Questions and Answers

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.

There is nothing to read into it; not everyone has exalted or debilitated planets, and it is neither good nor bad. In such cases the door is chosen towards the direction in which the benefic planets sit, which was taken up in the evening astro-vastu class.

Yes, a jali door can be made; it is called the supporting door of the main door and is an old tradition, since double paata frames were made earlier, with a jali door on one side and a two-shutter door. It needs a double paata chaukhat with a suitable dehleez, which builders generally do not provide in flats, so ask the builder; without that dehleez and frame the second door cannot be fitted.

Such a case has to be judged from the birth chart, so it was taken up as a special case study in the evening astro-vastu class. For this analysis only the lagna chart is used, not the navamsha, so only the lagna chart needs to be sent.

Take a shubh muhurta for dehleez installation (the teacher posts dehleez muhurtas every month) and have a dehleez made. It should still be of wood; make it of stone if you want to become firm and of wood for a softer nature, choosing the type of wood by the qualities you want.

When you step out of the main door, first go to the right, even a step or two, and then turn left; then there is no dosh. People do the same with cars, moving them a little in the clockwise direction first. Leaving the house anti-clockwise is called heen bahu dwar.

The wooden door is the main door. Iron is acceptable in the West, and an iron door in the boundary wall is acceptable. If the inner main door is on an unfavourable pada, correct it with the direction-wise bandhanwars and symbols taught in this class plus some door power. Moving it to S4 suits only if the male head of the house has Kark, Makar or Kanya rashi, because Vedic vastu judges this from the male head of the house alone, not from anyone else such as the wife.

No. Only excessive use of a colour has an effect. Screens are black by nature and come in no other colour, so this is not a concern.

Most grocery goods belong to Mars, so yellow and red work very well for a kirana shop.

No, it is not necessary; many videos are made without any dark colour. If Saturn or Rahu is strong in your kundali, dark colours may even suit you. A video is short, so do not worry much about it; think carefully about colours in the office and bedroom, where you spend long hours.

Light green or a shining lustre white is better than blue in the North-West.

Oil-based paint is not compulsory even for a shutter. If it has already been used, spray desi cow urine on it once.

Yes, Kota stone is among the best floors and produces very good energy. It is a fine-grained sedimentary rock that stays cool.

No. At one time Kota stone was the floor in almost every home, and in hundreds of such homes no accident has been linked to it. The belief spreads when one case happens and someone blames the colour.

Very good. It is a sandstone and represents the earth element.

It does not need to be white. Keep the natural colour of the wood; wood-coloured ceilings have been used for thousands of years. Painting it red, green or grey is wrong.

It is better avoided. In the North, choose a half-moon type shape as far as possible.

Light sky blue that matches the colour of the sky can be used and causes no problem. If the blue is dark, paint small twinkling stars on it to nullify its effect.

Yes, metallic grey works well in the West.

Not at all. Brown on the ceiling starts representing fire in the space element.

Check the whole house when the whole house is being built, and the room when only its interior is being done. Just as a person is first seen as a whole and then limb by limb, first assess the whole house and then each portion, and try to make every part good.

The North-West is the location of the Moon, but it is better not to make a double-moon (full round) shape there.

Granite can be used for windows, but it must never be used for the main door.

Both the square and the rectangle represent the earth element.

A mobile shop deals in electronics, so use light green or pista colour, which represents Mercury.