VASTHU SHASTRA
The
Vastu scriptures date from a time about 5,000 years
ago and carry the earliest known descriptions of these universal laws
of nature. Scarcely any other architectural tradition lasted 5,000 years
while staying unaltered and still being applied today.
Buildings withstanding natural disasters, destructions and dilapidation
are for the most part those which have been built exactly after the
Vastu principles. Just have a glance on India.
Obviously, the renown Roman architect Vitruvius knew the Indian Vastu
scriptures, for even the chapters in his legendary opus De re architectura
are in the same sequence as they are in the Manasara, a classic Vastu
scripture. Vitruvius lived 2,000 years ago. His works inspired Andrea
Palladio who incorporated the Vastu principles in his world-famous 16th
century Renaissance edifices.
The knowledge behind his work, the origin of this art, is revealed only
today. What sources did those precursors of occidental architecture
take their knowledge from? You will see it here. The mystery of why
we feel so well in Palladio´s villas is finally unveiled.
Vastu is an integral architectural concept. Since millennia,
houses, temples, and even whole cities are built by this concept in
India. Its basis are the natural laws of spatial energy,
and this knowledge is used to bring the living space in resonance with
nature and its inhabitants. The house is like man´s second body.
It is a lens focussing the natural environmental influences. The living
space´s quality influences the health of man as well as his mental
and emotional status.The old Indian geomancy Vastu has been shaped into
a scientific system after millennia of experience and observation, and
with it you can find out the effects of environmental influences
on man.
By this are meant especially those influential factors you do not think
of at first that they could in any way influence your health, for example
Earth´s magnetic field, the subtle energies from Earth and Sun,
the paths of Sun and Moon as well as gravitation. All those influences
define, taken together, the quality of the room you are living in. You
can view the room as a bio-field which interacts with the bio-energetic
field of the human body.
These interactions underlie laws of nature which are taken in respect
when building a house in Vastu style. The Indian scientist A. R. Hari
did an investigation on this and found out that most chronic
diseases are a reflection of the living situation. If the natural
laws of spatial energy are violated, the manifestation of chronic diseases
seems to be furthered, while a strong bioenergetic living field strengthens
the power of resistance of its inhabitants.
If the science of Vastu is applied to the climatic and cultural living
conditions of contemporary Europe, it is called Vasati,
the modern form of Vastu.
Vastu - the Origin of Feng Shui
India
and China are separated by the huge Himalayan mountain range, but in-spite
of that, these two ancient cultures always have had a cultural
interchange. For example, Martial Arts and also Buddhism originated
in India and were later transferred to China. Even in Kung Fu, the original
Sanskrit designations for the various fighting positions are still known
to some masters.
Through many similarities we can see that Vastu and Feng Shui must have
been influencing each other over a long period of time. While Feng Shui
is considered to be at least 4,000 years old, Vastu has already been
systematically described in early parts of the Vedic scriptures
like the RIG VEDA, and those scriptures
are more than 5,000 years of age.
Even more impressive witnesses of the historic age of Vastu are the
ancient cities of the 5,500-years-old Indus-Sarasvati
Culture which were discovered in the year 1921.
The first city was found close to the village Harappa, and because of
that this culture became known as the Harappa civilization. One of the
most well-known cities from this era is Mohenjo-Daro,
which has been planned in a grid system with streets going perpendicularly
from north to south and from west to east, dividing the city into rectangular
blocks. The houses of Mohenjo-Daro were built pointing to the main directions,
and each of them possessed a central courtyard.
These features are found in every city of the Harappa civilization.
All of them were planned like chessboards and were divided into squares
of like dimensions, forming various city areas with different functions.
The temple was placed in the city center. All of this is strictly following
the Vastu guidelines – this suggests that the science of Vastu
existed even before the cities of the Harappa civilization had been
constructed. The cities did not grow organically but were planned systematically
following a clear geometrical concept.
From this we can conclude that Vastu is even older than Feng Shui, and
it is highly probable that it has influenced the development of a similar
science in China. The different cultural and climatic conditions in
China may be responsible for the differences between
Vastu and Feng Shui.
In China the cold winds from the North and the constant
military threat from the Mongols in the North were the cause for the
North generally being considered as a direction of lesser quality whereas
in the Vastu system the North is considered a direction from which the
most important organic energies flow into the house and the plot.
This corresponds to the energetic principles known to European
geomancy and its modern scientific traditions (Viktor
Schauberger, Wilhelm Reich, K. F. von Reichenbach) since hundreds of
years. Therefore Vastu is more relevant to the building and living practice
in the Western countries.
Vastu seems to be the original natural art of invoking positive energies
to one´s house, and it has already been applied in the Western
hemisphere since the time of the famous Roman architects Marcus Vitruvius
– without us being aware of it.
Course & Duration
| 1. The institute will offer 4 Years degree in Vedic Architectures |
| 2. Master Degree will be of 2 years |