Principle
Anti-Element Colours Matter Only When the Whole Room Is That Colour
A colour counts as an anti-element only when the entire room or zone is done in it; a small item of about 10 percent of the volume creates no dosh.
Principle
Vedic Cycle of the Five Elements from the Shiv Puran
Space creates air, air creates fire by friction, cooling fire creates water, water over ages becomes earth (sedimentary rock), and earth returns to space; interior vastu follows this Vedic cycle, not the feng shui cycle.
What it does
Shows which element creates and which destroys another, so that anti-element combinations can be avoided.
Cautions
- Do not follow the commonly memorised cycle (water creates air, air creates fire, fire creates earth, earth creates space); only earth creating space is correct in it
Explanation and notes
Per the Shiv Puran: first came space; winds arose in space; colliding winds produced sparks of fire by friction; fire slowly cooling formed drops of water; water collecting in the ocean, through erosion, lithification and diagenesis over millions of years, became stone and sedimentary rock, the earth element; earth evaporates back into space. Use this cycle to know which element generates which and which element destroys which.
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Co-relation of Elements: Match the Person, the Room and the Activity
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Principle
Physical Property of Materials: Check What Every Material Is Made Of
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Principle
Use Only Two or Three Types of Wood in a House; Avoid Plywood
Vedic vastu says no more than two or three kinds of wood should be used in one house, while plywood is made from 7 to 15 kinds of thorny woods glued together with adhesives.
Principleराख की ईंट
Avoid Fly Ash Bricks: Ash Is Treated as Shalya
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