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.