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The Hindu : ForumSouth-west entranceQuestion: I have a house built on a 40 x 50 site in Hegde Nagar. My gate and entrance face the south-west, which people say is very bad. My backyard door faces the north. We have more open space near the gate than in the north-east. Can I do some corrections with feng shui to ward off total negativity? I have been having problems of several kinds, both health and financial. My kitchen is in the north-east. I have an entrance foyer too facing the south-west.Nivedita Bhat, Hegde NagarOur panellist, Dr. Niranjan Babu, Vaasthu expert, answers:Placing basil and other herbal plants near the rooms which people with ill health use can considerably contribute to better health. As a general vaasthu rule clean up the north-east of the site, the house and the respective rooms. The planetary lord Jupiter of this area, who is a significator of wealth, can perhaps stabilise your finances.Main pointsQuestion: Can you tell me about 10 points that make vaasthu a science for a house that has to be followed? It is not the question of non-belief, but a raring to know whatever goes into a science that says so much about directions. My house on the north side is south to my immediate neighbour, just a few feet away. How do we corroborate all this?Shanthi Swaroop, IndiranagarDr. Niranjan Babu answers:Over the last decade, we have been seeing the rising importance of vaasthu not only in India but also all over the world. People have begun to experience the beneficial results of properly applied principles of the science. At the same time people have begun to ask about the scientific basis of vaasthu. It is based on the energies emanating from various cosmic bodies all over the universe. These energies could be physical energies like gravitational, solar, magnetic, thermal, electrical, mechanical and many metaphysical energies that are still unknown (to modern…More

