Vastu
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The traditional system of architecture and spatial energy governing home and temple layout.
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Doshas that make a house cause family conflict
The speaker names two causes. A brand-new, self-built house may stand on a site that still carries a dosh — dev dosh, pret or pishach, a pretni, someone's remains left in the ground, or a place where someone earlier seated a shakti or did an utara. An old house, on the other hand, has usually had tantra kriya (Abhichara) done on it by someone. The case described was the second kind.
Misconception: no temple, idol or Shivling should be kept at home
The speaker says that in India's medieval period — the time of the Mughals and the British — a negative imprint about deities like Bhairava was placed on people's minds, so that they put these deities out of the house. He sees the same thing in fashion today: some Vastu experts say a temple should not be built in the house at all, that no idol should be kept at home, and that keeping a Shivling of Shiva ji at home brings poverty, disease and trouble. These, he says, are the very people who get the deities thrown out of homes, and listening to them people stop the seva-puja of these deities altogether.
Why does a home's main door threshold (Chaukhat) matter in Vastu, and who should maintain it?
A raised main threshold is an essential Vastu requirement; kept clean and daily decorated by the family's daughter-in-law with her head covered, it pleases ancestor spirits and attracts financial prosperity.
Where should a home temple be built?
A three-foot deity image should not simply be installed informally; a proper temple must follow real temple vidhi-vyavastha rather than being tucked inside the house. Its shadow should never fall on the residence, and it should not stand immediately next to or facing one's own house — a rule the speaker says has shastra pramana behind it — because over time this brings dosha and trouble.
White Aak for home protection and the caution on latex plants
For protecting the house, the speaker says, it is known that a madar or Aak (Madar) (akwan) — the white Aak, Shwetark — should be planted near the home. Shwetark is not available everywhere, so can an ordinary Aak be planted? He answers that milky, latex-bearing plants are said to carry both kinds of things, so when you bring a Shwetark plant you must take care where you are bringing it from.
Pomegranate planting to cleanse preta-dosh land before building
The speaker says the pomegranate tree is called the direct form of Bhagavati. On land with Preta Dosha or a similar tantric dosh, pomegranate is planted before building the house — nine or twenty-seven trees, as needed — and left for one year; they must take fully and bear a full crop of fruit. Then they are uprooted and planted elsewhere, but not all: of twenty-seven, nine stay and eighteen go. Then bhumi shodhan, then the land pujan, and only then is the house built (Preta Dosha Tree Remedy).
What sadhana is there for getting a house of one's own when the vastu is bad?
Asked by a listener living in his aunt's flat, where the whole vastu is upside down and there is a toilet in the ishan kon, for a sadhana so that his own separate house may come about, the speaker says: taking this very sankalp, perform the anushthans that were described yesterday.
How is rock salt used where there is a vastu dosha?
For those whose vastu is bad — the nairitya kon needing to be heavy but being light, or something amiss in the ishan kon — the use of rock salt in this pujan helps to some extent. The rock salt is simply kept in a bowl and offered, nothing more. Then you tie that same rock salt in a white cloth and hang it in the direction in which the vastu dosha lies. To some extent the negative energy diminishes somewhere, and the vastu becomes balanced, as it were, for some time; you get an opportunity to have some correction made, and good sense comes.
Where in the puja sthan should Batuk Bhairav be placed?
In your pujan sthan. Whichever shakti's panchayatana you have installed will certainly have a place for Bhagavan Shiva and Bhagavati Shakti in it. Give Batuk Bhairav a place on the left-hand side of Bhagavati — of the vigraha of Durga ji or Kali ji — or else at the place of Shiva ji's panchayatana, wherever you have kept the shivling and the rest.
On which floor of a three-storey house should the puja room be?
He answers a listener travelling from the 17th to the 20th that puja may be done anywhere. For a three-storey house he says the puja room should be on the topmost floor. If a puja sthan is made at the place that is on the earth, attached to the ground, that is fine — but nowadays a garage gets built on the ground, in buildings or houses people make a garage below, so where is the ishan kona, where is the agni kona, it all stays in the air.
Which mantra of the Durga kavach should jyotish and tantra students jap?
