Questions and Answers
24 questions on Ghar Vastu (Home)
If a vastu energy scanner shows a home as fully balanced but problems such as an unending loan continue, what should one trust?
The scanner reading and the results in life should match; if the scanner says the energy is fine while the problems continue, the scanner is at fault. The best scanner is the one built into you, your own breath. Check the home with your swar after nadi shodhan instead of relying on market scanners.
If a home has defects in the North-East, Brahmasthan and South-East that cannot be corrected and the family cannot move out, can correcting the land energy help?
Yes. Land energy carries 70 percent of the role, so changing and correcting it can give about 50 to 60 percent relief. Many large hotels have toilets in the Ishaan and still prosper because 6 to 10 feet of soil was dug out and thrown away, removing the land's negativity. In vastu, dasha (land energy) matters more than disha (direction).
Is element-based vastu applied to small homes of 70 to 90 gaj?
Small homes of 70, 80 or 90 gaj are not treated with element-based directional vastu; aay vastu is applied to them instead. Under mathematical vastu, studied later, vastu applies to homes from about 100 gaj upward.
If a house faces South or West, must its slope also be toward the South-West, as in many houses?
There are two types of slope, which will be covered again. If water flows underground toward the South, it is not a big defect: electricity and water move underground everywhere without regard to direction, so an underground flow against the ideal direction does not create a dosh. People living where underground water flows to the South and West are also found to be happy.
Old village houses had a central courtyard (aangan) set lower than waist level; is that a vastu defect?
A sunken courtyard in the centre suits only a temple. In homes the courtyards were actually built raised, with a boundary all around and a tulsi platform in the middle, so they were not counted as a defect.
In villas, kothis and farmhouses with a boundary wall and open land, is the centre taken of the constructed area or of the whole plot?
Both, for different purposes. The whole plot inside the boundary wall is used for the boundary gate and for placing parking, servant quarters, pet shelters and guard rooms, while the house is zoned on its constructed area alone, which decides its main door and rooms. If the house is built almost up to the boundary, leaving about 3 ft, take the whole plot; if 15 to 20 ft is left around a 30 by 50 ft house, zone the 30 by 50 ft area for the house, otherwise half of its zones are lost.
In villages, big plots have a goshala and a small house. Is zoning done for the built area or for the whole plot?
Use the whole plot to locate the boundary wall gate and the goshala, and zone the constructed area for the house.
Our house faces a cremation ground and despite hard work we have had no results for four years. What should we do?
A house facing a cremation ground drains about 90% of the effort, and changes made in it give only about 10% results. Mercury and mercury nails placed all around give some relief but not full results. Plan to leave the house and take another one in time to secure the future of the children.
Should the zoning, devtas and marma be done on the constructed area or on the whole plot?
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.
In a kothi with about 10 feet left open on all four sides, will the 32 outer devtas fall outside the house?
Yes, they fall outside the building in that open margin, and that is exactly the logic of keeping the Pishach bhoomi open. If the devtas were marked on the built part alone, you would again ask for its Pishach bhoomi to be left empty, which is wrong. Things placed on the walls of the built house fall in the Manushya bhoomi.
Which pada grid is used for homes and businesses, and which for temples and towns?
Both the 81-pada and the 64-pada grids carry the 45 devtas. The 81-pada vastu is used for homes and business premises, while the 64-pada vastu is used for temples, villages, royal palaces (raj mandir) and towns, including a town gate. This course teaches the 45 devtas on the 81-pada grid.
In small houses three corners are closed by walls anyway. Does that count as covering the corners?
No. Walls enclosing a house are normal; covering means burying a corner under a huge mass, such as a boulder fill 35 to 40 ft long or a thousand bricks stacked permanently in one corner. Energy moves through all four corners, so keep them free of such heavy masses whatever the direction.
Drainage is listed under the water element. Is a drain line in the water zone negative?
Underground water movement 1.5 to 2.5 feet below the surface is not treated as directional, just as groundwater flows in every direction under the land; it becomes a dosh only when water is drawn up. So the drainage pattern itself is not a dosh. But a drain inspection chamber built at a wrong place and left open causes trouble, and dirty water flowing anti-clockwise has a considerable negative effect.
The waste water of the whole house goes out from the North. Does that have an effect?
If it goes out deep underground there is no bad effect. If it runs about 9 inches below the surface, the effect is very large. At about one and a half feet deep there is no bad effect.
Can an inverter be kept in the South-West?
No, an inverter cannot be kept in the South-West.
Can the AC compressor be placed in the South-East?
It can be kept in the SE, but that is not its ideal zone; the ideal zone for an AC compressor is the North-West.
Why was the kitchen traditionally called chauka?
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.
Can crystallised quartz be used in a house or flat, and how much is needed?
Yes. In a house or flat, put it in the flooring, or in the soil filling when the floor is made. Use about 10 kg per 1000 sq ft for a normal area; to nullify a zone, double it or more, for example 2, 5 or even 10 kg for a 100 sq ft room that must be built in the wrong zone.
Can citrine and these items be kept in shops or at home, or used for online meetings?
Yes. All these items can be kept in shops, citrine can be kept at home, and citrine can also be used during online meetings.
Can the cheque book be kept in the NNE at home too?
Yes. These locations are not only for offices; the same formula works at home.
Can a Laughing Buddha be kept at home?
No. Einstein is said to have wished at the end of his life to be born in India to research its sacred soil, the land of the Tirthankaras, Ram, Mahavir and Hanuman. Indians need not keep meat-eating foreign deities such as the Laughing Buddha or the Chinese Fuk Luk Sau; keep portraits or statues of Ram, Hanuman or Mahavir instead, and do not let them be dwarfed by such figures.
Why should an open courtyard not be visible as soon as you enter the house?
If an open-to-sky space appears right at the entrance, the energy coming in through the main door escapes straight out through it. So the entrance should be a little enclosed.
For a house on the ground floor, does the energy that circulates in it come in through the ground level?
Energy behaves like materials of different specific gravity: the densest settles at the bottom, as dirt does, and the lighter the energy, the better it is. That is why ground-floor flats sell cheapest and higher flats cost more. People living on the topmost floors face the fewest vastu doshas, because the winds ventilate the space and keep the energy flowing.
When should the vastu of the whole house be checked, and when only that of a room?
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.