Vastu Shastra: Importance of entrance and doorways in Vastu

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The threshold or the main doorway of a house is the dwelling place of the divine trinity Lord Ganapathy, Goddess Lakshmi and Goddess Saraswathi. This doorway is the entrance to the office of Brahmma.

The width of the building should be divided into 9 equal parts and the main doorway created at the middle part(5th)

á       In the case of a temple, government department, a bank or a treasury it should be created in the middle part during a GURU AYADHI.

á       In the case of a resident, the same should be created in middle part during Sukran Ayadhi.

á       In the case of the residents being artisans and the workshops connected with fine arts, the main doorway should be erected in the middle parts during a Sukran Ayadhi.

It is important that the main doorway should remain at the ground floor itself even in the case of multistoried building.

For good reasons, the hall at the innerside of the threshold should not have two doorways. Experience has reveled that those persons, either great personalities or ordinary simpleton, who live in such a house with two main door ways for a hall had undergone a great deal of sufferings.

According to the rules of the "Manai Adi Sastra" Ð Science of building construction Ð if two main doorways are erected for one hall, wealth, health and fame aspects will improve. But all these assets will get lost thereafter. As a result, the expenditure will be more than the income , the debt will accumulate, ill-health will prevail and enmity will grow. Loss of peace of mind, growing misunderstanding in the family, decrease in the love and affection and the member of the family turning arch rivals to one another are all the bad consequences.

The livelihood of the head of the family will be affected. Failures in a row will be met and heavy losses will be incurred due to fire and theft.

The natural course of actions will be interrupted in many ways. The rule reiterates that the person will be subjected to unaccountable chaos and confusion, fear and fright and earn the enmity of friends, relatives and the government.

Like wise, all the auspicious occasions will be unduly delayed. Fate will play a crucial role in making the offspring, who are supposed to add pride to the parents, to turn awry, become slaves to bad habits and spoil the reputation of the parents.

Even today one could notice in South India many ancient buildings having the symbols and figures of gods and other artistic designs engraved in the main door frames, strictly following the precepts of the celestial architects Maya and Viswakarma. These are houses which light up holy lamps and place them in the niches situated on either side of the maindoor frame to give a divine look.

It is important to see that the halls and rooms should be constructed inside the main doorway in such a way that no pillars or walls are erected straight across the main doorway.

The head of the family will incur losses and meet with calamities in case if there are pillars or walls standing across the main doorway.

It is ideal that the dimension of the doorways from the main door way to the backdoor way go on decreasing gradually. In case if there are rooms across the main doorway for which there is no provision to erect a doorway, a window my be erected across the main doorway.

It will be a defect to have any wall that obstructs the main doorway.

The South West direction of the house is known as "Niruthi" or the cardinal point "Kanni". "Niruthi", a demigod, and who has "Durga" as his wife, is acting as a regent of this cardinal point by virtue of his power of religious austerities. Under no circumstances windows or doorways be erected at this cardinal point of South West.

Lakshmi, the Goddess of fortune will flee from such a house, which has in it a doorway created in the South West corner, and the goddess of evil will occupy such house.

So it is a blemish to have a doorway at the South West corner. Weapons, heavy articles and things that are rarely used should be stored in this direction. To leave this direction vacant is also a defect. In such cases there will be loss of property, loss due to fire and unfavorable economic condition will prevail leading to debts and sufferings.

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