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Class1Diploma Interior Module

Foundations of Interior Vastu: Elements, Planets, Forces, Colours and Materials

The opening interior vastu class defines interior vastu as customised vastu: arranging a building's interior according to the owner's horoscope so that the nine planets, the three forces (gravity, magnetic field and sun rays) and the five elements are balanced for that person. It sets out four principles, co-relation of elements, orientation by planets, gravitational alignment of objects and the physical property of materials, with case studies of colours, statues, shapes and materials that made or ruined homes and businesses. The shape, colour, zone, metal and represented items of each of the five elements are taught along with the Vedic cycle of elements. An astrology primer then covers the 12 rashis, their lords, exaltation and debilitation, house directions and planetary aspects, followed by a Q&A on applying charts to house planning.
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Recording: Interior Class - 1

Key points

  • 1Interior vastu is customised vastu planned from the owner's kundli
  • 2Balance the nine planets, three forces and five elements through colour, shape, symbol and material
  • 3Four principles: co-relation of elements, orientation by planets, gravitational alignment, physical property of materials
  • 4Avoid the direction and symbols of a debilitated planet, such as East facing or lion statues for a weak Sun
  • 5Keep tables, desks and the tijori perfectly level and aligned
  • 6Spray gomutra on brick masonry before plastering to neutralise adhesives (brahmastra)
  • 7Avoid fly ash bricks, plywood, all-marble floors and lead-based oil paints
  • 8Element zones: water North to North-East, earth South-West, fire South-East, air North-West, space at the centre
  • 9Follow the Vedic cycle of elements from the Shiv Puran, not the feng shui cycle
  • 10Artefacts of friendly planets multiply energy; enemy combinations such as fire with water bring failure
  • 11A white and golden yellow interior creates the Gaj Kesari yoga
  • 12Kundli houses: 1st East, 4th North, 7th West, 10th South; each planet is debilitated in the 7th sign from its exaltation

Brahmastra1

Brahmastraगौमूत्र

Gomutra Spray on Brick Masonry Before Plastering

Once the brick masonry is complete and before plastering, spray desi cow urine over the entire masonry, the way water is sprayed for curing.

All brick masonry walls of the building

Remedies4

Remedy

Pista Green or White Paint to Calm Home Unrest and Illness

When a home suffers constant quarrels or illness, paint it pista (pistachio green) if the owner's Mercury is not debilitated, or white if the Moon is not afflicted, and add peace symbols and friendly element shapes.

Rooms where the unrest or illness is felt

Remedyदहलीज

High Dehleez to Stabilise a Wrongly Placed Main Door

The dehleez (threshold) represents the earth element; when the main door has been made at a wrong place, building a high dehleez stabilises it and balances the earth element.

Main door at a wrong location

Energy Boosting3

Energy Boosting

Brahma Nabhi and Sphatik Chandelier to Energise the Brahmasthan

Royal interiors such as the Mysore Palace marked a brahma nabhi (navel) at the centre of the floor and hung chandeliers of sphatik (crystal) to raise the energy of the Brahmasthan, with colours chosen from the ruler's element and planets.

Brahmasthan (centre of the house)

Testing and Diagnosis1

Principles and Rules33

Principleइंटीरियर वास्तु

Interior Vastu: Customised Vastu Balancing Planets, Forces and Elements

Interior vastu is customised vastu: arranging and decorating the inside of a home, office, factory, temple, school or hospital according to the particular owner's horoscope, so that the nine planets, the three forces and the five elements are balanced for that person.

Whole building: home, office, factory, temple, school, college, hospital or industry

Principleतत्वों का सह संबंध

Co-relation of Elements: Match the Person, the Room and the Activity

The first principle of interior vastu: identify the element of the person, of the structure being built and of the activity done there, and make sure these elements are friends.

Any room or structure: bedroom, office, kitchen, factory, study table

Principle

Keep Furniture, Tables and the Tijori in Water Level and Alignment

The third principle of interior vastu: furniture, tables, the tijori (safe), artefacts and idols must sit perfectly level and in proper alignment so that gravitational force acts on them correctly.

