India is considered the mother of Vastu as the ancient saints have formulated various principles of it. It was written nearly thousand years ago where the sages kept in their minds the results of sunlight and energy and stabilizing all the nature's five elements in such a way to get the maximum advantage out of it. In India, it evolved around 5000 years ago and is considered a super science whereas the origin of Chinese Feng Shui was 3500-4500 years ago.
Basically, Vastu Shastra deals with the exercise of architecture and construction or building science and in fact it gives a fair touch in every aspects of life on the earth as well as the universe. The basic theme remains a link that is ever-present between the man and cosmos. The word 'Vastu' was originated from the term 'VASTOSHPATI' which had its usage in the Rig Veda and is said to render happiness, prosperity and protection in life and after death too. However, Vastu Shastra truly conceives in the presence of Vastu Purush, who is considered the main deity of a building.
Vastu Shastra is a science of directions and is a study that acquires an entire command over the cognition of directions. In fact, there are actually eight directions namely, northeast, north, southeast, east, southwest, south, northwest and west. It is entirely an Indian science of architecture and space and how environments and spaces are created supporting the spiritual and physical prosperity and health. This had evolved in India during the Vedic times and the concepts of Vastu Shastra were transmitted to South East Asia, Tibet and ultimately to Japan and China where the developmental base of Feng-shui originated.
One could find the proofs of Vastu Shastra during the periods of Mahabharat and Ramayan and also, its applications can be seen in the cities of Harappa and Mohanjodaro. According to the Vastu Shastras, when one worships, fears and respects the lords of all the above said directions, it considered that benefits and blessings would be showered on us. Moreover, saints have searched the Vastu Shastra and we make only researches. The ancient science helped a lot in getting the benefits freely that are offered by five basic elements of the world in which everyone lead their lives. The five elements of the universe are sky (Akash), water (Paani), wind (Vayu), fire (Agni) and earth (Prithvi). It is believed that Vastu Shastra is a perfect understanding of geography, direction, environment, physics and topography and is essentially the art of placing the correct settings in a manner that yields the maximum benefits.
However, the ancient scholars have said that the Vastu are based on both positive and negative powers, which constantly contacts with each other on the land's surface. It is in fact a good sign and gives good results when the positive energies are found more than the negative energies in the construction. It also gives more benefits to the inmates paving way to achieve a successful, wealthy, healthy and peaceful life. Hence, Indian Vastu Shastra goes a long way in understanding the effects and benefits and when they are followed with right notion, success follows every person.
VASTU FOR HOUSE:
Building a home as per the Vastu norms is really essential because it brings congruent balance amidst assorted atmospheric natural energies including cosmic energy, solar energy, lunar energy and many more. Vastu for home will involve several important traits, which depicts unique style in building every room of your home. Constructing a home by closely sticking with the Vastu principles will greatly bring peace, success and opulence to the dwellers residing in the home. Moreover, a good Vastu Shastra will drive away the negative powers and brings holiness and supreme powers into the home. Here are some brief descriptions that describe, in which style your home and rooms should be built by closely sticking with the Vastu norms.
Puja Room:
While setting the puja room, you must have to consider all these following Vastu principles in order to achieve the exact holiness to your dwelling.
- Place the idols of the god and goddess in the right direction
- Stick close with the door placement
- Strictly avoid using the proscribed raw material while constructing the puja room
- Stick with the right number of door and windows that is described in the Vastu principles
Bed Room:
Bed room is a place where you windup all your worries and tensions thereby stay relaxed with pleasant memories. So, it is really essential to design your bedroom with great care sticking very closer to the Vastu principles. The direction, which you face while sleeping will badly affect your physical workout in your everyday activity. If you have constructed your bedroom with the inappropriate structure that stands out of Vastu principles will badly disturb your sleep and make you to turn restless. Moreover, you often get clashes and misunderstandings with your better-half. Along with, you might experience everlasting health troubles.
