Nidhi Jain - Vastu Shastra: for a Healthy, Prosperous and Happy life

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Vastu

Shastra

for a Healthy, Prosperous and Happy life

Nidhi Jain

Ashish Jain

Preface

I am feeling blessed, that I got the opportunity to share my views and ideas about something which I firmly believe in. Our book Vastu Shastra: For a Healthy , Prosperous and Happy life is an honest attempt to simplify the mysteries of Vastu Shastra. I and Ashish have tried to explain the various principles, rules of this ancient Indian Science in simple words and how the readers can use it to live a healthy, successful, happy life full of peace and inner satisfaction.

Though very clearly, I want to strongly iterate that Vastu is not a replacement for hard work, it is just that your hard work and efforts will be fruitful and yield the desired results if your home and workplace are in compliance with Vastu principles.

It was during my CA article ship few years back when I started developing a strong interest in Vastu. My family had shifted to a new house and after shifting we started to face lot of problems. Sales started falling in my fathers shop, my mother felt ill. At that time, I was not an expert on Vastu. My father had called a couple of Vastu Consultants for advice. The advice included small modifications in the house as well as changing the placements of house furniture and items like mirror etc. The advice from the Vastu Consultants actually helped and things gradually improved.

This was the turning point for me, I started taking deep interest in Vastu, its origin and history, different principles, how it works etc. I started doing a lot of research on the topic. I read lot of books on the topic. Consulted various Vastu experts. Even after marriage I continued doing the research. Luckily I got married to someone who equally shared my passion of Vastu and using it to help others to benefit from this valuable Indian Science.

Ashish is an Engineer and an MBA from one of the leading Business Schools in the country. He is equally passionate about Vastu and he encouraged me to do deeper research in this field. We both have advised multiple people on constructing new houses, flats which are Vastu Compliant. Also have suggested remedies to people wherever their existing houses were not compliant with Vastu. The remedies vary from modifications in the house, to changing placements of various things within the house, use of Crystals, Pyramids, and Color Therapy etc. to help people achieve an optimum balance of positive energy in their dwellings.

While we were doing research on the topic, we realized that though there were multiple books already in the market which spoke about Vastu Shastra, very few would cover it in a language which a lay man can understand. There are books which explained Vastu principles but did not explain Vastu remedies or steps to make houses Vastu compliant in case they were currently not. There are other books which talks about remedies but do not explain Vastu in the first place.

Hence we decided to write a book which is a one stop shop for all things related to Vastu and in a language which everyone can understand. We have also shared some practical case studies for the benefit of our readers.

Lot of our friends who work in corporate environment seek advice from us w.r.t. the workplace. Hence we have a separate section which helps people make their workplaces or workstations Vastu Compliant.

Last but not the least, we have tried to explain the similarities and dissimilarities between Vastu which is an Indian Science with Feng Shui ancient Chinese Science. We have explained various remedies through Vastu and Feng Shui tools which will help a person in getting rid of the Vastu doshas.

Hope you all enjoy reading this book and benefit from Vastu in all facets of your life.

Basics of Vastu

V astu is the science of architecture and buildings. The term Vastu or Vaastu is derived from the root Vas which means to stay, to live. In Sanskrit Vastu means nature, a surrounding or environment.

Vastu Shastra is an ancient Indian science containing principles and practices for constructing houses or buildings in such a way which ensures a harmonious balance between man and nature and various kinds of forces and energies. The forces and energies includes cosmic energy, gravitational forces, and electromagnetic waves. This harmonious balance brings all round happiness, health, wealth and prosperity. Vastu Shastra brings together art, science, astronomy and astrology. Vastu Shastra helps us to make our lives better and will prevent things and situations from going haywire.

Vastu Shastra effectively uses the network of cosmic energy for the advancement of humans. According to Vastu Shastra, when houses or buildings or any other structures are in harmony with the underlying cosmic principles, they become a part of the basic structure of the universe and pulsate in harmony with it. These positive vibrations are believed to have a positive effect on the inhabitants of the house or any other structures.

Vastu is the science of direction that combines all the five elements of nature and balances them with the man and the material. As per Vastu, the world consists of five basic elements, also known as the Pancha Bhootas - Earth, Water, Air, Fire and Space. Our planet Earth has life because of the existence of all these five elements. In any home, miseries and sufferings will automatically vanish, if these five elements are correctly positioned in the right directions. Vastu Shastra is the only science which explains the ways to maintain best equilibrium of these five elements in a house, building or a structure and make best use of them. This maximizes psychological and physical energies of inhabitants to the highest possible degree.

The Vastu principles for example explain the size & shape of the plot on which a house is to be build, on which side(s) of the plot the road(s) should be, how far away the plot should be from the public places, what type of plot/house(s) should be near the plot, various rooms in the constructed house or flat and the placement of these rooms, the door & window placement etc. Lot of these have been explained in the book in the subsequent chapters.