Vastu Shastra

Vastu Shastra is an ancient science energy flow throughout the house/office/factory that allows inflow of fresh air and natural light that promotes health, wealth, peace and happiness.

The most ancient science of architecture that goes back to the Vedic ages, it is composed of specific rules and regulations, set down by sages of those times, that an architect / builder / owner was expected to religiously follow to avoid coming under negative or evil influences. Today, it is looked upon as a highly evolved, comprehensive building philosophy in which directions and shapes are the most vital aspects of designing.

Right from the selection of site to correct slope of land down to the shape of the building, this oldest form of architecture covers nearly every aspect of construction. Not only for houses but temples, palaces, forts, offices...just about every possible form of construction. Often providing relief if not cures to physical or emotional problems simply by relocating an entrance, window or room.

Some of the important points made therein are:

• Directional Alignment
• Shape Of The Site
• Slope Of The Land Surface
• Impact of Gates At Various Locations
• Brahmasthan (Central Zone of the Building)
• The Staircase
• Inner Planning of a House
• Inner Planning of an Office
• Internal Planning of any Industrial Building

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Parama-guru - grand-spiritual master; the guru of one’s guru.

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Advaita-jnana - knowledge of non-duality. Although in the true sense this refers to the Supreme Absolute Personality of Godhead who is devoid of all duality, the Mayavada conception of advaitajnana is that the ultimate substance, brahma, is devoid of form, qualities, personality, and variegatedness.

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Gopis - the young cowherd maidens of Vraja headed by Srimati Radhika who serve Krsna in the mood of amorous love. This may also refer to the elderly gopis headed by mother Yasoda who serve Krsna in the mood of parental affection.

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Sadhana - the method one adopts in order to obtain a specific goal is called  sadhana. Without sadhana one cannot obtain sadhya, the goal of one’s practice. There are many different types of sadhana corresponding to various goals. Those who desire material enjoyment adopt the path of karma as their sadhana. Those who desire liberation adopt the path of jnana as their sadhana. Those who aspire for the eternal loving service of Sri Krsna adopt the path of bhakti as their  sadhana. The sadhana of bhakti refers to spiritual practices such as hearing, chanting, and so on.

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Madhavi - a fragrant flower which is white when it blossoms and turns pink during the course of the day; the vine of the madhavi flower.

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Ananya-bhakti - exclusive or pure devotion; devotion which is not mixed with any other desires and has no objective other than Sri Krsna.

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Samvit - this refers to svarupa-sakti which is predominated by samvit (see svarupa-sakti). Samvit is the potency which relates to the cit, or cognizant, aspect of Sri Bhagavan. Although Bhagavan is the embodiment of knowledge, samvit is the potency by which He knows Himself and causes others to know Him. When the samvit potency is prominent in visuddha-sattva, it is known as atma-vidya, knowledge of the individual self and Bhagavan.

This atma-vidya has two faculties:

(1) jnana, knowledge itself; and

(2) jnana-pravartaka, one who or that which promotes knowledge. The worshiper’s knowledge is manifest by these two faculties. Knowledge of absolute reality is possible only with the help of atma-vidya.

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Sandhini - this refers to svarupa-sakti which is predominated by sandhini (see svarupa-sakti). Sandhini is the potency which relates to the sat, or existential aspect of Sri Bhagavan. This is the potency by which He maintains His own existence and the existence of others. When the sandhini potency is prominent in visuddha-sattva, it is known as adhara-sakti, the all-accomodating potency. The spiritual abode of the Lord and His associates are manifest by this adhara-sakti.

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Bhakti-lata - the creeper of devotion. Bhakti is likened to a creeper which grows in the bhakta’s heart until it matures and produces the fruit of love for Krsna. The bija, or seed, of this creeper is characterized as krsna-seva-vasana, the desire to serve Sri Krsna.

This desire is sown in the heart of the bhakta by the grace of sri-gurudeva and it manifests externally as sraddha, faith in the conclusions of the sastra. After its intitial inception in the form of the bhakti-lata-bija, the creeper develops through eight successive stages culminating in prema. These stages are sadhu-sanga, bhajana-kriya, anartha-nivrtti, nistha, ruci, asakti, bhava, and prema. Each of these are separately described in this glossary.

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Ananya - having no other object; undistracted; devoted to only one worhipable Lord, no one else.

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Rig Veda: (Sanskrit) "Veda of verse (rik)."

The first and oldest of the four Veda compendia of revealed scriptures (shruti), including a hymn collection (Samhita), priestly explanatory manuals (Brahmanas), forest treatises (Aranyakas) elaborating on the Vedic rites, and philosophical dialogs (Upanishads). Like the other Vedas, the Rig Veda was brought to earth consciousness not all at once, but gradually, over a period of perhaps several thousand years.

The oldest and core portion is the Samhita, believed to date back, in its oral form, as far as 8,000 years, and to have been written down in archaic Sanskrit some 3,000 years ago. It consists of more than 10,000 verses, averaging three or four lines (riks), forming 1,028 hymns (suktas), organized in ten books called mandalas. It embodies prayerful hymns of praise and invocation to the Divinities of nature and to the One Divine. They are the spiritual reflections of a pastoral people with a profound awe for the powers of nature, each of which they revered as sacred and alive. The rishis who unfolded these outpourings of adoration perceived a wellordered cosmos in which dharma is the way of attunement with celestial worlds, from which all righteousness and prosperity descends.

The main concern is man's relationship with God and the world, and the invocation of the subtle worlds into mundane existence. Prayers beseech the Gods for happy family life, wealth, pleasure, cattle, health, protection from enemies, strength in battle, matrimony, progeny, long life and happiness, wisdom and realization and final liberation from rebirth.

The Rig Veda Samhita, which in length equals Homer's Iliad and Odyssey combined, is the most important hymn collection, for it lends a large number of its hymns to the other three Veda Samhitas (the Sama, Yajur and Atharva). Chronologically, after the Samhitas came the Brahmanas, followed by the Aranyakas, and finally the Upanishads, also called the Vedanta, meaning "Veda's end."

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Lila-avatara - Krsna’s lila (pastime) manifestations e.g. Nrsimha,Varaha, Kurma etc.

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"The park bench was deserted

as I sat down to read,

Beneath the long, straggly branches

of an old willow tree."

"Disillusioned by life with good reason to frown,

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Dansavat-pranama - prostrated obeisances; literally, falling like a dansa (stick) to offer obeisances.

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Purusartha - the goals of human attainment. In the Vedic sastras these are classified into four categories: dharma, religious duty; artha, acquisition of wealth; kama, satisfaction of material desires; and moksa, liberation from material existence. Beyond all of these is the development of unalloyed love for the Supreme Lord, who is the embodiment of spiritual bliss and transcendental rasa. This is known as parama-purusartha, the supreme object of attainment.

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Puranas - the eighteen historical supplements to the Vedas.

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Siva - a qualitative expansion of Sri Bhagavan (see Glossary of Names).

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Dhama - a holy place of pilgrimage; the abode of the Lord where He appears and enacts His transcendental pastimes.

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