Study tables, meeting and work tables, tijori, artefacts, floors and ceilings

Principle

Physical Property of Materials: Check What Every Material Is Made Of

The fourth principle of interior vastu: study the physical and chemical properties of every building, decoration and remedy material (metal, wood, stone, adhesive, paint) and choose them according to the owner's planets.

All building, interior and remedy materials

Principleराख की ईंट

Avoid Fly Ash Bricks: Ash Is Treated as Shalya

Bricks made from thermal plant fly ash mixed with sand and adhesive materials are wrong according to Vedic vastu, which likens ash (raakh) to shalya (an impurity such as bones buried in land).

Brick masonry of the whole building

Principle

Marble Flooring and Knee, Back and Sinus Problems

Marble is calcium carbonate (CaCO3); homes with all-marble or Italian marble floors and no wooden flooring were found with sinus and bronchitis problems and, over time, pain in the knees, legs, thighs and back.

Floors of the house

Principle

Avoid Lead-Based Oil Paints Indoors

Oil-based paints contain lead, one of the major causes of cancer, and act as a slow poison on the lungs.

Walls and woodwork of living rooms and bedrooms

Principle

Avoid the Direction of a Weak Planet for Facing, Bedroom and Study

Each planet rules a direction (Sun East, Mercury North, Saturn West, Rahu South-West); if that planet is debilitated, badly placed or very low in degree in a person's kundli, a house facing, bedroom, office seat or study in its direction harms them.

House facing, master bedroom, office seat and study place

Principle

Wall Colours Must Suit the Owner's Element and Kundli

Sunlight falls first on the walls and the wall colour reflects energy onto the people, so colours of the element opposite to the owner's rashi or kundli can ruin an otherwise good vastu.

Walls, furniture and curtains of every zone

Principle

Vedic Cycle of the Five Elements from the Shiv Puran

Space creates air, air creates fire by friction, cooling fire creates water, water over ages becomes earth (sedimentary rock), and earth returns to space; interior vastu follows this Vedic cycle, not the feng shui cycle.

Principleजल तत्व

Water Element: Moon Symbol, White, North to North-East, Silver

The water element is shown by a silver or white half moon, its colour is white, its zone runs from North to North-East and its metal is silver; water bodies and mirrors represent it.

North to North-East; avoid the opposite South-East

Principleपृथ्वी तत्व

Earth Element: Square, Golden Yellow, South-West, Brass

The earth element has a square shape, golden yellow colour, South-West location and brass as its metal; land energy, plot shape, slope, surroundings, POP plaster and the dehleez represent it.

South-West

Principleअग्नि तत्व

Fire Element: Triangle, Red and Orange, South-East, Copper

The fire element has a triangular shape, red and orange colours, South-East location and copper as its metal; sunlight, the gas stove, transformer, generator, kitchen and anything red or triangular represent it.

South-East

Principleवायु तत्व

Air Element: Flag Shape, Green, North-West, Kansa

In Vedic vastu (not feng shui) the air element has a flag-like shape, green colour, North-West location and kansa (bell metal) as its metal; the main door, windows, balcony, garden, plants and floor-to-slab height represent it.

North-West

Principleआकाश तत्व

Space Element: Round or Shapeless, Black, Brahmasthan

The space element sits at the centre, the Brahmasthan; its shape is shapeless or round, its colour black or colourless, and any vacant, open-to-sky area represents it.

Centre of the house (Brahmasthan)

Principleचित्र से चित्त

Chitra Se Chitt: Images and Carvings Change the Mind (Temple Lessons)

Paintings, carvings, idols, elevations and domes are made to change the mind (chitt) through images (chitra); temple interiors and exteriors were designed to balance elements, planets and forces and even to influence the devtas.

Interior walls, elevations and exteriors

Principleबारह राशि और स्वामी

Twelve Rashis, Their Numbers in the Kundli and Their Lords

A kundli shows rashis only as numbers 1 to 12 in its houses, so learn the rashis in sequence with their lords: Mars rules 1 and 8, Venus 2 and 7, Mercury 3 and 6, Moon 4, Sun 5, Jupiter 9 and 12, Saturn 10 and 11.

