Vastu

Vastu is an important concept that people take a good care, while constructing their living and working place. It is quite obvious that you could never envision the supreme and heavenly energies with our naked vision. But you could sense the effects and influence of those supreme powers in several aspects. World is the biggest gift that is being created by god and everything stays good under the prominence of truth. Similar to every workout, the human life and living is governed by the supreme power of the dwelling position and construction known as Vastu. Vastu principles are really important that has to be taken into the consideration, while you construct your house and living area. Here are some of the essential Vastu tips that will really help you to make a peaceful living! • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

The direction of the office entrance way The right direction of the placement beams The right direction to fix the doors and windows The right direction and setup of the owner room The right direction for the employees to work Construct your house in such way it admits bright light into the main doorway It is really advisable to allow 5 doors of a maximum opening Setting television in the bedroom area is not recommended Keep the plants and water sport far from your bedroom Never split bed sheet and bed mattresses Set your house furniture in the form of circle, square or as octagon Keep the corners bright It is good to fix an image of bright sun in the southern wall of the living area Construct your bedroom, where wind must blow from south to west Your house dinning hall must never get exposed to the entrance door of the house Setting a mirror in the kitchen room is not recommended Do not place the mops and brooms in the kitchen. Keep it far aside It is good to keep the doors of your toilet and bathroom closed most the time It is good to set your windows opened towards out face Growing of pricking plants like cactus in your house is not advisable and recommended

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It is good to place the fish aquarium in the southeast corner in your living area It is good to stick a happy family photograph or picture inside your living room Growing of high trees such as Bangan, Thorny trees and Pipal is not good and recommended Ensure that the lift gate is not set in face of the entry main gate of your house Building your house rooms in shape of oval, or circle or triangle is strictly not advisable Your house should never be in disturbed by any obstructive buildings Ensure that your house is good with right air circulation and water source Your latrine seat must be kept facing towards northern south It is good to sit facing the doorway, while you sit in your office It is good to set a mountain wallpaper behind you in your office Never keep a ladder that faces towards west or north, as it makes waste of money Never wear torn clothing, withered flowers, as these will prevent the goddess Lakshmi entering into the home.

Building a home as per the Vastu norms is really essential because it brings congruent balance amidst assorted atmospheric natural energies including cosmic energy, solar energy, lunar energy and many more. Vastu for home will involve several important traits, which depicts unique style in building every room of your home. Constructing a home by closely sticking with the Vastu principles will greatly bring peace, success and opulence to the dwellers residing in the home. Moreover, a good Vastu Shastra will drive away the negative powers and brings holiness and supreme powers into the home. Here are some brief descriptions that describe, in which style your home and rooms should be built by closely sticking with the Vastu norms. Puja Room: While setting the puja room, you must have to consider all these following Vastu principles in order to achieve the exact holiness to your dwelling. • • • •

Place the idols of the god and goddess in the right direction Stick close with the door placement Strictly avoid using the proscribed raw material while constructing the puja room Stick with the right number of door and windows that is described in the Vastu principles

Bed Room: Bed room is a place where you windup all your worries and tensions thereby stay relaxed with pleasant memories. So, it is really essential to design your bedroom with great care sticking very closer to the Vastu principles. The direction, which you face while sleeping will badly affect your physical workout in your everyday activity. If you have constructed your bedroom with the inappropriate structure that stands out of Vastu principles will badly disturb your sleep and make you to turn restless. Moreover, you often get clashes and misunderstandings with your betterhalf. Along with, you might experience everlasting health troubles. Essential Vastu tips for your home bedroom: •

The right direction to set your master bedroom is on south-west

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Ensure to place your heads positioning towards the direction of South corner. Placing heads towards North is not recommended, as it will badly disturb your sleep Keep your bedroom away from setting diving idols Constructing your bedroom with the shape of rectangle or square is dearly recommended, as it bestows peace and good fortune

Kitchen Room: Kitchen room is a place, where you cook your everyday food. You must have to consider quite several factors, while constructing your home kitchen. You must be very considerable in placing the sink, location of the gas, refrigerator, gas cylinder, and other more. Essential Vastu tips for your home kitchen room:  The right place to set your kitchen is in the south-west corner. If you never find an apt position, then you can avail the alternative of locating it in the north-west corner  Building kitchen in North-east, mid-west, mid-north, mid-south, southwest or in the centre is strictly not recommended, as they are out of Vastu norms  Ensure that the cooking area never touches the sidewall of northern or eastern side  The right location to cook food is by setting it on the direction of east Bathroom: Similar like other room, you must give close attention while you construct your home bathroom. The best location to construct the bathroom is the eastern part of the home. If you never find the right appropriate place to set your bathroom, then you can avail the Vastu remedy by placing geyser in the south-east corner

