Your Home: It's a Yantra and not just a Structure
- ME Holistic Centre
- Jan 21
- 3 min read
Why Natural Homes Create Peace, and Cement Palaces Often Don’t
By Manjushree Rathi
Natural Architect | Yantric Architecture Practitioner
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What Do We Really Want From Life?
Ask yourself honestly —
What is it that you ultimately seek?
Is it a grand cement mansion meant to impress others?
Or is it peace, health, stability, and inner happiness?
Through years of study of ancient Sanatan scriptures, living close to nature, and my own research into energy and human spaces, one truth has become very clear to me:
A person living in a huge cement palace may possess wealth, vehicles, comfort, and even good sanskars — yet still remain restless, unhappy, or unwell.
Whereas a person living in a simple mud kutiya, with basic sanskars, can live peacefully, joyfully, and in balance.
The difference does not lie in money.
It lies in energy.
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A Home Is Not Neutral — It Is Always Working on You
We often assume that a house is just a shelter.
But ancient wisdom and modern observation both tell us otherwise.
Every space we live in continuously interacts with us.
It affects our thoughts, emotions, sleep, health, and inner state.
From a Sanatan perspective, this is very clear:
यथा अन्नं तथा मनः
(Chāndogya Upanishad 7.26.2)
“As is the nourishment, so is the mind.”
Just as food influences the mind and body, the space we inhabit nourishes or disturbs our inner being.
This is where the idea of Yantra becomes crucial.
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From Structure to Yantra: How I See Architecture
In ancient Bharatiya knowledge systems, a yantra is not merely a symbol — it is a functional energy geometry that actively interacts with the user.
Through my research and experience, I came to understand that a home is also a yantra.
That understanding changed my entire approach to architecture.
I do not design homes as static structures.
I design them as living yantras — spaces where material, geometry, orientation, and natural elements together form an energetic field.
Mud, wood, earth, cow dung, and natural materials allow energy to flow, ground, and harmonize with human energy.
Cement and steel, on the other hand, often block or distort natural energy flow.
This is why I work exclusively with natural architecture.
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Why Yogis and Sadhus Choose Kutiya, Not Palaces
Have you ever wondered why real yogis and sadhus prefer parn kutiyas over cement structures?
It is not about renunciation of comfort.
It is about clarity of energy.
Those who walk the inner path understand that a space can either: • support inner growth
• or silently drain life energy
A parn kutiya is not poverty —
it is a conscious choice of harmony.
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What We Observed at Tapovan: Energy Is Measurable
At Tapovan, I have conducted hundreds of live energy demonstrations using scientific instruments.
People could: • see energy variations on machines
• feel the change in their own bodies
• compare cement contact vs earth contact
Those who attended experienced that: • energy reduced in contact with cement
• energy increased when touching mati (mother earth) and desi cow dung
This was not imagination.
It was measurable, repeatable, and experiential.
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When Skepticism Turned into Acceptance
The Editor of Dainik Bhaskar, Shri Hazare ji, once visited Tapovan to see the kutiya. He came with a highly critical and questioning mind.
I conducted the same energy demonstration.
He observed carefully, questioned deeply, and verified everything.
By the end, he accepted that: • cement reduced energetic stability
• natural materials enhanced grounding and vitality
A few days later, he returned with his entire family and requested the same demonstration for them.
That moment reaffirmed something important:
Truth does not need belief — it needs experience.
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House vs Home
A house is made of cement and steel.
A home is made of heart, earth, and awareness.
A house may impress society.
A home nurtures life.
The real question is not: “How big is your house?”
The real question is: “Does your home support your peace and health — or slowly take it away?”
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A Silent Choice We All Make
Every day, by the spaces we choose to live in, we make a silent decision: • towards harmony or disturbance
• towards health or imbalance
• towards peace or restlessness
Natural homes are not a return to the past.
They are a return to intelligence.
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Final Reflection
A home is not where you merely stay.
It is where your energy either rises — or slowly fades.
Choose wisely.
— Manjushree Rathi
Architect | Yantric Architecture Practitioner
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