Vastu: How to Create a Harmonious Home Through Ancient Indian Design Principles - Softcover

Bansal, Ashwinie Kumar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0764121065 ISBN 13: 9780764121067

Publisher: B E S Pub Co, 2005

Synopsis

Vastu is the ancient Indian tradition that combines architecture and aesthetics. Resembling the Chinese philosophy of feng shui, Vastu is also a revered, spiritually oriented method of organizing living space so that all details induce harmony between a home's dwellers and the universe. The Vedic practice of sanctifying one's living space is as relevant today as it was when it originated among Indian builders thousands of years ago. Vastu enables readers to put this system to use in today's homes, thus bringing peace, happiness, and success to the dwellers. The author points out the four zones of every home, and explain how they govern their dwellers' mental, physical, emotional, and psychic well-being. Easy-to-use tables and diagrams present techniques for creating a harmonious living arrangement. Detailed instructions guide readers in furnishing living areas and modifying the proportions of floor space, doors, windows, and other room features. Specific materials and construction methods are suggested. Every part of the home is considered, including the foyer, bedrooms, kitchen, living room, storage rooms such as closets and pantries, study or work area, and bathroom, as well as the home's adjoining verandas and gardens. More than 150 illustrations and diagrams are all in color.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Vastu Shastra is the ancient Indian science and study of architecture and esthetics, of harnessing one?s maximum luck and potential by organizing surrounding space. Written by a leading Vastu practitioner and author, Vastu adapts this wisdom to modern homes, and shows how even subtle changes to an interior can bring peace, happiness, and achievement. Learn how to tune the four zones of your house or apartment to improve your mental, physical, emotional, and psychic well being. Discover the most auspicious places in your home for your furniture and accessories. Apply the secrets of timings, orientation, harmonies, and colors drawn from the ancient and mystical Vedas.

About the Author:

Ashwinie Kumar Bansal is a practicing consultant who has been involved with Vastu and feng shui for more than a decade, resolving Vastu-related issues in private and public buildings in India and around the world. He has written many books on the subject and heads a Vastu and feng shui research center in New Delhi, India.

About this edition

• Publisher: B E S Pub Co
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0764121065
• ISBN 13: 9780764121067
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144