Vaastu and the Geometrical Journey of Life

 

 Mr. Sharma lives in a fabulous Banglow  in a posh area along with his wife and two offspring. He has a glamorous job, hence no issue from the financial front. But he constantly looks frazzled, tensed, stressed, depressed and dejected, and has always some tussle and clashes with his wife for no reason. Despite all the luxuries, job, kids, education, he is not living his live in peace, ecstasy, healthy and harmony. He contacted to a VastuShastri. Might be problem with the Vastu of your home, it need to be corrected, the first response he got from VastuShastri. What is the basis of Vastu, why it is so significant to bring happiness , peace and harmony in the family ?

    

Vastu Shastra is a very old Indian science of Architecture. The sages and rishis of yore created Vastu Shastra for the wellbeing of the entire civilization. In those days, the members of a joint family used to be content, prosperous and happy. But, today, despite the nuclear families, peace and happiness remains a far cry. This science, after propounding the rules of construction, goes to prove that by constructing properly our buildings, villages, towns, cities, shops, offices, factories and industries we can make ourselves flourishing.

    

The Vastu Shastra works on the knowledge of the geometry of cosmos. According to the structure of the cosmos, we give shape, direction and arrange the upholstery of our home to bring the happiness, peace and harmony in the family. This is one technique of external arrangement to gain the internal peace. The direction plays a very vital role in Vastu.  The direction has been dedicated to different Indian mythological gods. East is dedicated to Indra and the Sun. Indra is king of gods and responsible to bring rain, the fresh water. The Sun rises in the east, go through south and set in the west. South is dedicated to Yama, Dakshineshwar Kali and Ancestors.  Yama is god of death and son of Sun. He keeps the accounts of everyone`s Karma, and he can neither be injustice nor favorable with everyone. He is a cosmic Judge.  Both Yama and Kali are the embodiment of the tempestuous and take lives of others. It is believed that, after death, our ancestors go to south, the realm of Yama. That s why, all our rituals related to our ancestors, we perform facing ourselves towards south. These rituals are performed to get our ancestors released from the realm of Yama and take rebirth to repay their Karma. The place where our ancestors live is called Pitr or put. Due to this reason, the crematoriums are also kept in the south of the village and city.

     

West is dedicated to Varuna,  the king of sea, and Vayu .The fresh water carried by river and rivulets is emptied  in sea, and the water of sea is salty, is the indication of drained out. Laxmi came out by churning of ocean. Laxmi is also known as Samundra Putri, the daughter of sea. The sea store itself a prodigious of wealth viz. Fish, Salt, Petroleum etc. we get from sea. Indra goes from east to west to take Laxmi back in the form of Sachi to  Indralok with the help of gods . Laxmi is known as Chanchala, the fickle one. When Indra becomes vituperative, then shattered Laxmi come back to her father, Varuna,  in the west. North is dedicated to Lord Shiva and Kuber.  Lord Shiva lives in Kailash Mountain clad with white snow, meditating under the Banyan tree facing south. Pole star is also in the north. All the things mentioned in North are stable and permanent viz. the Banyan tree, which does not allow any other plant to grow near it, and root comes from up and goes down, snow, pole star. When people die, they are laid down their head facing north. So that, they (soul)  should reach to the realm of Lord Shiva, the permanency.

Scientifically, the magnetic waves flows from North Pole to South Pole. The pran remains hidden in the brain for sometimes even after death of the body, by putting the head north, it get released easily due to the magnetic force.

   

The Northeast  is known as Eshanya, ruled by Shiva , is the most auspicious corner.  This is the  meeting point of freshness(Indra) and permanency(Lord Shiva). Southeast is the meeting point of Yama and Sun, and both are embodiment of fire. Hence, Southeast is ruled by the fire deity – Agni (Energy Generating). Southwest, the meeting point of Varuna and ancestors, known as Pitru/Nairutya, ruled by ancestors (History). Northwest, the meeting point of Yavu and Kuber. Northwest- ruled by Vayu, the god of winds  (Advertisement). This corner is also called Bhandar corner, the larder one.  The sea produce wealth and Kuber is the financer of the gods , so the meeting point is called Bhandar corner, the larder one. Center- ruled by Brahma, the creator of the universe (Desire). The open sky influences greatly. We can get the effect of terrestrial-energies uninterruptedly. But the buildings prove a barrier to the effects of open sky. Therefore, the importance of roofs or lawns gets emphasized, which is not considered tantamount to the courtyard.  Traditionally every house in India used to have an open space (Court Yard) in the center of the house. It provided the dwellers not only the open sky but also sunlight and cross-ventilation of air.  In the new construction of building, open space, the courtyard is missing. The yagna or family worship used to perform in the courtyard,  so that, the vibration of the Yagna/Worship goes to all the rooms equally. The Vastu works on the five elements viz.  Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Space, which are associated with our five senses. This is one kind of effort to control our senses by making connection with external sources.

      

From the above descriptions, Northeast is suited for worship, east is for bathroom, Southeast is for Kitchen, South is for doing the duty, the Karma, Southwest is suitable room for old person in the family. West where sun sets, tired one. Northwest is suited to keep your earnings. North is for permanence and good health. These provide a perfect sequence for the humanity ,  from wake-up to bed. We wake-up and pray God in Northeast . Fresh ourselves , now we are in the east, take food  in Southeast. Go for the  duty means we are  in South direction. Learn from history, not to be injustice while taking the fruit of the  duty, this is Southwest. At the close of the duty ,we take the wages of the whole day work, now we are in West. The earned one are kept in Bhandar, the larder, now we have reached to  Northwest. Now it is time to retire for the bed. In dreamless sleep, we talk to our soul, the permanent one means we have reached to the North. Hence, we complete our  complete journey covering all the directions.  After sleep we get  morning, means one more innings of life to play the game of life flawlessly with well-cooperated  with the natural law. The similar is true for the concept of rebirth, to get one more opportunity to repay our Karma.

       

Lord Shiva, the ascetic and Yogi , close his eyes and peeps-up inside and incinerates all the internal vices if any. His eyes are closed and his countenance is serene, and sitting in meditative pose, not disturbed by any external upheaval. And, if someone tries to disturb His meditation and internal peace , He incinerates them to ashes. He is invariably equitable  towards the external appearance. He does not make any difference between poison or nectar, Asura or gods, palace or crematorium etc, because , he is internally so strong that anything external can not disturb his eternal peace, ecstasy and serenity. He is getting disturbed by nothing, even though He is meditating in crematorium. He is the embodiment of the soul, the pure, pious and eternal.  The message comes for us to be internally so strong that any external upheaval does  not make  any disturbance of your internal life. Those persons always remains happy who live internal to external. No one can disturb you without your permission. No goal is unreachable for the internal driven person.