Where we live can influence our happiness, wealth, health, and prosperity. The Vastu
Shastra is the Vedic science of building. When one studies the Vastu Shastra, he
learns to create buildings that favorably influence those things that bring us happiness.
The Vastu Shastra considers the astrological placement of the Sun, Earth, and other
planets during the actual construction. It also considers where the building site
is located, the site’s shape, the proposed building’s shape, the direction the building
will face, the location of gates, entry doors, room doors, windows, and the building’s
general design. North and east are considered important directions—east because
it is the direction from which the sun rises.
When purchasing a property, it is a good idea to stand
on the land and feel its vibration for a few moments. Trust your feelings. If you
feel positive about it, consider buying the land. If not, it is probably not good
for you. It is best to buy land where happy and successful people have lived. A
house sold by a person in distress or who is impoverished, should be purchased only
with caution. A dilapidated or haunted house should not be purchased at all.
The land should be cultivatable and should smell good. It is best not to build on
nonarable land. Land that contains many rocks, anthills, many worms, bones, broken
pottery, sludge, and thorny trees should not be purchased. If the center of the
land is humped like the shell of a turtle, it should not be purchased.
The color of the soil should also be considered. White soil is good for brahmans
(priests, teachers, scientists, or intellectuals), red for ksatriyas (rulers, soldiers,
or administrators), yellow for vaisyas (businessmen, farmers or bankers), and black
for sudras (laborers, artisans, craftsmen, or servants).
When you assess the soil, do not just make a surface check, but also dig about 4m
(12 ft) down.
If the soil is black up to 1m (3 ft) down and white or red below that, the land
can be purchased.
According to Vastu Shastra, black and clayey soil is not good for building. If the
soil is crumbly rock, money can easily be gotten. Yellow soil is good for businessmen.
Another test of land quality is to dig a knee-deep hole (2/3m or 2'x2'x2') and then
refill it. If after filling the hole you have some soil left over, the land is good.
If there is no soil left after filling the hole, the land is average. If the returned
soil does not even fill the hole, this is not a good sign. Such land should not
be purchased. This shows the soil’s natural moisture and aeration.Again dig the
same sized hole. This time, fill it with water. If it takes more than an hour for
the water to be absorbed, this is a good sign. If there are many cracks in the hole
after the water has been absorbed, the construction may cost more than you expect.
This is a percolation test done even in the U.S. to test for clay deposits. The
cracks indicate clay soil, which is not best for water drainage and can cause foundation
problems, etc. Also, wastes are not carried away properly, which can bring disease.
Do not purchase land that has been used as a crematorium, cemetery, or a samadhi
(tomb for a holy person). The land should not be purchased if in the recent past
someone has committed suicide on it, or if there have been several deaths over the
period of a couple of months.
It is usually best not to purchase land next to a bridge. If the bridge is on the
north or east sides, it definitely should not be purchased. If it is on the south
or west sides, that is a safer purchase.
It is also usually best not to purchase land that shares a well with another property.
The land can be purchased, however, if the water supply is a common well on the
north, east, or northeast side.
A plot of land situated on a hill is also not a good purchase in most cases. It
is better to purchase level ground. If the land to be purchased is on the side of
a hill, however, and the land slopes down toward the north or east, that is all
right. If the land slopes to the west, do not purchase it.
After choosing and purchasing land, plants should be grown on the land. Also, if
possible, keep a cow and her calf on the land for a while to make it more auspicious.
The direction that the front of a property faces is important.
The best shapes for plots of land are square or rectangular, facing squarely on
the four cardinal directions. A land tilt of 20 degrees, off square by 20 degrees,
is acceptable. If the plot is rectangular, it is better that the longer sides run
north to south rather than west to east.
If the plot of land does not squarely face the four cardinal directions, and if
the road does not run in one of the four cardinal directions, the house should be
built facing the four directions The house should be square or rectangular, and
the faces of the building should each be toward a cardinal direction, and not built
facing the road.
