Vastu

What is Vaastu?

In Sanskrit, Vaastu means to build environment and a surrounding and Shastra means a perfect system or a by-laws. The word Vaastu came from the Vastva, means anything that provides shelter. Vaastu Shastra tells the methods for building any kind of shelter that have congenital environment due to the combined positive effects of the five elements called Panch Mahabhuta. Vaastu Shastra encompasses the techniques to decide directions, placement and positioning of various aspects related to building. If any shelter, be it home, commercial establishment or industrial premise, is built on the guidelines of Vaastu Shastra, if certainly bless the owner with health, wealth, prosperity and happiness.

History Of Vaastu-Shastra

The Vaidic social system and all its elements were based on logical reasons essentially required for the overall welfare of individual. This whole social structure was aimed at defining a proper system that creates synergy between cosmic energies and human shelter. In Vaidic times, the scholars were well-versed with advanced scientific applications known as subhavaastu. After proper permutations and combinations of various elements involved in building construction, suitable directions for everything related to building can be effectively drawn. Each guideline described in Vaastu Shastra is strongly backed by the scientific causes and vivid impacts of natural powers are also explained.

Vaastu Purush- The Demi God

Though Vaastu science has been described by various scholars through different epics, yet the essence and logics are the same. According to the theory of Brihat Samhita, an imaginary person in the form of God called Vaastu Purush or Demi God who governs each house. Vaastu Purush is present in every human dwelling and is responsible for good or bad fortune. Therefore, Vaastu Purush should to be appeased for the betterment of house and its inhabitants. To appease him, sacred ceremonies should be followed. Therefore, the master of any house must always spare the body of the spirit in the course of construction through ignorance of the architects. If any of its several parts were rendered defective, the results for the master could be catastrophic.