VASTU

RESIDENCES & FLATS

NW U)
NORTH (KUBER)
AY
(V

NE
• MEDITATION ROOM
• OPTION FOR KITCHEN • TREASURY
•ENTRANCE
• MORE OPEN SPACE •PORCH
•BALCONIES, VERANDAH
•UNDER GROUND TANK
• AVOID BED ROOMS
•AVOID TOILETS
• AVOID WELL • AVOID BED ROOMS •AVOID KITCHEN
WEST (VARUN)

•AVOID SEPTIC TANK

EAST (INDRA)
• BATH ROOMS
• DINNING ROOM
•STORE ROOM FOR OIL,
•STUDY ROOM
GHEE ETC.
•MORE OPEN SPACE

•AVOID CELLAR

• TOILETS • BED ROOMS SLEEP

WITH HEAD ON SOUTH • KITCHEN FACE EAST &
•WARDROBES
OR EAST COOK
•DRESSING ROOM
•STORE FOR HEAVY ITEMS •STAIR CASE BLOCK
•STAIR CASE BLOCK •LIFT •AVOID UNDER
•OVER HEAD WATER TANK GROUND TANK
•AVOID CELLAR
•AVOID CELLAR •AVOID WELL
•AVOID WELL •AVOID WELL
(N

SW HY
AR

SE A)
UT

Y
SOUTH (YAMA) GNE
A)

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AS FAR AS POSSIBLE, VARRIOUS ROOMS SHOULD BE
ORIENTED IN THE HOUSE AS PER GIVEN DIRECTIONS
NW
NORTH

NE
CATTLE SHED PUJA ROOM
BED ROOM CATTLE SHED MEDUIOINE
GRAIN STORE FOR YOUND ROOM
GRAIN STORE
COUPLE

ROOM FOR
EXPRESSING ROOM
SORROW
WEST

EAST
SATR ROOM
DINNING

OPEN COURT YARD

CHUMING
STUDY ROOM CURO

ROOM FOR TOILET

BED ROOM STORE FOR KITCHEN
WEAPONS
GHEE
SW

SE
SOUTH

THE DIAGRAM GIVEN ABOVE SHOWS THE PROPER

ORIENTATION OF VARRIOUS ROOMS AS PER VASTU SHASTRA
RESIDENCES & FLATS
 BATH ROOM
NORTH
NW

NE
•The mild rays of the PROHIBIT
ED PLACE
FOR
morning sun East are TOILET

beneficial for health

WEST
•The slope of the floor

EAST
PROPER
SPACE
should be Towards FOR
TOILET

North , East , or NE.

•Water should drain out
on the North or East side. PROHIBITE
D PLACE
FOR
TOILET
SW

SE
SOUTH
 LAYOUT OF A COLONY
By Examining carefully, to have a general idea about the
merits & demerits of different sites.

Good sites
ROAD

SW Corner Rounded
off - to be avoided
NE Corner Rounded
off - Rectification very

MAIN ROAD
ROAD
difficult
To be rectified before
use
NW & SE Corner

MAIN ROAD
ROAD
rounded off - can be N
considered
W E

S
 TOILET DETAILS
•Wash basin & Mirror - North side wall - Good
•Water Closet - South side wall – North South axis - Good
•Slope towards - North – East Corner - Good

N
S

W E

N
 TOILET DETAILS
PROPER
PLACE
FOR
TOILET

PROPER PLACE
FOR TOILET
*W.C. should best facing south & north
(N-S Axis)
·Floor of the Toilet should slope
towards north or east or NE
·Water source should in the NE
corner.
 SEPTIC TANKS
•Septic Tank should not be directly touching the wall compound or the plinth of the House. It should be
alleast 1 or 2 ft away.
•Of the 3 parts of the septic tank water should be in the East and the excretion in the West.
•The length of septic Tank should be E -W and the breadth S-N as far as possible.
•ST should not be higher then the plinth level of the bldg. It should be at the ground level as far as possible .
•The outlet of the ST should be in the North or West

LOSS OF BUBG
LOSS OF MONEY
NW NE
THE
BEST

MED
IUM N

SEPTIC TANK NOT LOSS OF

W E FAME
AT THESE PLACES
LOSS OF MENTLE PEACE
S
LOSS OF HEALTH

SW SE
LOSS OF WIFE
 TOILET DETAILS
•Wash basin and mirror North side wall GOOD
•Water closet towards South East wall BAD
•Slope towards South-West Corner BAD

