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Maharishi Sthapatya Veda
Auspicious and Inauspicious Influences due to the
Orientation of Buildings—North, South, East, or West

( Diagram: Starting at the top and going clockwise:)
INAUSPICIOUS; Entrance Facing WEST: Poverty, Lack of Creativity and Vitality
INAUSPICIOUS: Entrance Facing NORTH-WEST: Inconsistent and Mentally Shaken
AUSPICIOUS: Entrance Facing NORTH: Prosperity, Happiness
INAUSPICIOUS: Entrance Facing NORTH-EAST: No Marriage, No Children
AUSPICIOUS: Entrance Facing EAST: Enlightenment, Affluence, Fulfilment
INAUSPICIOUS: Entrance Facing SOUTH-EAST: Constant Fear
INAUSPICIOUS: Entrance Facing SOUTH: All Negative Influences—Problems and Suffering
INAUSPICIOUS : Entrance Facing SOUTH-WEST: Always Quarrel

There are many considerations that finally determine auspicious and inauspicious influences, the orientation of buildings, the slope of the land, and the location of any body of water—lake, river, or well—on the land or in its vicinity, etc.

Housing to Harmonize Individual Life with Cosmic Life

Sthapatya Veda is one of the forty area of the Vedic Literature that details the laws of structuring, or laws of building, any structure so that structurally and functionally man's creation is naturally in harmony with Nature's creation—the creation of Natural Law.This Vedic Science of Structuring, or Vedic Science of Building, which is Nature's own system of structuring, or building, can be seen as the system of harmonizing individual life with Cosmic Life.The purpose of the Vedic Knowledge of Sthapatya Veda—Vastu Vidya—is to maintain individual life in harmony with Cosmic Life, and save the individual from being torn apart by the disharmonious influence of the surroundings he has created around him—his house, his village, his city, etc.

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