Most of what circulates as Vastu advice today cannot be traced to any scripture at all.
Some of it is genuinely old. Some of it is thirty or forty years old and has simply been repeated often enough to sound ancient. And some of it is the opposite of what the texts say — including a few rules so widely followed that questioning them sounds like heresy.
Vāstu Remedies is organised around exactly this problem. It contains 35 remedies, and almost every one opens by naming a common belief and then testing it against the source material. Not “here is a rule to follow,” but “here is what people say, and here is what the verses actually contain.”
This post walks through all 35. Some are corrections. Some are permissions — things you have been told to fear that the scriptures never prohibited.
What counts as a remedy
Before the list, one thing worth understanding, because it shapes everything else in the book. Each remedy is broken into three parts:
- Icchāśakti — the will. Wanting to address the thing.
- Jñānaśakti — the knowledge. Understanding why the remedy works.
- Kriyāśakti — the action. Actually doing it, with your own hands where possible.
That third one carries a claim that runs through the whole book: where a procedure can be performed by the owner rather than outsourced to a professional, it should be. Not to save money, but because doing it yourself is part of how it works.
Part One: the myths about yourself
The book opens away from buildings entirely. Its argument is that a remedy applied by an unwilling or distracted person does not do much.
1. “Who has ever seen Īśvara?” — Īśvara is the Vedic term for unmanifested energy: the thing sustaining you, me and the universe. Not seeing it is not evidence against it.
2. “Ancient scriptures aren't practical today.” — The texts are described as sarvakalik, meant for all ages. The energies of the universe have not changed since they were written. Vastu concerns energy, frequency and vibration, none of which have a use-by date.
3. “Making a sankalpa takes away my freedom.” — If a vow feels like a cage, don't take it. But humans perform better working in a synchronised way, and a broken resolution weakens the will more than never making one. Keep the same place, time, mat and direction.
4. “Invoking is old-fashioned.” — Invocation is not addressing something external. It is waking latent energy already in you.
5. “Gadgets help me focus.” — The book cites a London study where a child was tested three ways: phone on, phone off but in the room, and phone removed entirely. He scored highest with it out of the room. Merely being present was the distraction.
6. “Destiny decides.” — Perhaps, for those who prefer it that way. But you cannot win a lottery you never entered. Even destiny yields to the persistent.
Part Two: the myths about practice
7. “Vastu is superstition.” — Yes — if practised outside the scriptures. This is the sharpest line in the book. A consultant who cannot point to a verse behind a recommendation is running neuro-linguistic programming, not Vastu. Results may still be felt, because placebo is real, but the scriptural basis is absent. Yoga, Ayurveda and meditation are treated as sciences; Vastu at its root is simply the science of ensuring air and light move properly through a building.
8. “Sādhus don't need Vastu.” — They do, if they remain attached to their desires. Genuinely elevated minds can outweigh Vastu dosha. Most of us are not there.
9. “Some people are superior to others.” — No one is superior or inferior. Everybody is needed to keep a society in balance.
10. “More consultants means better results.” — Too many cooks. One Guru, one Iṣṭa, one consultant at a time. Multiple opinions muddy the diagnosis rather than sharpening it.
11. “The Vastu Purush doesn't exist in Kali Yug.” — Lord Ram and the Vastu Purush both belong to the Treta Yug, and faith in one has survived. We learn about Ram from the Ramayana; we learn about the Vastu Purush from the Vastu scriptures. Both are still there to be read.
12. “Mantras are for pundits.” — Fine if you can find one. But the point of a mantra is to chant it until you become the mantra and the mantra becomes you. That is not something anyone can do on your behalf.
13. “Only pundits can calculate muhūrta.” — The scriptures were written for everyone's welfare. Learn the panchang and you can do this yourself.
14. “Omens are superstition.” — Some are, when they come from bad practice. Others are profound. This is why the Aṣṭamaṃgala, the svastika and Goddess Lakshmi are placed at an entrance: so you meet a good omen every time you come or go. A blank door is a pale thing.
15. “Astrology predicts my future.” — Not the way people mean. Your present karma shapes your future; the future is partly in your hands. Astrology was not designed as a fortune-telling device.
16. “More gods means more protection.” — Gods are energies operating at different frequencies. An altar crowded with everything available is not better protected.
17. “Keep the phone charger next to the bed.” — Don't. The bedroom chapter deals with sleep direction and what belongs near where you sleep.
18. “Vastu has nothing to do with planting trees.” — This one is emphatic. There are more verses in the scriptures about tree plantation than about planning. Trees generate oxygen. Plant them by direction, and plant them with your own hands.
19. “I might need this later.” — Half of what we keep is never used, even after we die. We spend our lives cleaning it, storing it and moving it. The next generation values gold, land and shares — not your things.
