200 to 2100 sq ft are taken whole, parking included.

The flat is the part you actually enter and use. Once inside, your movement and work happen only in that area, so the part you cannot access, taken by the stairs, lift or the neighbouring flat, is a cut in your flat.

Yes. Devta marking is done in a flat exactly as usual, also to judge the main door location. What does not apply is the rule of leaving the Pishach bhoomi empty: inside a flat the corners and side spaces can be used.