Vastu Chintamani (Based on Lectures of Arya Bhushan Shukla) [ICAS]

Vastu Chintamani (Based on Lectures of Arya Bhushan Shukla)

My astrologer friends and I have been taking classes in ICAS for the past 25 to 30 years and have been teaching various subjects of astrology to the inquisitive students. The exchange of astrological knowledge has been continuing unabated. Strange things happen in the journey of teaching. The one, who teaches, due to his age and experience, keeps progressing to the various levels of teacher (shikshak, acharya or pracharya) but the reason for his progress, the student, always remains a shishya, as if no progress has happened in him. But it’s not true. Guru’s grace can be measured by the number and quality of students he has taught. I can say this with pride today that due to my student Navneet Kaushik, I have been able to repay some of the debt I owe to my organization.

I have always wished that whatever little I have learnt from my gurus, I should be able to share that with my students. That’s not quite possible without a book. Navneet has not only written and presented my lectures in this book beautifully; he has also added his own experience. Had I attempted to write a book, it would have been completed in a few pages but Navneet has presented the lucid explanations of the Vastu principles and converted a simple book into a Grantha. This effort of his deserves huge admiration.

Being the President of ICAS, it is my duty to write foreword and present the complete deliberation on the work of Navneet. It is generally believed that Religion and Science are two totally different things. Their bases and beliefs too do not match; however one thing is common that both try to answer ‘why’. Both streams attempt to give liberty to man to decide ‘when’, ‘what’ and ‘how’. It is correct that once we get the answer for ‘why’ it becomes easy to choose between the various options available.

Navneet Kaushik through Vastu Chintarnani has tried to answer most of the ‘why’ so that Vastu experts have freedom to choose between various options. Most of the books do speak about location of activity centres within the house but do not explain the reason behind locating them at those places. Even in famous Vastu classics, like Vishwakarma Prakash, Samarangan Sutradhar etc., we find the principles but ‘why’ remains missing. It is therefore essential that we tell the reasons behind the principles to the new generation of Vastu students.

In this book, attempt has been made right from the beginning to explain the rationale behind every principle. For example Vastu gives lot of emphasis to Dwar vedha but it will not be applicable to a house located on higher Floor. Similarly there should not be in North or East directions such plants that over a period of time grow into huge size creating vastu defect.