Vastu Sashtra

General useful tips about construction, placement etc.

If which room should be constructed in which direction is not kept in mind while
planning a house, the whole building may go against the principles Vastu Shastra and it
will create lot of troubles causing irreparable harms and loss to the owner / inmates.
The other things which must be kept in mind are:
Doors of each room should be facing East.
Bedrooms should be in South and West.
Placement of mirrors on South and West wall are inauspicious.
While sleeping head should be in South or West but never in North.
Pooja room should be in North East. All idols and photographs should be facing East or
West.
Toilet seat should be in North-South only. It should not be in East-West.
Out houses should not touch the compound wall of North and East side.
Stairs should always be in clock-wise direction.
Anything underground should be in North or East.
Anything above ground should be in South or West.
Porch should not touch the North or East compound wall.
Big trees should not be grown in North or East. They should be in South or West side of
the house.
Face East or North while reading or transacting any business deal.
Face East while cooking, West is allowed if there is no alternative, but never face South
while cooking.
Total number of doors and windows should be in even number for each floor, but should
not end in zero like 10, 20, 30. The width of the door should be half the height of the
door. The door should not be too high, too low, too wide or too narrow. The doors should
be rectangular and square doors should always be avoided.
Ventilation should be looked after and good cross ventilation should be present.
Never put the poster of crying girl, war scene, sexy scenes, angry man, owl, eagle etc.
They are inauspicious.
Doors should open inside the room and not outside.
In bed rooms, always use bed of four legs only. Never use box type bed because it stops
the air circulation under the bed which is bad for health.
Never eat or drink in standing position.
No room should be built under the stairs.
The cupboard in the wall should be in the Southern or Western part direction of the
house.
In these kitchen, grinder, fridge, shelf and other heavy items should be towards South and
West wall.
There should be no water body in front of any entrance door of the house.
The ratio between length and breadth of the building should normally be 1:1 or 1:1.5 or
maximum 1:2. It should not exceed 1:2 in all circumstances. The building dimension
should preferably be longer in North-South, shorter in East-West.

Ground level should be higher in West, South West and South as compared to East, North
and North East. It is better to keep North East the lowest
Floor level should be higher in South, South West, South East and Western portion and
lower in North, North East and East. The water should flow towards East or North and
not in other directions. Central zone should be even.
It is better to keep roofing sloping towards East and North.
Now a days it has become a fashion to keep roofs sloping deeply :
(1.) Keeping the roofs sloppy symmetrically in all sides : or
(2.) If the slope is on East or North sides only, keeping the East or North or both sides
down. The idea is to keep South and West heights in level. Slanting towards South or
West only should be avoided as that will lead to serious health problems.
There are two options for building height:
(1.) Height can be equal every where in the building.
(2.) Keeping South, South West and West higher as compared to other parts of the
building.
Conversely North, North East and East should be lower in heights.
Terrace, portico, porch & balconies should be located only in North, East and North East
sides of the building to bring health, wealth and happiness. Balconies should face North
and East.
The mezzanine floor should be placed in West or South side of the building.
Normally building cellars and basement rooms etc. below the road level of a house
should be avoided. Due to paucity of space now a days building cellars or basement is
being widely adopted. Care should be taken to keep the height of the cellar or basement
projecting up above the road level to some extent. Cellars or basement covering the entire
plot is all right. If it is to be constructed only in a portion of basement it should be located
only in North, North East and East sides preferably with entrance from North East. If
constructed on South West that should be used for heavy storage. North West and South
West portion should be used for servants, car parking etc.
If cellars or basement are built in South, South West and West and used for living that
will create mental tension and loss of wealth for inmates.
Placing stair case in North or West zone turning right in the middle and emerging in the
first floor facing East or South or South West zone is also auspicious. While climbing one
should face West or South up to middle point and after that one can face any direction;
emerging at the end at North East portion is considered auspicious.
It will be auspicious to keep doors both at beginning and at the end of the stair case. It is
also essential to ensure that the stair case does not touch Eastern or Northern wall.
The steps should be in odd numbers like 11, 17, 23 etc. In other words, if the number is
divided by 3, the remainder.
The best place to construct servant quarter is South-East or North-West corners. Care
should be taken to ensure (i) not to block the corners at South East or North West. (ii) the
quarters should not touch the walls on East or North.
The best place for garage is South-East or North-West and the garage walls should not
touch the walls on East or North.