Principleउच्च और नीच ग्रह

Exalted and Debilitated Signs of the Nine Planets

Each planet is exalted (uchcha) in one rashi and debilitated (neech) in the seventh rashi from it: Sun 1 and 7, Moon 2 and 8, Mars 10 and 4, Mercury 6 and 12, Jupiter 4 and 10, Venus 12 and 6, Saturn 7 and 1.

Questions asked in this session

Is a rooftop water storage tank also counted as the water element?

Yes. Water stored anywhere, including on the roof, represents the water element. But if the tank is built in a square shape, it moves to the earth element, because the square is the earth element's shape, and it becomes an earth combination.

Open answer
In the case where all four family members had a weak Sun, why would four separate kundlis show the same pattern?

Members of one family almost always have nearly the same planetary placements; there is a symmetry among their charts, and that is why they are born into the same family. In that case the Sun was badly placed in all four charts, so the East-facing house harmed the whole family.

Open answer
The kundli chart was shown with directions. How are those directions used, and what can a kundli tell about a house?

Go by the houses, not the numbers written in them: the top house is the 1st house (East) and the 4th house is North. If the planets on the North side are strong, the North direction is very good for the person. A kundli can even reveal where a person's house is, where its door is, how many windows it has and where a nearby river, pond or temple lies, so a map of the house can be drawn without seeing it.

Open answer
If a house has four members, whose kundli should be used for its vastu?

Primarily the grih swami's, the person whose money is going into the house, because the house affects the owner and his next three generations; do not go by the name the property is registered in, such as a daughter. The facing and main door are chosen from the grih swami's chart, for example North if his Mercury is exalted or his North-side planets are strong. Where a child sleeps or studies is decided from the child's own chart: if the child's Mercury is weak, seat him in the South instead of the North, following the 180-degree rule for a weak planet.

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If one family member has a planet exalted and another has it debilitated, should that planet's items be kept in the interior?

Decide room by room. In your own bedroom use the materials of your exalted planet and not of your debilitated one; your daughter's bedroom is designed from her kundli. The house facing and common areas such as the drawing room and kitchen are decided from the grih swami's kundli. Many people make the master bedroom in the South-West by default, which is wrong when Rahu is debilitated: such people suffered there and got very good results after moving to another direction.

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If a person's date of birth is not known correctly and no kundli can be made, how are their land and house planned?

The planets are still there even if the kundli is lost. A perfect kundli can be made from the thumb through Bhrigu Samhita, and Nadi astrologers also prepare it. A Prashna kundli can be cast, and Samudrik shastra (reading the body) also shows which planets are exalted or debilitated. Get this worked out by an astrologer.

Open answer
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.

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In the example of the Sun in the 8th house, would an East entrance have suited if the Sun had been retrograde?

Possibly, but then its degree and the aspects on it, such as a benefic planet's aspect, would have to be checked. A house is built only once, so such a risk should not be taken. Retrograde (vakri) planets are taught later in the course.

Open answer
Each house of the kundli has a rashi in it. Does the rashi decide the direction?

No, the rashi plays no role here. The 4th house is North, the 1st house East, the 10th house South and the 7th house West, with the sub-directions in between. Real charts are then analysed, five a day from the student group, to decide each person's interior; the key is knowing what to do for exalted planets and what for debilitated ones.

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Why do rashis 5 (Simha) and 11 (Kumbh) have no planet in the exaltation list?

There are only nine planets for twelve rashis, so Simha and Kumbh get no exalted or debilitated planet. A kundli need not have any exalted or debilitated planet, and some have as many as four exalted. The number in a house is its rashi: a 5 means Simha, so Venus there is Venus in Simha; an 11 means Kumbh, so Mercury, the Moon and the Sun there are in Kumbh, and with the Moon there the person's rashi is Kumbh.

Open answer
For someone with no astrology background, what does an exalted or debilitated planet mean in practice?