Vastu Shastra is a wide field and there are lots of questions arising in the minds of readers. For the people who are a novice let's make them clear what is all about Vastu Shastra! Vastu Shastra is nothing but an architectural science followed from the past. It is the involvement of various principles in the construction of building and the way of living with peace in nature along with the environment, by equalizing the nature's five elements namely Space, Fire, Earth, Water, and Air. Vastu Shastra can also be referred to as the SCIENCE OF DIRECTIONS that integrates all five nature's elements and counterweights with man and material. Also, it involves making use of the cosmic energy in the world for the benefit of Vastu. Fine! Information on Vastu Shastra is known! How would one come to know when there is a bad vastu? There are many symptoms affecting an individual when there is a wrong vastu. It creates continual sickness, constant tiredness, unnecessary negative imagination, always being pessimistic and a tensed feeling withstands all the time in mind. Also, there would be downs in money flow, losses in business, legal or law suit problems, property disputes, lack of motivation, stale, continuous arguments with spouse, partner etc and on the whole a feeling of bad luck pesters the mind. When these symptoms are felt, a proper consultation with a Vastu shastra expert can be done with immediate effect. The next question posed by people is the time taken to achieve the results. Though it is not fixed period for all kinds of problems, the results may start showing its effect in 21 days or it may take more days too. However, the time may vary to obtain the results, but it is entirely guaranteed for good results. People have also queries on the remedial vastu shastra. Let's learn what it actually means. This is nothing but the remedies that are got without demolishing the property of vastu and are similar to Vastu shastra remedies. They provide solutions to Vastu dosha and improvise the living conditions of the people and bring happiness and prosperity throughout. Is color, fabric and type of wood very crucial in order to make better Vastu? Though this may look weird, it is necessary to create a better Vastu. In fact, this paves the path for energy to carry oneself freely and get settled in the place. Of the most important questions asked frequently, people wish to know how the remedies have started to work for them. The results of the

Vastu will be really visible for them and they would certainly feel a difference. This can be understood with an example. If a person comes home exhausted from a tiresome job and finds his spouse, children and family sitting relaxed, he would obviously be cool and comfortable. The same feeling would be felt in vastu with temperament problems, positive and patient attitude, cash flow in a controlled state, booming business and lots more to be grabbed on. On the whole, it would be a sense of harmony for oneself and the people around him. Hence, the material benefits can be finely viewed obviously

Vastu Dosha is a proposed defect or deficiency in the familiar features of the eight directions and these directions have been empowered with characters based on an assortment obtained from the Panch-MahaBhutas. However, Vastu dosha signifies spoiling the characters of the directions under circumstances. Also, such doshas are closely related with Panch-Maha-Bhutas- associated qualities of mind, soul and human body. It is possible to settle down the ill effects through 'Sadhana' or meditation.

Looking very closely, these qualities have the ability to provide a shield exhaling from the human soul that could protect the concerned person from harm of Vastu doshas. However, this idea is especially effective when the human efforts are put forth for wanting obstructions made by the Vastu doshas. Thus, meditation practices can serve the purpose as they are gaining popularity with innovative techniques in meditation.

Let's take into account the remedies that are needed for the construction that are made against the principles of Vastu. At times, it happens that an act done by a man out of inexperience harms him a lot and such remedy seems to be highly impossible. Some of the remedies in getting relief from the problems are discussed below:

If a canal or river flows in any direction other than a facing a north-east direction of the home and having an anti-clockwise movement, it is better to set a statue of Ganeshji in a dancing state facing towards the west on the north-east area of the house If a factory or a house has a wrongly faced boring direction, a Panchmukhi Hanumanji picture can be placed facing the boring's South-West

While entering in to the flat, if a bare wall is seen, either a statue or picture of Ganeshji must be placed on it as a bare wall signifies loneliness. Hence, it is advisable not to leave the wall naked Swastika Yantras can be used in improving the energy circles in some cases. Moreover, a lot of care is required and should be managed under the guidance of a capable Vastu mason Now, let's taken in to consideration the effects when particular rooms are constructed in a wrong direction. Firstly, a kitchen room would aptly be good in a South-East direction and the water tap in the kitchen to face the north east direction. On the contrary, if the kitchen faces the north east direction, it restricts mutual love and peace in the family. Moreover, the cooking direction should remain only towards the east and it would be better if the food to be cooked on the stone is red. Also, if a tube well is not fit at a desirable direction, it causes deficit of women, stomach and sexual problems among the men. The remedy to this is to fit the Tube well or well in the north-east direction and it is to be ensured that the place remains open at the house's lowest level. In case of toilets, it can be constructed towards the West or South with face facing the north or West during discharging stool.

