Principle / Ruledraft· Svoboda — Vāstu
A room sits on a limb of its Vāstu Puruṣa (per-room limb-body)
rul-vastu-purusha-limb-of-roomPrāṇa relevance
⚑ The homology-becomes-operative rule of the chapter: a deformed room-limb transmits its imbalance to the residents' doṣas/guṇas because they 'resonate with the body and mind of that room's Vāstu Puruṣa'. This is the per-room, prāṇa-bearing extension of BS's plot-Puruṣa limb-effects (53.66–68). The doṣa/guṇa transmission to residents is stated; the final step to their prāṇa is the usual interpretive joint.
Sources
- txt-svoboda-vastuch. 8 'Marie's Living Room, Directionally' / 'Exercise Twelve' (PDF pp.198–200)Modern✓ verifiedeach room's Vāstu Puruṣa has limbs; SE=right hand; staircases disfigure it; residents resonate with the room's Vāstu Puruṣa; diagnose in doṣa/guṇa; opposite-corner 'aspect' remedy
Other attributes
- Rule Class
- doctrine
- Statement
- Overlay any room with its own Vāstu Puruṣa Maṇḍala and the room's Vāstu Puruṣa has limbs whose health is the room's health: the SE corner is his RIGHT HAND ('the hand he uses to perform auspicious activities'). A missing or distorted corner disfigures the corresponding limb, and 'the space that that room represents is substantially compromised'; the deformity weakens that quadrant's energies (SE → Fire, rajas, Venus). The residents resonate with the room's Vāstu Puruṣa — his Three Doṣas are the room's physical health, his Three Guṇas its mental health — so a room is 'diagnosed' in vāta-pitta-kapha and sattva-rajas-tamas and then remediated (e.g. an opposite-corner remedy 'aspects' the weak corner, as opposite planets aspect in Jyotiṣa).
- Tag
- MODERN
- Conditions
- applies recursively — to the whole property, the house, and each room; a room ideally draws attention from a high SW point (past/tamas) toward a low NE point (future/sattva); remedy a disfigured limb by strengthening the opposite end of its diagonal, by stabilizing furniture, or by structural completion/subdivision
- Exceptions
- no room or person is ever perfect; Vāstu aims at the most sattvic / sukha-promoting arrangement within one's constraints, not at perfection