Vaasthu means a place of living. In Sanskrit it is called "Vaasysthalaha Ithi- Vaasthu". Therefore our place of living is called the Vaasthu Sthala and the Science dealing with it is called Vaasthu Shastra. In ancient days, Man lived in Cages and huts. While living in cages he thought he should make himself comfortable allocating different places for different purposes. Whether Man or animal, they not prefer to make use of the same place for all the purposes. A place of living is not only a shelter against rain and hot sun, but also a complete resting place to make him fully relaxed by the proper sources of energy around him. There are five different types of energies.
They are namely the wind energy, water energy, magnetic energy, cosmic and radiational energy. Ever from the primitive days, these sources of five energies ( PANCHABOOTHAS) were of uniform and routine nature that play vital role in organising your place of living. Parallel to Indian art of Vaasthu, yet another Pioneers in the field the original Mongols or the present Chinese have chosen the two energies namely the water and wind . This is called as the art of FENG-SHUI.
The FENG-SHUI is more prevalent and more relevant in modern times where sky scrappers and multi storied flat systems are increasingly popular. While Vaasthu is dealing with the overall complete system of forming a house or building structure on a piece of land, THE feng- shui confines to the interior formations and ratifications. Small and simple but effective measures of correcting the FENG-SHUI energies are more pragmatic and easily accessible by the modern mankind.
Based on Indian origin, we have not failed to give you more vividly the art of Indian Vaasthu and beneficial aspects of the FENG SHUI in this.
The following things are to be considered before one builts a house.
| 1. | SELECTING A PLACE | 2. | SOIL TESTING |
| 3. | FLOWER TESTING | 4. | WATER SOURCE |
| 5. | HOUSE STRUCTURE | 6. | ROOMS IN A HOUSE |
| 7. | ENTRANCE | 8. | GOD OF VAASTHU |
| 9. | DOOR | 10. | TYPES OF WOOD |
| 11. | AUSPICIOUS DAY | 12. | WALL HEIGHT |
| 13. | FOUNDATION | 14. | AUSPICIOUS TIME |
| 15. | PAINTING | 16. | THITHI |
| 17. | YOGAM | 18. | STIRRA LAGNAM |
| 19. | DOES HOROSCOPE TELL ABOUT HOUSES | 20. | THE SURROUNDINGS OF THE HOUSE |
The spiritual ratifications for the existing houses matter. In case you have an already built house which cannot be easily rectified or restructured, then you should only go in for the spiritualistic sanctions namely the Vaasthu Japams and Vaasthu corrections.
A simple copper sheet measuring 3 inches x 3 inches or 9 inches x 9 inches with carefully engraved mantric encryptions and spiritually augmented square disc with proper invocation of Mantras installed in the premises shall help warding off the evils. This system is also called the JADI BANDHANA system. Similar methods are adopted with slightly different Mantric in the temples and public places.