It is not good to purchase a piece of land squeezed between two larger pieces of
land as such land will bring its owner poverty.
The northeast side of the land should be the lowest side. If the northeast side
is at a higher elevation than other sides of the property, you can dig soil from
that one side and use it to build up the other parts. The land should either slope
down toward the north or east, but not toward the west or south. Land sloping north
brings riches, sloping east brings good fortune, sloping south brings ruin, and
sloping west brings financial loss.
It is auspicious if tall buildings or hills do not obstruct the north, northeast,
and east sides of the land. Do not purchase land with such obstructions to those
sides because the sun’s rays will be blocked.Having those same obstructions blocking
the west or south sides, however, bring health and wealth—light coming from the
southwest is not beneficial. The sun’s rays traveling westward are considered harmful.
Thus such obstructions block out harmful rays.For the same reason, a water source
located on the southwest side of a building will cause the owner misery. Similarly,
there should be a minimum number of doors and windows set into the southwest side
of a building; the majority of windows should be set in the northeast side.
The boundary walls around a property should be higher in the west and south and
lower in the north and east.
It is auspicious if the plot has a river or a stream flowing through it on the northeast,
or if there is a lake on the same side. It is not auspicious if there is an electrical
power supply or large electric pole on the northeast side of the plot. A telephone
pole is not negative in the northeast, however.
There should not be any valley, a depression in the land, or large pit around the
land.
Construction should not stop once it begins. Workers should
not be unnecessarily pushed to speed up their work; work for the day should stop
at sunset. No construction should be done at night. A qualified engineer should
always oversee the construction.
Building materials should be stored in the southwest corner of the property during
construction. The storage area or structure can also be built in the southeast corner,
at least 1m (3 ft) from the property boundary. The guard should stay in a house
in the southeast corner. Thieves will be a danger if the guard stays in the northwest
corner, and the guard should not stay in the southwest corner.
Order of construction: the well, the storage house, and then the boundary wall.
A square piece of land surrounded by roads on four sides
is considered very good. It should be purchased even if at a high cost. A person
who owns this land will become wealthy, healthy, and happy.
If a road runs alongside the property and ends at the northeast corner, that is
also very good. If a road ends on any other parts of the property, however, that
plot is usually not good.
A road on the north side of the property is good, but a road on the south side is
not so good. If there is only one road, it is best if it is located on the east
side. It is not so good if it is located on the west side.
If there are roads on only the east and north side, that is good. If there are roads
on the west and north, it is average. Roads on the north, west, and east—that is,
only on these three sides—is not so good. Roads on the north, south, and west is
also not so good. It is inauspicious if there are three roads only on the east,
south, and west.Land should also not be next to a T or Y intersection.
There are other aspects of land assessment that should be considered. The plot should
not be within twice the distance of the height of the house to a public place—a
hospital, factory, temple, church, marriage hall, courthouse, cemetery, or cremation
grounds. There should not be a laundry place, shoe shop, meat shop, or workshop
with loud machinery opposite the property.The house should be at least 25m (80 ft)
from the entrance of a temple. The property’s gate should not face a temple or church,
and the shadow of a temple or church should not fall on the house.If the public
place is twice the distance of the height of the house away from the house, it will
have no effect.
Only new bricks, wood, and materials should be used when
building a new house. Materials from an old building should not usually be used
to build a new one in case those old materials repeat negative incidents that occurred
in the old house. There is unhappiness in using old things. If there are old materials
available, better to sell them and use the money to buy new materials.
Wood from thorny trees should not be used, as it will have a negative effect. Materials
that have been stored for a long time should also not be used. Iron grills should
only be used when needed.
