Principle / Ruledraft· Svoboda — Vāstu
Elemental Space — the Five Elements as felt in a dwelling
rul-element-in-architecturePrāṇa relevance
⚑ The elements 'carry prāṇa and respond to prāṇa' (PDF p.074); ākāśa especially is the prāṇa-and- awareness-bearing field, and 'Vāstu is ākāśa' (PDF pp.074). prāṇa is the refined Air element and tejas the refined Fire (PDF p.081), so getting-to-know / arranging the gross elements in a dwelling is held to order their refined (prāṇic) forms in the body. Strong but interpretive at the gross↔subtle joint.
Sources
- txt-svoboda-vastuch. 3 'The Five Elements' / 'Worship Ritual' / 'Getting to Know the Five Elements' / 'Conscious Space' (PDF pp.064–070, p.074)Modern✓ verifiedfive Great States of material existence; each element's dwelling polarity; Svarodaya shapes; cross-vidyā Fire=Mars=pitta/tejas=SE; elements carry prāṇa; Vāstu is ākāśa; Vāstu awakens the faintly-conscious elements
Other attributes
- Rule Class
- doctrine
- Statement
- Each of the five Great Elements has a felt, architectural presence and a beneficial/detrimental polarity in a dwelling: Earth (solidity) grounds or petrifies; Water (liquidity) makes life juicy or gummy; Fire (transformation) gives clarity or selfish manipulation; Air (movement) gives vigor or exhaustion depending on flow; Space (the field) gives the bliss of unobstructedness or the ache of hollowness. The elements are cross-vidyā correspondences ('Fire is Fire wherever it appears'): Fire = Mars (Jyotiṣa) = pitta/tejas (Āyurveda) = the southeast (Vāstu). They are 'better termed the Five Great States of Material Existence' (solid/liquid/gas/transformation/field). Vāstu is the awakening of the (faintly conscious) elements within a well-defined region.
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- MODERN
- Conditions
- each element can nourish, balance, or disturb its doṣa progeny in body and mind; to work with one elemental correlate (e.g. Fire as candle-gazing) is to influence all its cross-vidyā correlates