W E

Wash basin and mirror South side wall BAD

Water closet West side wall BAD
W E
Slope towards East Corner BAD
 BED ROOM
•In the main SW corner of the SW side Bed room, heavy articles should be kept. The
bed should be towards South or West of the SW corner.
•While sleeping if head towards:
West - Name, fame & prosperity
East - Mental peace, increases liking for spiritualism
South - Increases wealth & Prosperity
North - No sound sleep & mental sickness increases
•The dressing table should be to the east of the North direction.
•TV, heater & Electrical Appliances should be to the South East.
NORTH

DRESSING TABLE

TELEPPHONE

WEST WINDOWS STOOL

DOOR
BEDS
EAST

T.V.
WARDROBS

SOUTH
 BED ROOM
•* Main bed room for the head of the family should be in the South or South
West direction.
•* Bed room for un-married Children can be built on the East side.
•* Bed room for Guest & Un-married Youths can be in the North West.
•* Bed room for Young Couples is good in the North direction.
•* Bed room of Head should be larger.

NORTH
WEST

EAST
SOUTH
PROPER PLACE FOR BED ROOM

PROHIBITED PLACE FOR BED ROOM

 POOJA ROOM
•Toilet should not be above or below the worship room.
•White or light yellow marble work in the worship room is auspicious. The
colour of the walls should be white , light yellow or light blue.
•It should have doors & windows in the North East
•Lamp should be in the SE corner.
•The Pooja Room should have a threshold.
•The idol should be kept atleast an inch away from the wall.
•The door of the pooja room should not be made of tin or iron grills.
NORTH NE (ESHAN)

PROPER PLACE FOR

PUJA ROOM
WEST

EAST
SOUTH
 STUDY ROOM
•* The person should sit facing North or East side while studying.
* The study table should not be placed touching the walls, it is inauspicious.
Water pot must be placed in North -East corner only.
Colour of the walls should be sky blue , Cream, light green or white
* Book shell should be placed along the North or east wall
N
FLOWER
POT

W TABLE E
BOOK
SHELF

NORTH S
WEST

EAST
PE
RC
E
DY
SOUTH
 TREASURURY ROOM
•The safe should be placed on a foundation.
•The colour of the room - Yellow - increases wealth.
•The safe should not be kept under beam.
•Case box , safe , almirah should be placed along the South wall , such that it
opens towards the North the man while opening it faces towards south
•Treasury room should have a threshold of atleast 1" to 2".
•The shape of the room preferably should be square or rectangle.

PROPER PLACE FOR

NORTH (KUBER)
TREASURY ROOM
WEST

EAST
SOUTH
 KITCHEN ROOM
* Burner (Gas, Stove , Cooking range etc ) should be kept in the SE Corner of
the room , such that while cooking the person face Towards East .
* Water should be kept in NE.
* Shelves for raw Materials , utensils, commodities etc should be kept on the
South & West side
N

SINK &
DRAINAGE
BOARD
W E
SHELVE
GAS
CHULLAH
NORTH
S
WEST

EAST

PROPER
PLACE
SOUTH SE PROHIBITED PLACE FOR KITCHEN
 BASEMENTS

ROAD
ROAD

NORTH – EAST CELLER IS GOOD N

SOUTH-WEST CELLAR IS BAD
W E

ROAD

ROAD

NORTH – WEST CELLER IS NOT GOOD

SOUTH EAST CELLAR IS NOT GOOD
 DINING ROOM
•While eating food the head of the family should sit facing East . Others can sit
facing North , East or West However nobody should sit facing South.
•There should be no Arches in the Room .
•The Dinning table should be square or rectangular shape . It should not be of
any other irregular shape.
•There should not be any attached Toilet with this room .
•Natural portraits & paintings makes the atmosphere happy.

NORTH

PROPER PLACE FOR

DINING ROOM
WEST

EAST
SOUTH
 LOCATION OF DOORS
DOORS ON THE BASIS OF RASHI
On the basis of Rashi of the house owner , door is Auspicious in the following direction
RASHIS DIRECTION
Cancer , Scorpion , Pisces East
Virgo , capricom , Gemini South
Libra , Acquarius , Taurus West
Aries , Saggitarius , Leo North
Direction No. Name of Deity Effect
North - 27 Mukhya Gain of property & sons
28 Bhallat Enough property
29 Som Peace , progress & Religious Nature
East - 2 Porianya Gain to females
3 Jayant Gain of wealth, favour of Govt.
4 Indra Gain of wealth & sons.
South 12 Virhatkshat Wealth & sons
West 21 Varun Prosperity & Happiness
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 NORTH