Each mantra of the kavach can also be recited independently, and it is from this kavach that we utter the Navadurga mantra. Those learning jyotish, learning vastu, wanting proficiency in tantra, wanting to take the trivacha of the shaktis of tantra, or engaged in the siddhi of the trinetra, should continuously jap the Navadurga mantra described in the kavach — "prathamam Shailaputri, dvitiyam Brahmacharini" up to "Navadurga prakirtita".
Where may a havan be done if it cannot be done in the home mandir?
Asked in which room and which direction a havan may be done if for some reason it cannot be done in the home mandir, he says do it in the east corner, in a direction related to the east, or in a direction related to the north. If there is a drawing room, do it there; do it on the roof; if there is a courtyard outside, do it there. Only do not do it in a very congested place — doing it in a congested place will create trouble, if a long havan is to be done.
Why should a house not be built near a Shiva temple?
The speaker says that around any Jyotirlinga or Shivling established in a temple, the circle drawn with a radius of 100 dhanush is the realm of Shiva's ganas, who dwell in different parts of it. That is why it is said a house should not be built near a Shiva temple — and in fact this applies to all temples: a house should not be built as far as the temple's shadow falls. Today, he notes, temples come up anywhere with houses right beside them; whether those households are happy or unhappy is a separate discussion for another day.
What should be done before buying a piece of land?
He says that whenever you buy land, you should have the shodhan of that land done before buying it. In whatever city or region you live there will certainly be sadhaks who can tell who is present there by looking at the soil, or by going there, or nowadays even by seeing the place over a video call — they ask your address and send their own siddh items.
What if the negative energy on a plot cannot be removed?
He says that if some negative energy is present there, one should also discuss whether it is possible to remove it or not. And if it cannot be removed, then do not buy that land — take it as written, whatever your circumstances, even if you are a crorepati today.
Why do troubles start right after someone buys land or builds a house?
He says calls come constantly about this: a person builds a new house and afterwards trouble begins; someone buys new land and then trouble begins; someone starts building and trouble starts at exactly that time. There are two causes — first a dosha in that land, and second some abhicharik activity done by an enemy out of envy.
Another's envy cannot be controlled, but the nature of the ground can be known
He says the first is not in our hands — we cannot control another's speech, mind or envy so that no one performs abhichar karma over us. But we can at least know what kind of place the land is on which we are building a house for our descendants, and where our devatas and pitr will be given a place.
What is the first mistake people make when buying property?
He says the first slip is that when buying land, if we hold crores of rupees of property and crores of rupees in hand, we think — what is it, such good property — and people very often hear a warning and disregard it, saying nothing of the kind will happen, everything is fine, that must be someone's delusion. And so you take the property.
What form does that trouble take after moving in?
He says that after going there, ten kinds of illness, loss of wealth and court-and-kachahri trouble follow, and one has no choice but to be caught in it. Their single motive is that they do not want you at the new place.
What is the first mistake never to make when taking a house or plot?
He repeats that this first mistake should never be made: if you are taking a house or land for a new house, do the shodhan of that land first of all, so that whenever you go there no trouble of any kind arises for you at that place.
What does a plot overrun with cactus mean?
He says that if cactus plants are present there in excess — you go and see cactus grown more than is needed on that land — never buy that land even by mistake: know that it has already become a pret bhoomi.
Keep your distance from such places, or follow their rule and vidhi exactly
He says that now if someone buys a house nearby, or that tree stands on someone's land and they wish to have it removed, calamity will come. So do not take such places at all, keep distance from them; and if you do take one, then follow the niyam and the vidhi.
What should be done before the digging of the foundation begins?
The second thing, he says, is that once the land is bought and the neev digging is due, before starting the digging you should have the land cleaned up well by some competent scholar or tantra sadhak, and have an akhand kirtan performed at that place — even if only for one day, only for twenty-four hours — or have a Sundarkand paath done.
Why does an empty plot between houses need special care?
He says that if it is old land, and houses have been built around it with the middle plot left over, the surrounding people also bring their things and throw them there — they perform utari-nikali, throw some utara, do some tantra-mantra, throw it into the empty place. Now whom will you go on cleaning after.