The best properties are either square or rectangular. If the plot is not
a perfect rectangle, it is best if at least the southwest and southeast sides of
the land are at 90º angles from one another. The southwest side of the quadrilateral
should definitely not be extended past the southeast side, even if that means giving
away a portion of the plot. Land that extends past the northeast side of the quadrilateral,
however, brings wealth, happiness, and good name. Land extending on the northeast
side is very good. Extensions on any other side are inauspicious. Extensions of
the northwest side will cause you to lose money and peace.
If the land is cut in the corner this is not good. If possible the land to fill
in the missing corner should be purchased. If the land is cut short on the northeast
side it is very bad and is not aspicious; do not purchase it. It is like a headless
body.
Round, oval, and triangular plots should be avoided. The house should not be built
in the shape of a diamond, with the corner facing north. L-shaped plots are also
inauspicious and should not be purchased.
It is good if the plot is narrower at the entrance and wider at its rear, but the
opposite is not good.
It is advised that the first construction project for the
new house is to dig the well. If water is used from this well for the construction,
it is auspicious for the family who will live in the house. It is best that the
well or water source is on the north or northeast side of the land, or if water
comes from the municipality, it should enter from the northeast side. If you draw
a line from the southeast corner to the northeast corner, the well should be to
the right or left of the line, not on it.
The well can also be in the north or east sides of the property. The well should
not be in the northwest or southeast corners, as this is inauspicious. It is especially
inauspicious if the well is dug in the southwest corner. It is also inauspicious
to have a well in the middle of a house.
Wells should be round. Ideally, the well water should be exposed to sunlight for
five hours a day. It is not recommended to share wells between two properties.
The well should be dug after puja (worship) has been performed on the land at an
astrologically auspicious time. This will insure that the water will be pure.
The well should be dug under an auspicious star, such as Rohini, Hasta, Uttara Bhadrapada,
Uttara, etc. It should be dug on an auspicious day—a Monday, Wednesday, Thursday,
or Friday. The well should be dug during a downward-facing constellation or star,
such as, Krittika, Purva Phalguni, Mula, Bharani, Ashlesha, Purva Bhadrapada, or
Purvashadha.Water departing from the kitchen and bathroom should flow to the northeast
and leave the house from this side.
The compound wall should be built before the house is constructed.
Construction should begin during an auspicious constellation, and on a favorable
day—a Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday. It should also be begun during an
auspicious day of the lunar month—Pratipada, Panchami, Shashthi, Dashami, Ekadashi,
or Purnima. The compound wall should not be higher than the house, and construction
of it should begin on the southwest side.
The southwest part of the wall should be higher than the rest of the wall. The walls
on the north and east sides should be 53cm (21 inches) shorter than on the west
and south sides. If this is not possible, then the north and east sides should be
a minimum of 8cm (3 inches) shorter.
Do not set the gate on the south side. It is best that there are two gates to the
compound, so evil things entering one gate will exit from the other.
It is best if the house is built on the southwest section
of the land. Any open space should be to the north and east. Open space on the west
side of the land is not good for the family’s male members.
It is also good to keep a tulasi plant in the northeast corner.The electric generators
should be situated on the southeast section of the plot, not the northeast, which
is inauspicious. Loud machinery should not be placed near the house.
If there is to be a swimming pool, waterfalls, or fountains, they should be set
to the north, east, or northeast. Gardens, plants, or the lawns should also be set
to the north, east, or northeast. Plants should be less than 1m (3 ft) in height.
Swings should be to the north or east, and should swing from east to west.
Outdoor seats should be placed in the south or west of the open area, and people
should face north or east while sitting.
It is considered inauspicious to block the entrance to a house, such as with a tree
or telephone pole. If one of these things is more than twice the distance of the
house’s height away, it will not have any effect.Trash or dirty water should not
be kept near a house’s entrance (or the entrance to a place of business), and neither
should it be kept near the property’s entrance. An unclean stream or pool of unclean
water should not be located in front of the house.Annexes or outhouses should not
be on the north or east sides of the house, and they definitely should not touch
the eastern or northern boundary walls.
