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office, a home, we should feel that we know something about the people who live there.
Creating Your Spiritual Blueprints
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PLEASE NOTE: If you live in the southern hemisphere, you will need to shift everything on the vastu purusha mandala 90 degrees to the right. For example, any advice that suggests the northeast would mean the southeast in the southern hemisphere.
To create your vastu blueprints, you need a compass, preferably one that includes the intermediate directions (NE, SE, SW, NW), sheets of paper, and a pencil. You will also need the vastu purusha mandala pullout, which you'll find on p. 000. This mandala, with its valuable vastu guidelines, is your reference and in some cases your actual blueprint. Don't worry. You don't need to be an artist or architect to make your layouts. We're talking about rough drawings here.
Perfection in a Square
As explained in Chapter 2, The Vastu Purusha Mandala, the vastu spiritual blueprint, takes the shape of the square, which Hindus consider the most perfect form. The square stands as a symbol of the Vedic view of the universe. In theory, this shape of the mandala is the model to use for the layout of a physical space or site so that it, too, reflects the universe and its perfect expression of harmony and balance. In your practice of vastu, however, some of your physical spaces or your site may not be in the shape of a square. But when they are square-shaped or nearly square-shaped, use enlarged copies of the vastu purusha mandala pullout to create the layout.

 
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