Threads of love
Raksha Bandhan is the festival of celebrating love, affection and bonding among family members. It is also the day to reinstate the commitment of male members towards the welfare of their family.
From MahaVastu’s perspective, love, affection, care and the commitment to protect each other within a family are granted, primarily, by two of the 16 MahaVastu zones — south-west and south-east.
As per Vastu Shastra, south-west is the zone of relationships and family bonding. It governs the love, connectivity and harmony among family members. A healthy south-west zone in a house ensures not only healthy relationships but also blessings of ancestors which again work as a protective force. When this zone is in balanced state, brothers and sisters are willing to support each other by all means, which has been the basic purpose of celebrating Raksha Bandhan.
All Indian festivals, traditions and rituals have some deep-rooted scientific logic hidden in them. Most of them are based on the theory of five elements in nature. Out of the five elements, fire has been used right from the primitive ages to protect oneself from different kinds of threats and fears present in the external surroundings. With the evolution of mind and civilisation, money came into prevalence and soon became the accepted power to counter all kinds of hurdles, fears and problems. So contemporarily, money has become a symbol of fire element, which stands for security, power and confidence. This is the major reason for development of the tradition of giving cash by a brother to his sister on Raksha Bandhan.
In MahaVastu, south-east is considered as the zone of fire element, thus, due to the very characteristics of fire inherent in it, it extends safety, security and protection in our lives. A balanced state of this zone ensures the availability of cash in hand.
On the day of Raksha Bandhan, sisters tie a rakhi on the right wrist of their brothers. In some of the traditions prevalent earlier in India, not only sisters but wives also tied a red thread on the wrist of their husbands. The red thread was used to strengthen the fire element as red colour denotes fire. So, it was supposed to bring in strength, security, power and protection against all evils.
From the perspective of Indian Sankhya philosophy, this festival offers the most practical way for programming the inner consciousness to create love, harmony, affection and commitment among the family members. Raksha Bandhan is celebrated in the month of saavan (as per Hindu calendar, which is based on Lunar dates) on the day of full moon (poornima). In the month of saavan, human emotions for attachment with each other are at their peak. On full moon of this month, females experience peak intensity of their emotions. In such state of emotions if she ties a thread (rakhi) on the right wrist of a man, she programs him emotionally to protect and support her through thick and thin.
Develop an everlasting bond of love and care with your brother this Raksha Bandhan.
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