The True Inspiration in Life

Comes from Continuous Growth.

Alchemy of

Growth

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VastuShastri Khushdeep Bansal

Alchemy of

Growth

Discover Panchkosha, the secret key of Vedic Alchemy,

for your holistic Growth.

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Prayer

(O Absolute Conscious Lord of The Building, Having Earth As

Your Seat of Creation, I Bow to You from My Soul,
May You Always Bless My Home with
Money, Food and Prosperity.)

CONTENTS
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Growth what it is? And, how it can be

made into what you desire it to be?
Welcome to the Inner Journey of self-awareness
and awareness of the Existence for Growth.
ONE

Panchkosha: The Five Layers of Being 27

Annamaya Kosha : Action Body Pranmaya Kosha : Feeling
Body Manomaya Kosha : Experience Body Vigyanmaya
Kosha : Intuition Body Anandmaya Kosha : Joy Body
The Five Layers of Being what are they and how do they
function? It is necessary to know the rules of the game in
order to win.
TWO

The SecretS of Growth in Alchemy 53

Five Bodies in Action Process of Creation
Everything is created in the mind first and then it comes to the
existence. The Vedic Alchemists went beyond this. They came
to the inverse theory from Ananda to creating a New World.
Three

Experience The Inner Path of Growth 65

Mastering the Five Bodies Solutions for Growth
To accomplish greater growth, manifest your desires and
dreams, the journey will always start from inside.

FOUR

Powerful Influence of Buildings

and Earth 89
Building Space Earth Powers
Your Inner mind is connected with the Inner space of your
building. Consciousness reacts with the inner space of the
building and creates a Field of Effect for manifestations.
FIVE

Alchemy: The Gateway of Growth

Since Ages 109
Temples of Growth Alchemy of Growth
The connectivity of your Anandmaya Kosha with the universal
mind makes things happen.
SIX

Nurturing the Growth Everyday 127

Living with Growth Holistic Growth
Growth is the nutrition for life. Success is a journey.
Continuous Growth is the inspiration for this journey and
deeply linked with your being.

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Glossary
INDEX

Alchemy of

Growth

Five Layers of Growth

To understand Growth what it is and how it can be
made into what we desire it to be, it is necessary to
understand its alchemy and how the Vedic Alchemy
of Space, Vastu Shastra can be harnessed to live a
realistically fulfilled life. The Alchemy of Growth
has been beautifully explained by our ancient saints
and sages.
According to Vedanta the entire creation grows
and evolves in five layers called Panchkoshas or the
Five Layers of Existence, namely Annamaya Kosha,
Pranmaya Kosha, Manomaya Kosha, Vigyanmaya

Kosha and Anandmaya Kosha. Annamaya Kosha is

the gross layer of existence while Anandmaya Kosha
is the most subtle.
Panchkosha is the natural hardware design of
Existence spread across five layers where the entire
process of Existence takes place. To understand the
Alchemy of Growth and to work with the symbols
for creating a life you desire, let us understand these
layers of creation and growth. This knowledge will
not only help us in understanding the phenomenon
called Life, but also in crafting it the way we want
it to be.
Most of you experience this in your day-to-day
life: you respond to a situation in a particular manner,
and later on, wonder where that response actually
came from! Your response to a particular situation
is rooted in the programming of your inner mind,
which in turn is programmed by the Five Layers of
Space you live in.
The five layers in a human being are Annamaya
Kosha (Action body), Pranmaya Kosha (Feeling or

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Energy body), Manomaya Kosha (Experience or

Mind body), Vigyanmaya Kosha (Intuitive body) and
the fifth is Anandmaya Kosha (Joy body).
To draw an analogy, your mind is like the internet
search engine and consciousness is like electricity;
if there is no electricity, the search engine cannot
work. Our physical body, that is our Action body is
like the computer; Feeling body is like the computer
programme; internet is also like the mind; and the
information we get over the internet is like Intuition.
But what is Ananda? Ananda is the spontaneous
surge of emotions and feelings you experience when
you come across what you have been striving for
so long. It is like the feeling that comes over you
when you stumble upon the desired information over
the Internet.
It is that Wow feeling; the Ananda arising on
a successful completion of your search. Especially,
when it is helpful in manifesting an important
purpose while you work for your holistic growth. Say,
if you wish for a computer; but if it is not working

