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Vaastu

by Anupam V Kapil

Vaastu is a complete understanding of direction, geography, topography, environment and physics. It is a study that dictates the form size and orientation of a building, in relation to the plot, soil, surroundings and the personality of the owner / dweller. There is no room for rituals and superstitions.

Vaastu orientates, places and dictates the proportions of every detail as in building lines, skylines, elongations, levels, slopes, water tanks (underground and overhead), kitchen, bedrooms, toilets, staircase, heights of ceilings and roofs, entrances and loci of doors and windows, compound walls and so on.
Architectural science and equipment have undergone a sea change over the years. However, the principles of Vaastu, although modified to suit the modern times, still remain applicable.

Impulsive planning and unorganised architectural methods, have led to the primary malady mankind faces today -- DISHARMONY. Today more and more architects are turning to Vaastu shastra, to undo this. In short, an ecoimbalance is prevented by synchronising all the Vaastu elements.

THE DISADVANTAGES OF IMPROPER VAASTU
There is no reason to tip the balance if your fortunes, peace of mind, health and your business are doing fine and are in perfect harmony. Your place already has a good Vaastu. If not, browse on.... You are at an occupational age. You are qualified. You are resourceful and brilliant. Yet, nothing is going fine. You opt for an equally qualified business partner. Nothing seems to be wrong on paper, but you find yourself squabbling because nothing seems to be working and your contemporaries, though of lesser caliber, leave you far behind. It is highly likely that the Vaastu of your office / factory is all-wrong.
Check this - you plithe your troth. You start fighting with your spouse, say for no reason at all. The offspring you love very much are more troublesome, you find. Your children behaving rather antisocially due to reasons beyond your understanding. Your parent come 'visiting'. Previously such a joy, now they appear to be burdensome.

The food you eat tastes lousy with missing salutiferous values. Your fortunes start slipping away and you enter a corridor of eternal uncertainty. Before you label yourself a failure, hold on..... Chances are, you are just going about it the wrong way. The Vaastu of your dwelling could be all wrong. Correct it. Don't expect miracles to happen, but you will definitely reap the benefits, by and by.

THE TRUTH ABOUT VAASTU
There is nothing metaphysical about Vaastu. It is just that the hidden harmony of Nature and the environs around have been defied. Er. R. Prasad in his practice, does not attempt to compare the incomparable or even try to explain it on the basis of magnetic waves, ultra-violet rays, cosmic rays and so forth, as these are but the tips of unknown, unexplored icebergs.

The truth is that it works and probably the lowest common denominator of any such venture is its repetitive success, as many conglomerates and inhabitants of Vaastu-designed premises will vouch for. May be somewhere, sometime in the future, there will be an explanation for the mechanics of Vaastu, but to dissect it today is a futile exercise.