Let me get out the bad news first. This has been a pretty rough week in terms of my transportation. I got into my car to go to lunch last Saturday, the 18th, and went to start it like any other morning. And nothing—a totally dead battery. I was able to get a jump from a friend and get my car into town to buy a new battery, but at the auto parts store, the tests showed that the battery still had life. Weird! So I leave the store planning to stop by my mechanic to sort things out when, on the way there, my car stalls in the middle of Burlington Avenue and won't start again. Not good.
Long story short, I needed to replace both the battery and the alternator, which lead to me having no transportation to and from Jon's office for this past week. While this was a bummer both financially and experientially, it gave me an opportunity to focus more on trying to understand some of a book that Cathy Gorini, Dean of Faculty at Maharishi University of Management, gave me. It is written by a man named Roger Auder, a mathematician residing in Europe, and it relates very beautifully the principles of Vāstu to Group theory.
Below are some excerpts from that book.
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| Cover of Roger Auder's book, "Principles of Vāstu Planning in the light of Group theory" |
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A great introduction outlining the motivations for studying the connections between
Group theory and Ayadi, the system of measurement used in Sthāpatya Veda |
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| Some basics of Group theory outlining symmetries of a square |
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| A beautiful connection between symmetry and order in nature |
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| Four basic axioms that comprise a group: Closure, Associativity, Identity and Inverse Elements |
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| Outline of the ideal Vāstu Purusha Mandala |
Obviously, this is a
very simple introduction to the book itself, and I definitely needed to dust off my Abstract Algebra skills, but I'm looking forward to continuing to understand and digest the entirety of this publication throughout the remainder of my studies regarding Vāstu over the coming years.