24 25 26 30 31 32 1

23

22

EAST
WEST

20 5

19 6

18 7

17 16 15 14 13 11 10 9 8

SOUTH
 BASEMENT

CELLAR

ROAD
CELLAR
ROAD

GOOD N
BAD
W E
S

ROAD

ROAD

CELLAR
CELLAR

BAD
GOOD
 LOCATION OF GATES AND WELLS
RO
AD W

SITE
G
W
BAD SITE
SITE RO
MADE AD BAD SITE
GOOD
MADE GOOD

W SITE
SITE

BAD SITE BAD SITE

MADE GOOD MADE GOOD
(a) Bed room (Particularly master bed room) of building should
be placed in the south-west. It can be slightly deviated towards
south or west, If the placement is opposite the effect will be
extremely bad, lime loss of children or financial loss or ill health,
There are numerous such rules developed to deal with every
possible situation of lay out of a building and its relation with the
sit6e and surrounding roads.

Because of the fact that stated cause and also the stated effect in a
rule are repeatedly observable and testable phenomena, the
statement giving cause- and - effect relationship between tow
phenomena can be considered as a valid " hypothesis" for
scientific investigation.
(b) The slope of the site should run down south towards north
with permissible slight deviation of the slope clock - wise i.e.
from S-W to N-E If this satisfied, then the occupant/owner will
fetch wealth, health and fame, otherwise effect will be negative.

(c) Highest part of the building should be at the south west and
the lowest part at the north-east, If the rule is satisfied then it will
cause owner/ occupant to uplift his health wealth and fame, This
desired orientation of high-low line of building can be slightly
deviated anti clock wise (from S to N to S-E to N-W) with out
causing any ill- effect, But the effect will be just negative if the
rule is grossly violated.
 3. How a hypothesis is scientifically Proved

Before proving a hypothesis scientifically it should first stated in

ambiguous way, Once it is done it can be proved either (a) by
deducting it logically from one or some established laws and
theories of science, or (b) by testing the validity of the hypothesis
by observing the phenomenon in a sufficient number of cases, It
is seen that both the approaches are apparently used by the
proponents to prove rules of vastu even though wrong fully.
3.1 Logical deduction and established laws of science

First method of scientific acceptance of hypothesis

is to prove the hypothesis based on accepted facts,
laws of theories of science (i.e. scientific
knowledge) following logical steps, If the logical
deduction satisfies the hypotheses, we accept it
 Is " Vastu" Relevants In Modern Context ?

1. INTRODUCTION

Practice of " Vastu Shastra" or "Vastu" in short which had been developed in
ancient India is spreading like wild fire now-a-days is an elaboration of a small
part of ancient practice of Vastu Shastra, This part was related to the fortune of
occupants. owner of a building, Other parts which are found scientifically valid
are normally ignored and not practiced now-a-days (e.g.) accurate determination
of geographic north which may be different from magnetic north, Proponents of
this part (called Vastu) of ancient vastu, Shastra hail from various professions
like law, medicine, Civil Engineering or architecture, Most of them normally
practice as "Vastu Pandits" applying certain accepted rules with some variations,
The term " Vastu in this paper refers to those rules which are practiced by
"Vastu Pandits" now-a-days.
It is always advocated by the propoments of the shastra that any Vastu rule can
be proved to be scientific, based on the present day knowledge of science even
though these rules are out-come of revealation by regent visionaries of ancient
India, While trying to prove any vastu rule scientifically they resort to
unscientific approach. This recent development totally related to the practice of
architecture calls for serious investigation from the part of architect revealing
the scientific status of this subject. This is because any untruthful guidance to the
people of planning of their building may lead to wastage in term of design
quality as well was money.
2. Cause-and-effect relationship

Vastu rules are primarily based on " Cause-and-effect" relationship. I restrict

myself here only to vastu rules related to residential building and its site planning
including orientation. Any of the rules contains tow distinct parts of physically
testable phenomena.

First part is related to some kind of planning aspect of the building/house which is
considered as a "Cause" and the second part is related to some kind of well being of
the owner/occupant of the building/house "effect" of first.

Vastu Rule = Cause + Effect.

Where, cause = geometrical properties of plan particularly in relation to north

direction.