Essential Vastu tips for your home bedroom:
- The right direction to set your master bedroom is on south-west
- Ensure to place your heads positioning towards the direction of South corner. Placing heads towards North is not recommended, as it will badly disturb your sleep
- Keep your bedroom away from setting diving idols
- Constructing your bedroom with the shape of rectangle or square is dearly recommended, as it bestows peace and good fortune
Kitchen Room:
Kitchen room is a place, where you cook your everyday food. You must have to consider quite several factors, while constructing your home kitchen. You must be very considerable in placing the sink, location of the gas, refrigerator, gas cylinder, and other more.
Essential Vastu tips for your home kitchen room:
The right place to set your kitchen is in the south-east corner. If you never find an apt position, then you can avail the alternative of locating it in the north-west cornerBuilding kitchen in north-east, mid-west, mid-north, mid-south, south-west or in the centre is strictly not recommended, as they are out of Vastu normsEnsure that the cooking area never touches the sidewall of northern or eastern sideThe right location to cook food is by setting it on the direction of east
Bathroom:
Similar like other room, you must give close attention while you construct your home bathroom. The best location to construct the bathroom is the eastern part of the home. If you never find the right appropriate place to set your bathroom, then you can avail the Vastu remedy by placing geyser in the south-east corner.
VASTU FOR OFFICE:
Vastu for office determines the efficiency of the work inside the office premises. Office is a place that has to be designed with the right procedural practice, as it gives an unbiased movement in work! If an office is not designed as per the right Vastu principles, then there will never be any balanced workout and progress. An office that is designed without following the Vastu principle will be less effective with effortless employees, disabled workman, owner might loose the power to manage or control his staffs, which leads to failure. Pursuing the Vastu standards for office will ensure effective and efficient workout and thereby proves to be a valuable asset to the company and many more.
Vastu for offices includes several different factors such as right office setup, office exteriors with respect to shape, slope and others, direction of various department, location of the reception, emplacement of electrical gadgets and other more. Apart from these, there are several other factors that you must take into your consideration about Vastu for office. They are:
- The direction of the office entrance way
- The right direction of the placement beams
- The right direction to fix the doors and windows
- The right direction and setup of the owner room
- The right direction for the employees to work
Set your office as per these essential Vastu tips. It is sure that you will progress in all aspects of your work.
- The place of seat arrangement for managers, executives and directors must be located in south, west and southwestern direction of the office premises
- As per the Vastu principles it is really good to set the accounts department in southeast direction.
- The appropriate place to set the reception is in the northeastern direction of the office.
- With respect to Vastu principles, it is good to seat the employees facing the north or eastern direction
- The central portion of the office must be set empty
- As per the Vastu principles, it is good to place rectangular desk for the MD
- Placing bore-well or fixing tank in the direction of south is not really recommended. This will affect the owner with less and insufficient cash flow.
- The best and right direction of keep the storeroom is on the northwest and southeast location.
- It is recommended to set the marketing department in the direction of northwest
- Fixing of some idols or images of god and goddess in the right location of mirrors will bring you improved financial gains.
- Setting a water fountain in the location of northeast of the office premises is really good and recommended.
- Placing an aquarium containing 1 black fish and 9 gold fish in the location of northeast of the office premises is really good and advisable.
Individuals who have set their office besides Vastu norms and principals will find themselves out from the assistance of natural forces. The principle motto of Vastu is to excerpt the maximum goodness from the natural forces in order to gain improved energy levels in the every face of liveliness.
VASTU REMEDIES:
Vastu Dosha is a proposed defect or deficiency in the familiar features of the eight directions and these directions have been empowered with characters based on an assortment obtained from the Panch-Maha-Bhutas. However, Vastu dosha signifies spoiling the characters of the directions under circumstances. Also, such doshas are closely related with Panch-Maha-Bhutas- associated qualities of mind, soul and human body. It is possible to settle down the ill effects through 'Sadhana' or meditation.
Looking very closely, these qualities have the ability to provide a shield exhaling from the human soul that could protect the concerned person from harm of Vastu doshas. However, this idea is especially effective when the human efforts are put forth for wanting obstructions made by the Vastu doshas. Thus, meditation practices can serve the purpose as they are gaining popularity with innovative techniques in meditation.
