MahaVastu Case Study: Engineering Re-Admission

Prabhat was preparing for the engineering entrance for the last two years. He had joined one of the best coaching institute and was faring with flying colors in the mock tests which the institute used to conduct periodically. In fact, all his teachers were sure that he will get through the IIT JEE entrance and will definitely get selected in state level engineering entrance examination. His father who is a Professor also tallied his marks after his IIT JEE Mains exams and was confident that he will sail through.

Prabhat and his family were in for a rude shock when the results of the IIT JEE Mains and the state engineering entrance were declared.  He had scored abysmally low marks in IIT JEE.

His father, Prakash called me from Indore and urged me to visit their house and do whatever, is possible to set things right for Prabhat’s engineering admission.  When I did a Vastu audit of their home, I realized that he has already appeared in both the examinations and so there was no scope to do anything about his performance in the exams.  The only way was to apply Mahavastu to increase his chances of selection in a reputed college and a preferable engineering stream.

I expressed my desire to talk to his son.

“You say that you were scoring very high in all the mock tests and still you got such low scores. What exactly do you thing is the reason for that?” I asked.

“Uncle, I did a blunder in both the tests,” he started to explain.

“What blunder?”

“I marked the answers in the question paper itself and towards the end when I was marking the answer sheets, I skipped a question and ended up marking the choice for previous question in the later ones till the end.”

“Something like, you marked the choice for Question 5 as a choice of Question 6 and so on and so forth for the full paper?”

“Yes. I did this in a full paper of IIT JEE and I now realize that for one of the papers I did this same mistake in one column in the answer sheet of State Entrance exams.”

I immediately focused on the zone of Clarity and was not surprised to find that Prabhat was sleeping there and its walls were painted light purple. The other hypothesis I worked was on was  that – now that the exams are over and result of one of the test is also declared, the only option is to aim for admission in a free seat in a government sponsored college. I was sure that he will in any case get admission on a paid seat in one of the hundreds of engineering college in the state. This is possible if they are able to focus with clarity on what best can be achieved in a situation and the father is able to utilize his social contacts to act surely and swiftly when push comes to shove. Hence I focused on east.

On close observations I found that in the zone of social association there was a loft in which some old dysfunctional electrical equipments were placed.

I immediately asked them to color the son’s bedroom with off-white or light blue color and clear the loft in east.

I also advised them to place a Ashoka Stambh in North-West.

While they were still waiting for the painter to start work, the results of the state level exams were out. Prabhat scored better in this than in IIT JEE. It was now sure that he will at least get admission in one of the paid seats in a private engineering college even if it means financial struggle for his father.

The whole family was anxious and in the first counseling session he got entitled for a free seat in a good private engineering college. They chose not to get him admitted there.

By the time re-coloring the bedroom walls was complete, three counseling sessions were over. Each counseling session drives you to your wits end. There are several options each with its own pros and cons. Sometimes the engineering branch you get is good but the college is not that good and sometimes the college is too far to your liking. The student and the parent have to make snap decisions based on the available opportunities. In the last session he got admission in Electronic Engineering in a government aided college about 200 kms away from Indore.

They were really ecstatic and were thanking me profusely. I knew that programming of space will yield the desired result and it had, they were able to make the right choice which was optimal – it was a free seat, it was in a reputed college, it was electronics engineering and it was not that far from Indore. Prabhat was admitted in Bhopal and started staying in the hostel. Prakash was able to find few Professors who were his ex-students which was a great confort to him and his wife.

Case closed. Results achieved.

With renewed vigor they went ahead with the changes and one weekend Prakash overcame his laziness and hoisted himself atop the loft to remove the old stuff there.

Just three days before the engineering admissions were to close, he was advised by his friends in authority that there is a small window of opportunity in one of the best college in Indore if can get the admission done in a day’s time. Now that Prabhat was already admitted in Bhopal the problem was that the admission has to be withdrawn in order to apply for admission in this college in Indore. This was a big risk as it may result in a situation where Prabhat ends up withdrawing from Bhopal and by the time he gets admitted in Indore, someone else with higher marks approaches the Indore college for admission. On the other side, the silver lining was reduced expenses if Prabhat does his engineering from Indore.

Prakash took the bait and after some anxious hours was successful in getting Prabhat admitted in Indore in a better college than in Bhopal and in Instrumentation Engineering.

