Vasthu Shastra Cosmic Man
Some time ago I asked whether salt lamps are good or bad for feng shui. Gail from Melbourne kindly wrote in with her experience and even wrote to Lillian Too ask why salt lampas are bad.
If you have missed that, it is here.
We should not make a generic statement about salt lamps. To say that salt lamps absorb ALL energy creates shadows in the mind. I have a friend who is an energy worker and she holds the view that salt lamps make good healing tools.
When I look at salt lamps, I take them individually. I see their character and their attributes. I look for their code and apply them as appropriate. In applied feng shui, each and every form and phenomena can be attributed one or more qualities. This is the invisible aspect of feng shui. My earlier article on salt lamps may have given the wrong impression starting off with a question.
I should stress that salt lamps are not inherently good or bad feng shui. The explanation against it, saying it absorbs all energy is not objective. Is it because it is a salt? If so then our oceans would be totally derived of energy and thus life. If we quote that no fishes survive in the Dead Sea, we must remember that people get cured of various ailments by dipping in it. Fishes does not survive because of the high salt not because of there being no energy. Humans cannot survive in outer space because there is no air not because there is no energy.
I pointed out salt lamps because of the safety of the electrical wiring concealed within a salt rock. I have seen beautiful features using rock salt pieces placed safely oven a lighted panel and if I were to consider using it as a feng shui tool, I would.
What prompted me to revisit this was an article on Vasthu Shastra (the Indian Science of Habitat) that I read. It was mentioned that lighted salt lamps placed in corners of the bedroom help remove negative energy and have a calming effect. Crystal rose quartz was also mentioned as the stone representing Venus and love…guess you know where all this is leading!
Vasthu Shastra is a very earthy and spiritual science. Don’t quote me on that though as it is strictly my observation. The direction East and West, in other words the sun placed a prominent role in the shaping of vasthu Shastra. (there are many more aspects to it as well).
Tip – In Vasthu Shastra, it is recommended that couples should sleep with their heads to either the east or west. Do so and a peaceful uninterrupted sleep is promised. It works if your bedroom config allows that but if your palace orientates northeast or any of the intermediate directions…too bad. I would not advise moving your bed out of alignement with your walls!
One aspect of Vasthu Shastra is the cosmic man principle. If you want that lovey-dovey feeling, try sleeping in the southwest quadrant of your home. Next best is south and west. Your love will bear fruit leaving you good health and many children. Avoid the south-east which is the fire quadrant. That is definitely not the method to add fire to your relationship!
Vasthu Shastra is based on Indian cosmology, philosophy and spirituality. My early encounter with it was something like twenty years ago when I first step foot on Indian soil. The houses I was invited to invariably had very strong water themes. It is sustenance so they tell me. Its directions are very fixed with, as mentioned before, the east west path having great importance. At least to me, it captures a certain sun-worship, submissive flavor. Feng shui, on the other hand, has a more worldly slant and views man’s fortunes in a methodical, cyclical way. Spirituality is by and far not emphasized with its deeper meanings left to the adepts.
This book is a translation of a text by FengShui Master Jiang Da Hong (ca1640) with my explanations and comments. The root text is a section on yang dwellings from his book “5 Songs of the Heavenly Principles”.