Vaastu is the ancient Vedic science of Architecture for house, a place of dwelling and refuge with a place of balance and peace now aplicable to work places also. It is an art of environmental design, a practice that helps you create a home that is in harmony with the natural and positve energies surrounding us. Vaastu is like holistic medicine, focuses on addressing underlying issues for the health of the entire system - the people as well as the physical structures and property on which they live.

Vaastu is a Sanskrit word meaning "the science of architectures." It is a traditional theory of architecture that guides the design and construction of buildings in harmony with the natural laws of the universe. As Einstein proved, everything in existence - sentient and nonsentient, is ultimately a field of energy. Vastu is the pure, subtle energy that underlies everything, while vaastu (with double a) is the manifestation or expression of that energy as matter. Every structure - whether it is a building or anything - has its own subtle energy. Vaastu is the science of working with these fields of energy, guiding us to arrange structures so that their underlying energy fields are beneficially manipulated according to proportion and direction.

Although the term vaastu is often used today as a synonym for "building" or "architecture", vaastu relates not only to the design and construction of the building itself but also to such factors as interior decoration and the surrounding landscape. Vaastu describes desirable window and door locations, color schemes, artworks and furniture arrangements. It also addresses the optimum type of soil (now the work of the Engineers), location of plants and water features and construction of compound walls and doarways.

The science of vaastu is a meaningful dialogue between mind and nature, enabling us to better understand the energy fields of various objects around us as well as those of invisible cosmic bodies that affect our minds and bodies, influencing our lives directly and indirectly.

Vaastu considers a dwelling to be full of live force. It informs us how to make dwellings that have rhythm and beauty, that vibrate perfectly with nature. A structure built according to vaastu is considered a transformed entity, the life divine. At the same time, vaastu is a science based on vedic mathematics, one of the most advanced forms of knowledge in our universe. Vaastu is quite different from that of Feng shui, which is not based on the same depth of calculations. In vaastu, each habitat has to be individualized, taking into consideration several significant factors, including orientation, direction, proportion, the activities.

People are fortunate to enjoy abundant physical comforts as well as a long life, yet they feel inadequate and unhappy quiet often. They suffer from uneasiness in mind and body and do not seem to be in a balanced state of health. Often they are not helped by modern science, which is seriously lacking in its understanding of the connection and complex interaction between the mind and the body. Thus, it seems appropriate to look to the ancient Indian texts, the Vedas, for some of the answers. Veda literally means "science" or "knowledge". The Vedas are storehouses of knowledge concerning the intricate balance of the forces that affect human life and all of existence. This knowledge was revealed to humanity more than seven thousand years ago. Despite their antiquity, the Vedas contain timeless knowledge of the expression of consciousness that can help us find answers to many of our modern concerns about health and life.

Vaastu teaches us about the physical, physiological and psychological makeup of various forces that has positive and negative results on us . It helps us to see that, in one sense, our own physical body is a perfect vaastu structure transformed into a living, vibrating entity. Vaastu or Vaasthu - the science of physical structures - teaches us how to place or construct material structures, taking into account the planetary forces and their effects on our lives. When arranged and constructed according to these principles, our homes can be transformed into entities full of life energy to help us live more harmoniously and happily.

Subir Kr Datta

(Vaastu Consultant)

http://www.vastuhub.com/