As an Architect practising in Bombay, I have often been confronted by my clients' blind faith in the Vastu Shastras - the ancient building code of India. At first, I dismissed it out of hand as an oddity, but the trend refused to die. Finally, I decided to take a closer look at this phenomenon, hoping to gather enough evidence against it.
To my surprise, I found that when seen in totality, it conflicted very little with my professional training. The Vastu Shastras were basically, rules for holistic architecture. However, that was only the good news.
The bad news was that it had been turned into a monster of superstition by a number of so-called experts. They had crawled out of the woodwork to make a very fast buck by preying on people's insecurities.
This book was written because the non-professional has no way of understanding the first thing about these ancient texts. It explains in simple terms, the origins and meaning of the Vastu Shastras.
While this book is certainly not a comprehensive tome, the thinking reader will soon learn to differentiate between the genuine code and outright superstition.