20. “The overhead water tank goes in the southwest.” — It does not. Water tanks belong west, north or northeast. The southwest rule became popular only in the last thirty to forty years and has no identifiable source. The scriptures prohibit water in the southwest, associating it with the death of the owner and friction among the women of the household. Where people report growth despite a southwest tank, other factors are carrying them.
Part Three: the myths about the building
21. “All land must be square.” — Square is auspicious. So are many other shapes. On large sites, forcing a square is often impossible anyway. Cut corners are not a catastrophe — energise them instead.
22. “Humans are the only things here.” — There are energies that cannot be seen, only felt. This is where the scriptures matter, because the mantras are constructed so that the procedure cannot harm the person performing it. Where there are suras, there are asuras.
23. “Vāstu Śāntiḥ Havan is old-fashioned.” — The book calls it the single most effective remedy in the collection, when performed with faith. In Chapter 18.5 of the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna says fire offerings, charity and sādhanā must not be abandoned.
24. “Avoid south-facing sites.” — South-facing plots give abundance. South is the direction of Yama, who bestows strength and willpower, and the shape representing the south is a triangle, denoting energy. This myth alone has cost people houses they should have bought.
25. “Yantras are a sales gimmick.” — Indian sciences have been commercialised heavily enough that it is genuinely hard to identify an authentic yantra. Trust the source and they bring positivity. But note the accompanying warning: plastic pyramids and aluminium yantras stuck on walls should be avoided. They work on your psyche through your eyes, not on the space — and they are bad for the environment and for you. Place authentic symbols at eye level or below the floor.
26. “My architectural plan is done, so my Vastu is done.” — Planning matters, but Āyādi matters just as much, and Āyādi changes require almost no money. Have your altar or idols made to the correct dimensions and you shift the energy without demolishing anything. Change arrives in small waves.
27. “The northeast entrance is best.” — No Vastu scripture specifies a northeast entrance. The book suggests the rule came from a government convenience ruling, and warns that a northeast entrance may in fact bring a fire hazard. What likely happened is a drift in angles: the auspicious eastern entrances at Jayant and Mahendra sit between 61.88° and 84.38°, while true northeast is 39.38° to 50.63°. Two different things, collapsed into one over time.
28. “Padavinyāsa isn't necessary.” — Four words in the book: without Padavinyāsa, there is no Vastu.
29. “Marma points are insignificant.” — Only someone who has not studied would say so. Two books and a short course do not make a consultant; the field draws on the Puranas, Upanishads and Vedas as well as modern psychology and neuroscience.
30. “Land doesn't need charging.” — Land loses its properties — through what lies buried in it, through overuse, through heavy construction. You cannot see what is underneath. Placing the kalasha or Manjusha to energise the ground costs you little and may correct a great deal.
31. “We placed the snake pair, so our Śalyoddhāraṁ is done.” — Śalyoddhāraṁ is not the same procedure as Bhūmi Pūjān. It is always performed at the Brahmāsthāna, the centre, from which the effect spreads outward gradually. Shanay shanay.
32. “A flaw is a flaw.” — Vedha, the study of blemishes, distinguishes types and gives specific corrections rather than a single verdict.
33. “Patterns can't be changed.” — Kramānyatvaṁ addresses exactly this: the deliberate changing of established patterns.
34. “My consultant will tell me.” — Question them. Check their qualifications. Apply your own judgement, and stop following every video you find online.
35. “A good enough consultant solves everything.” — If it were that simple, the sages would have handed us a list instead of a library. They gave us scriptures, Puranas and granthas because the work is not something one visit can complete.
The four worth arguing about
If you take nothing else from the list, take these four. Each contradicts advice given daily by working consultants:
- The overhead tank does not belong in the southwest. West, north or northeast.
- South-facing plots are not to be avoided. They are associated with abundance.
- The northeast entrance is not scripturally prescribed. It may be an angle error that hardened into a rule.
- Plastic pyramids and aluminium yantras on walls do nothing for the space. They act on your mind through your eyes.
If your consultant has told you otherwise, the reasonable question is the one the book keeps returning to: which verse?
Doing it yourself
The reason this book exists in the form it does is that after the first scripture translation was published, readers kept writing in to ask where the remedies were.
The answer is that a remedy is not a product. It is a will, a piece of knowledge, and an action — and the action is generally something you can perform with your own hands, on your own land, without hiring anyone.
That is what the 35 chapters set out to make possible.
Vāstu Remedies: Manifest Your Dreams contains all 35 remedies in full — each with its scriptural verse, the reasoning, case studies from practice, and the step-by-step procedure. Available in English and Hindi.
For the scriptural sources behind these remedies, see The Ancient Science of Vāstu I: The Vishwakarma Prakash Retold, and the blog series on it beginning with Before the First Brick.
More detail on individual myths is coming in this series, starting with the northeast entrance and the southwest water tank.