Where should the yantras and the kalash be placed in a foundation?
He says to have it done by a good sadhak — if there is a good and competent knower of Mahavidya nearby, speak to them and have it done — and establish the yantras in the neev itself. When there is a kalash it will be established in the Ishan corner, but if yantras are also established in the eight directions and a Vastu Purusha and the like in the Brahma bhag, then any stray Vastu dosha there will be removed at that very time, and there will not be much difficulty later.
Where should the puja sthan in a house not be built?
He says never, even by mistake, build the puja sthan of a house beside the toilet; and never by mistake build it in the direction of the south and so on such that your face is toward the south. A puja sthan should also not be built under the stairs.
What if trouble continues in a rented place after that?
The second thing, he says, is that if you have gone there and trouble is occurring for you there, then you should change the place — why increase your trouble by staying on for a longer time.
What does it mean when a shakti does not speak?
Asked why a shakti does not speak, he says it can be one of two things — a deficiency in capacity, or a bandhan. In this it is more necessary to take someone's help. He adds that a vastu pujan can be had done, and that some yajna and anushthan should be organised at the house and it should be done then.
How many Ganpati should there be in a house?
Asked about three Ganpati having accumulated in the house, he says there should be only two Ganpati.
Is there a dosha in keeping a Narmadeshwar shivling in the bedroom?
Asked about a Narmadeshwar shivling kept inside the house in the sleeping room, which is used only for food and sleep, and whether there is any dosha in that room: if it is in the sleeping room, then even so, if there is a small temple, put a curtain and the like so that it stays covered — that is, make the effort, if it can be done, so that contact with you does not happen. He also says the mandal of Bhagavan Dattatreya will be made later.
Who is Surya's father-in-law, and how does that touch vastu?
Surya's father-in-law is Bhagavan Vishwakarma, the dev shilpi, who is also called Twashta. The speaker says that without the father-in-law's grace the vastu dosha in our whole building will never end, and that Vishwakarma is worshipped in the middle of the three mekhalas of the havan kund.
Why do people fear installing Lakshmi-Ganesh at home?
Bring a shri vigraha, good and solid — the vigraha of Lakshmi Ganesh ji should not be hollow. These are never given visarjan and never given a farewell. What is done in this is chal pratishtha, not achal, so you need not be troubled about how pratishtha will happen at home. He says everything has been wrapped up into one: he would say that at home you are not to do Dhumavati sadhana or keep her vigraha, and that there are rules if you keep a Baglamukhi vigraha — but people have publicly explained even that as permitted, while people's nerve fails at having Lakshmi Ganesh ji consecrated. And to those who say the shastra of vastu says there should be no temple in the house, he says they should be beaten with a slipper.
What should be done about an old human skull buried in the land?
First have a Tripindi Shraddha performed at that place so it obtains its Gati, or a Gita recitation with Sankalpa — try for its release first. If it does not accept, or is causing trouble, then go into the Tantrokta operations: a Varah or Varahi havan there, or a seven, nine or eleven day Mahavidya havan.
Can a sadhana be performed in a house that has a Shalya dosha?
There can be trouble. Where a Shalya dosha or Ved dosha exists, first have the Vastu Purusha's sadhana done, or the Vastu Yantra consecrated by the prescription, or whatever the Shastra proof gives as the remedy. For the sadhana of the Mahashaktis, no fault of a particular place applies — the difficulty comes in the Anga Vidyas.
Where and at what hours the Pitru Beesa ahuti is done, and why never in the puja room
The speaker says it is best of all to do this work at a temple of Narayan, under a Peepal tree or on a river bank. At home, do it where your devi-devtas are not seated — never in the puja room — but in the outer part of the house, the courtyard, the brahma sthan or on the roof, after first finishing the house's regular puja-path. The reason he gives later in the talk: if the Pitr are not already worshipped at that place, they will not be able to come there. The hours are after nine in the morning up to four in the evening; the midday period is best.
What is the importance of the Brahm Sthan of a house?
