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Himalayas, causing trees, earth, and boulders to break loose from mountains, leveling entire villages. Roadbeds disappeared and rivers shifted course. Rockslides tumbled down on both sides of the Badrinath, but the temple, with its precious inner sanctum, was unscathed.
When I suggested to Sudesh that this was some sort of miracle, he agreed. But he also said that vastu's guidelines did teach temple architects how to examine stones, rocks, all the aspects of a potential construction site. "They understood fault lines," said Sudesh. "They noticed how the sheep grazedwhere they went and where they wouldn't go. They examined the stones and saw what had happened to them over the ages." Vastu showed architects how to read nature's legends. The architects had paid attention and the Badrinath Temple survived.

 
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