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VAASTU SHASTRA
| People
today look for more cosmically balanced home or offices. Builders
and designers incorporate the correct orientation according
to Indian and Chinese meta-physical systems from the planning
stage itself. |
| Vaastushastra
is based on the principle that Vaastu a house or an adobe is
a living soul. An entity (Vaastupurush) with life sustaining
activities and diseases (Vaastudosh) . |
| A tiger
faced (Vyaghramukh) plot in the south, results in concentration
of stress while cow faced (goumukh) plots allows for release
of stress, however the same tiger faced plot may prove beneficial
for someone conducting business from those premises. |
| Vaastushastra
can be defined as a systemic attempt to provide guidelines for
building abodes which are free of destructive radiation, structures
and are in complete harmony with the cosmic forces and allow
frictionless flow through the "pranas". This in turn harmonizes
with the panchmaha - bhutas, the basic five elements - space,
air, fire, water and earth or the
aakash, vaayu, agni, jal and prithvi.
Thus Vaastushastra attempts perfect correlation of all these
basic elements. According to Yogashastra our bodies are composed
of energy channels known as nadis and out of these the most
important are considered the Ida (chandra Nadi),
Pingala (Surya Nadi) and the Shushubhna (Brahma
Nadi).Ida has control over the east and northern directions
thus all creative works, art, culture, research, life promoting
beneficial activities are attributed to leftor northern current
flow. |
| Pingala or Surya
Nadi controls the west and south directions and all violent
destructive forces, torture, sorrow, weapons worldly attractions
are attributed to this right or south flow. Brahma or Madhyam
Nadi represents the holy and divine path and allows mediation,
reading of religious scriptures, literatures and academic pursuits.
Maintaining the Ida flow gives worldly goods and divine pleasures
while blocking the pingla flow avoids destruction and violent
tendencies, which in turn determine the directions and the often
quoted good east and bad south directions. |
| The
premise of Pranas, Ida, and Panchmahabhutas translates into
the concept of five elements that arise out of the interplay
of yin and yang and represent different manifestations of the
chi in Feng Shui which literally means wind and water. Gill
Hale an international authority on Feng Shui says "
the chi is the life force of all animate things, the quality
of environment and the driving force in human beings ".
The purpose of Feng Shui is to create environments where the
chi flows smoothly to achieve physical, spiritual, mental and
financial health. |
| Traditionally
Feng Shui is closely linked to nature. It is based on the idea
that the chi or the energy vibrations of every place have a
distinct personality and when this energy is in harmony with
nature, benefits flow in. Inner changes about by external environment.
The environment is in turn composed of basic five categories
of water, wood, fire, earth and metal. |
| Offices and business
complex are perhaps the two areas where Vaastu and Feng Shui
find the maximum usage. In South Asian countries, consulting
a Feng Shui expert before selecting a commercial building is
common practice. In Hong Kong a prominent example of a building
with good Feng Shui is the Hong Kong bank building which apparently
meets all the guards and shields required to keep the benevolent
forces active. The Chinese correlate mountain ranges to dragons
and the building lies in the dragon dens of Victoria peak. The
building has two other buildings housing banks on either side
which protect it acting as thetigers arms and the dragons arm.
A water body in the front prevents the natural forces from filtering
out. |
| The Chinese have
a saying, first luck, second destiny, third Feng Shui, fourth
virtue and fifth education and although Feng Shui can
be a powerful tool to shape our lives it is not a cure, says
Gill Hale. What we do our lives and how we behave towards other
plays a powerful role, Feng Shui is just part of the complete
package. |
| Vaastu is not
about blind faith and magic but about creating physical mental
and spiritual balance with the environment with directions,
positions, placements, colors, combinations, all mere tools
to achieve consonance. |
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