For me this will always remain an experience to relish as with some very simple changes we were able to achieve great results.

Manoj Shrivastava is a Certified MahaVastu Expert and can be contacted at mshrivastava2005@gmail.com for all your queries and problems.

Vastu Myth: Brahmsthan should be Open to Sky

Like in Feng Shui, Vastu too had different recommendations for the kings and the citizens. The objective was that the citizens should always live in the shadows of the king and should never become as powerful and rich as them. This resulted in Vastu texts recommending that the central portion of the house (called brahmsthan) to be open. Technically, brahmsthan is the inner space of a house connected with the outer space.

King’s palace too had open central courtyard but the palaces were so designed that the king’s residence did not have the central courtyard falling in it. The central courtyard separated their place of residence and place of work.

There are mainly three countries where ancient architecture supported the concept of central courtyard – India, China and Indonesia. The architectures of the west never recommended such a structure.

Mahavastu believes that an open central courtyard leads to evolution of people staying in such houses slows down, they are not ambitious and get easily satisfied by small means. Several case studies have revealed that many of the people who stayed in such houses have not been able to study beyond matriculation while staying in the house.

This is a complete myth and need not be fussed about when making a vastu compliant house.

Manoj Shrivastava is a MahaVastu Expert and can be contacted at mshrivastava2005@gmail.com for all your queries and problems.

Vastu Myth: Marriageable girls should sleep in North West

One of the Vastu myths which have become prevalent due to series of distortions in the ancient wisdom of Vastu is that girls of marriageable age should sleep in North West zone of the house such that they get a good groom fast.

Let us see the genesis of this misconception. As per ancient vastu wisdom, North of North West (NNW) is the zone for attraction and newlywed couples should sleep here for enjoying a great married life. Thus in vastu texts this zone is earmarked for “रति गृह” (rati-grah). In business, this zone is recommended for placing finished goods which are not getting sold for a long time. This is to ensure they catch the attraction of the customer such that he gets tempted to buy it immediately.

There are two levels of distortions which have happened, over the time, with this concept:

1.      In their effort simplify Vastu and make it applicable in modern architecture of Indian homes, they reduced the original sixteen zones of Vastu to eight zones due to which NNW got fitted in North West (NW).

2.      Vastu practitioners thought that since goods placed here are immediately sold, similarly girls staying here should get immediately married.

Hence this myth got created and vastu experts started recommending this to their clients.

According to Mahavastu, there are two fundamental flaws in this concept; girls of marriageable age are not commodities which need to be sold and hence the very thought they should sleep in NW is not agreeable, moreover, girls sleeping here may have a strong attraction towards opposite sex leading to other complications in their life.

Manoj Shrivastava is a MahaVastu Expert and can be contacted at mshrivastava2005@gmail.com for all your queries and problems.

How MahaVastu Experts suggest Vastu Corrections?

Many people are curious to know how do MahaVastu experts suggest corrections to Vastu defects and how is it possible to correct Vastu defects without performing any demolition to the house.

In this article, I have am answering this question in a simple manner.

As per MahaVastu, every direction is associated with one of the five element i.e. Water, Air (Wood), Fire, Earth and Space (Metal). So is each color, object, equipment and activity. For example, North is associated with Water, Green is associated with Air, Kitchen burner is associated with Fire,  a refrigerator is associated with Earth, and sleep is associated with Earth.
 

These five elements have several relationships between themselves. MahaVastu recognizes this as three cycles;

(1)    The Creation and Exhaustive Cycle: Water creates Air, Air creates Fire, Fire creates Earth, earth creates space and space creates water.

(2)     The Destruction Cycle: Water destroys Fire, Fire Destroys Space, Space destroys Air, Air destroys earth and earth destroys water

(3)    The Disturbing Cycle: For example, Air disturbs Space

In simple words, Vastu defects and problems associated with it occur when an object or activity of an element is present in the zone associated with a disturbing or destroying element thereby causing imbalance in the zone they are present.

MahaVastu experts use the creation and exhaustive cycles to negate the effect of this imbalance. For example, Mahavastu expert may suggest to put a particular color stone slab below the kitchen burner to negate the presence of Fire element in the zone of water.

This is called elemental balance method and is one of the main techniques used in MahaVastu.

