What is Vaastu and Some Common Facts

What is Vaastu and Some Common Facts
What is Vaastu?
Vaastu is a science of structures. It deals with the impact of various directional energies on a building when it is built and completed. The building, which comes in the way of free flow of directional forces, creates an atmosphere inside it, which is different from what prevails outside.
Further every building is a synonym for stress. Each brick loads the other and the roof loads the walls. In effect every brick used in construction represents stress. Thus a locking up of a stressful atmosphere inside the four walls always happens when a construction comes up. How to use the stress locked up in the building to interact with the directional forces so as to create an unusually beneficial atmosphere inside the building is the science of vaastu. Vaastu has nothing to do with any religion or one’s beliefs in God.
Brief History
Vaastu is a part of Yajurveda, the sacred text of Hindus and is believed to be around four to five thousand years old. There are thirty-two books in Sanskrit language starting from Vishwakarama’s Vaastu Shastra. Mayamata is another great book, which also is believed to be from Vedic times. In the modern times innumerable books have been published in various languages. However we need to look at it afresh in view of the total and summary changes that have taken place in the construction industry be it a home, office or industry. It is this effort that has made us go deep in the subject of vaastu both in India and abroad and arrive at unfailing conclusions, which can be verified by any one interested.
How Vaastu Works?
When a building is constructed the impact of the various directional forces creates typical forces at the corners. Vaastu is all about the importance, characteristics and the role they play. Here not much importance is given to the cardinal directions but only to the four corner directions. If you take a building plan and designate the corners as Northeast, Southeast, Northwest and Southwest, you have more or less a rectangular sketch. By joining the Northwest and Southeast corners by a straight line you get two triangles. The triangle with Northeast apex can be considered as a positive terminal and the triangle with Southwest corner as apex can be considered as negative terminal. These terminals get created because of the impact of directional forces with the stress field inside the building. While one can do nothing about the creation of building stress by manipulating the directional forces one can effectively neutralize the stressful field present in the structure. The reaction of the two fields can be made to create a high-energy bio force, which can bring health to the occupants in an effortless manner. Even after neutralizing the stress, if the Northeast field has a surplus it creates a protective shield for every occupant so that no untimely death, accidents, chronic diseases, financial misfortune etc ever takes place.
The Assurance of Vaastu?
Vishwakarma, the founder of Vaastu Shastra enumerates the benefits of vaastu as under: “This science is whole and complete. It can bring happiness to every one on earth. It can bestow on every human being the four types of happiness, which every one aspires for; they are happiness in money matters, rightful living, fulfillment of all worldly desires and can bestow blissful state. By knowledge of this science man becomes divine. It can give every one greatest happiness and this is the dictate of gods.”
Vaastu in Ancient India
Although the science is several centuries old, there is nothing to support that it was widely practiced in the olden days. Probably the lack of proper instruments to spread the knowledge could be one of the reasons. Still there are some temples, which stand testimony to the claims of vaastu in India. One such temple is the Sri Tirupati Venkataramanaswamy Temple, which is having perfect vaastu and this brings in millions of rupees every year and an astounding number of devotees through the temple round the year.


Author: mukesh

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