Sunday, September 9, 2007

Manoj Jain, Vastu Consultant

Buoying up India’s rich heritage against the Chinese Fengshui

Animadverting on the Indians’ blind acceptance of the Chinese culture-oriented Fengshui, Manoj Jain, one of the most expensive Vastu practitioners in India, says, “It is a matter of surprise that the Indians are welcoming a swaggering lifestyle ignoring their own resplendent antediluvian art, culture and heritage.”

Cultures, by inclination, embrace and resist change with dynamic influences that encourage acceptance of new things as well as conservative forces that resist change. This change transpire due to the environment, inventions, internal influences, and contact with other cultures. Religion is often integral to a culture, and Hinduism, a conglomerate of diverse beliefs and traditions, with its origins in the Vedic civilization, is the world's oldest existent religion. India is the house of such an ancient tradition, the rich heritage being enlivened in varied activities and diverse cultures rooted to this convention. But the Indian cultural scenario today is changing fast, the most influential being the Chinese Fengshui, attributed both by economical and social factors. Witnessing this sorry state of affairs with a majority of the citizens calcitrating their own art and crafts bedrocked in Indianism, Manoj Jain, one of the most expensive Vastu practioners in India, tries to buoy up the lost aestheticism.

“Don’t you recall our past relations with the Chinese, when in 1962, prophesizing the motto ‘Indians and Chinese are brothers and sisters’, they committed treason and forcefully acquired lakhs of kilometers of the Indian Territory? The pain and the malaise is still alive in our hearts yet ignoring this great betrayal, most of us are heading forward to accept their culture!” pronounces the knowledge-savvy Mr. Jain. The food chart of the Chinese subsumes cockroach, snake, lizard, dog, mouse, etc., a reflection of the dictum, ‘the type of food determines the type of the mind’. According to the big-league Vastu Consultant, “We hardly become aware of their shrewd nature and hospitality, but later on realize that we have consumed sweet poison, and are still consuming it! They are trying to influence the complete global civilization by sowing the seeds of Fengshui everywhere so that in the long run, they become the dominating culture.”
Such is the manipulation and influence of Fengshui art in almost every Indian household on the wrong reasons of wealth and prosperity that degradation turned to be the end result. Delving on this, Mr. Jain says, “It is a wrong conjecture that Fengshui doesn’t require renovation or breaking up

of certain pillars of a building followed as per Vastu. Direction and the energies related to it do matter to us that benefit us in the long run. Many an unsuccessful Fengshui follower has come to me for advice as how to get back to their peaceful life and their lost assets. You will never find the small lucky Ganesh idol or any of the stamps of Indian ethnicity in a Chinese household. The Chinese are steadfastly stuck to their customs, rituals and mores, whereas we are foolish.” The most sought after Vastu Guru in the country by Bollywood stars, industrialists, builders, politicians and the common people alike, Mr. Jain escalating India’s status as a 17 lakh year old culture against the 5000 year old Fengshui also advocates Vastu’s scientifically proven and logical base contrary to Fengshui’s casuistic and groundless footing.