The guard room: A regular concrete shelter or alternatively a wooden chowki is made in
South West or other place near main gate. The shelter should be facing East or North. It is
important to ensure that the watchman can easily see every movement from a distance
itself.
North West or South West zones are the right places for overhead tank. Since it is of
having weight at a height, South-West is the best. Precaution should be taken to ensure
that the overhead tank does not touch the main building.
The right place for underground reservoir or water tank is the North East, the place of
Eshwar, the God Supreme. The next choice is East Zone on the Northern side.
The best place to locate a swimming pool is the North East side. It is better to build the
swimming pool in a corner ( and not exactly at junction of North and East points ) where
privacy is ensured.
For this Southern or Western side should be used. South-West or North-West corners and
central place of the house or building should never be used for this purpose. If possible
Eastern and Northern side should also be avoided. The person sitting in water closets
should face North or South or South-West and never the East Direction.
Vastu concepts regarding the plants and their plantation must be kept in mind so as to
make your home not just superficially beautiful, but also Vastu oriented. As a general
rule, gardens in homes or factories should always be in the North or West and of the
compound. The South-East and South-West are not to be selected for any kind of garden
or plantation. Fruit bearing trees or trees with good foliage are always preferred to thorny
trees. Care should be taken not to grow trees which have huge penetrating roots as it can
prove harmful for the house.
Generally gates in North, North-East and East directions are auspicious and good. Road
facing South is not generally preferred. In South road plots, South West gate should be
avoided. South-East gate is a better choice. In a plot facing West (road on Western side)
South West main entrance gate should be avoided; North West gate is a better option.
East or North direction is the best for placing main gate.
Height of the building should be uniform to get the most advantageous results. There
must be uniformity among projections or elevations.
It is best if the buildings walls are higher on the west and south sides and lower on the
north and east sides. Also, the south and west walls should be thicker than the north and
east walls, if possible. The buildings floor and roof should be higher on the south and
west sides, lower on the north and east sides. Neither the ground nor the building should
be higher in the northeast than in the southwest. Rooms in the House
Furniture, such as sofas, should be placed in the southeast, south, or west sides of a room.
The houses owner should sit facing north or east, and his guests should sit facing west or
south.
It is best that the northeast corner of each room in the house be left empty. If furniture
must be set in the northeast corner, it should be set 15cm (six inches) from the wall.
Do not align doors within the house. One door should not lead directly into another.

It is best when a student studies that he face north, northeast, or east. Therefore a table in
a study room should be placed in the south or west sides of the room. Books should be
stored in the southwest side of the room.
Do not keep money in a place facing south.
When one prays, he should face either north or east.
Beds should face either west or south to insure that when a person rises in the morning,
he is facing either north or east. While asleep, one should place his head to the south,
east, or west, not north.
If ones place of worship is in the bedroom (in the northeast), one should sleep with his
head facing east to avoid pointing his feet toward the altar.
Mirrors should be placed on the north or east walls, not on the south or west walls. Do
not keep broken mirrors in the house.
Clocks should be placed on the west, north, or east walls.
Clothes should be washed in the southeast corner of the house.
Medicine should be kept in the northeast corner of the house, and a person should face
northeast while taking it. It is best to nurse those who are ill in the southwest corner of
the house, although the northwest corner is also good.
Rainwater and wastewater should leave the house from the northeast side. It should flow
west to east or south to north.
There should be an even number of columns and beams in the house, not odd.
Doors should generally be made from a single piece of wood and should open on the left
side.
A television can be placed in the southeast side of a room. An overhead water tank should
be located in the southwest side of a building.
Stairways should be on the south, southwest, or west sides of a building.
Certain pictures should not be hung in a house such as nudes, animals fighting, captured
elephants, hunting scenes, trees without fruits or flowers, snakes, owls, bats, vultures and
pigeons.

