Principle / Ruledraft· Svoboda — Vāstu
The doṣa of a space (Three Doṣas applied to a dwelling)
rul-dosha-of-spacePrāṇa relevance
⚑ The chapter's central Vāstu→body lever: a space acts on the resident's doṣas, and the doṣas sit just above prāṇa in substantiality ('more substantial than prāṇa... less substantial than the Five Elements', PDF p.065). Ordering a space's doṣa is thus held to order the resident's doṣas and thereby their health/prāṇa — duḥkha is literally 'bad space'. The final doṣa→prāṇa step is not spelled out as physiology (flagged), but the architecture→doṣa half is stated outright.
Sources
- txt-svoboda-vastuch. 3 'Āyurveda' / 'Constitution & Condition' (PDF pp.058–062)Modern✓ verifiedthree patterns (Dry/Hot/Heavy = vāta/pitta/kapha) describe most any physiological situation; 'like increases like'; even space is a substance that influences inner patterns; condition over constitution in Vāstu; sukha/duḥkha = good/bad space
Other attributes
- Rule Class
- doctrine
- Statement
- A space has a doṣa-quality — vāta (the Dry Pattern: dry/cold/light/unstable/clear/rough/subtle), pitta (the Hot Pattern: oily/hot/intense/light/fluid/liquid), or kapha (the Heavy Pattern: oily/cold/heavy/stable/viscid/smooth/soft). Because 'like increases like', a space of a given doṣa increases that doṣa in the body that inhabits it; and a body's condition stamps its doṣa onto its space. In Vāstu the CURRENT CONDITION (vikṛti) of a space is often more important than its inborn constitution (prakṛti). Good space = sukha = health; 'bad space' = duḥkha = ill health.
- Tag
- MODERN
- Conditions
- 'like increases like' (Ayurvedic precept); a dry space → vāta, a hot space → pitta, a humid/damp space → kapha; multiple factors (climate, season, age, strength, mental state, habits, substances, actions) modulate which doṣa a space raises
- Exceptions
- go too far toward one polarity and its opposite waits at the other end (sunburn → feeling cold; icy plunge → quick rewarming) — the homeostatic rebound caveat (PDF p.058)