"Sthapatya Veda is created out of the marriage of two branches of Veda. Sthapatya comes from sthapana, which means "establishment." Bakshi tells us that "Here we are trying to establish the relationship between the owner of the building, the building itself and the Cosmic Power. It was passed on orally for centuries from father to son until written down on palm leaves in the Middle Ages. Sthapatya Veda comes out of the Atharva Veda and is one of the twenty-seven branches of Vedic science. Not only in up-scale India, but in middle-America this ancient system of design and construction is being used to engineer some of the most high-tech and harmonious homes. It structures the home as a vessel for cosmic consciousness in which your life and being will naturally expand, according to modern-day Sthapatya Veda architect, Mr.
Sthapatya Veda shows how to incorporate the naturally occuring cosmic order into the design of a building and re-establish the inherent order that was disrupted by raising the building. How can we achieve that without disturbing the harmony of the cosmos? India's traditional science of architecture has an answer.
From this perspective we have no right to disturb the earth by putting a building on it." Yet, modern man needs shelter to live and work. When we disrupt a part of the earth, we disturb this order.
"Every inch of the earth," architect Bakshi notes, "is in perfect harmony with cosmic order.
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