Vaastu is basically a very basic guidance about architecture. If you wanted to build a house a thousand years ago, there were no architects in the village. So, what guidelines would you have used to build the house? In building any structure, the main challenge is always the length and breadth of the roof. How do you make a roof? You would go to your field, find a tree and cut it down. Let’s say you have a small tree that is just eight feet tall.
Now the width of the roof will be only eight feet. But suppose you have ten children, then you built a 120 feet long room for all of them to live. If you build a house that is eight feet wide and 120 feet long, you will be living in a tunnel. Your physical and mental health will definitely be affected. So, he told you, if you have to build a house, if one dimension is this much, then the other dimension should be this much.
If you study Vaastu, Vaastu in the mountains is very different from the Vaastu in the plains. Vaastu in Karnataka is different from Vaastu in Tamil Nadu. According to the weather and temperature, he gave some general guidelines so that you could build your house wisely since there was no architect to help you.
Today people are stretching it to such an extent and all kinds of nonsense is happening because when you have fear, you can make everything a science. In the last ten to twenty years this whole thing has dominated people’s minds. Before that, no one knew about Vastu, but everyone was living well.
A few years ago, I stayed in someone’s house. At night, all my phones stay on because for people in the United States, work starts after 10 pm. So, I was talking to him. But my cell phone was not working and I was not able to connect. So, I wanted to use the local landline phone. I went to find that man. It was already about 12:30 or 1 am, so I didn’t want to go and wake her up, but I had only seen her about 45 minutes earlier, so with some hesitation, I went and knocked on her bedroom door – a few Didn’t happen. I thought he might actually be sleeping and knocked again – nothing. Then I tried to turn the handle and the door opened. I looked inside, there was no one in the bedroom.
I thought he might be walking in the garden or in the kitchen or somewhere else. I went downstairs, looked around the entire house – no one was there. Then I called the ashram and said, ‘My host is missing. Where is he, both husband and wife are missing? He dialed his cell number, which I didn’t have, and then he came. I asked him, ‘Where were you?’ I searched everywhere, even in the store room. He said, ‘I was sleeping.’ I said, ‘Where?’ He replied, ‘You know, I suffered some losses in business and…’ I said, ‘That’s fine, but where were you?’ He was sleeping in the bathroom! That’s a place I hadn’t thought of.
An architect had come and told him, ‘Your bedroom is in a place of bad luck, so you should sleep in the bathroom. Your business will do well. I told the man, ‘Instead of living a long life sleeping in the bathroom, you should at least sleep in your bedroom and die with some dignity.’
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