Many people have the habit of keeping unwanted things and stuffing up their spaces with such things. They neither use them nor throw them away. This is clutter. It may be the old clothes that you store, hoping for them to come back to fashion, or which have been given as gifts-expensive ones. You dont wear them because of one reason or the other, but you do not throw or give them away either.
Old magazines, papaers, clippings from newspapers, old books which you hope may be useful someday, but actually more than five years have passed without you having read/used them, even once.
Chipped or broken show pieces. Old video casettes and old audio casettes. Old appliances which dont work anymore. Watches and clocks that are not working. Junk and old newspapers. Very old account and record books, more than 15 years old. Mental clutter-old emotions and memories.
Remove all the clutter from your life if you want to progress. Clutter holds people back, each piece of junk attaches an invisible string to you, and all this hampers progress, because each of these hoarded things occupies a space (like megabyte of computer memory) of your mind. We should not clutter up the mind. Get rid of all physical and mental clutter, and see how free, comfortable and happy you feel. Just as the same way a Yogi gets rid of social ties from spiritual progress, you should get rid of your extra physical possessions, for materialistic progress.
Another thing you can do after clutter clearance is to light up incense sticks daily in the house for cleansing, or even ring a bell all over the house.
Most people in India, specially Hindus, will not mind a picture of Mahabharata's war of Kurukshetra, for it's religious values, presence of Lord Krishna and the direct reference to Gita scripture, but not too many will know, or will believe that this picture, and other pictures like this, even if they have religious sentiments, have a fatal effect on the relationships within family members and cause unimaginable damage to peace and harmony in the house. Never display pictures of violence. There should be no paintings or pictures depicting violence anywhere in your house, specially in South-West corner, as it is the corner of relationships. If there is a picture of war in the South West, it could have ill effects on the relationships of the family members. Displaying scenes of Mahabharata, even pictures of weapons, which symbolize violence could lead to severe arguments in the family and disturbed relationships within loved ones. Some people actually display real weapons, like swords and rifles, or their imitations on the walls of the house, which may lead to real violence in the family, including life threatening incidents. You can prevent those fights and frictions. Please do not display war, violence, wild animals that hunt and kill, and weapons in your house to maintain peace, harmony and love within the family members.
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