Vastu Remedies are widespread in every particular field and one can best use of them when consulting with proper Vastu mason or Vastu expert before starting the construction of plots or houses.

Vastu Shastra is highly ranked and is important from the sensuous point of view within the creation of human beings. In fact, Vastu Shastra is most amorous, pleasant and charming and is owned by its enduring value and most appealing components of human civilization. There are many devices which are used in Vastu Shastra for the benefit of the well beings and their surroundings. Of them, the most important one is the Vastu Compass. Using Vastu compass, it enhances the growth of an individual and brings happiness and prosperity in one's life. Let us study in detail regarding them.

Vastu Compass is an advanced self pointing device that helps us in checking the arrangements as per to the Vastu and also suggests arrangements accordingly. This compass helps in guiding oneself as well as others in becoming Health, Wealthy and Prosperous. Of course, these are the important basic things which are expected by the human beings. There are simple charts, which are very easy to use that simplifies the process of vastu differences. Vastu Compass comes with eight ready to use charts for Living Room, Residence, Kitchen, Bed Room, Office, Shop, Dispensary and Factory. One would really feel the comfort and easiness in Vastu while using the Compass.

Now let's see how the Vastu Compass could be used. They are found to be easy as well as manageable.

As each of the charts signifies a different aspect, one could choose the chart that would suit the situation. Then, place only the chart that is selected on the instrument's dial in such a way that the centre-pin ejects

out from the middle point of the chart. Following to this, the chart is to be placed on the said direction pointing towards the needle on the centre-pin. Also, one should take absolute care in preventing the influence of outside wind, jerk and air on the needle.

Succeeding to this, the needle can be allowed to rotate freely on the centre pin and after some time the needle would stop moving further and finally sets to only one direction. To identify the direction one could read out the marks on the needle, as a "Red" mark on the needle signifies the "North" direction. From the north direction the other directions can be calculated in our mind and mark it accordingly. Then the instrument has to be rotated in such a way that RED MARK of the needle or the "N" pole pairs aptly over the chart's "N" pole. However, this instrument has to be placed on the surface of a ground or a table as a leveled surface would give better results. Now it is time to check the location and situation of the residence or any commercial premises according to the chart that indicates the perfect situation as per "Vastu Shastra".

Finally, one could make comparisons of the facts and do needed alteration to welcome Peace, Wealth and Prosperity to the home.

USEFUL VASTU TIPS SOME USEFUL TIPS BASED ON VASTU AND FENG-SHUI

1. Allow a bright light on the main door. 2. It is best to leave only maximum 5 door open. 3. Avoid keeping a T.V. set in bed-room. 4. Avoid keeping any water feature or plants in the bed room. 5. Do not use seperate mattresses and bed-sheet. 6. Arrange the furniture to from a square or a circle or an octagon in. 7. Brighten the corners. 8. Place a picture of bright sunrise on southern wall in living room. 9. The wind should come from south-west in the bed room. 10. Dining-room should not expose to the front door of your house. 11. Never put mirror in kitchen. 12. Keep the broom and mops out of the sight in kitchen. 13. Keep the bathroom and toilet door closed as much as possible. 14. Windows should open outward normally. 15. Do not keep prickly cactus, plants in the house. 16. Place an aquarium in the sourh-east corner in living room. 17. Place a happy family picture in living room. 18. Please cheque ther aren't grown very high trees like Bangan, Pipal, Thornytrees.

19. Please cheque the gate of the lift is not in front of the main gate of the house.

20. There should not be any room which has

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21. There should not be obstructive houses surrounding your plot. 22. The house should be fully airy and has enough water resource. 23. The seat in the latrin should be NORTH-SOUTH. 24. In the office, sit facing the door. 25. Hang a picture of mountains behind you in the office. 26. Place the computer on your right side on the table. 27. A ladder to go up stair curved on the right side should be devided in to two parts. It should be constructed leaving north-east or south-west direction. Ladders stepping down towards north or west creates waste of Lakshmi.

28. One should never hoard stale food, withered flowers, torn clothes, waste paper, waste materials, empty tins, old jars and useless things. These things prevents Lakshmi from entering the house.

29 If there is marble flooring in the house you should see that the old leather

shoes are not lying here and there. Marble is considered to be holy stone. If possible avoid marble in bedroom, bathroom, latrine.

30. In a place of worship in the house it is necessary to have open atmosphere. Use marble in the worshiproom. Take care that there is enough light and air. Latrine should not be near worship room. keep cleanliness and always light insense sticks.

