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turned ludicrous. "Some workers refused to follow a schedule of hours. I mean after lunch some of them just disappeared for the day." Bindal laughed. |
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Bindal reconsidered his rejection of vastu. He called in a vastu consultant who made corrective changes. By 1996, positive results had improved the company's health. The difficult laborers disappeared for good. Orders flowed in. Visitors who sat in Bindal's office volunteered that the room made them feel comfortable. |
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Vastu led to such success for Bindal and his company that it motivated him to embrace many of the other Hindu sciences. He hired a yoga expert, who runs a daily yoga program for all the employees. This has also increased productivity and efficiency. Now the company plans to pipe classical Indian music throughout the premises: morning ragas that give mental peace and concentration; afternoon ragas that energize; and evening ragas that are restful. |
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In between my classes and meetings with vastu practitioners, I was also determined to find my own vastu teacher who would be willing to share his knowledge with me. I knew there were a lot of quacks trying to make a bundle of bucks off vastu, and from what I'd been hearing, in their hands it had all gotten rather misconstrued. I was looking for someone who was familiar with some of the ancient vastu texts and had a genuine foundation in its science and architecture. |
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I arranged meetings with scholars and archaeologists. After many meetings, one scholar put me in touch with a man who, he felt, could lead me to the perfect teacher. I made an appointment with the gentleman and early the next afternoon I set off in a three-wheeled motorized rickshaw into the sultry heat of New Delhi. After puttering up and down dusty narrow streets in a modest neighborhood, the driver finally located the basement office of Professor H.D. Chhaya. |
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This respected professor, who teaches at New Delhi's prestigious School of Planning and Architecture, sat behind a metal desk that had neither a computer nor a typewriter. An empty chair was positioned in front of his desk as if awaiting a visitor. A metal file cabinet was tucked in one corner of the humble basement. About fifty books were crammed into a wood book- |
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