Manoj Shrivastava is a MahaVastu Expert and can be contacted at mshrivastava2005@gmail.com for all your queries and problems.

 

 

 

The Perils of Pink

My daughter has a strong liking for anything pink. If you ask her what color of shoes she would like to have, which color of hat, hairband, wrist watch, or bed, her answer will be the same, “Pink.” If you insist on another color she will say. “Red or Purple”.  So the favourite colors for her are pink, red and purple in that order.

This is not uncommon amongst most girls and ladies. Pink remains their unanimous choice.

There is no problem with their choice of colors except that pink, red and purple are all representative of the fire element.

As per Vastu or Mahavastu, the zones from SE to South belong to Fire and presence of fire in West and North zones creates imbalance of these zones.

When we ordered new furniture for my daughter, I was not aware of MahaVastu and abiding by her wishes we chose purple for it not knowing that purple in West-South West  Zone (where her room is) will affect her studies adversely which incidentally are affected.

If someone who likes their whole room to be filled with pink, then she should not be sleeping in the West and North zones. For them sleeping in South may be fruitful. Sleeping in East and South West may be fruitful or not depending on the strength of these zones with reference to the whole house. I suggest you consult a Mahavastu Expert immediately if you are in a similar situation and feel it is having an effect in studies, relationship or gains in the house.

These days the father-daughter duo is having daily arguments and fights as I have called the painter to remove purple from all her furniture.

Manoj Shrivastava is a MahaVastu Expert and can be contacted at mshrivastava2005@gmail.com for all your queries and problems.

 

 

 

Can you become a MahaVastu Expert by self-study?

I often get mails and messages stating, "I have read all the books of Dr. Bansal and have a small doubt which is preventing me to the MahaVastu evaluation of my house. Can you please clear this doubt such that I can move forward and apply MahaVastu?" This raises the question, "Can one become a Mahavastu expert or Vastu expert by self-study?"

The short answer to this question is, "Books help you to gain awareness of MahaVastu and know its scope and span, however, you still need to rub your shoulders with other MahaVastu experts to gain practical experience which can be done by joining a MahaVastu course."

MahaVastu books are written by Dr. Khushdeep Bansal to spread awareness about this fantastic field. By reading the books the reader gets the following advantages;

1. You come to know that there is a Vastu technique which helps you to program the space to solve your life problems and achieve your goals.
2. You understand that Vastu can be corrected without demolition.
3. You understand how MahaVastu works.
4. You know the right questions to ask your Vastu expert and to set the right expectations.
5. To perform basic analysis, mark directions and MahaVastu zones if you are consulting a MahaVastu expert by EMail and Phone.
6. To clear several misconceptions and myths prevalent about Vastu

I encourage you to read these books with the above objectives and leave the MahaVastu correction to experts.

You always have the option to complete the course and become a MahaVastu Expert yourself.

Manoj Shrivastava is a MahaVastu Expert and can be contacted at mshrivastava2005@gmail.com

Seven Traits of great Vastu Experts

"What makes a Vastu Expert great?", "How should one identify a great Vastu Expert to analyze his house, office, factory, or shop?"

I was meditating on these questions for a long time and this article is a summation of my thoughts after observing my guru, Dr. Khushdeep Bansal during my several interactions with him.

The result of this churning is presented here as the 7 traits of a great Vastu Expert:

Listening

"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen." - Ernest Hemingway

The Vastu expert must listen with full attention to his client, the words he uses when describing his problems, and the sequencing of sentences speak a lot about the associated areas of his house which are imbalanced. Unless the Vastu Expert is able to get to the root cause to the problems faced by the client he will not be able to cure them.

Transparency

"There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life." - Joseph Barber

A Vastu expert must be transparent with his client; in sharing his observations, reasons for his problems (Vastu defects), solutions to his problems, time frame when results can be expected, and what results can be expected.

 He should also explain the basic principles and rationale of Vastu to his client in a clear and easy to understand language.

 

Willingness to Share

"A thousand candles can be lit by a single flame, without shortening the life of the candle...Happiness never decreases by being shared..." - Lord Buddha

The inherent willingness to share his knowledge and benefit the society at large is what makes a Vastu expert great.

