The Happy Home Project by Jean Nayar

Author:Jean Nayar [NAYAR, JEAN]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781936297535
Publisher: Filipacchi Publishing
Published: 2011-05-31T16:00:00+00:00

Beauty: The proper placement of furniture is one part of the vastu decorating equation. But beauty, known in Sanskrit as sundari, is another essential ingredient. And vastu encourages you to imitate nature in your approach to bringing beauty into the home. In her illuminating book Vastu: Transcendental Home Design in Harmony with Nature (Gibbs Smith), author Sherri Silverman describes the healing effect of beautiful objects or spaces, and in this sense the vastu approach to decorating a room is aimed at allowing it to function spiritually, through beauty, as well as physically. Silverman explains that vastu defines beauty in terms of rasas. A Sanskrit term, rasa means “juice” or “sap,” and represents the nuanced energetic essence of any kind of art or architecture that makes it pleasing, captures the imagination and leads to an experience described as rasavadanda, the sense of transcendence we experience in the face of true beauty, which communicates the hidden power behind the world by shining through a physical form.

Historically, the vastu shastra upanishad defines nine major rasas, or variations on the essence of beauty, including soothing or uplifting qualities such as tranquility, playfulness, heroism, wonder and romance, as well as darker sides of beauty such as fear, contemptuousness, anger and compassion. Choosing art and objects that embody the happier rasas will surely result in a more uplifting, inspiring home.

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