Vastu Tips
Vastu is an inherent energy concept of science. We cannot see energy with our naked eyes but
we can realize and see its application in different forms and fashions. Universe is one of the
beautiful creations of nature and everything stands alive only in the limelight of truth. Just like
every subject of human aspect is governed with rules, regulations & acts, similarly the nature
has also got certain key factor principles for smooth governing of its residents, in which "Vastu
stands for nature law" and ignorance of law is not an excuse anywhere. Here are some of the
basic rules that everyone should follow

A plot with all corners 90 degrees having two sides road

front and back is a good plot.
The open space left in North and east should be more
than South and West.
The maximum construction should be done in South, West
and southwest portion of the plot.
A pond or a water body should be placed in Northeast
corner of the house.
A house should be designed in such a way so that there is
maximum entry of sunlight and proper cross ventilation.
The entire opening should be made on the North and East
Side of the house.
Trees of any kind should not be grown in eastern or
northern, northeast directions.
Only small plant can be grown in North, east, Northeast.
The hearth or oven must be arranged in eastern southeast
direction of the entire house, in such a way that the
person cooking faces east.
The shadow of any tree should not fall on the house.
Pictures of any war scenes, demons, one in anger should
not be placed in the house.

The slope of the property should be from West to east or South to north.

The principles of Vastu Shastra are applied during the construction of houses and offices so as to create
harmony with the forces of nature and harness their positive energy and not to conquer them. Listed below
are some Vastu tips that are followed in homes and offices:

Desks in offices and home must not face the window. Instead light coming from the left will work
best. If a person suffers eyestrain, it affects and disturbs the internal harmony.

Vastu

Dining tables must have at least 4 chairs as single chair signifies loneliness. Chairs must be placed
in even numbers.
Another vastu tip is to avoid placing the bathroom near the front door as this will cause good
fortune coming in from the front door to be flushed away.
Columns in a building must be placed in even numbers in any construction.
In an office, the north east corner must be left empty.
In a bedroom, the bed must not be placed below a beam or sloping ceiling. It must be placed in
way that allows the person sleeping to see anyone entering the bedroom. Placing a bed against a
wall lends stability.
In a kitchen, the water and fire conflict must be avoided. Do not place the refrigerator close to the
washing sink. The bathroom must not be close to the kitchen. Kitchen taps must be placed in the
north east corner of the kitchen. The person cooking must face East preferably.

Guide

The threshold is the most important part of a house and all vastu guides will advice you to place the front
door to face north or east so as to invoke positive energy flow. Entrance and hallways must be adequately
lit. Encourage energetic movement of energy in the living room as this is a place that the family spends
most of its time.
The kitchen is an integral element of any house and it is essential that it be correctly placed. The dining
room must exude a restful environment to aid good digestion. Restful sleep is essential to good health and
to this end, the bedroom must be placed in the southwest corner. Positioning the study correctly in the
northeast can have a tremendous impact on your work and study.

Vastu Tips for Finance

When your financial movement is slow or stagnant, keep at least one light on throughout the night. Things
will certainly brighten up. Light is yang energy, which speeds up things.
According to Vastu
Fish aquariums are wonderful for wealth. Choose the active, lively and healthy fishes and make sure that
they are strong swimmers. Keep the water clean and aerated. Their constant movement keeps the energy
of wealth also on the move.
Vastu Shastra says if the entrance to your apartment lies at the end of a long corridor, then the energy
flowing of a long corridor, then the energy flowing towards it will be too fierce. Adding too much risk to your
financial investments. Its effect can be softened with a plant placed halfway down the corridor.
Make your front door distinctive to attract wealth within. Paint it a colour that shows it is different from the
neighbouring walls.
Vastu Tips for business
If business is bad, place decorative boulders or curved pathways or pebbles around the structure. This will
increase the movement of financial energy.
Are you looking for more clarity in your financial life? Take a look at your windows, mirrors and your glass
and crystal items. It's amazing what clean windows can do for the balance sheet. Dirty glass restricts
money flow.
Hanging crystals in your window activates energy. When the sunlight hits them, they produce the most
amazing rainbows. Choose a window the gets direct sunlight. This will throw up a multitude of openings for
your career growth.
Vastu Tips for money matters
If you find your expenses beyond control, place live plants or grains in the toilets, these keep the money
from going down the toilet, because symbolically growing things reabsorb water energy and keep it
recycling.
Hang a mirror to reflect your cash box or locker. It symbolically doubles your wealth and opportunities.

