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Principle

Pictures and Objects to Avoid in Interiors

Paintings split into joined pieces, dry or cut trees, cut photos, mirrors touching the floor, swastik or Om on the floor, crying women, screaming animals, scenes of anger, crime or the Mahabharata, and God without feet should not be kept at home.

What it does

Avoid images that bring negativity.

Where

Whole house

How to do it

  1. 1Use paintings made on one single paper, cloth, board or glass, not panels joined from pieces
  2. 2Remove pictures of dry or cut trees and cut photos
  3. 3Never fix a mirror touching the floor
  4. 4Never draw swastik, Om or God on the floor in rangoli or mandnas
  5. 5Remove portraits of crying women, screaming animals, anger, crime and Mahabharata scenes
  6. 6Remove God pictures without feet

Cautions

  • A painting cut into parts is like keeping broken glass at home

Explanation and notes

Multi-piece prints, for example a Radha Krishna picture where a hand continues on another panel, are popular online but should be avoided; when glass breaks at home we remove it, and the same applies to images joined from pieces.

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