Book excerpt: Vastu Shastra (also called Indian vastu architecture) - according to the directions, the importance of orientation of a building is not only for saving energy but also to have a better healthy house design. Vastu gives comfortable living, good health, prosperity and wealth to the house owners/occupiers and families living on site. From Indian veda sastra, which claims to use energy forces to harmonize individuals with their surrounding environment. The principles of Vastu Sastra are concerned primarily with architecture - building houses, forts, temples, apartments and other buildings. Like the physical vastu in us, our body must be perfect. Otherwise we are called specially needed or physically or mentally challenged. So we have to give special attention or treatment for those people. Similarly vastu defects also must be taken care specially or with special attention.Vastu Shastra deals with the exercise of architecture and building science and in fact it gives a fair touch in every aspects of life on the earth as well as the universe. The basic theme remains a link that is ever-present between the man and cosmos.Chinese vastu (Feng Shui) - a system of laws considered to govern spatial arrangement and orientation of materials or objects in relation to the flow of energy (chi), and whose favourable effects are taken into account when siting and designing buildings.Feng shui, also known a kind of vastu science originating from China, which claims to use energy forces (Chi/ Qi) to harmonize individuals with their surrounding environment. Feng Shui mainly deals with items for vastu and their placements!......more!