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Vastu Shastra - My expierience

Mar 14 2007 | Views 624 | Comments (17)

These guys have the gift of the Gab.The more they make u break yr apartment themore they charge.Wow... Expand

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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kamalji posted 2 mnths ago

Dear BM,

HAHA.That was a good one.I suppose very male would love that eh ! You hav eone sense of humour boss.loved that.

This is an old post of mine, more than a year old.Gld u revived uit.lets see how many more comments i receive on this dead post of mineRegards.kamal

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kamalji posted 2 mnths ago

Dear Karanji,

Yes even i wonder what they will give advise to married couples ? These guys well i dont beleive in them.If they knew what they know, they would be living in the best penthouses of the city.and driving th ebest of cars.

Regards.kamal

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Bhiku Matre posted 2 mnths ago

Kamalji : haha a very nice spin on the vaastu guys. I had consulted a guy and he said me and my wife are extremes so to be happy we need to sleep in different directions in different rooms, I was hoping he would say I need to sleep with a different woman but he didn't ....lol

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karan diwan posted 2 mnths ago

i visit these fairs n exhibitions in mumbai selling office furniture,n other house hold items, i was amazed to see abt 7-8 diff vastu companies having stalls n offering you vastu advice for home, office,marriage,i cant understand for the first two ,what abt marriage,will they tell u to change wife, or change directions,or angles??, man u gv gullible people

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kamalji posted 1 year ago

Dear Nargisji,

Tell that to Keshav,he is the first culprit,who wrote on Vastu,and forced me too to go astray!

But yes, the houses of old as u said,were rightly built,where the artictects like keshav had lots of time to devote,unlike today, when keshav is busy filling notes in his bags.

Breaking windows and doors have become the norm,as u rightly said.

Thanks for yr kind visit.Regards.kamal

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Nargis Natarajan posted 1 year ago

Kamalji, yes it is true nowadays Vastu shastra and Feng shui have become a tool for commercialization just like so many other things. The concepts just cannot be applied to multi storeyed buildings and since we cannot alter Nature, we nonsensically break down doors and windows. Tell me, how is it that in the same building one person's door facing one side is good and the same rule does not apply to the other? So these VS people are out on a fooling-people-and -collecting- money spree. I have seen this in my Brother-in-laws house and they have been making and breaking and putting mirrors here and there ever since they moved into the flat. But let me also tell you this. Our house which was built in Berhampur, years ago when all this mumbo jumbo was not in vogue has been designed in such a way that now when we wanted to sell it, not only all the Vaastu Shastra experts but also the FengShui ones feel it fits in with all the rules. Anyone who sees it says all the rooms, the doors the windows (except for one...) were built in to provide positive energy. So the architects of yore obviously had some plans....(Keshav, the mountain plucking architect take note

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kamalji posted 1 year ago

Dear Bratgaba,

Sure will wait for her reply,most welcome.

Brat, a doctor is necessary,but only when u are ill,not otherwise.

The same way a Vastu guy may be necessary,if something is wrong with the house.like ghosts haunting it, deaths in a row,and ladies miscarrying, unexpected losses etc.

When i see rich people, who have everything we mortals coant dream about, calling these guys for massive damages and changes, thats when this breed of Vastu guys irk me no end

But like u say, each to their own.

Regards.

kamal

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bratgaba posted 1 year ago

Kamalji, read this as well as Keshav's blog on Vaastu - have left this same comment there as well.

I don't hold a brief for Vaastu or any other system of improvement simply because I don't consider myself qualified enough. The Considerable Wife, though, does. She's a Vaastu Consultant (yaaron, kyon mere paapi pet pe laat maar rahey ho??). You've read my "How to kill your Family" so no need to go into details - but suffice it to say that I used to be the epitome of non-belief, a complete and incorrigible "Naastik" - for the better part of my life. If I could change my views, I think anyone can. Once again, I'm not an expert so I won't try to explain, but what I will do is - have TCW read these 2 blogs and let her formulate a response.

Wot say?

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kamalji posted 1 year ago

Keshavbhai,

Pluck the Himalayas.HAHAHAHA.What a solution.Tell that to the Vastu guys.im sure they do have the powers.As u have heard the saying "Faith moves Mountains ".HAHA.

Regards.

kamal

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kamalji posted 1 year ago

Dimwit,

Interesting example u have given.Yes at some places maybe a Vastu guy is needed,but most are crooks.REgards.

Sujataji,

How true usay that it is happy families that make a home.I agree.Thanks a ton.Regards.

Ajitji,

Yes true.They feed on the gullible.A neighbour died ,an old man, family hard up for money,bahu selling sundries to make ends meet,and we have them spending a lakh on the poojas and the pandit,so that the departed old man's sould rest in peace,while they have to work harder to repay back the debt incurred.Regards.

Keshavbhai,

How true.and who could be better to understand Vastu, than yourself,who is an architect,who has to deal with the builders, who want Vastu style flats,and the flat owners asking million questions.

like u said, the artictect has to make do with the plot of land he has purchased and has to make the most,wanting to guive a better view and air to the flat owners,and he cannot be worrying about the northeast and other directions.

I agree with u that its just another method of fleecing money.But when the public is ready to get fleeced,why blame the Vastu guy.