The way you decorate your home says a lot about you. If you are fond of collecting amazing paintings of different kinds to put at home or your place of work, here’s something you need to be careful about. According to Vastu Shastra, there are certain paintings that you should never keep at home as it is believed that these can have a negative impact on your life. Here is a list of paintings you should avoid keeping at your home or work place.
1. Taj Mahal’s Painting:
Though people recognize Taj mahal as the epitome of love, it is actually the final resting place of Mumtaz, Shahjahan’s wife. It is a grave and symbolizes death and passivity. Any showpiece or image of Taj-Mahal should not be kept at home as it is believed that it creates negativity around and affects our lives gravely.
2. War scenes From Ramayana and Mahabharata:
War scenes from Ramayana and Mahabharata should not be kept at home. Such pictures and paintings symbolize a never ending rivalry among family members. It is also said that you should never keep an image of any of the scenes from Mahabharata in your house.
3. Flowing Water’s Painting:
Never have a picture at home or workplace that has flowing water in it. Such paintings bring in Poverty. Don’t even have water fountains, as it signifies the flowing nature of an object. It symbolizes that the money and prosperity that comes in your life will not stay for long and will rather disappear with the flow of time.
4. Sinking Ship’s painting
This is another image that should never be kept at home. A sinking boat shows a deteriorating nature in the relationships between family members. Such paintings are believed to affect your destiny for the worse. So if you have one at your house, throw it out immediately.
5. Nataraja Painting:
The image or idol of a cosmic dancer Shiva is to be found in the house of almost every classical dancer. Though Nataraja symbolizes tremendous art form, at the same time it symbolizes destruction. It is so because, the dance form is actually, ‘Tandava Nritya’, meaning dance for destruction. So an image or show piece of Nataraja is one of the things that should not be there in your home.
6. A Crying Child’s Painting:
A crying or distressed child’s paintings are considered modern art nowadays. However, these paintings bring in bad luck. So, it’s better not having such paintings at your home or workplace.
Pictures and paintings of trees without fruit or flowers, nudes, hunting scenes, indrajal (magic), captured elephants and images like sad, weeping or crying people should not be hung in the home as they all show negativity in them.
7. Violent Animals Painting:
All pictures of terrifying giants and demons, wild beasts like tigers, bears, wolves, lions, jackals and wild hounds etc should not be placed in a home. Any image or show piece of a wild animal is not to be kept at home as it depicts wildness in the nature of all things. It brings a violent approach in the nature of people living in the house.
Vastu Shastra recommends that the pictures, paintings of animals and birds like pigs, vultures, snakes, owl, eagle, bats, asses, pigeons, and crows etc also should be avoided.
You may not know the negative affect some things have on you. You may be wondering about the increasing level of negativity in your home despite having so many things. So, if you have one of these paintings at your home or office, make sure you remove them immediately.