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.