Office Effects - Vaastu says
By - Rakesh Chawla
In today’s hi-tech world everyone is striving for success and the
price one pays is devoting more time to office chores than to the family.
Therefore, it becomes
imperative to create the right ambience at your
place of work. Ambience is not simple aesthetics, it’s rhythm.
The
cognition of rhythm is resonance between the thought process of employees
and objectives of the company. Vaastu assists in achieving rhythm.
Location of the chief executive, departmental heads should be in
southwest quadrant. The shape of their cabin to be a square or a rectangle.
Do not create complications by accommodating responsible people in an odd
shaped cabin or corner. They should have an energy cycle inside their cabins
and their passage should be clear and straight.
The rising sun enlightens the world and such should be the quality of an
organisational head. In order to get inspiration from this natural
phenomena,
the chief should work facing the east alternatively the north.
North is strongly recommended for those in financial services.
The entrance door to an office should preferably be in the east or north.
East ensures an inflow of new ideas and north signifies the flow of wealth.
Nevertheless if it’s from south or west, draw a swastika on the layout
plan, wherever there’s an opening in this symbol your premises can have
one too. The ideal ration of length-breadth is 1:2. There need not be any
creaking sound of door while opening or closing. The door should be fixed
absolutely vertical to the floor, it should never slant under any
circumstances which is to say it should not close by itself other than using
a door closer.
The floor level of an office can be lower towards east and north and
slightly elevated towards southwest. The organisational head sits a little
above the rest of the employees which becomes similar to a king sitting on
his throne on elevated platform.
North being the direction of the lord of wealth, its auspicious to
place your accounts department towards north and have the cash box against
the south wall of the room opening northwards.
The accountability towards profitability is the responsibility of all
departmental heads. Vaastu says marketing controls the movement of goods,
their efforts should be supplemented by the element of movement, that is
air, have the marketing in northwest quadrant. Accounts as mentioned above
in the north, administration towards east, R&D or creativity in the
Southeast, policy makers long south or west.
Keep in mind
- Never keep a trash can next to the entrance door nor should it be in
visual range
- Do not have any obstruction in front of the main door.
- If it’s a large office, ensure not to have three doors in a
straight line.
- The shadow of any tree or adjacent building should not fall on the
main door.
- Whenever possible play functional music or light instrumental music
to stimulate the work environment.
- In general your place of work should be well lit, well ventilated,
should have a pleasant incense or room freshener
- The northeast corner is for noble thinking, it’s called
Ishanaya. Placing an impression of Lord Ganesha in this corner is
recommended.
- The center of the office as well as your residence is similar to your
navel. Do not place any heavy object on it.
If the office is part of a residence or in a factory the ideal location is
along south or west of the premises incorporating all other parameters
mentioned above. In these two cases the influencing factor is the extent to
which Vaastu is followed in the rest of the premises.
If you are
following 65-70 percent of the guidelines, functional rhythm should be felt
.
Article Appeared
in The Hindustan
Times,
New Delhi
Issue Of Nov 22 1997
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