Basic Principles of Vaastu Shastra - Important Tips By Expert

Introduction to Vastu Shastra

Vaastu is an integral part of our daily lives as this deals with most of the structure where we spend our daily life in be it our home, office or any other building. Vastu is one of the earliest Indian science of creating architecture for any kind of buildings which benefits in making a pleasant setting or a place to live and work in a most authentic and scientific way, it takes advantages given by nature, its major five elements and energy fields for enhanced wealth, health, prosperity, and happiness.

Vastu Shastra combined efforts of science, art, astronomy, and astrology, it can be termed as an ancient mystical science for designing and building. Vastu Shastra enhances our lives and makes it better and secure from things going wrong.

Vaastu is majorly the science of directions that includes all the five elements of nature and creates the perfect balance among them which includes the man and the material. Vaastu Shastra is all about creating a friendly setting or a place to live or work, in this scientific method, it takes advantages of the benefits of the five elements called "Paanchbhootas" in nature thus making the way which can help to enhance health, wealth, prosperity and happiness in an enlightened environment.

What is Vastu Shastra?

• Our Yogi’s and holy sages knew the secrets of including the five elements of this universe and their benefits like the magnetic field, gravitational effect etc. of Earth, the galaxy in the sky, the directions and velocity and effect of the winds, correct amount of light and heat of the SUN which included the effects of Ultra-Violet and Infra-Red rays, the effect and intensity of rainfall etc.
  
• This art form believes that mankind should extensively benefit from the correct planning and construction of buildings be it for home, prayer, entertainment, education system, working, overall production and other purposes.
  
• To succeed they developed scientific methods and systems and confined them over the years as 'VAASTU SHASTRA'. We need to give complete credit to our ancient sages who designed and searched for us; we are only taking it further and researching it and building it for maximum impacts.
  
• As per the Vastu belief, the world is consist of five basic elements, which is popularly known as the Paanchbhootas, which are Earth, Water, Air, Fire, and Space. It is believed that out of the nine planets, our planet Earth only has life because of the presence of these five elements.
  
• Out of the five elements mentioned, Earth and Water have limited and localized accessibility for the human environment and growth. Both these form are the apparent and fundamental choices in the location and the physical form of architecture and habitat. Out of all sun, Air and Space are universally available and can be molded to human needs by the act of design.

What is Vastu Shastra and its principles, know the science behind the designing and building. Vaastu Shastra can help you make your home and office better.

How Do The Five Elements Affect Us?

1. It is the reality and a fact that all the above mentioned five elements are essential to sustain life on this planet. It is confirmed after many studies that there is an invisible and constant interaction between these elements. If we put all these elements in an open field these elements work freely and maintain an equilibrium.
   
2. However, when any structure is placed in this field, this equilibrium gets affected as these elements act for or against each other to create either harmony or disharmony. So if there is disharmony, then Vastu principle needs to create a method in which the energy flows symphonically, making our lives happy and well-balanced.
   
3. Vaastu teaches us to understand the effectiveness of the five elements and use them to our advantage. Here Vaastu helps us in creating a balanced and harmonious environment to live in.