Vastu shastra: A tool for stress free living and empowering homemaker psychologically, physically and esthetically

Pages: 407-412
Neetima Batra, Veena Sangwan, and Manju Mehta (Department of Family Resource Management, CCSHAU, Hisar, Haryana)

House construction is a life dream for an individual especially the homemaker. The study was planned to know about the view of homemakers towards kitchen and pooja room principles of Vaastu Shastra. By applying various principles how much they satisfied was be the main trust area for such kind of study.200 homemakers who have constructed and Renovated their house according to Vaastu shastra were selected purposively to find out the knowledge and application of various vastu principles. after that 100 homemakers were selected randomly to find out the level of satisfaction among various principles. Kitchen and pooja room principles were selected purposively keeping in view the major concern of Indian women. More than 50 percent of the respondents had made their kitchen in SE direction of house, same number of them have placed pitchers and utensils for drinking water in NE and N side. Vastu says fridge should not be in NE direction of kitchen was not aware by 65 percent of the respondents still 34.o0 percent had applied this concept at kitchen. A major number of respondents had applied the concept that pooja room in building should be in E, N, NE corner of house (85.0%). some concept of pooja room such as one should not sit exactly having the idol (90.0%), white colour or yellow colour marble work should be done in pooja room (65.0%) were applied by respondents band lamp stand in SE corner of worship room (54.0%) were applied by respondents but they are not aware about these. While finding the satisfaction level, by applying principle such as kitchen in SE more than three fourth respondents were highly satisfied in psychological and functional utility aspect. placement of pitcher in NE and N side seems to be a tedious task for some respondents hence a little percentage of respondents (11.6%) were found dissatisfied also. Same with some aspects of pooja room principle where placement of lamp on particular direction become tedious for one fifth of the respondents (17.24%)otherwise overall concepts of pooja room provide them highly satisfaction, Hence we can say that pooja room and Kitchen satisfaction is of major concern of today’s homemaker.