Principle / Ruledraft· Svoboda — Vāstu
The four Sāṁkhya questions for evaluating a space
rul-vastu-evaluation-four-questionsPrāṇa relevance
Indirect: the method's end is sukha ('good space') and the avoidance of duḥkha ('bad space'), which on Svoboda's account is a matter of well-ordered doṣas and free prāṇa-flow (rul-dosha-of-space, rul-expansion-contraction). The four questions are the procedural front-end to those prāṇa-bearing judgments rather than a prāṇa-mechanism themselves. Trace not closed here.
Sources
- txt-svoboda-vastuch. 4 'Evolution' / 'Marie's Living Room, In Theory' / 'In Practice' (PDF pp.093–100)Modern✓ verifiedthe four questions (materialize / how full-how empty / what items & arrangement / what qualities) map onto the Sāṁkhya evolutes and structure a Vāstu evaluation; come up with questions before answers
Other attributes
- Rule Class
- method
- Statement
- Svoboda's operational Vāstu method, derived from the Sāṁkhya tattva-order, evaluates any space by four sequential questions: (1) 'What can materialize in this space, and how can it do so?' (the residence-vs-residue / intention question — prakṛti emerging from the field); (2) 'How full should this space be, and how empty?' (the balance of fullness/emptiness — puruṣa-emptiness vs prakṛti-fullness); (3) 'What items should fill this space, and how should they be arranged?' (ahaṁkāra individuating and positioning the contents); (4) 'What qualities should these items possess, to achieve the results desired?' (the guṇa/quality question). One should 'come up with questions first... let questions come to you, and much of the time they'll bring their own answers with them.'
- Tag
- MODERN
- Conditions
- applied in order, beginning 'at the great divide between being and nothingness'; pairs each step with a Sāṁkhya tattva (intention/prakṛti → fullness/puruṣa-prakṛti balance → ahaṁkāra/arrangement → guṇa/quality)
- Exceptions
- Svoboda cautions against 'set formulas'/'boilerplate regimen' — 'all is negotiable, all relative'; the four questions structure inquiry, they do not dictate fixed answers