Vastu Shastra suggests that place a birdbath or feeder in the yard to attract wild life, which will increase the
amount of energy around your home. Birdbaths and bird feeders are wonderful acts of cleaning up your
finances and attracting prosperity from all directions.
Vastu Tips for prosperity
If money seems to disappear from your life, put some weighty or solid objects in the far-left corner of the
room or house, plus extra light.
Need Increased prosperity? An energy boost? A fountain with the soothing sound of moving water is just the
thing for you. Whether on a desk or in an important room, nothing attracts money and reliable luck like a
water fountain, running water helps move positive energy through the space. However take care not to
direct the water flow towards the exit.

Finances
The Finance head, the Chief Accountant and his staff have to be in the north and
east sectors. Financial records, cash and other assets have to be either in the
central north or southwest of the cabin. Staff dealing with cash and bank
transactions face north and east directions.
Debt Trap
A few of you may have got caught in the debt trap and trying to come out of it.
For some of you the debt trap can even result in inability to pay bills, debts, and
even mortgage repayments. This invariably happens when the north is totally
blocked and the Kubera energy stops flowing. Activate the flow with running
water and air. Certain yantras like the Sri Yantra placed in the Vastu appropriate
places will also help. Ofcourse your mental faculties have to be regulated to
avoid taking unnecessary loans, the repayment of which is impossible. This
apart stop or minimize using your credit cards! Recital of the navagraha mantras,
particularly of Jupiter mantra will help you to take the right financial decisions and
possibly pull you out of the debt trap.

Vastu Tips
1. Your head should be towards the east or south while sleeping.
2. The rooms in the south should never have ceiling low as compared to ceilding of the
rooms in east and north side.
3. Shoes and slippers should not be scattered all over the house, as this leads to feud.
4. Don't keep dirty clothes with the washed clothes.
5. One should never sleep under exposed beam as it brings ill fortune.
6. Don't a keep jug or jar of water near the telephone. The electric rays produced from
telephone leave bad effect on the water. Your face should be towards the east while
cooking food. The cupboard containing food articles should be towards your right.
7. The ceiling of the poojaroom should be lower than the ceiling of all the other rooms in the
house.
8. There should be no noise while opening the doors and windows especially the entrance
door from hinges etc.To remove the noise keep the hinges well oiled.
9. A picture of Lord Ganesha and Saraswati is good in study room.
10. Place vegetables in a dish after cutting them. If they are kept on floor their
nourishing substance will be adsorbed by the floor.
11. The house should always be kept need and clean and all the wastage etc., should be
dumped or stored in west of the house.
12. To prevent the house from evil-eyes, seven green chillies and lemon should be hung at
the main entrance of the house, shop etc.
13. Change the bed-sheets during day time.
14. Comb and other beauty aids should be kept neatly at the right place.
15. A cut-out in the roof should be provided in the northeast to ensure proper ventilation of
the house. This factor works as a natural air-conditioner for the house.
16. There should be a separate towel for every member of the family and for guests.
17. One should never provide three doors on a single wall, especially in the front of the
house.
18. One should never construct circular stairs in the house.
19. It is very auspicious to view rising sun after taking bath in the morning.
20. A blue bedsheet should never be used inthe house.
21. One should always wear neat and clean clothes while working.
22. All the things should be properly placed and well organized in the house, to ensure good
luck.
23. Keep cash and jewelry in the safe or locker which opens in the north.

Vastu for ofice

Vastu for office determines the efficiency of the work inside the office premises. Office is a place
that has to be designed with the right procedural practice, as it gives an unbiased movement in
work! If an office is not designed as per the right Vastu principles, then there will never be any
balanced workout and progress. An office that is designed without following the Vastu principle
will be less effective with effortless employees, disabled workman, owner might loose the power
to manage or control his staffs, which leads to failure. Pursuing the Vastu standards for office will
ensure effective and efficient workout and thereby proves to be a valuable asset to the company
and many more.
Vastu for offices includes several different factors such as right office setup, office exteriors with
respect to shape, slope and others, direction of various department, location of the reception,
emplacement of electrical gadgets and other more. Apart from these, there are several other
factors that you must take into your consideration about Vastu for office. They are:

The direction of the office entrance way

The right direction of the placement beams

The right direction to fix the doors and windows

The right direction and setup of the owner room

The right direction for the employees to work

Set your office as per these essential Vastu tips. It is sure that you will progress in all aspects of
your work.