A garage, building, or servants’ quarters built separately from the house should
be located to the southeast or northwest of the main house but should not touch
any of the boundary walls. Ideally such quarters should not touch the southeast
corner, but should be slightly west (without touching the east wall). They should
also not touch the northwest corner but should be slightly south (without touching
the north wall). They should be established about 1m (3 ft) from the wall.
Cars should be parked facing east or north. A car should
never be parked facing south. If a car is parked facing west or northwest, the owner
will spend a long time traveling.
The parking lot should be in the northwest corner of the property. It should not
be located to the southwest or northeast. Parking can also be located in the basement,
on the north or east side.
A parking garage should not be connected to the compound wall or the main building.
The parking garage should be painted a light color, not a dark color.
The roof of the house should slope towards the northeast
and rainwater should flow to the north, east, or northeast direction.
Balconies, verandahs, and terraces should ideally be built
on the north, northeast, or east sides of the house, not on the south or west sides.
If a balcony is on the southwest side of a house, it should be covered and closed.
The floor or roof over a balcony or terrace should be lower than the floor or roof
of the main building. It is best if the verandah’s roof is slanted toward the northeast.
Tin is a good roofing material for such structures. The verandah’s corners should
not be rounded, and balconies should not have arches.Flowerpots on the verandah
should be small. No creepers should be planted on a verandah. The seats on the verandah
should be set on the south or west sides.
Shoes can be removed and placed on the verandah. They should not be placed to the
northeast.
Furniture, such as sofas, should be placed in the southeast,
south, or west sides of a room. The house’s owner should sit facing north or east,
and his guests should sit facing west or south.It is best that the northeast corner
of each room in the house be left empty. If furniture must be set in the northeast
corner, it should be set 15cm (six inches) from the wall.
Do not align doors within the house. One door should not lead directly into another.
It is best when a student studies that he face north, northeast, or east. Therefore
a table in a study room should be placed in the south or west sides of the room.
Books should be stored in the southwest side of the room.
Do not keep money in a place facing south.
When one prays, he should face either north or east.
Beds should face either west or south to insure that when a person rises in the
morning, he is facing either north or east. While asleep, one should place his head
to the south, east, or west, not north. If one’s place of worship is in the bedroom
(in the northeast), one should sleep with his head facing east to avoid pointing
his feet toward the altar.Mirrors should be placed on the north or east walls, not
on the south or west walls. Do not keep broken mirrors in the house. Clocks should
be placed on the west, north, or east walls. Clothes should be washed in the southeast
corner of the house.
Medicine should be kept in the northeast corner of the house, and a person should
face northeast while taking it. It is best to nurse those who are ill in the southwest
corner of the house, although the northwest corner is also good.
Rainwater and wastewater should leave the house from the northeast side. It should
flow west to east or south to north.
There should be an even number of columns and beams in the house, not odd.
Doors should generally be made from a single piece of wood and should open on the
left side.
A television can be placed in the southeast side of a room. An overhead water tank
should be located in the southwest side of a building.
Stairways should be on the south, southwest, or west sides of a building.
Certain pictures should not be hung in a house such as nudes, animals fighting,
captured elephants, hunting scenes, trees without fruits or flowers, snakes, owls,
bats, vultures and pigeons.
The main door of the house should be larger than the other
doors entering the house. The main door should have two shutters and open to the
inside of the building. Teak is a good material for the entrance door.
It is best that a house has two entrances. The exit door should be smaller than
the entrance, and it should have only one shutter. If there are two external doors
for the house, they should not be set in a straight line.
When one enters the house, there should not be a wall in front of the entrance.
There should be a door that opens to the next room. A shadow should not fall on
the main door. The main door of the house should not be below ground. Neither should
the main door be in the center of the house, nor in the extreme corners. If the
door is set in the north wall, move it east of center; if it’s in the east wall,
move it north of center. If it is set in the south wall, it should be moved east
of center; if it is in the west wall, move it south of center. Some authorities
say that if the house’s entrance is in the west wall. It should be centered.Some
Vastu authorities say that to figure out where to place a main door, divide the
house into nine parts. The door should be in the fourth section of the house from
the left hand side. From the right side of the house, the entrance is in the sixth
division from the right.