Let me cite here few of the vast number of commonly followed vastu rules to give
an idea about the nature of the rules.
Even if we accept all above queries answered satisfactorily ,
one question still remains : Why matching of the magnetic
field of both earth and human body will cause "disturbed sleep,
tension and other connected problems" and why this will not
be true when orientation of a person in other direction ? (In
this connection it is to note that there is no mention of magnet
in the original books on vastu . In the original vastu shastra
geographic North is used instead of magnetic north. Magnetic
North may be different in orientation) declination from place
to place and time to time . At present however in India
magnetic North approximately matches with the geographic
North.
(b) Vastu and Sun rays :

"Vastu and the science of climatology"

The sun emits two types of rays ; ultra violate and infrared . These rays
have various effects on the human body and environment . This is one of the
basic principal of the vastu shastra . The sun emits ultra violet rays in the
morning hours , which have good effect on human body and the environment -
surrounding to him . These rays have tendency to kill bacteria . This is way the
kitchen is preferred in eastern side . It is also good to have morning rays fall on
our eye and which is why the kitchen platform should be oriented towards
eastern side so that while cooking food ultraviolet rays will enter the eyes . The
sun emits infra red rays during evening hours which are harmful . Water bodies
placed at South West corners are therefore not desirable the reflected infra red
rays from the water body in this direction enter the house and have adverse
effect on human body .
Criticism : (i) In the morning sun emits more ultra violet rays than any other
time of a days (the statement actually made is "the sun emits ultra - violet rays
in the morning hours" which is not true and , therefore modified to retain the
sense ) and (ii) the sun emits more infra red rays in the evening made is "the sun
emits infra - red rays during evening hours". Let us check the truthfulness of
these two statements on which conclusions are dependent.

The amount of radiation received just outside the atmosphere of the

earth on a plane perpendicular to the sun rays is 1353 watt. per sq. M on the
average which is called "solar constant". This value , however may vary due to
change in sun - earth distance in a year and also due to solar activity . But this
variation is not significant and can be ignored . If sun rays enter directly from
the zenith , radiation value on the surface of the earth will lie within a range of
800-950 watt / sqm depending upon the presence of turbidity in the air .
 3.1.1 Vastu rules and established laws of science
Proponents of vastu rule tend to prove the rules based on the deductive approach
from modern laws of science but without following any logical steps. Some sort
of falacy is always used to arrive at the conclusion, Let us take examples from
book/ journals under wide circulation in the market, Below two examples are
accepted as valid scientific proof of vastu rules in almost all books on vastu, But
all there are founded on wrong notion of scientific knowledge.

(a) Human body as a magnet

" Human body itself acts as a magnet with the head, the heaviest and
important part of the body, as the North pole. If the head is directed towards the
North while sleeping, the North le of the earth and that of the human body repel
each other affecting the blood circulation, causing disturbed sleep, tension and
other connected problems.
Criticism:

It is well established fact that nervous system of the human body

communicates with the help of electric impulses , thus producing
electro - magnetic field around the part of the body . Muscles also
produce electrical potential . Activity of human being is primarily
controlled by the electrical and chemical activity of the body . Any
movement of charge , however small will produce electrical field
around the direction of movement, Again any surrounding magnetic
field will, thus have an effect on the electrical activity of parts of
human body, But investigation of the statements quoted in the above
paragraph generates certain questions:
(i) Where it is proved that the entire human body the net result of these tiny
magnetic fields distributed within the human body is equivalent to a magnet
matching the sized of a human body?

(ii) Why " heaviest and important part of the body" (i.e. head) should be have as
North pole, It is to note that " the heart is the most powerful source of electric and
magnetic fields in the organism" and also that" in the eye the magnetic filed
induction is significantly higher that that of the brain.

(iii) Moreover, North pole of a magnet is not repulsed by the North pole of the
earth as claimed here, On the contrary, North pole of the earth attracts North pole
of all magnets, (For this reason we find North pole of a magnetic needles pointing
North pole of the earth. In fact North pole of any magnet is North seeking pole .
 The Ten Commandments of Vastu Shastra

1. The main water source or a water feature should be towards the

North-East.

2. The kitchen, Generator room, furnace or boiler should be

towards the South-East.

3. The guestroom, store or children's bedroom should be towards

North-West.

4. The guestroom, store or children's bedroom should be towards

South-West.

5. The centre should be light and airy.

 The Ten Commandments of Vastu Shastra

6. There should be more open space towards the North and East
as compared to the South and West.

7. The South and West floor levels should be higher than the
North and East.

8. The South and West boundary walls should be higher than the
North and East walls.

9. The entrance is preferred from the North or East.

10. You should sleep with your head towards the South and raise
the headside by 3".