The speaker says the Brahm Sthan carries very great importance — the name of the place is itself Brahm Sthan. In the picture of the Vastu Purush, the Brahm Sthan is the navel portion; and as the navel of any body is its most important limb, from which the bharan-poshan comes, so the Brahm Sthan is the navel of your house. If it is nourished properly, the house will develop properly.
Is it enough to keep only the Brahm Sthan well?
No. The speaker says you cannot keep the Brahm Sthan very well — a tulsi plant there, Hanuman ji's puja happening there as in old houses — while filth is kept in the Ishan corner and a washroom has been built in the Agni corner; there will still be trouble. According to vastu everything must be in its proper place; and even after that, if you deliberately quarrel, there is no remedy for it.
Should an achal pran-pratishthit Bajrangbali be installed in a house for a vastu problem?
Asked about a house whose courtyard door faces south, where someone installed a pran-pratishthit achal Bajrangbali for the sake of vastu shastra, and whether this makes a difference to the puja of the main mandir, the speaker asks who did such a big thing. He says that even if there was some difficulty at home according to the rules of vastu for any reason, an achal pratishtha should never have been done in a house for its purification.
A vastu problem needs the map to be seen first, and vastu videos will come after the sadhana season ends on 15 December.
The speaker says that where there is a vastu problem, that has to be seen first — it can certainly be told after seeing your map. He says vastu-related videos will also be put on the channel, but not at present, until some sadhana is completed: after 15 December the chief time of sadhana becomes ordinary again, and at that time no particular sadhana will have to be done, so he will discuss all these subjects with listeners then, and will also put out all the new experiences.
Why does health worsen when I do tantra kaat remedies myself?
When we do tantra kaat ourselves, why does the body get spoiled, the speaker asks — because the place in which we are living is itself afflicted by tantra badha. If the place where you reside is itself girdled about by some kind of tantra, then where will health benefit come from? Therefore, if you are doing it yourself, japa and the rest should always be done outside, in a temple or a Shakti Peeth, or at Ganga ji, so that you get the greatest benefit; and when that state has been reached, then you may do it at home.
Why do I feel fear at home, and what should be done for a competitive exam?
Stop being confused, the speaker tells a questioner who feels fear: fear is felt at home because there is a dosha in that place, so bhay will certainly manifest; to come out of the fear you will have to make an effort of that level outside. Asked what sadhana or puja should be done to clear a UPSC or competitive examination, he says he has told this separately — for competition, the sadhana of one of the Panchanan mantras of Bhagwan Rudra, the Ishan mantra.
What should be done for a south-facing door, and what care is needed for japa near a river sangam?
For a south-facing door of the house, first of all a yellow cloth or a yellow curtain should be put on the south-facing door, the speaker says; if a dhwaja related to yellow cloth can be established, it should always remain there, if your entrance is south-facing. Asked what care is needed for japa near a river sangam where there is also a shamshan, he says that if one is initiated, the recitation of a raksha mantra and the like should certainly be done — and in a desolate place no japa or path at all should be done.
Why should one still go to a temple?
A temple, he says, is itself constructed by a distinctive vastukala. When we go there, the energy of that place purifies the aura of our body in a different manner. So one must certainly go to a temple, especially at parva kaal — at least let some member of the family go. If your nishtha and shraddha in your ishta aradhya, in the Narmadeshwar kept at home, is very great, then that itself is a temple for you; but if the body is capable and you can go, then certainly go.
May a Shaligram or shivling be kept in a flower pot or garden?
A listener asks whether it is proper that some people give Shaligram ji and the shivling a place in a flower pot at home. It is absolutely improper, he answers. It goes so far that people put a shivling or Shaligram ji outside in the garden, at the side, in scrub and thicket, and go on pouring water there. This is wholly improper and should not be done — their place should be duly in the pujan sthan.
What is to be done when a vigraha is moved to a new house?
