Yesterday I got to meet a very interesting man. Quite old of course and a Vaastu consultant. Enough introduction for an architect to be wary of, but interestingly the man was nothing much to be wary of. When I got home after listening to his views on Vaastu, I googled to find him an author of many books on the same subject and some on life-building views like that of water, again an element used in the science of Vaastu, so not to be surprised of. So I had two plans to show him, printed to a scale easy on the eyes I began explaining the building, the plot, and its orientation. Promptly laughing with a twinkle in the eye, he exclaims that the simplest would be to not go with this. Then as his junior prodded him with the virtues of the site, he agreed to use power pyramids to enhance the issues posed by the ancient building science. And then when I showed him another building on a plot rotated at a precise 45-degree angle he said Vaastu wouldn’t apply to this, as the science of Vaastu needs a corner. For example, North-east needs to be a corner and cannot be in the center of a side. Pushing away the plans he said, do whatever you want for design as the principles he talks best about anyway wouldn’t apply. Then he thought how the city layout would be at such an angle asking where the plot was located. The enlightenment then came that even the location has a vibe, or as he Vaastu and this location was generally good. Rolling up the plans in the jiffy I decided to leave on this good note. But the most interesting part was when he asked me how the earlier dwellers were doing in the first building’s case, and in the other case how the current dwellers were doing, whether on matters of health and wealth. When I confirmed that all was well, then he said, there we go, we have proof, it’s in the building (also in the pudding) and hence it should be okay.
What generally trumped his words was, much ever we would like to harness the best of this ancient building science, one must be aware of the happenings of space, for at times we may just chance upon a good alignment without even trying for it. If things are going well, we could just let them, be as they are, riding on the wave as curious bystanders and not obsessive controllers. His experience on letting time decide and leaning into the learnings of science beat his need to bring better, the essence of greed by trying to change, reminding me much of a doctor who would know when to operate and an architect who would know when to build. Sometimes a psychologist could well replace a Vaastu consultant and a happy household with an architect! When the elements of the planet come together in a building, the power to harness the power of earth, water, fire and air remains the goal of the architect, and does turning the whole game at an angle of 45 degrees change the power astoundingly that the science does not work? I am bummed, I have seen fortunes change with a change in Vaastu, as I have seen a change in fortune with a change of name or spelling too, but with this insight I am somewhat turning into a non-believer. Perhaps I’d like to call it the art of Vaastu now and not so much science, for the fact that it could spin a no-baller too at some angles! So the advice then remains, if things are fine, let them be and necessitate an action only when required and beneficial, if immune to action then well, do whatever you want. Much like the advice I think the universe would like me to hear at the moment. The man I am referring to is Mr AR Hari, a who’s who in the building ecosystem of Bangalore, who has written several books as google says.
https://www.google.co.in/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22A.+R.+Hari%22
Vedasri Siddamsetty 