The Indian art of Vaastu Shastra, the Chinese Feng Shui and European Freemasonry are replete with evidence of knowledge and mastery of energies with precision about how to build a healthy home. But They don’t say why, or how. Our research attempts that. Welcome to the experience! In ancient times architecture was not only a creation of form to define space, but also inherently a sacred form, a three-dimensioned mandala. Our ancestors created forms that were in harmony with the laws of that greater creation that surrounds us, forms that live no longer in time but have outgrown time and now live in eternity. Forms were believed to express cosmic truths, allowing human experience of the multiple attributes of the Infinite through the inherent magic of numbers, sacredness of proportions and materials, mysticism of harmonics and colours, and choice of the correct location and moment in time was critical. Vaastu Shastra The Vaastu Shastra has its origin in the revered and sacred Vedas – an Indian scripture authored in 2500 BC. This voluminous text is split into four parts and deals with virtually every aspect of life, culture, science and philosophy. Detailed theories of Vaastu’s classical science find abundant mention in the Atharva Veda. This forms a sublime treatise on architecture in its entirety – not merely as a study of construction, but also a study of the effect that the earth, the sun and moon, the planets and the five elements have on men. It also minutely examines the various designs of architecture and the art of proportions along with detailed mathematical formulae. Architecture through Vaastu was not only a creation of form to limit or define space, but was inherently a sacred form. The Vaastu Shastra deals with both secular and religious buildings. The principles of Vaastu were so ingrained in their time that architects adhering to these principles virtually flooded the Indian sub-continent with edifices of exquisite beauty. These men, who built temples and palaces and entire townships, enjoyed enormous social recognition and high professional status. But the science of Vaastu suffered from neglect during a long period of alien rule. Now, researchers have begun to delve into the past to unravel the secrets of the sacred in architecture.