Whenever a vigraha is to be re-established at a new place — as when we live in a rented house and are going from one place to another — then when we leave the old place, a bali must certainly be done there too, even if it is only one coconut or one lemon, the speaker says. And a request must certainly be made there: that Prabhu, we are now going to a new place, may you all come along and be established there again; and for the sake of the sthan devi devatas and griha devi devatas of this place, we are giving this pujan separately according to our shakti, our capacity, our buddhi. In it burn camphor, offer naivedya and the like, and pray to them too that they always keep their kripa upon us, and give such a blessing that we may have our own land, our own house, in which we may do the puja of all of you. Making such a request, one should come away with gladness. And at the new place too you will give pujan, will give a bali, and for the new griha devatas, the new sthan devatas of that place, give a separate brief, simple, small pujan and bali. Great welfare comes from this, he says: the things are small, but their effect you will get for your whole life.
What precautions apply when entering a rented house?
Asked what precautions should be kept when entering a rented house, he says: do look at the vastu without fail, and see who was there before and what the situation was — see all that, and then go into the rented house.
Ishan corner: the place of the deities in a home
The speaker says that by Vastu the Ishan corner, the angle between east and north, is held to be the place of the gods; the deities dwell there, and it is called deva-bhumi and deva-sthan. He says the deva shaktis of one's own kul should always be established there, the spot decorated with the image or photo of one's Ishta Devata, and daily worship done there with incense, lamp, fragrance and akshat. That place, he says, is always pure.
Three places where the ancestors sit in a home
The speaker names three places held to be the ancestors' in a house. First, their official place is the main door's chaukhat, the doorframe, not the trikut that people build today. Second, Tulsi, where the subtle portions of different kinds of Pitr are held to reside, so that water offered to Tulsi or to Surya Narayan reaches them and satisfies them. Third, symbolically and subtly, the feet of the house's ishta or kul deity whose main image stands in the puja room, but he says this never means placing the photos of one's dead beside those feet; doing so creates dosha.
Kitchen drinking-water spot as a seat of the ancestors
The speaker says the kitchen, where food is cooked, is held to be in the agneya corner of the house, and that within that kitchen the drinking-water place, whether made in its Ishan corner, its Nairutya corner, or towards the west, is a place over which the ancestors have authority; they are held to be present there. This is why, he says, people of older regions and villages who still keep the old beliefs light a lamp at the drinking-water spot every evening, and the Pitr bestow grace. He adds that Bhagavati Nairutya Lakshmi is also seated at that very spot.
Where should ancestors' photos be placed in the house?
The speaker says the ancestors' general place in a house is the Nairutya corner, the south-west, or the stretch of the south adjoining it, rather than the south direction as such; people simply say "south" because it is the door of Yama, the lord of that direction, under whom the Pitr fall, and he says that is also correct and shastric. So the photos of the ancestors should be put up on the south wall, or fixed against the nairutya corner towards the west, and given their place there; never, he says, in the home's place of worship.
What do severe, family-wide misfortunes indicate, and what should be done about them?
Frequent severe accidents, suicide attempts, spirit afflictions, and infant mortality across an entire family point to severe Vastu defects, which a qualified expert should inspect.
In which places of the house should water be kept for the pitrs?
Three, the speaker says: first the chaukhat; second the kitchen — its ishan kona, or nairitya kona, or the western direction; and third the sthan of tulsi ji. His own view is to keep it wherever convenient, since one cannot demolish things over a direction. The water source kept at such a place belongs to the pitrs alone.
The vessel goes in the Ishan kona, with an evening ghee lamp on kusha beside it
Keep the vessel of water in the Ishan kona, he says, or leave the corner aside if you wish — people begin discussing kona and vastu and at once grow weary of how many rules there are. If you keep a good vessel which you wash daily and fill with water, and in the evening light a ghee lamp on kusha at that place, you will be saved from diseases a great deal.
Can a Shivalaya be built on the second floor of a house?
If you are speaking of a special, complete Shivalaya of a temple, then it cannot be built, the speaker says — have a Shiv mandir built only according to the full vidhi niyam of a Shiv mandir. Generally, if you keep a sphatik Shivling and the like at home and do pujan, you will get the complete fruit; if you do the pujan of Narmadeshwar ji, you will get it too. But wanting to make a Shivalaya on the dev floor of the house, as much of this is happening nowadays — making a mandir at home — is not proper, because a mandir has its own vastu shastra. When a Shiv mandir is installed, the ground below it becomes the condition of patal; your entire ground below becomes the place of those ganas who dwell in it, and that will be a difficulty.
