Questions and Answers

A kitchen in the North-North-West brings quarrels between husband and wife and discord (klesh) in the home; this has been seen in many houses.

Yes, it has to be the fire-element triangle, drawn as a straight (sidha) triangle, not an inverted (ulta) one.

Yes. The North-West lies on the same axis as the South-East, diagonally opposite at 180 degrees, so the lamp can be lit there too.

Yes, an akhand deep (continuously burning lamp) can be lit in a South-East room too. Agni Dev is pleased wherever an akhand deep burns and gives a great deal in return. It is not right, however, if women sleep in that room during their period of impurity (menstruation).

Yes, the platform can be painted, but the type of paint matters, which is explained in the topic of paints, pigments and colours. Never use oil-based paint.

No. Black represents the water and space elements, and looking at black continuously weakens the eyesight. Tiny insects, bacteria and ants cannot be seen on black stone, so they get mixed into the food.

That is why perfect red is not used, only a light red such as lakha granite. Fire can be kept burning 24 hours in the South-East, so a red platform is acceptable there: the zone tolerates any amount of fire because the sun's rays in the South-East are not intense after 9 am, whereas hot winds (loo) come from the South.

Use green, that is light green or pista (pistachio) green, or ivory.

There is no need to worry: an East kitchen is moderate. It suits early cooking, with the morning meal ready by about 9 to 9:30 am as in the kitchens of sadhus, so simply cook early.

Place the burner in the North-West part. A North-West kitchen is rated good, while a kitchen fire in the West-North-West brings differences between husband and wife.

Make the cabinets in the colours recommended for the kitchen walls and floor: ivory together with orange and pista green. A combination of these looks very beautiful.

A South door is called the door of Yama: demonic (rakshasi) tendencies enter through it, and at night they are said to make the food impure. Either close that door or energise it with the door power treatment taught later in the treatment classes. When designing, never give a kitchen a South-facing door, since fire into fire can cause a fire.

Yes, pink can be used in a South-East kitchen, but only a very mild, light pink.

Yes, there is no problem in using artificial plants in the kitchen.

Inject mercury into the ground along the base of the common wall; once mercury is in place no bacteria can travel across into the kitchen. Ideally a toilet should not be on any of the six sides of a kitchen: in front, behind, on either side, above or below.

The place where the fire burns matters most in a kitchen, so the direction of the burner is the key one.

Yes, yellow can be used in the kitchen, for example yellow furniture.

Yes. Interior vastu means zoning each room separately with its own grid and then designing its interior accordingly.

Remove the kitchen from the Brahmasthan completely. A kitchen in the Brahmasthan causes division (vibhajan), as if the house were split in two. For the same reason the kitchen platform should not be made in the centre of the kitchen either.

A zero-watt red bulb has no strength to add fire: even if someone keeps it lit for a whole year, nothing warms up. Such formulas are baseless practices carried on in the name of vastu and should be thrown out; Geo Vastu exists to remove this kind of darkness.

Treat the room like a house: for a 10 x 10 room, for example, take the centre of the room and draw the grid from there exactly as for the whole house.

White is often said to be bad, but bad results from it have not been seen in practice. White is allowed in every direction; it represents the water element, yet many very prosperous homes use it, such as the white kitchen platform in the Ambani home. This advice rests on case studies rather than copied literature, which is why black, not white, is the colour named to avoid.

Use a compass (disha suchak yantra); it shows the direction your face is pointing.

In that horoscope the Moon is exalted and forms a strong Gaj Kesari yoga, so white does not harm them; you should use ivory. A white platform alone does not make anyone rich, nor does a platform alone make anyone a pauper: vastu is not everything and nothing is greater than karma. Vastu supports those whose karma is good, and its four controlling factors are dravya, kshetra, kaal and bhaav (substance, place, time and intention).

The West-South-West: anyone can be given a bedroom there whether their planets are exalted or debilitated. The West suits those with an exalted or normal Saturn but not those with a debilitated Saturn, who should never sleep in the West-North-West either, as it can lead to depression.