Vastu and Feng Shui || A Brief Comparison

I have been a practitioner of FengShui and Vastu for the last sixteen years and have always believed that Feng Shui is the Chinese form of Vastu. I read somewhere that in ancient times the Chinese scholars who studies in Nalanda and Takshshila University took the knowledge of Vastu from India and adapted it as per Chinese traditions and culture.

However, the similarity ends there. While Feng Shui has been commercialized to the extent that it has spread far and wide Vastu has remained confined to India and has not moved along with the times. Feng Shui  now provided employment to millions of people across the world in the form of teachers, consultants, artisans, manufacturers, et al. This has primarily happened because the masters of feng shui worked on its simplification and accessibility. They also worked on making it contemporary.

On the other hand, vastu, like many other body of Indian knowledge was kept a secret and not allowed to grow due to inflexibility of those who were supposed to evolve the knowledge and make it accessible to common men.

Most Vastu experts still believe in certain rigid rules which they picked up from ancient texts or incomplete translations of the texts and keep on applying them even when they are made irrelevant due to the change in architecture of Indian buildings. The need was to reinterpret these rules as per the change in architecture. Furthermore, little efforts were made to spread the knowledge beyond India or make remedies which can be used to correct vastu defects. You would be surprised to know that a gentleman in Germany has patented Vastu while we were caught napping.

Fortunately in recent times few Indian experts have taken upon the mettle to reinterpret this 

knowledge, perform scientific study, spread this knowledge and make it accessible to the masses. One of them is my guru – Dr. Khushdeep Bansal who has instilled the confidence and knowledge to many of us such that Vastu becomes accessible and affordable.

It is on his motivation that I write these articles.

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VastuAcharya Manoj is a senior Mahavastu Consultant and can be contacted at mshrivastava2005@gmail.com for vastu advice. Please do not forget to mention the city of your residence in your email.