Vastu Colour Indication

SOME OTHER RELATED TOPICS 1. Doors of each room should be facing East. 2. Bedrooms should be in South and West. 3. Placement of mirrors on South and West wall are inauspicious. 4. While sleeping head should be in South or West but never in North. 5. Pooja room should be in North East. All idols and photographs should be facing East or West.

6. Toilet seat should be in North-South only. It should not be in East-West. 7. Out houses should not touch the compound wall of North and East side. 8. Stairs should always be in clock-wise direction.

9. Anything underground should be in North or East. 10. Anything above ground should be in South or West. 11. Porch should not touch the North or East compound wall. 12. Big trees should not be grown in North or East. They should be in South or West side of the

house.

13. Face East or North while reading or transacting any business deal. 14. Face East while cooking, West is allowed if there is no alternative, but never face South while cooking.

15. Total number of doors and windows should be in even number for each floor,

but should not end in zero like 10, 20, 30. The width of the door should be half the height of the door. The door should not be too high, too low, too wide or too narrow. The doors should be rectangular and square doors should always be avoided.

16. Ventilation should be looked after and good cross ventilation should be present. 17. Never put the poster of crying girl, war scene, sexy scenes, angry man, owl, eagle etc : they are inauspicious.

18. Doors should open inside the room and not outside. 19. In bed rooms, always use bed of four legs only. Never use box type bed because it stops the air circulation under the bed which is bad for health.

20. Never eat or drink in standing position. 21. No room should be built under the stairs. 22. The cupboard in the wall should be in the Southern or Western part direction of 23.

the house. In thse kitchen, grinder, fridge, shelf and other heavy items should be towards South and West wall.

24. There should be no water body in front of any entrance door of the house.

VASTU TIPS FOR BEDROOM The bedroom is a place where one can be totally oneself. It is the room where we spend most of the time to sleep and relax. • The beds should be placed more towards the southwest of the room but never in the southwest corner. One should sleep with head towards the south for sound sleep and better health. • The lighting should be a soothing general illumination. • Lights should be planned in such a way that it must create a light , romantic , relaxing environment. Table lamps or hanging lamp shades provides the room a very aesthetic look. • The master bedroom should be positioned in the south-west corner of the house. Beds should be placed in the south-west corner of the room. One should never sleep under a Beam . this will affect their health. • Never Keep Gods Statues in the Bedroom Vastu suggest paintings of nature scenes, prayer, and temples .Avoid keeping heavy statues in the northeast corner of the room • Never keep a Fish tank in the Bedroom.

Vastu Tips for Flat The architecture of flats should follow the guidelines laid by Vastu Shashtra or it can have a damaging affect on our lives. You can invite calamities in your life, if you chose to ignore Vastu advice while building a flat for yourself. Vastu helps to make your living comfortable in flats and prevent illness and other dangers from creeping into your life or relationships. The article brings some very important guidelines to be kept in mind while planning the architecture of a flat. Go through them and know the right Vasthu for flats, to make your life happy and prosperous. Vaastu Tips For Flat •

According to Vaastu, the master bedrooms should be in the southwest

corner of the house. If the house has more than one floor, then the master bedroom should be on the topmost floor. The ceiling should be in level; as it makes the energy of the room uniform and helps the occupants keep a steady state of mind. •

The children’s room should be constructed in the northwest corner. No

bedroom should be located in the southwest direction. •

The bathroom should be constructed in the west or south direction and its

drains should flow towards northeast. •

The drawing room should be in northwest, south or west direction. The

furniture should be placed in south and west directions. Maximum open space should be in north and east directions. •

The kitchen must be situated in the fire angle, i.e. in southeast. The cook

should face east while cooking. The water tap in kitchen should be in the northeast direction. •

Northeast, northwest, north, west, east corners are best for a study room.

If the study room and place of worship room are adjacent, then it is considered most favorable.

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The store room should be constructed in the southern part of the building.

Grain and other provisions can be stored in the kitchen or in other rooms and cupboards. Things should not be stored in box beds, because it causes sleeping disorders. •

Daily wastes from the kitchen should be kept covered in the southwest

corner of the kitchen. •

The doors should be in the north and east. The waves emerging from the

doors affect the mind of a person who enters from the door. •

Guest room should be in the northwest direction. The room in this

direction is also considered suitable for unmarried girls. •

The rooms in the northern part of the house should be larger than the

rooms in the southern side, by 6-9 inches, and lower by 1-3 inches. The ideal height of the rooms should be 12-14 feet. The main door should be larger than the inner doors and all doors should open facing the walls. •

All windows should be, at least, 3 feet above ground level, and at the

same level from the top. Window openings should be on the northern and eastern sides of the buildings.