Vastu Shastra - My expierience
Vastu Shastra - My expierence
Today I read a very fine piece of writing by Keshav, "Vastu and all that Crap",and loved every bit of it.What he writes is very ttue.At lest that is my belief.These are personal beliefs,and no offecne meant to those who believe in it.
His article took me many years back.I had gone to my inlaws place in Bandra,mumbai,and my MIL was busy with a Vastu Shastra guy.So i just sat down and listened.He was telling her,that she has to make changes in the house for it to flourish.Just opposite the drawing room, was a toilet.In the building every house is made the same way.Vastu guy told her, your good vibrations go from the drawing room straight inside the toilet and down the flush ! So put a mirror outside the bathroom door for the vibrations to bounce back.He took his 500 bucks and went away smiling.
Around 10 yrs back my brother in mumbai wanted to sell a flat.He appointed an agent,and the agent gave him hell, as well as the potential buyers.Without seeing the house, first they would on phone ask, what can u see from the balconies?Which side do the toilets face,where is the direction of the Ass when u shit,and all such things.And u can imagine what my brother must have said.And if the family liked the house, they would want to bring the Vastu guy to show him the house,for him to approve.And it became a nightmare for him.
A friend of mine here got a new house made, a lovely bunglow.After a few years, he must have come in contact with a Vastu Guy,who suggested some structural changes .and i heard he had spent close to 10 lakhs breaking this and making this.These guys seem to be the final authourities on construction, the Artichect be damned.
I read in readers digest a few years back, that Vastu was perfect in the olden days,when each had a small self unit,with open spaces,and the master bedroom i suoppose had to be facing the north east,for the sun rays to come in first thing in the morning.But with skyscapers coming up,and when yr building is surrounded with other buildings, the sun is a luxury in some apartments,like cuff parade,close to where Nargisji lives.
These Vastu guys have a strange habit.the more they make u break yr apartment,and spend more, the more they charge you.Their thinking is like that of Khomeni of Iran, who said that while shitting,your ass should not face the direction of Mecca.Now what readymade toilets in the flat that u purchase,how the hell can u obey such cammandments.You cant have the toilet right in the centre of your drawing room or dining room can you ?
And according to the Vastu guys, if u listen to them, then u will never have any losses,. if you have invested in the stock marketm,for your few lakhs of investment, the stock market will always be going up,never down,there will be no deaths in the family residing there,only just births ?Births and deaths will happen,stocks will go up and down, this is a cycle of life.These guys well what to say,let me finish before i say something nasty.
And let me tell you something.My mom and brothers still reside on the 13th floor in mumbai,our toilets must be facing all the directions of holy places of the world,but we have prospered none theless.
This is one business,besides the donation at the Sperm Bank and the Guru business, all are good vigin businesses.As long there are superstitious people, there will always be scope for these Vastu Guys.And as Keshav rightly said, they dont need no degree,just some mumbo jumbo,and a gift of the gab,and there u are in business.
KAMAL MAHTANI
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