Just as one’s body provides shelter to the soul, one’s home also serves the same function in providing shelter to its inhabitants. Basics of vaastu and feng shui depend on the flow of cosmic energy in our homes and workplaces. This is similar to the vital life force that flows within our bodies. Any disruption of bodily flow of energy causes physical ailments. The remedy lies in right medication, meditation, yoga and many such alternative therapies. Similarly, the incorrect flow of cosmic energy in our homes and workplaces can at times be very destructive and cause heavy losses and health problems to us. Here is where vaastu and feng shui play a dominant role in offering corrective measures.
It is rightly said prevention is better than cure. Those who plan to make new homes, offices or factories must at least follow the basic principles. These will be beneficial and fortunate for their future prosperity. Many people disagree with these theories and consider them to be superstitious till they actually face problems in life. But if you go deep into this study you will realise that there is a lot of truth in what has been handed over to us from our learned ancestors. And those who have really prospered after following its principles would vouch for its worthiness.
There are three kinds of luck — heaven luck, earth luck and man’s luck. God has blessed us with heaven luck, which depends entirely on our deeds and misdeeds done during our previous births and this can never be changed.
Next comes our earth luck, which is dependent on our environment and the way we live. As human beings we have control over our environment and here with the help of vaastu and feng shui we can actually make changes to our surroundings to gain positive results. Whether we are to face good times or rough patches is predestined. During good times, vaastu and feng shui perfect homes help us maximise our good luck and during a bad phase of life these good homes help us sail smoothly through difficult times. The intensity of bad luck is reduced. Imagine going through difficult times and also having bad homes, the result would be disastrous.
Finally, we come to the man’s luck. This depends on how much effort we actually put in our work. We just cannot sit idle and do nothing and wait for the destiny to play its role. This is like having a plate of food in front of you and you expect to eat it without making any effort. This has been justified in the Gita where Lord Krishna says that you have to do your karma but leave the results to Him.
Vaastu is based on the five elements of nature. Interestingly, these have been composed by our ancient rishi munis who came up with a word, bhagvan. This word is so powerful that it consists of all the five elements of nature like bh for bhumi (earth), ga for gagan (ether), va for vaayu (air), aa for agni (fire) and ne for neer (water). Fascinatingly, we all are made of the above five elements and feng shui is also based on the five elements, which differs a bit but explains how each and every organ of our body is connected with these.