VASTUSHASTRA IN THE 21st CENTURY (THE BOOK)

PART 1 The best thing about a book is that the writer has the freedom to repeat things. The reader has the freedom to get irritated. I have no intentions of misusing my freedom but I am forced to repeat that the book is not entirely on what Vastushastra is all about. It is concerned with WHY Vastushastra has said some interesting things. So you would find that I have made an attempt at avoiding Sanskrit words. This was partly because I didn't see any point in using them and partly because I have a strange aversion to words in italics. (This is not to say that I have not italicised some words.)

     To understand Vastushastra we have to put God the almighty in the closet first. We don't have to dig a grave for the Maker. A temporary disappearance of God and his innumerable religions would serve the purpose. This might sound ridiculous or even blasphemous but the book aims at relating modern science to the tenets of Vastu and the images of God and his personal retinue would be a distraction.
     There are five factors that govern the dictates of Vastushastra - solar science, the magnetic field of Earth, wind, gravitation and the cosmic forces. Reads like a dreary lesson from an equally dreary Physics text book which you had to suffer at school? Don't get scared. Nothing would go over your head. If you know that the Sun is very very hot and that the Earth goes around the Sun, You are fully qualified to read this book. Let me describe briefly how each of the five forces has influenced Vastushastra. First solar science, to which Vastu has strictly adhered to.
      It is summer not because God likes to see bikinis. It is winter not because God wants to promote woolen clothes. Summer and winter are only fleeting images of Nature's unending motion. The distance between the Sun and the Earth keeps changing during the course of the yearly rotation. The Sun is closest during summer and furthest during winter. Okay you know all this. You were not all that bad at school, you want to say. Fine, now can you relate this to why doctors say that they do better business in summer? We are healthier in winter than in summer. What I am hinting at is that the distance between the Sun and the Earth affects our health greatly.
        When our planet wobbles and steals the day from one hemisphere and gives it to other, the distance between Sun and every point on Earth keeps changing. Depending on this distance one can say if the hot ball is emitting + rays or - rays. The morning rays which disturb our sweet reveries carry vitamins. This is one of the reasons why morning rays are considered positive rays. The afternoon rays are considered negative or harmful rays. (If you want a full explanation on how rays could be classified as positive or negative, please look up a good book on Solar Science. I would not dare to go deep into solar science in this book because, among other things, I would like you to finish the book and not throw it out the window, which may or may not be positioned as per Vastu).
       We are fully exposed to the rays all through the day but as in the case of animals, our senses always guide us to optimum shelter. Work places and homes are shelters too. Now you know what I am driving at?
        Your hapless home is static. It would be really nice if your house could run to the shade of a tree in the afternoons. Since this is not possible or practical, a house should be designed in such a way that windows and all sources of ventilation absorb as many positive rays as possible and the walls protect you from the harmful rays. This is one of the chief reasons why Vastushastra stresses on positioning. Vastu might seem to be concerned only with prosperity, health, insanity and death but my research shows that it is also concerned with latitudes and the path of Sun.

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