The first book in English on the Hindu precursor to feng shui.bull; Allows readers to design homes that conform to eternal spiritual principles.bull; Offers suggestions to rectify existing buildings with inauspicious energy.The subtle art of energy management for prosperity; good health; and calm mind has been introduced to the West through feng shui. Until now the ancient practice of vaastu; the Hindu art of environmental design; has been relatively unknown. Born of the movement of forces within the trinity of the great Hindu gods--Brahma; Vishnu; and Shiva--vaastu is the human expression of lifes impulse to harmonize itself with the cosmos. The great culture at Harrapa; in 3000 b.c.; applied vaastu to create cities at a level of sophistication that would only be reached again in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Housed in a library in north India; the codified tenets of vaastu were destroyed in medieval times by successive invaders into the country; however; the art of vaastu remained alive; through oral tradition and buried deep within other treatises. The rediscovery of these texts in the 1930s has led to a modern revival of this art in India--brought to Western readers for the first time in Vaastu: The Indian Art of Placement. Vaastu elucidates principles that orient and plan each element of a structure; both the big picture and the small details. A buildings site; ground plan; shape; and orientation are all-important considerations; as are soil quality; window placement; and construction materials. The affinities of household items--the telephone; computer; bath--with the five elements of nature; and thus their ideal placement within the structure; are also described. Guidelines for modifying existing buildings help the reader apply the vaastu principles in a practical manner. Vaastu: The Indian Art of Placement will assist in creating personal environments that promote peace; harmony; and health.
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