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.