The main door should not be situated across from the main door of another house.
The entrance doors of two houses should not be exactly opposing one another. Neither
should two houses share a common entrance.
If the entrance of the house is to the south, there should not be a balcony or verandah
in front of the door.
It is good to set gates to both the property and the entrance to the house on the
north or east sides. It is also all right to have the main door on the west wall.
It is not advised to have the main entrance on the south side.
It is considered auspicious if the entrance to the property and the main door of
the house are on the same side. It is not considered good if the main door to the
house is on the opposite side to the entrance of the property.
There should not be an underground tank, septic tank, or canal under the main entrance.
There should not be any abandoned, wrecked buildings in front of the main entrance.
It is good to decorate a house’s entrance with pictures or statues of Laksmi, Ganesh
or Kuvera and auspicious signs such as OM or the Swastika. Inauspious pictures should
not be on the door. Doors should have thresholds. Shoes should not be kept in front
of the door, but to the side.The door should not be slanted, sliding, or circular.
The overhead water tank should be in the southwest (best)
or west corners of the building. An overhead water tank should not be located in
the northeast or southeast corners, or in the middle of the roof. It is also best
that it is not located in the northwest unless the tank is small and is located
approximately 1m (2 or 3 ft) from the building’s corner. The tank should be elevated
at least 1m (2 or 3 ft) above the roof, on a platform.If possible, the tank should
not be made of plastic. If it must be plastic, however, it should either be black
or dark blue plastic, because such colors aid the absorption of sunlight. A dark
water tank while absorbing sun for heat doesn’t encourage microbial growth as quickly
as a light-colored tank would do.If possible, there should be different tanks for
the kitchen and bathrooms.
It is best if the building’s walls are higher on the west and south sides
and lower on the north and east sides. Also, the south and west walls should be
thicker than the north and east walls, if possible. The building’s floor and roof
should be higher on the south and west sides, lower on the north and east sides.
Neither the ground nor the building should be higher in the northeast than in the
southwest. Rooms in the House
Worship should be done in the northeast, north, or east
sides of the house. It is best that the temple room is in the northeast corner of
the house. The worship room should not be to the south. The place of worship should
be on the ground floor and not upstairs.
The altar should be located on the northeast side of the temple room. The deities
or pictures of the deities should either face east or west, and should not face
north or south. It is best that the Deities face west and the worshipers face east.
The altar should not be set into the wall but should be at least 2.5 cm (an inch)
from it. The door to the temple room should have two shutters.
Toilets should never be above or below the place of worship. White, light yellow,
or light blue are good colors for a temple room. It is good if the worship room
is shaped like a pyramid, sloping inward as it goes upward toward the roof in the
four directions.
The kitchen should ideally be in the southeast corner of
the house, its windows on the east and south sides. There can also be a window on
the west side. If the kitchen cannot be in the southeast corner, it is all right
to place it in the northwest corner. But in general, the kitchen should not be in
the north, and should certainly not be in the northeast corner. Locating the kitchen
to the southwest will cause problems.
The kitchen should not be next to or across from a toilet, nor should it be directly
in front of the main door.
Cooking should be done in the southeast corner or on the east side of the kitchen.
It is best to cook while facing east, but facing north is also all right. It is
advisable not to put the stove on the northern wall. The cooking platform should
not touch the wall but should be placed at least 8 cm (3 inches) from the wall.
The stove should not be in front of the kitchen’s door.Electrical items such as
microwaves, grinders, and mixers should be placed in the southeast corner of the
kitchen. The sink should be in the northeast corner. The southwest wall should be
used for storage.
The refrigerator should be in the northwest, southeast, south, or west. It should
not be placed on the northeast side. If it is on the southwest side of the kitchen,
be sure to set it away from the wall.
