PUJA ROOM

PUJA ROOM                                                                                   26TH AUGUST 2014                               A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z  How To Design Your Pooja Room in Compliance to Vastu Shastra Irrespective to the religion you follow, we all worship God in some or other form. In Vastu Shastra (commonly known as Vastu or Vaastu), there is a dedicated place assigned to the God and having your Pooja Room or Temple or Worship area in this place invites prosperity and well being in individual lives. Puja Room Vastu One of my client I visited, had a complain that there is unavoidable out flow of MONEY, lace of mental peace and no growth in anyone’s life in the family. I was expected to work on the issue and resolve it to have growth and prosperity for all in the family. During my examination of  the vastu (house), the major problems that I observed was in the NorthEast Corner of the house. NorthEast corner is between the North and the East direction i.e. at 45 degrees. Pooja Room Design at NE Direction There was storage of unused items on a huge iron rack. The area was dark and dirty. They had a small temple in the kitchen near the stove and it was unorganized. After all my keen observations, I suggested them following vastu tips for pooja room: Tips for Puja Room as per Vaastu 1. Puja Room should be ideally in NorthEast Direction. 2. NorthEast direction should be clean and painted fresh colours. 3. The deities should be kept such that when you are facing God, you face North or East direction. 4. Advisable colours for the room should be White, Light Yellow, Light Blue. 5. The idols should not be kept facing each other. 6. Remove broke idols or damaged photos and frames. 7. Have all your God pictures and idols at one place. 8. There should not be any unused items stored here. 9. Regularly clean this are. 10. Ensure the Puja Room is not in the basement. 11. This place is the source of positive energy. Use fragrance and light effectively here. 12. Keep the place well decorated. 13. Use sound to generate positive energy by using bells or sound of mantras running. 2 Vastu Advice For The Pooja Room Vastu for Home >> Bathroom : Bedroom : Dining Room : Drawing : Kitchen : Kids Room : Pooja Room Universe is one of the beautiful creations of nature and everything stands alive only in the limelight of truth. Just like every subject of human aspect is governed with rules, regulations & acts, similarly the art of worshipping has got certain key factor principles to attain all its benefits. While planning a house, due to the space constraints, many people tend to ignore a separate pooja room but we must not sideline the need to make a place for GOD. Thus by creating a room for worshipping, we are creating a room to get charged with positive vibrations every morning and that energy will energize our environment, mind, body and soul. Our work efficiency will increase and so the progress, prosperity and peace. This room should be designed carefully because when you do meditation, you should gain the positive energies and then you can feel charged. If it is in wrong direction, then no matter how much meditation you do, you will not feel charged. There are certain rules which one must follow before the commencement of designing a pooja room. The pooja room should always be situated in the North, East or the Northeast side of the house. One should face towards East/North while worshipping. Ideally there should be no idols in the worship room. But if one wish to keep, the height of the idol should not be more than 9"and less than 2". While worshipping, the legs of the idol should be at the chest level of the person worshipping depending on the position, whether standing or sitting. Nothing should be stored above the cabinet or slab here the God's idol is placed. A Pooja room should never be made in a bedroom or on a wall adjacent to the bathroom wall. One shall not enter the pooja room for any purpose without washing his legs and hands. Cleaning the feet by rubbing them against each other is prohibited. The left hand must clean them and the water must be poured by the right hand. Reared side of the feet must always be cleaned first. In pooja room, copper vessels only shall be used particularly where water is collected. Triangular pattern of any God should not be drawn in the Pujaghar. The colour of walls of pooja room should be white, lemon or light blue and the marble used should be white. The worship room should have doors and windows in the north or the east The Agnikund should be in the southeast direction of the worship room. The sacred offerings to the fire should be made with the face towards the east Lamp stand should be placed in the Southeast corner of the pooja room. We have to take care of the following points while studying about the vastu of the pooja room. Vastu consultation of pooja room involves thorough analysis. Proper location of the pooja room in the house The direction of the Entrance The direction & placement of the windows The direction & placement of the God place The direction & placement of the almirah containing pooja stuff The colour scheme of the room 3 Vastu for Pooja room / temple / worship place Puja (Temple) Room Worship should be done in the north east, north, or east sides of the house. It is best that the temple room is in the northeast corner of the house. The worship room should not be to the south. The place of worship should be on the ground floor and not upstairs. The altar should be located on the northeast side of the temple room. The deities or pictures of the deities should either face east or west, and should not face north or south. It is best that the Deities face west and the worshipers face east. The altar should not be set into the wall but should be at least 2.5 cm (an inch) from it. The door to the temple room should have two shutters. Toilets should never be above or below the place of worship. White, light yellow, or light blue are good colors for a temple room. It is good if the worship room is shaped like a pyramid, sloping inward as it goes upward toward the roof in the four directions.