What is Vastu?
The literal meaning of Vastu is the dwelling or the place you live. Vastu comprises and deals with four different architectural objects namely the ground, the edifice or the structure that you live or work, the conveyance and the bedstead and other couches. Of these the ground is the chief object and then the structure comes next. Good Vastu balances the energy from the five elements of nature, which are earth, water, fire, air ad ether of space or akash, the four directions and their proper order and balance. Vastu Shastra is applied astrology and it belongs to Trantra, which is the applied knowledge of Atharva Veda just like Ayurveda belongs to Rig Veda.