Passion

"A commitment to excellence in all your work is the by-product of a long-term perspective and passion.' - Unknown

The single most factor which distinguishes a great Vastu Expert from others is the passion towards this science. It is this passion which drives the Vastu expert to come up with solutions which benefit the client, makes him result-oriented

Authentic

"The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history." - Harold Rosenberg

The not so great Vastu experts resort to create and spread myths, misconceptions and superstitions related to Vastu. An authentic Vastu practitioner does not speak anything which is not rationale. He will focus on logic and intuition and even when he is speaking with an intuition he will explain the rationale for it to his client.

Intuition

"Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer." - Robert Graves

In a sense intuition is the ability to see beyond the obvious. When a vastu expert can see the vastu defects hidden behind the closed door of almirahs or when he can state the imbalances present in the zone without visiting your office, you know he is doing it out of intuition. It is this ability to visualize which makes a Vastu expert great.

Experience:

"An intelligent person armed with a checklist is no substitute for experience." - Joy Gumz

There is no better yardstick for greatness than the number of successful case studies which the Vastu expert has documented. As the number of success stories increases so does the word of mouth publicity. Ask your Vastu expert to give you a glimpse of his case studies.

 

Manoj Shrivastava is a certified MahaVastu Expert and can be contacted at mshrivastava2005@gmail.com if you need help in solving problems related to career, relationships, business, education, fame and support.

Is MahaVastu a Science?

Is MahaVastu a Science?

One question which often comes to mind regarding Vastu is - "Is Vastu a Science?"

Before answering this question with reference to Mahavastu let me first elaborate what classifies a concept or a field as science.

If you recall the times when you studied science in school or college, you will remember that there are 4 pre-requisites for a field to be classified as science: Hypothesis or Logic, Process, Repeatability and documented results.

Let us now elaborate how Mahavastu fulfills the requirements to be science:

Logic: As I wrote in my previous post, Mahavastu is the decoding of the ancient science of Vastu originally originated by Lord Vishwakarma, the architect of Heaven and great cities like Dwarka. By this decoding Dr. Khushdeep Bansal the creator of MahaVastu has removed all myths, superstitions, and distortions which contaminated Vastu and decoded the original sutras to apply them to the contemporary times. Mahavastu explains the logic of Vastushastra in a lucid manner. The decoding is a hypothesis which is based on sound logic.

Process: Scientific experiments have to follow a process and cannot be performed in an ad hoc manner. In Mahavastu, the Mahavastu Experts follow a fixed four step process to perform the analysis and apply remedies.

Repeatability: This is the most important aspect of Science. Many a scientists have failed to get due recognition for their work because they could not successfully repeat their experiments. By repeatability I mean that everytime a same input is applied to a certain condition you will get the same output. For example, everytime when you throw a ball up when standing on the ground and within the earth's environment, the result is that the ball comes down. We all know this is due to gravity. If you change the condition which means that if you are not inside the earth's environment and are standing outside it (it will be impossible to stand there but still let us suppose) and if you throw the ball up, it will not come down. So for the same condition you get the same output for a particular input.

In Mahavastu for a certain situation (a particular set of observations in a livable space), if you apply a particular Vastu Remedy or correction it will always result in the same result whether irrespective of whose house it is.This can be verified only by documenting these experiments (consultations).

Documented Results: These repeated experiments with their inputs, outputs and conditions have to be documented each time it is performed in order to prove this science. Dr. Khushdeep Bansal and his team of more than 200 Mahavastu experts have documented about 10,000 case studies to prove that the decoding is correct and it works each time (repeatability).

The proof of the pudding is in eating it. There are only two ways to experience the sanctity of my above arguments: become a Mahavastu Expert yourself or consult a MahaVastu Expert.

Manoj Shrivastava is a Certified MahaVastu Expert and can be contacted at mshrivastava2005@gmail.com to benefit from MahaVastu and help it fulfill your life goals.


 

Mistakes most Vastu Experts make

Mistakes most Vastu Experts make

Few days back the landlord of a neighboring house visited my home to seek water. He is getting his house renovated. He claimed to be a learned Vastu practitioner and started talking about the vastu defects in my house (as per him) to my wife. He said, "The underground tank is in South East and the pit connecting the house to the sewage line is in North East. You should immediately swap them." My wife thought, "He is making the same mistake as many Vastu Experts make." Audibly she said, "How do we shift it, just lift them and place it at the right place?" He laughed and went away.