Let's take into account the remedies that are needed for the construction that are made against the principles of Vastu. At times, it happens that an act done by a man out of inexperience harms him a lot and such remedy seems to be highly impossible. Some of the remedies in getting relief from the problems are discussed below:
- If a canal or river flows in any direction other than a facing a north-east direction of the home and having an anti-clockwise movement, it is better to set a statue of Ganeshji in a dancing state facing towards the west on the north-east area of the house
- If a factory or a house has a wrongly faced boring direction, a Panchmukhi Hanumanji picture can be placed facing the boring's South-West
- While entering in to the flat, if a bare wall is seen, either a statue or picture of Ganeshji must be placed on it as a bare wall signifies loneliness. Hence, it is advisable not to leave the wall naked
- Swastika Yantras can be used in improving the energy circles in some cases. Moreover, a lot of care is required and should be managed under the guidance of a capable Vastu mason
Now, let's taken in to consideration the effects when particular rooms are constructed in a wrong direction. Firstly, a kitchen room would aptly be good in a South-East direction and the water tap in the kitchen to face the north east direction. On the contrary, if the kitchen faces the north east direction, it restricts mutual love and peace in the family. Moreover, the cooking direction should remain only towards the east and it would be better if the food to be cooked on the stone is red. Also, if a tube well is not fit at a desirable direction, it causes deficit of women, stomach and sexual problems among the men. The remedy to this is to fit the Tube well or well in the north-east direction and it is to be ensured that the place remains open at the house's lowest level. In case of toilets, it can be constructed towards the West or South with face facing the north or West during discharging stool.
Vastu Remedies are widespread in every particular field and one can best use of them when consulting with proper Vastu mason or Vastu expert before starting the construction of plots or houses.
VASTU FOR PLOT:
Vastu is basically a science of structures and completely deals with the directions. Vastu Shastra is a big field and one can find many remedies for the well-beings and their surroundings. There are many things to be taken in to consideration while deciding to construct a building. Of the most important things, choosing the right site or plot is extremely crucial. Hence, it always advisable to take consultation from Vastu Shastra expert before purchasing a plot or buying a flat, house or any other buildings rather than taking his advice in the later part of construction. At this point of time damages would have already been made. Thus, these results should need to be avoided.
From whom should a plot not be bought? The answer to this question is provided by Vastu Shastra and as per it, a plot or land site should never be purchased from - people who became insolvent, troubled from leprosy, lunatics or people who are not in country etc. Likewise, sites that are given in donation to temples, assigned to watchman of colony or village, lands possessed by charitable trusts and sites with no title deed should not be bought. Also, lands holding boulders, worm hills, ant hills, skeleton and bones etc should not be gained.
In what direction should a plot or land site face? The direction of the plots plays a very important role in its construction. Different directions are beneficial for various types of persons and organizations. Let's take a look on them. Plots which face the East direction are considered good for philosophers, professors, scholars, teachers, priests etc whereas plots that face the West direction helps the people who truly support the society. Also, plots facing the North are good for people in administration, power and who function for the government and the plots facing South are considered best for the business class and people who work in business concerns.
An extremely important factor where light is to be thrown is at the surroundings or environment of the plots. If the environment is not good, the resulting problems come in many ways. Hence, it is crucial to look at the following aspects:
- It is best to construct plots where lands are fertile with plants and greeneries
- A big canal or the river located on the North Side and its waters flowing from West to East, is a good sign. The same way if the river is on the East side with water flowing from South to North, is also considered good
- If there are mounds of Earth, big boulders, hills etc towards the South West, Southern and Western sides of the site or plot, it is good. Otherwise, it would affect the progress
- It should be ensured that no cemetery, tomb or graveyard lie close to the plot either front or back
- Also, plots near to temples have a chance to affect the inmates. Plots having temple towards its right causes material loss, on the left causes sorrow and grief and in the front it causes obstruction to develop
Thus, keeping these things in mind, it is very important to consult an expert in Vastu Shastra before constructing the building as it renders happiness and prosperity ever through the life relieved from problems.
