[1]The secret of enlightenment lies in “being connected”. When your consciousness is connected with your own true self, you are established in your joy body, you feel the ananda and you feel enlightened.
You must have heard of very expensive paintings, but have you ever wondered what makes them so expensive? It is the experience of enlightenment that one gets just by looking at those paintings. Anything that connects you with your own self, anything that takes you to the state of enlightenment becomes valuable. It can be a painting, a sculpture, a place, or even a person.
Therefore, since ancient times, symbols and artefacts have been used in buildings to facilitate connectivity with higher self. In Mahavastu, painting or sculpture of Lord Buddha in north-east zone of the home are recommended to improve this connectivity. Most often, the subconscious mind rules over the conscious mind and this subconscious mind is continuously picking up information from your immediate environment and is accordingly getting programmed.
As per Mahavastu, the moment you clean the north-east zone of anti colours — colours that are not supposed to be in this zone — like red, orange, pink, yellow and also clean the north-east of anti activities, like cooking, storage, dumping waste articles — the zone starts emanating positive vibrations conducive to meditation, self-evaluation and knowing oneself and leads to enlightenment.
To amplify the positive radiations, you can place a pyramid in the north-east zone. The pyramid accumulates and absorbs all the favourable energy of the zone, increases its intensity and remits it back to the environment. This technique can help in strengthening positivity in the house and allows your subconscious mind to communicate better with your consciousness.
A person may spend his entire life analysing each moment and making judgements, as in what is right or wrong. The reason for such an anxiety too lies in the home. The negative energy that produces this state emanates from east-south-east direction of the house. Mahavastu relates the process of thinking and making decisions to the process of manthan or churning. Mahavastu says that the power to have a smoother manthan in one’s mind is drawn from the said zone. All activities or appliances that involve churning should be done only in east-south-east zone as that maintains the balance of energies in the house. But if wrong objects are placed in this zone, the effects can cause extreme anxiety. For instance, the bed placed in this zone will never let you sleep and your mind will always be burdened by haunting thoughts.
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[1] http://archive.asianage.com/buddhajpg-140