If there is a dining table in the kitchen, it should be placed on the north or west
side. The door to the toilet should not face the dining table.
Kitchens should be painted yellow, rose, red, orange, or chocolate brown. If possible,
do not paint the walls white or black.
The living room should be on the north side of the house.
Furniture should be square or rectangular, not round or oval. It is good if the
ceiling slopes down toward the northeast direction. The air-conditioner should be
in the west, not the southeast. Furniture should mainly be in the west and south
section of the room.
The walls should be painted white, yellow, green, or blue, never red or black. Depressing
paintings should not be placed on the walls.
The main bedroom should be on the southwest or northwest
side of the house. If there is an upper story in the house, the master bedroom should
be on this floor, in the southwest corner. Adult married children can also use this
room. Younger children, however, should not use it because that will cause trouble
in the household. Bedrooms on the northeast side of the house will also cause trouble.
The children’s bedrooms should be in the northwest or west. The younger children’s
bedroom can also be on the east side of the house, Newly married couples should
not use a bedroom on the east side.Guest bedrooms are best located in the northwest
corner, but can also be located in the northeast corner.
Bedroom walls should be painted a light rose, dark blue, dark green, gray, etc.
Some authorities say that the walls should not be painted white or a light yellow.
The door should be set in the east, west or north, and should ideally be one shutter.
One should sleep in his own house with his head facing east or south. If one is
staying in someone else’s house, or while traveling, he should sleep with his head
facing west. One should never sleep with his head facing north. Upon rising from
bed, the right foot should be placed on the floor first.If one is to study in the
bedroom, the east side should be used. The wardrobe should be located on the northwest
or southwest side of the bedroom. TV, heaters, and air conditioners should be located
in the southeast corner.
The southwest corner of the room should not be vacant. An attached bathroom could
be built on the west or north sides of the room. It is best not to keep the safe
in a bedroom, but if this is the only place for the safe, it should be located on
the south wall, opening north.
Money, valuables, or a safe should be stored in a room
on the north side of the house. This is the side of Kubera, the god of wealth. The
door to this room should be facing north or east. The walls should be painted yellow,
because yellow leads to an increase of wealth.
If a safe is large, it can be placed in the south, southwest, or west sides of the
house, but it should always be set a few inches from the wall. It should not be
in the southwest or southeast corner, and should definitely not be in a northeast
corner. The safe should face north and open toward the north or east. It is inauspicious
to have a safe opening to the south—this will cause a loss of money. The safe should
not be located under any beams.Safes should be installed on a Monday, Wednesday,
Thursday, or Friday, when the Sun is in the constellations of Dhanishtha, Rohini,
Uttara, Swati, Shravan or Punarvasu.
The dining room should be located on the west side of the
house, or on the east or north side of the building. If the kitchen is on the ground
floor, the dining room should not be on an upper floor but should also be located
on the ground floor.
The door leading into the dining room should be on the east, north, or west side
of the room. It should not have arches. The house’s main entrance door should not
face the dining room’s door.It is best to face east or west while eating. The head
of the family should face east during meals. Other members of the family can face
east, north, or west, but it is not advisable to face south.
The dining table should not be round or oval but either square or rectangular. It
should not fold from the wall or be attached to the wall.
A sink can be located in the northeast corner of the dining room, or on the north
or east sides of the room. No toilets should be attached to the dining room.
Bathrooms can be on the west or northwest sides of the
building, but not on the eastern or northeastern sides. The toilet room should also
not be located on the southeast, the southwest, or in the center of the building.
The morning sun falling on the body after bathing is good, so windows should be
set in the north or east sides of the room.
Ideally, toilets should face south, not east or west (in the direction of the sun).
The toilet should be located on the west or northwest side of the room and should
be built 30–60cm (1 or 2 feet) above the ground.An attached bathroom should be on
the west or northwest side of a room, never on the northeast side.