The place of seat arrangement for managers, executives and directors must be located in
south, west and southwestern direction of the office premises

As per the Vastu principles it is really good to set the accounts department in southeast
direction.

The appropriate place to set the reception is in the northeastern direction of the office.

With respect to Vastu principles, it is good to seat the employees facing the north or
eastern direction

The central portion of the office must be set empty

As per the Vastu principles, it is good to place rectangular desk for the MD

Placing bore-well or fixing tank in the direction of south is not really recommended. This
will affect the owner with less and insufficient cash flow.

The best and right direction of keep the storeroom is on the northwest and southeast
location.

It is recommended to set the marketing department in the direction of northwest

Fixing of some idols or images of god and goddess in the right location of mirrors will
bring you improved financial gains.

Setting a water fountain in the location of northeast of the office premises is really good
and recommended.

Placing an aquarium containing 1 black fish and 9 gold fish in the location of northeast of
the office premises is really good and advisable.

Individuals who have set their office besides Vastu norms and principals will find themselves out
from the assistance of natural forces. The principle motto of Vastu is to excerpt the maximum
goodness from the natural forces in order to gain improved energy levels in the every face of
liveliness.

Vastu tip
Carrier ke vikas ke liye ghar ya office ke northeast corner main paani ki vayvastha
Karen.yah paani sathir nahin tarangit hona chahiye jaise koi chota sa favvara. aquarium
pump se bhi paani main bulbule bante hai jo atyant subh hai.

Vastu Shastra For Bedroom

the sacred science from India that creates

harmonious stress-free living and working environments,
supports your success in all areas of life, even in the bedroom! Something
everyone has in common is sleeping. It takes up
approximately one third of your life and therefore is an extremely important
factor in your overall health. Here are some
wonderful ideas to improve the bedroom, a place where we spend more time
than in any other room of the place we call
home.

. The door you enter to your bedroom is considered a symbol of the possibilities
your life has to offer you and should open at least
ninety degrees to fully allow positive opportunities to flow to you. A door that cannot
open fully will limit this support that makes your
life more interesting.

2.

Upon entering, your bedroom, the first thing you see is something that

gives you the feeling of peace and serenity. This could

be a photograph, a favorite quote, a painting or sculpture, even flowers will
enhance these positive, life supporting feelings.

3.

Removing clutter in your bedroom creates serenity and will help you feel

more efficient and function optimally. Clutter,

especially under your bed, weighs you down and keeps your mind subtly
connected to the past, which does not allow for forward
progress. Clutter represents all that has not been completed in your life.
Wherever it exists, your life force energy (prana) becomes
stagnant. To tackle clutter, first take on small projects to help you avoid the
feelings of being overwhelmed be the task at hand.
Clear areas of accumulated papers, magazines, and newspapers to help you
create a sense of organization and space. Begin with
drawers and, as you feel inspired, focus on sections of your closet or storage
areas. Remove everything from under your bed, as
storing clutter here will also affect your subconscious mind and cause disruption
during sleep.

4.

Sleep with your head to the south. Positive magnetic energy comes from

the north. The blood in your body contains iron,

making your body magnetic with the positive polarity in your head. When you
sleep with your head to the north, these two
positive polarities repel each other, disrupting the flow of blood and affecting
your sleep and health.

5.

Having a mirror on the wall opposite the foot of your bed can disturb your

sleep. You throw off stress during the time you

sleep and a mirror will hold the stress and reflect it back to you when you wake
up once you sit up in bed. Move the mirror or
cover it at night for more restful and replenishing sleep.

6.

Try not to sleep in direct alignment with sharp corners. Sharp corners act

as energy spears and create stress in the nervous

system. There is not serenity in a room that has sharp corners except by
softening them by placing plants in front of them. You can
also try moving your bed away from direct alignment with them.