Learn the twelve rashis in order and the rest is simple. If the Sun is written with rashi 1, it is exalted, very powerful, and blesses the house and direction it occupies. If the Sun sits with rashi 7, it is debilitated and very weak; if that falls in the 4th house (North), building a house in that direction ruins the person. Vastu without this is incomplete, which is why even a perfect East-facing house can fail.

Open answer
Do the directions of the kundli houses shift when the rashis or planets in them change?

No. The 4th house is always North, the 1st East, the 10th South and the 7th West, with the sub-directions between them. Like water flowing in a river, planets and rashis keep moving, but the direction a house represents stays fixed whichever planet or rashi comes into it.

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How do astrologers know that a planet has moved into another rashi?

From the chart itself: the number written in each house is its rashi (1 Mesh, 2 Vrishabh and so on), so learn kundli making and the rashi numbers. Once you start learning astrology, reading planetary movement becomes clear.

Open answer
If the colour of a small area in the earth element zone is changed, or an imbalancing item is kept there, does it affect the whole house?

Yes, it affects the whole house. Just as dirt in one room spreads its smell through the air to the other rooms, an imbalance in one zone spreads to the entire house.

Open answer
If a person sits in the South-East for long periods, will their nature change?

Yes. Sitting a lot in the South-East, the fire zone, increases aggressiveness and irritation.

Open answer
Is it true that one should not sleep near electric switches?

Yes. The more electromagnetic current there is near you, the more it affects the nadis, the body and blood circulation, so keep the bed well away from switch boards. The minimum distance is transcribed as 35 feet, which may be 3 to 5 feet; check the class recording.

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Who is the originator (janak) of interior vastu?

Adi Brahma (Adi Prabhu) gave each son a different knowledge: Bharat received arthashastra, Bahubali kaam neeti and Ayurveda, Vrishabhsen gandharva shastra (music and instruments), and Anant Vijay all the arts of painting, colour, brushwork and artefacts. Anant Vijay is therefore the source of interior knowledge, which he spread further, and Vishwakarma received the knowledge of vastu.

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Why did the Chandel kings carve nude scenes on the Khajuraho temples?

To change the mind (chitt) through images (chitra), even the minds of the devtas. Agni is regarded as a virgin goddess who feels shy on seeing such scenes, so lightning has never struck these temples, and the pleasure-loving Indra, lord of rain, is pleased and gives Khajuraho good rain; tribal women still plough naked under the moonlight when rain fails. The kings also wanted their heirs not to become ascetics.

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Why has not a single stone of the Khajuraho temples moved in over a thousand years?

No cement or adhesive was used: male stones were joined into female stones, an example of the physical property of materials. The temples were also oriented so that the sun's rays fall first at the deity's feet and, as the sun reaches the South-East, at another deity's feet.

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Why do CAs and accountants use green ink?

Green represents Budh (Mercury), and finance and accounts belong to Mercury. Using the colour of the planet that rules the work strengthens it; even clothes and pen ink act as interior vastu, which is also why lawyers choose black.

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Why do doctors wear green or blue aprons, and why do hospitals use green?

To keep Budh (Mercury), the planet of intellect, alert: if the mind or concentration slips during an operation, everything goes wrong. Green also nullifies infrared rays and bad energies, so hospitals mostly use green, pista, white and blue.

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Why do some homes and businesses decline right after an expensive interior?

Because the interior changes colours, furniture directions, tiles and artefacts without regard to the owner's element and planets. Often the colours belong to the element opposite to the owner's, artefacts are combined wrongly, or harmful adhesives, lights and lead-based paints are used. One client who spent 60 to 80 lakh on an interior saw his loans turn NPA and his wife leave; his whole house had been painted in the colours of his opposite element.

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Is interior done only for beauty and maximum use of space?

No. Interior is done to use the maximum energy of the universe, balance the five elements, control particular emotions and achieve a particular goal. Every painting, artefact, idol, colour and orientation changes the mind through images (chitra se chitt), so the interior itself can balance the five elements, the nine planets and the three forces of a home, temple or factory.

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