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Vastu Shastra is an architectural and construction science. Any Vastu-designed or decorated home attracts happiness, health, wealth, and fortune.
Both Vastu and Feng shui place a high value on de-cluttering. Before Diwali and Chinese New Year, both Indians and Chinese declutter their homes. It’s ingrained in their culture. What effect does clutter have on us? What should we be especially vigilant about when decluttering? We asked Vastu Acharya Manoj Srivastava these questions, and this article captures his responses and thoughts on clutter and de-cluttering.
Clutter is regarded negatively in Vastu because it obstructs the natural flow of energy throughout the home. Clutter encourages “procrastination” rather than “just do it,” reducing the energy in our minds and actions.
Vastu defines clutter as anything unfinished, unused, unresolved, or hopelessly disorganized. When you surround yourself with your favorite things, you add clarity and focus to your life because things that are loved and used have strong, active energy surrounding them. When you surround yourself with things you no longer love, hold negative memories for, or are no longer useful, your life can become disorganized.
Clutter represents stagnant energy, and it’s one of the most common problems I see with my Vastu clients. It keeps you stuck in the past, promotes procrastination, contributes to a lack of harmony in your home, and leaves you tired, overwhelmed, confused, angry, stuck, and depressed.
Mercury is represented by conches, musical instruments, bells, non-functional clocks, rubber plants, and money plants, and poor placement of mercury can lead to hasty and incorrect career and business decisions. If your chart has a bad placement of mercury or you make bad decisions, it is best to get rid of all non-functional clocks, harmoniums, keyboards, guitars, rubber plants, and money plants. Electric and electronic devices that do not work represent malevolence. Rahu, and if your life is already full of unexpected and unpleasant events, you should immediately remove them from the house.
Nowadays, because of nuclear families, children and adults alike turn to stuffed toys for comfort, and because of attachment, they stay in the house for an extended period of time, even when their immediate needs have passed. These stuffed animals not only get dirty over time, but they also absorb all of the residents’ negative thoughts and emotions. If you have any of them in the house, it is best to get rid of them.
In short, Vastu Acharya Manoj Srivastava recommends that if you want to move forward in life, you should remove these items from your home and, ideally, do a complete de-cluttering exercise at least once a year.