What should be done if the kundali says a new house will bring misfortune?
Asked what to do when it is written in the kundali that taking or building a new house will bring misfortune, the speaker says: in such a condition get the kundali analysed once again. Get it cross-checked; it will become clear, and if such a thing is to be, it will be seen to. And for that there is a vidhan for a new house — they will tell you how, if such a thing is really so, it is to be averted; the nirakaran for it has been told.
What is a permanent solution for a south-facing house?
Asked for a permanent solution for vastu dosha in a south-facing house, the speaker says that merely being south-facing does not allow one to say this: along with the south facing, all the other subjects have to be looked at, and he asks the listener to send a simple drawing by Telegram message. As a very small general remedy for south facing, he says the bandhanwar that is used to decorate the main door of the house should be made of yellow cloth, or decorated using yellow as much as possible.
How is a Kshetrapal sthan chosen in a place like Delhi?
If Delhi is a congested area, then you will have to see this: that wherever your colony begins or ends, going to some place or other there will be a boundary region — just as a thana has its own boundary, that from here there is another thana and beyond that another. Here it is Mayapuri, here it is Chandni Chowk. In the same way, see where the boundary shows, which you can see on a map, that beyond here there is another boundary. Whichever temple of yours is around that boundary, hold that to be the sthan of the Kshetrapal. This holds for everyone.
May a broom be used at night?
The speaker first says a broom should not be used at all at night. A friend who was sweeping at night told him it may be done as long as the rubbish is not taken outside the threshold, and he accepts that this is right: rubbish should not be taken out past the dehri. Sweeping can be done. There is also a rule in many places that the broom should not be touched after evening falls. But the main point, he says, is that the rubbish should not leave the threshold or go out of the main gate; cleaning inside can be done.
Is a gap left in the chaukhat for water drainage a problem?
No difficulty arises from that much, the speaker says.
Case: possession begins on Navratri Shashthi in a house built on bought land
The speaker recounts a true event, about a year and a half old, shared by a Delhi sadhak friend: a man from Saran district, Bihar, working in the industrial belt on the Rajasthan–Delhi road, bought a plot with an old house, built a home and moved in with his parents and newly married wife. The family was sattvik but not spiritual — morning-evening dhoop-deep, at most Hanuman Chalisa. Seven or eight months later, on the Shashthi night of Sharadiya Navratri, the wife walked to the puja place and swayed for half an hour as when a sawari comes, then lay unconscious all night and remembered nothing but a heavy body. The next evening she stood at the gate shouting in an angry Haryana-side Jat dialect that she would not leave, "this is my place".
Case: the sthan shakti's claim to the plot and demand for bali
The speaker reports the shakti saying through the woman that she had been worshipped at that place for a very long time; her sthan was under a small mango tree that never grew big, the old family did her puja there, and the new owners had cut the tree. "I want my puja. I take bali, I need bali." She would not leave whatever happened, and if not worshipped there would be ghaat on the family. That she would not be reasoned with and demanded bali, he says, showed it was some tamasik shakti. The previous owners, when contacted, flatly denied any ownership, rights or knowledge, and no solution was in sight.
Disturbing a shakti's sthan makes you the doshi even unknowingly
When no way forward appeared, the speaker says, the knowledgeable friend took the matter to his guru. He reports the guru's first principle: using force here was not proper, because you have gone and settled on her sthan and you have broken it. However negative the thing may be, the trouble is that you did not remove her in the correct way. All of it happened unknowingly — and yet the doshi is you.
Case: an undisclosed shmashan-shakti sthan on sold land
The speaker says it later came out that a member of the Valmiki family who had lived there had, long before, gone to a shmashan, purified a shmashan shakti, installed her at home and given her puja, along with some acts of bhakti. Even his own family did not properly know this; they only kept up the daily dhoop-deep at the sthan under the tree outside the house. The land was later sold to two or three people, the sthan fell in this buyer's share, and nobody knew — so neither side was at fault, yet the family suffered because it was never disclosed. No great calamity occurred; by Bhagavati's grace they were saved in time.
What should be examined in the house a sister has been married into?
