Maharishi Sthapatya Veda
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In his televised press conference of November 16, 2005, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi said he believes it is vital for everyone in the world to live and work in buildings constructed according to Sthapatya Veda or Vastu architecture. Sthapatya Veda is based on Vedic principles, according to which the arrangement and layout of one's home has important effects on all areas of one's life (similar beliefs exist in Feng Shui). According to Sthapatya Veda, it is most auspicious for the main entrance of all structures to face the east, and all the rooms in a Vedically-correct building must be arranged around a central "Brahmastan" or seat of divinity.
At the press conference, Maharishi said it is imperative that all members of the organization quickly move into dwellings constructed according to Vedically-correct principles and that he would no longer talk or deal with any member of the TM community who lived in structures that are not consistent with Vedic principles.
According to the chief architect at Maharishi Global Construction in Fairfield, Iowa, building a home according to Maharishi's Vedically-correct principles "connects the individual intelligence of the occupant of the house to the cosmic intelligence of the universe." Homes with entrances facing west invite "poverty, lack of creativity and vitality," according to a pamphlet.[1]
In keeping with Maharishi's suggestion, Maharishi University of Management has demolished approximately 40 campus buildings, which included a Christian chapel used for services by various denominations and for interdenominational services. Buildings such as this chapel, although a historical site on the campus, required extensive and expensive repairs and restoration. At that time demolition was a financially more feasible choice. Demolished buildings will be replaced with buildings constructed according to Vedic principles.[2] In the Netherlands, the TM movement is encountering resistance over its plans to tear down a former Christian monastery and replace it with Vastu-compliant structures.[3]
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- ^ Scott Canon, Sept. 28, 1999, Kansas City Star, [1] "Maharishi's followers have integrated into small Iowa town"
