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Dear Friends
Greetings and Well Wishes from
" Ashok Sharma "
It gives me an immense pleasure
in introducing myself as an Astrologer and Vastu shastra
consultant from India.
"Only he who can
see the invisible can do the immpossible."
Vastu Shastra is
the ancient Indian Science of building construction. It
is a Vedic Science based upon the strong forces of nature
like: Sunlight, Earth's magnetic field Wind energy, cosmic
radiations etc.
Vastu guides us to align our houses, offices and factories,
i.e. the places where we live or work along the direction
of flow of these energies, in order to make nature's forces
harmonious for us, rather than oppose us, which keeps
us in good health and a strong positive state of mind,
ultimately resulting in harmony, peace, success and prosperity.
The word " VAASTU
" has been derived
from ' VASTOSHPATI '
used in '
Rig
Veda
'
and is meant to provide protection, happiness and prosperity
in this life as well as after death.
HISTORY OF VAASTU
The science of Vastu is considered
an integral part of the Indian architecture. According to
modern historians Ferguson, Havell and Cunningham, this
science developed during the period of 6000 BC and 3000
BC. Being a technical subject, it was confined only to the
architects (Sthapathis) and handed over verbally or in the
form of hand-written monographs. The principles of construction,
architecture and sculpture, as enunciated in the treatises
on temple architecture, have been incorporated in the science
of Vastu.
From ancient literature, we gather that Vastu was treated
as the science of construction of temples and royal palaces.
In the Matsya Purana, seventeen preceptors of Vastu have
been mentioned. They are Bhrugu, Atri, Vasista, Viswakarma,
Maya, Narada, Nagnajit, Visalaksha, Purandara, Brahma, Kumaraswamy,
Nandisa, Sounaka, Bhargava, Vasudeva, Anirudha, Sukra and
Bruhaspathi.
The first official treatise on Vastu, the Kasyapa Silpa,
has been attributed to Sage Kasyapa.
In the treatise Agama Shastra, which explains the science
of temples, Vastu is considered as the basis for any type
of construction. Excavations at Harappa and Mohenjodaro
also indicate the influence of Vastu on the Indus Valley
Civilization.
In a broader sense vastu is a science of directions and
it accounts for 8 directions; North, South, East, West,
Northeast, Northwest, Southeast and Southwest.
Few thumb rules have been in propagation casually here and
there in their distorted versions and are treated by common
man as superstitions and are practiced by the so-called
faith healers in the name of vibrations out of the sixth
sense and what more injustice can be there to such a great
science?
Our Vedas are supposed to be the oldest available literature
on the earth. Vedas contain the descriptions of GRIH, GEH,
HARMYA, SHAALA, BHAWAN, AAGAR, and SADAN, all being synonyms
of the word "House". It does mean that our ancestors
used to live in well-developed houses even in the Vedic
period to which belong the roots of Vastu Shastra.
Why is Vastu important?
I encourage you to understand
that if your home/business is not properly Vastu synchronized,
and then your health and material wealth will slowly decrease
in quality. Nature is not going to come and tell you personally
to fix your place according to Vastu. In the same manner,
suppose if you eat junk food all the time. You can live,
however, your body cells will start burning fast and will
wear out fast. Your personal life and health is good signal
of Vastu.
Vishwakarma had first of all given the methods of construction
and decoration of buildings. It is known as Vastu Shastra
or the architecture. References to these methods and art
are found in the sources of ancient Indian culture such
as the Vedas, Purans, Ramayan, Mahabharat and other Sanskrit
epics. In astrology also, the ancient scholars have given
the auspicious times (muhurt) for procuring a plot of land
or starting the construction work of a house or first entry
in the newly built house etc. The intention of these methods
of construction propounded by the ancient saints, seers
and scholars, and transmitted through the generations, has
been that human beings in this world may build a house which
will bring health, happiness and all round prosperity for
the inmates; A house which helps in achieving the best in
the four groups (Chaturvarg:) Dharm, Arth, Kaam and Moksha
and attaining divinity. A place, natural or built by the
living beings which protects them from heat, cold, rains,
storms and adverse conditions of natures is known by different
name in different cases. e.g. a house, nest, den,
VASTU PURUSH MANDAL
We are discussing here the link between Modern Science and
Vastu-Purush-Mandal. By identifying the significance of
deities associated with definite directions in a Vastu-Purush-Mandal
in terms of modem science, we will try to find the hidden
causality relationship. It will then be easy to see how
the perception in this traditional science matches with
logic and results of modern science.
In all Vedic literature, symbols and similes are used as
a metaphor for explaining facts and procedures. These symbols
are basically 'the perfect one word expression' for the
process involved. Over a period of time we have lost the
meanings of these symbols and in the present era, a stranglehold
of objective methods of modern science has resulted in a
certain degree of ambiguity in approach to these ancient
sciences. It has now become extremely important to breach
this silence of tradition and the vague response of modem
science.
Here, we will try to delineate the traditional narration
in terms of the basic laws, logic and approach of quantum
mechanics, particle physics, biochemistry and energy dynamics.
For correlating the significance of Goddesses, directions,
and forces in Vastu-Purush-Mandal the following topics are
very significant -flow characteristics of solar energy,
geomagnetic flux, thermal variations disturbing the electromagnetic
flux lines, vector analysis of two important energy fields
relative to position of the sun, sub-atomic particles, thought
and consciousness as energy fields, waves and vibrations.
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