The speaker says that if it were a matter from before the marriage it would be different; since it is after the marriage, the subject there belongs more to the brother-in-law than to the sister. So first examine the whole root of that house — what puja they do, what they have abandoned, what offences they have made, and look at the kundali of the brother-in-law who is the head of the house, and matters relating to vastu. Then gradually correct whatever deficiency you find.
Can puja path remove a vastu dosha?
Asked whether those in whose house puja path happens well need worry about vastu dosha, how important vastu is, and whether vastu dosha can be removed by puja path, the speaker answers that everything has its own mahatmya. It is not that vastu will be pacified merely by doing puja path. This will certainly happen: the calamity produced by the vastu dosha will not be able to give its effect and will become inactive for as long as your japa, tapa, pujan, path and vidhi niyam continue. But it is not a permanent solution.
Does a black granite strip level with the floor count as a chaukhat?
A listener says the chaukhat of the house is black granite, white tiles are laid in the house, and the black granite is at the same level as them, and asks whether that will be the chaukhat. The speaker answers: no, it will not be, brother, since it is level — it will not be by colour. Keeping black and white is fine, but the meaning of a chaukhat is that it should be raised a little; make it higher, lay one more line of granite, and then it will become a chaukhat.
Narayana pressed Gayasur down with his feet, and he stands today as the Vastu Purush of the Ishan corner
As the yajna neared completion, different deities became established on different limbs; and when Gayasur still began to rise, Bhagavan Narayana placed his feet on his heart and pressed him down into the earth. Gayasur, delighted that Narayana's feet would remain forever on his heart, received many blessings and the boon that the sadgati of the pitrs would occur in his kshetra — hence all tirthas repeatedly and Gaya once. In part, in an amshatmak form, this same Gayasur is established in our house as the Vastu Purush.
What should be kept in mind while building a sadhana kaksh at home?
The best care to take is that the place of the devi-devatas should be in the right spot. When you sit to do sadhana, if your face falls towards the east it is best of all. Make the place beforehand according to the order in which the pratimas and the Shri vigrahas are to be kept. And if havan is to be done in that place, let there be an arrangement of a window, so that the smoke goes fully outside.
Can Hanuman's face be towards the south in a temple?
Yes — there are Dakshinmukhi Hanuman; it does happen. The nairitya kona is the chief one: Hanuman's face is chiefly in the nairitya kona, that is the corner that lies between the south and the west. And in that way there are Dakshinmukhi Hanuman too.
Facing which direction should a shivling in a temple be worshipped?
Asked in which direction one should face while worshipping a shivling in a temple, he says his face is in every direction. The questioner presses that he means specifically facing the southern direction. In a temple, and that too in a temple of Bhagavan Shiva, he answers, there is simply no need to make any distinction of direction.
Does a Peepal growing on the house wall mean something?
This is not a subject for that much superstition. It often happens that a Peepal simply grows on a wall. Leaving out an auspicious tithi — a Parva Kala — at any other time you may take it and plant it somewhere else, if it has grown large. There is no need to attach Pret and Pishach to it.
A missing chaturmukh lamp and bali pujan, and neglect of the doorway, the kitchen and the kula shakti, are the common mistakes.
He says he does not know what the questioner did or failed to do or what mistake he made, and is answering a common question about why this can happen. It is possible you are doing only Bhairav ji at the time of pujan and never doing the chaturmukh lamp vidhi that he prescribes, or never doing Bhairav ji's bali pujan vidhi. Further: if the entrance of your house is not right, there can be trouble; if dirty vessels are lying in the kitchen, there can be trouble. And most particularly, there is the question of who the shakti of your kula is — trouble can come from her too, though it does not happen in Batuk Bhairav's pujan. And since the listener says Brahma Kavach, there are bandhan matters in the Brahma Kavach, which he has never given anyone to do.
Should a householder keep an owl or a Gajalakshmi image?
The owl is considered auspicious, the speaker allows, but it will be more fitting to keep the gaja. Householders should keep Gajalakshmi in the house — seated upon the gaja or upon the lotus. The owl is right for those who do black marketing and put money in the share market, and it is more fitting for those who perform tantra-mantra, for tantrokta pujan.
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