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the computer is useless. You need a programme to

make it work and search for the information.
But even the programme is useless if you do
not have the internet access. Once again it is useless
to just have internet if you do not know what is the
information you are looking for. In such a case,
whatever information the Internet throws up is
meaningless for you.
In fact without a purpose for growth you cannot
even search for an information. Therefore, the basic
precondition is the presence of a desire, an urge for
information. It is equally true for us as beings. If
we do not have desires, if we do not have dreams
then our whole existence our body, Prana, mind,
intuition is useless and meaningless.
To grow, whatever you want to achieve in
life, for that you need to understand whatever is
happening naturally around you. That will help you
understand how things grow in Vastu. You can also
call it the Science of Life. The way our sages and
seers have explained this science is really beautiful

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and worth paying attention to. Vastu Shastra

emanates from Sthapatya Veda (one of the Up-Vedas
of Vedic knowledge).
Patanjali, the first scientist on meditation
and creator of Yoga, also speaks of the five bodies
without using these words. The whole technology
of understanding the five bodies comes with the
Patanjali Yoga Sutras but nowhere does Patanjali
mention them by name.
And, I am really astonished how Patanjali, with
his mind, could have left out the words pertaining to
Panchkosha. Shankaracharya in Vivek Chudamani
explains beautifully how these five bodies are
working inside us. In Taittreya Upanishad also it is
beautifully described.
I will not go into the details of the Vedanta
darshan (philosophy) here. I will focus more on how
these five bodies work, how they become the base for
Alchemy of Growth, how it all comes together, and
then how you can use the layers of your own being to
create the life you desire.

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We will also see how the mind works with these

five layers, because these five layers are also the
basis for the five different kinds of experience of
our Mind.
Slowly you will start recognising that when you
took a particular decision, you were in Ananda, or
when you were having a certain feel, which of your
five bodies you were in; so when your mind was at
a particular level or layer and you took a decision,
what happened in your life. How you can establish
this on other levels also.
Further we will understand in detail the five
bodies and how they work and how to work with
them at will. Because then, whenever you want to
take a serious decision, or a creative decision, you
will know how to use the different layers and how to
enter into these layers at will.
It must be kept in mind that nature has her own
way to create the world from Ananda (joy or bliss)
to physical manifestation. The order of transition from
Anandmaya Kosha to Annamaya Kosha is reversed

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when you build a house or any other building. Now,

it is through Sthoola (physical or material form) that
you want to achieve the subtle bliss.
The ultimate purpose of a building is achieving
Ananda, whether it is through physical comfort,
security, amassing wealth or through fame. The routes
may be several but the sole aim of all your actions is
Ananda. How you actually get that feeling of Ananda
is conditioned by the Space you inhabit.
Every person creates his own conditionings
(Vrittis) and buildings according to his own perception
of the source of Ananda. Now, this sequence of
expectations of getting Ananda is happening each
moment around you; it is happening all around.
But when a physical form takes place, when
the manifestation of the human being is there in
the physical world, then again it wants to achieve
Ananda. The ultimate desire is to achieve the joy, the
bliss. The modus operandi may differ.
Someone wants money, someone wants to
possess something else; but, everyone is engaged in

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one final search that is the search for Ananda; even

those who are leaving behind each and everything in
the mundane sense. So the core search and the core
achievement is Ananda.
In the Vedanta, the reference point Ananda is
known as Anandmaya Kosha. Kosha literally means
a sheet or a layer. So it is a layer of Ananda. When
ancient Vedic Rishis (mystics) realised this, by getting
established in Ananda, they came to know of other
layers also.
In this way the whole physical world, as is
visible to human eye and other senses of perception,
manifests on five levels (layers). For all that you
want to create. If what you desired is not happening,
then you should look into the knowledge of these
five layers. How do these five layers create and
control our lives? Why do we not attain bliss or when
and how can we do so? All these aspects should be
understood in depth.
This book besides answering all these questions
also answers how to experience the Panchkoshas?

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How buildings affect your Panchkoshas? And, how

to advance in the field of meditation (Dhyan), Yoga,
and spirituality?
Welcome to the inner journey of self-awareness
and awareness of the Existence. To achieve the
holistic growth you always longed for in order to
create the life of your dreams, with the Alchemy
of Growth.

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