Vastushastra for Loveshastra!

Mahima is head over heels in love with Manav. Right from their compatibility quotient to a rocking sex life, everything was as good as a fairy ta

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le till they shifted into their new home, only to realise that their enviable chemistry was gradually losing its fizz.

In the serene ambience of their new habitat, the once compatible twosome found their mushy pillow talks and heightened sexual escapades being replaced with a grave like stillness. They finally consulted Vastu experts who pointed out that love nest wasn't an ideal comfort zone for them as per the laws of Vastushastra .

Enjoying a satisfying relationship (mentally and sexually) involves far more than a great sexual prowess and understanding between the partners. Even external factors, including your home, have the potency to create unnecessary chaos in your love life, irrespective of your compatibility quotient.

So here we explore Vastushastra , the magical science of interiors, to make your bedroom conducive for a physically, mentally and most importantly sexually gratifying life.

Expert speak: Vikram Chawla, a Vastu consultant, puts forward the significance of embracing Vastu in one's bedroom. Directions play a major role in creating an aura of passion, tranquility and rest, which are very important for your love life to go smoothly. With a few minor changes in your bedroom's decor, a couple can perfectly harmonise the universal life force and promote the flow of warm and sensual energies. The changes would depend on the favourable and unfavourable directions and the elements related to them.

Another Vastu consultant, Dr. Puneet Chawla, elucidates on the various aspects of our personal lives that can be greatly improved by Vastu , which is a science that reforms the external influences to bring a positive change in a person's life, including his relationship with the spouse, power of conception and even progeny. It also facilitates a healthy, calm and relaxed state of mind. For example, even Hindu religious scriptures consider the North-easterly direction as unsuitable for conception. Communion in this direction can result in anything from a miscarriage to a mentally retarded or a physically unfit off spring as opposed to the South-west direction which is ideal for conception.

Besides experimenting with the bedroom’s direction, Vastushastra also heralds the importance of creating a constant aura of peace and tranquility at a holistic level. Rakesh Chawla from the Institute of Vastukala explains, "The bedroom is linked with the intimacy of a loving relationship. A cluttered bedroom increases the probability of you and your partner being exhausted most of the time, leaving no time for a sensual union. If you do not keep it clean at both visible and invisible levels, then you will feel that you are getting churlish and loosing sleep"

Interestingly, not just its directions, but also the decorative items placed in the bedroom, including artifacts, paintings, mirrors, statues etc. have a direct bearing on your life. For example, an aromatic candle kept in the South-east direction adds to the excitement level. On the same lines, the incorrect placement of a mirror in the bedroom induces the feeling of infidelity in either of the two partners. Similarly, a couple of love birds or doves on the bed rest inculcate feelings of togetherness.