Vaastu in 2003 version
RaveendranKutty P.G
| Hi,Kasturi, Thank you for the revised mail.I could down load it easily. I consider it as an introduction to a book on Vastu. Hope the actual book will follow soon. Srveral years ago I read a book in Malayalam written by a head Carpenter(Stapathi) This Moothassari was engaged by a wealthy Business man(Muslim) to build a palacial house for him at Allappuzha,observing all the vastu principles.It was during the first quarter of the 20th century.The Stapathi after completing the house wrote the book as encouraged by the owner.It contained all the facts of traditional Vastu and it's implications.I was much impressed by the book. Later on I came across some books on vastu written in English by some North Indians. All of them were just trash and non sense.I was much disappointed. PGRK --- On Fri, 12/23/11, Kasturi Rangan <akastu...@yahoo.com> wrote: |
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hariharan Potti
You may think ' POOCHAKKU PONNURUKINNIDATHU ENTHU KARYAM ?'
I am a mechanical engineer; but I am a human first. I went through the article, so I wish to present my views based on what I experienced, heard about and prevailing to a certain extent. We lost a lot of our tradition because of the invaders such as Mugals, Europeans, etc. As the learned were after the invaders for their own security reasons since then we lost our individuality in each field. Our architecture is connected to 'KSHETHRAKALA.' Nobody will have a second openion on that.
We built homes and not houses as we do now. It is not the fantasy of the construction but the utility was given the prime importance. A home is place where you get peace of mind which attracts you always. We say generally homely food, homely atmosphere, etc. and never say housely. There are many temples in India but why so much crowd and income in Thirupathy. It is one of the temples constructed as per the Vaastu Shastra. North eastern corner - Pushkarany ( down )North western corner - THADAPALLY ( KITCHEN ), South western corner HUNDY ( VAULT ). etc.
My concept : Any building shall have cross ventilation which shall take away the residual gases formed inside. If it is not there it will be a place of illness. It is rather difficult to achieve in the construction of apartments, but providing the OTS suitably it can be achieved to a certain extent. Presently O T S is based on the sewerage line, people do not bother to have toilets adjacent to kitchen or dining. They go after the external appearance, brand, site location and other unwarranted parameters. Marble flooring is laid and floor is cleaned with water daily; the seepage of the water even small quantity is not considered. Almost all the toilets are leaking to that in downstairs. The reason the basic worker is not trained and no builder is taking any care on that.Perfection is only in paper and in artistic views & in technical brochures. It is very easy to compare with a shirt to Vaastu Purushan; how you can take something from your pocket of your shirt, if it is stitched on your back!
So when you Architects design, my request is, to keep the kitchen close to the entrance, keep the master bed room almost opposite to reduce radiation and keep the toilets away from the kitchen, at least. Once proper ventilation and convenience is there no question of exploitation by VAASTU TANTRIKS.
My Experience : I bought a a shed in the Tiny Sector in Ambaattur Inusrial Estate in 1982 and started in a small way. Once I enter the place I started to lose one by one and on one fine day during 1990, a God send person came to my place and advised me to quit the place and then I started to revive. The shed had its entrance on the south west corner resembling drain of wealth. There after wherever I go for assessment if I find the same set up I used to advise to shift it and found good results. So my humble request to my architect friends is to go in depth of our good old tradition and find the humane aspects our great architecture, with all those materials available in those days there are still buildings existing. POTTI.
Subject: Vaastu in 2003 version
Haneef
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In many ancient civilizations, such as that of Egypt and Mesopotamia, architecture and urbanism reflected the constant engagement with the divine and the super natural, and many ancient cultures resorted to monumentality in architecture to represent symbolically the political power of the ruler, the ruling elite, or the state itself.
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neelambaran kesavan
| Dear Kasturi, As I told you during our return from Kumarakam, I already completed one year post graduate course in vasthuvdya at Vasthuvidya Gurukulam, Aranmula in Pathanamthitta District. There were 80 students in the class including two christian Priests. It was very interesting and the institute is doing lot of reaserch in vastuvidya.The institute also undertake vasthu corrections at nominal rates. It is a Kerala Govt esablishment under the dept. of culture. They are trying to make it a university like Kalamandalam. The present Director of Vasthu Gurukulam is the Vice.Chancellor of Kalamandalm.For this course there are 4 written papers, History of Traditional Architecture, Grihavastu, Anubandhavasthu, Devalayavasthu and a detailed Project Work of 100 marks each and minimum pass mark is 50. It is a quite tough course and exams are like university exams. Every one was taking the course very serious. The final exam was in the 1st week of this month and I am waiting for the result. The minimum qualification for this course is a degree in any subject including mechanical engg.This course will give you detailed knowledge of vasthuvidya in a realistic angle and slightly different from Thachusasthra followed in Kerala. With regards NEELAMBARAN --- On Fri, 23/12/11, Kasturi Rangan <akastu...@yahoo.com> wrote: |
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hariharan Potti
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