Sinks should be placed on the northeast, north, or east sides of the room. Bathtubs
should be located on the northeast, west, or east sides.
Bathroom walls should be painted white, sky blue, or another light shade. Do not
use black or dark red.
Water should leave the bathroom from the east or northeast side. Water should not
leave from the southwest or southeast directions. The overhead septic tank should
be on the northwest side of the house.
The library or study should be located on the west side
of the building, but should not be located in the corners of the house. When using
a library or study, it is best to sit facing east or north.
The bookshelves should not be in the northwest or southwest corner. Books should
be in the east, north, or west sides of the room.
The door should be two-shuttered and should be located in the northeast, north,
or west. Windows can be set on the east, north, or west walls. The walls should
be painted white, sky blue, cream, or light green.
If one will not sleep in the room, a pyramidal shape (walls sloping inward as they
go upward towards the ceiling) will help study and meditation.
The storage areas should be located in the northwest part
of the building, but not in the north or east. The storage room door should not
be on the southwest side of the room. Storage cabinets should be located on the
west or north sides of the room. Butter, ghee, oil, and cooking gas should be kept
in the southeast corner.
Best to build stairways on the southwest, or if necessary,
on the south or west sides of the house.
Do not build stairways on the northeast side, as it will cause loss of wealth. The
staircase should go up from east to west or north to south. The same stairway that
goes to the upper floor should not also go down to the basement.
Stairways should be built with an odd number of stairs—9, 11, or 15 steps, for example.
The number of stairs should not end with a zero if you must build an even number—there
should not be 10 or 20 steps—because it is best to begin climbing steps with the
right foot and also to end the climb on the right foot. This is not possible when
there is an even number of stairs. The right foot is equated with gain, the left
with loss.Circular stairways are not good. The doorway at the top of the stairway
should be at least 20cm (8 inches) lower than the doorway at the bottom of the stairs.
Broken stairs should be repaired immediately to avoid accidents.
The stairway should be painted a light color. The worship room, safe, or toilet
should not be located under a staircase.
Basements should ideally not be built under the entire
house. If that is impossible, use only the northeast section. Heavy equipment can
be kept on the south and west sides.
It is best that the basement should only be in the northeast side of a house. It
can also be located on the east side of the house. It should not, however, be located
only on the south, southeast, or west side.
The floor of the basement should slope downward towards the northeast. The walls
should be at least 3m (9 ft) high. The basement should be painted white but should
not be blue. The heater, water heater, or electrical panels should be in the southeast
corner of the basement.
Since sunrays do not enter basements, this highly reduces the basement’s positive
effect on the persons living in them. Therefore, a basement should not be used for
living as far as possible. Basements are also not good places to conduct business.
The basement’s effects will be improved if one-fourth of the basement is above ground.
A mezzanine or loft should be built on the south, west,
or southwest sides of a room.
|
Directions |
Ruling Planet |
Room
|
|
North |
Mercury |
Living (Sitting) room safe |
|
Northeast |
Jupiter |
Worship room living room |
|
East |
Sun |
Living room bathing room
(no toilet) |
|
Southeast |
Venus |
Kitchen |
|
South |
Mars |
Kitchen storeroom |
|
Southwest |
Rahu |
Master bedroom heavy storage |
|
West |
Saturn |
Children’s bedroom store
room study |
|
Northwest |
Moon |
Guest room bathroom grain
storage room |
It is best that there are more doors and windows on the
north and east sides of the building. There should be fewer windows and doors on
the upper floors than on the lower ones. It is also said that the number of doors
and windows on the upper floor should not equal the amount of doors and windows
on the ground floor. The ceiling height of the rooms on the upper floor should be
less than the ceiling height of the rooms on the ground floor.
If only part of the upper floor is used, this part should be built in the southwest
area. The balcony should be on the north, east, or northeast side. The balcony should
not be in the southwest corner.
