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itual well-being but also helps us actualise<br />
our true potential.<br />
The power of Vaastu<br />
Through metaphysics, modern science<br />
now validates the truth in these principles.<br />
Evidence collected by physicists<br />
through research in the field of geobiology<br />
(aka exobiology – the branch of<br />
biology studying the effects of extraterrestrial<br />
environments on living organisms<br />
on earth) reveals that a tree, a piece<br />
of rock, a single cell – every single form<br />
of matter – vibrates with its own unique<br />
wavelength. The animating force that<br />
makes it pulsate is the unseen spirit, the<br />
energy contained in every matter. In a<br />
human being, it is represented by the soul<br />
that animates our physical body. In the<br />
universe, it is the divine cosmic energies<br />
that permeate all matter – every single<br />
element in the physical world. It naturally<br />
follows that vibration exists in our<br />
buildings, our home and workplace, just<br />
as it exists within us.Vaastu aims to maintain<br />
and even enhance the positive vibrations<br />
and block out the negative ones,<br />
thus making the building’s vibration resonate<br />
and harmonise with the surrounding<br />
environment and the vibration of<br />
its inhabitants. A Vaastu building<br />
channelises the positive cosmic<br />
energies to flow into it.<br />
While it is easy to follow<br />
the principles of Vaastu<br />
when building your home<br />
or workplace, even with the<br />
constraints within a big city<br />
(you can reap most of the<br />
benefits even if you achieve<br />
50 per cent of Vaastu compliance),<br />
what about buildings<br />
that have not followed<br />
Vaastu principles? Other than<br />
demolishing and rebuilding or at<br />
least relocating the inappropriate<br />
parts of the building, is there<br />
an easy way out? The answer is<br />
an emphatic yes according to a new<br />
adjunct to Vaastu.<br />
At the heart of this new approach is<br />
the finding that – again culled from<br />
ancient writings – blockages in the flow<br />
of positive cosmic energies in a building<br />
could be removed and harmony<br />
established in its vibrations<br />
by various means<br />
using different sets of<br />
tools. The means<br />
employed derive from<br />
feng shui, pyramid vaastu,<br />
dousing and energy auditing,<br />
chanting and incantation<br />
and invoking specific cosmic<br />
energies using powerful symbolic<br />
tools called yantras.<br />
Feng shui to the<br />
rescue<br />
Feng shui, the ancient Chinese<br />
system considered a natural science,<br />
helps to balance the energy<br />
flow in an environment,<br />
enabling you to transform your house<br />
into an energetic, healthy and a harmonious<br />
place. The idea is to understand<br />
how energy moves in our surroundings<br />
and how to harness it.<br />
Chinese scholars recognised ‘life<br />
energy’, or chi, as the main component<br />
in the living world, and by ensuring<br />
a proper flow of chi in the environment,<br />
through feng shui,<br />
they discovered that the imbalances<br />
created by wrong locations,<br />
orientations and<br />
other defects could be rectified.<br />
They created formulae<br />
to understand the<br />
forces of nature by analyzing<br />
chi components and<br />
identifying missing elements.<br />
Using feng shui, they<br />
could counteract these imbalances,<br />
which resulted in a<br />
healthy chi, or ‘life force’, that<br />
enriched life and brought harmony<br />
and happiness. Says<br />
Aditya Narayan, feng shui<br />
expert from Jayanagar 5th Block,<br />
Bengaluru, “All feng shui articles like<br />
convex and concave mirrors, crystals,<br />
metallic icons, and wind chimes are<br />
appropriately used in this process to<br />
deflect negative energies and<br />
attract positive ones to a<br />
premises. These powerful<br />
symbols act by<br />
neutralising the energy<br />
defects in a building<br />
and promoting<br />
positive vibes.”<br />
How pyramids help<br />
Pyramid vaastu, on the<br />
other hand, harnesses the<br />
power of pyramids to meet<br />
this end. Dr. Dhara Bhatt in<br />
her book, Pyramid Vaastu,<br />
says, “The unmanifested<br />
energy is continuously<br />
transformed into shapes.<br />
Shapes are working boundaries<br />
of different energies. The<br />
pyramid interacts with the universal<br />
energy in six directions, the four sides,<br />
the base and the apex. Pyramid is like<br />
the microprocessor of all universal<br />
energy.” Pyramidology is a vast subject<br />
encompassing not just its power in<br />
channelling energies but its beneficial<br />
effects in other areas of life, like its<br />
power to enhance nutritional value of<br />
food, enhance our well-being, cure ailments,<br />
neutralise bad effects, aid in<br />
meditation, not to mentions its rejuvenating<br />
effect on plants and animals. To<br />
quote again from Dr. Dhara Bhatt’s<br />
book,“Pyramids work on all seven levels<br />
of human systems – physical, ether-<br />
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