Things not to keep at Home: Vastu for your home

Things not to keep at Home: Vastu for your home

Vastu shastra is the science of construction. A home constructed and decorated in coherence with vastu brings happiness, health, wealth and good luck.According to vastu, there are certain things whichyou should not keep at home. These things bring negative energy and bad luck to you and your home. Here is a list of things you should avoid keeping at your home:War scenes: War scenes from Ramayana and Mahabharata should not be kept at home. Such pictures and paintings depict rivalry among family members.Cactus or thorny plants: You should never plant or keep cactus in your home. Other thorny plants except roses should also be removed.Negativity in Images: Pictures and paintings of trees without fruit or flowers, sinking boats, nudes, fight scenes using swords, hunting scenes, indrajal (magic), captured elephants and images like sad, weeping or crying people shouldnot be hung inside your home.Taj Mahal: Any showpiece or image of Taj-Mahalshould not be kept at home. It is a grave and symbolize death and passivity.Painting or statues of animals: The pictures, painting and statues of animals and birds like pigs, snakes, asses, eagle, owls, bats, vultures, pigeons and crows etc. should be avoided. Vastu recommends not to keep or display a single bird or animal in the couples bedroom.

Terrifying giants and demons: All pictures, wooden or metal figures of terrifying giants and demons, wild beasts like tigers, wolves, bears, lions, jackals and wild hounds etc. should not be placed in a home.Broken idols or mirror: Do not keep broken glass, broken mirror and broken images or statue of Gods and Goddesses in your home.Water Fountain: The way you decorate your homesays a lot about you. Some water lovers keep amazing water fountains in their house. But according to vastu, no such thing should be there in your home as it signifies the flowing nature of an object. It means that the money and prosperity that comes in your life will not stay for long and will rather disappear with the flow of time.Sinking Boat: This is another image that should never be kept at home. A sinking boat shows a deteriorating nature in the relationships between family members. So if you have one at your housethrow it out immediately.Nataraja: The image of a cosmic dancer Shiva is to be found in the house of almost every classical dancer. But there are two sides of the same coin.

Nataraja symbolises this tremendous art form, at the same time it symbolises destruction. It is so because the dance form is actually ‘tandava nritya’, meaning dance for destruction. So an image or show piece of nataraja is one of things that should not be there in your home.Image of Mahabharata: You should never keep an image of any of the scenes from Mahabharata in your house. Such things and images symbolises a never ending rivalry among the family members.