Bedrooms and studies should be located on the upper floor. A storage area for heavy
items should be located on the lower floor, and not the upper.
It is always good to grow a tulasi plant on one’s property.
Tulasi should be located on the north, northeast, or east sides of the house, or
in front of the house. Trees should not be planted directly in front of the house’s
main entrance. There should be an even number of trees on one’s property, not an
odd number.Trees should be planted on the south or west sides of the house. Ideally,
they should be planted on both these sides rather than on only one side. It is not
good to plant a tall tree on the north, northeast, or east sides of a building.
Smaller trees may be planted on the east or north sides, but no trees should be
planted in the northeast corner. Tall trees should not be too close to a building
as they block the sunlight. A tree’s shadow should not fall on the house.Large trees
should not be located too near the house as their roots can damage the foundation
and compound wall. Also, the roots of large trees absorb sunlight quickly, meaning
these positive rays will not be received by the building. Do not allow tree branches
to touch the house.
Stone sculptures and rock gardens should be located on the southwest side of the
house because they are heavy.
Thorny plants should not be planted near the house. Cactus should not be planted
at all. Thorny plants other than roses have a negative energy.
Ideally all thorny plants should be pulled up and destroyed.
A list of good trees to plant: coconut, neem, betal, sandalwood, lemon, pineapple,
bilva, almond, jackfruit, pomegranate, mango, amla, and katha.
Banyan and pipal (aswatha) are sacred trees; they should usually only be planted
near a temple or at a sacred place.
Creepers or other plants should not be grown by using the building or compound wall
as support. Creepers should only be grown in a garden, and they should have their
own independent supports.
Plants should be planted during auspicious constellations. Saplings should first
be planted in clay pots and only later placed in the ground. This enables them to
grow better.
If a tree must be removed because it is inauspicious or for other reasons, it should
be removed in the months of Magh or Bhadrapada. The day before cutting the tree,
worship it and express regret that it must be removed from its rooting. Promise
to plant a new tree in its place. Do so within three months. When cutting the tree,
it should fall east or north, not south or west.
Certain rituals can be performed before construction on
the plot begins. The land should be installed at an auspicious time, during an auspicious
constellation. Mondays and Thursdays are auspicious days for such rituals. Ideally,
a qualified astrologer should set the time of installation.
Worship should be done in the northeast corner of the land.
Before installing the land, it should be cleared. Dirt, stones, holes in the ground,
and trash should be removed. Thorny bushes should also be uprooted and removed.
The installation should not be done if a woman in the household is more than seven
months pregnant. The groundbreaking ceremony for the house should only be done during
the Uttarayan period, when the sun is in the northern hemisphere, and when the days
are longer than the nights, from June 21 through December 20.
Before entering a new house, a house-warming ceremony should
be performed. A good time to enter a new house is in the period of Uttarayan, from
June 21 through December 20, in the months of Vaishaka, Shravan, and Margashirsh,
in the constellation of Uttara, Magha, Ashwini, Swati, Pushya, and Revati, on an
auspicious day. It is good to confirm this time with a qualified astrologer.
Ganesh-puja, Navagraha-puja (worship of the nine planets), and worship of the Vastupratima
(building deity) should be performed. The residents of the building should then
circumambulate the building. Then puja should be done to the threshold.
If one wishes to purchase the land adjacent to one’s own
property, it should be purchased on a Monday, Thursday, or Friday, during an auspicious
constellation such as Vaishaka, Purva, Ashlesha, Mrig, Revati, Mul, or Anuradha.The
land one already owns can be extended to the north, east, or northeast. The northwest
corner should not be extended. If a plot is available in the southwest, west, or
south sides, it should not be purchased, as it will cause misfortune and loss.
If the northeast plot is available, purchase it. It is best if the adjacent lot
on the northeast side is at a lower elevation than the land already owned. If such
land is purchased, the dividing wall should be taken down. As far as possible, you
should not construct buildings on this land.
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