In a square plot if the sides are aligned to the cardinal directions i.e. North, South, East and West than the corners would align to the ordinal directions (North-East, South-East, North-West and South-West). Mathematically this does not happen in case of a rectangular plot and most plots are rectangular rather than square.

Mathematically, the four cardinal directions are perpendicular to each other (i.e. 90 degree to each other), similarly, the four ordinal directions are perpendicular to each other. The rules of mathematics do not change if the plot area is square, rectangular or irregular in shape. Still it is a common mistake to consider the corners of a rectangular area as aligned to the ordinal axis. If the plot is north facing one assumes that the right corner is North-East and left corner is North West and accordingly apply the Vastu rules.

Figure 1(b) shows a rectangular plot where the ordinal directions - NE-SW axis and NW-SE axis are not dissecting the corners of the plot but cutting across the longer sides midway between the corner and center of the side. So if you are making the Pooja Room in the front right hand corner you are not actually making it in North East but in a zone between North and North East without knowing it.

Before learning Mahavastu this was the mistake I made and when I was constructing the house the kitchen was made in East of South East and Pooja in East of North East (mine is an East facing plot). The primary reason I find when I reflect why I could not understand this simple concept despite being an engineer by qualification is; over confidence and carelessness. It is much easier to assume that the corners are ordinal directions rather than doing actual measurement of the plot, plotting it on a paper, finding the actual center and mapping the directions mathematically and geometrically.

My guess is that this is the mistake most Vastu experts make.

Manoj Shrivastava is a Certified MahaVastu Expert and can be contacted at mshrivastava2005@gmail.com for consultations that can help you achieve your life goals.

 

 

 

 

 

 

MahaVastu - What's so Different about it?

When people (outside India) first hear about Vastu, they ask, "What is it?" Let me first start with what is vastu?

Vastu is an ancient Indian science (dating back to about 50 centuries) on Architecture. Vastu covers the rules of designing great residences, business places, palaces, and most importantly temples. The tenets of Vastu were first written by Lord Vishwakarma (considered to be the architect of heaven) in Sanskrit (the mother of most Indian languages).

In ancient times knowledge was transferred from generations to generations verbally and the trend was to link the rules with religious rituals and superstitions such that common men would practice it without argument and compulsarily pass it to the next generation. Not much emphasis was given to documenting the experiences and success stories in a structured manner.

This resulted in a lot of distortion and misinterpretation of what was written by the great Vishwakarma. On the other hand the architecture of the houses and buildings changed in India due to influences from several invasions like Moghul, Portugese and British and also the advancement in building science.

Hence we ended up in a situation where on one hand we had a severely distorted interpretation of Vastu and on the other hand the original text not as-it-is applicable in modern context.

Vastu Practitioners generally took to writing their interpretations as Vastu books which were published in scores in the last decade or so. Vastu experts applied several short cuts in order to make the tenets of vastu applicable to modern architecture. For example, the original vastu texts talk about a place of Churning butter and a place for storing clarified butter. Since modern homes do not have separate rooms for these purpose the Vastu practitioners removed them from the their text thereby diluting the original rules of architecture.

What was instead needed is the re-interpretation of the original text in modern context. In other words, what was needed is the decoding of the original text as per its applicability in today's time. For example, it was needed to decode why Lord Vishwakarma prescribed to have churning of butter to be done in the room between East and South East or placing clarified butter (ghee) in a room between South and South East.

Dr. Khushdeep Bansal, the creator of Mahavastu did this decoding with help of his gurus in a Gurukul in Maharashtra and several hundred hours of meditation. Continuing with the same example, he decoded that the zone between East and South East is for Anxiety and Churning of the mind and to balance it Lord Vishwakarma recommended that butter be chuirned here as once churning is done at a physical level in this zone, it will not result in undue anxiety and churn in the mind.

It is this decoding which makes Mahavastu different from the traditionally practiced concept of Vastu.

MahaVastu is thus original vastu applied in modern times. Dr. Bansal and his students have compiled thousands of case studies on successful application of vastu principles and remedies to address life problems like: growth, career, money, health, relationships and relaxation. Thousands of families, industries, offices and establishments have benefitted from this profound knowledge and continue to do so as you read this article.

Manoj Shrivastava is a Certified Mahavastu Expert. You may contact him at mshrivastava2005@gmail.com to benefit from Mahavastu and apply it to achieve life goals.