Can “Vastu Shastra” (Vedic Architecture) help in the planning of “Green Energy Building?”

This paper aims to present the need of Vastu Shastra (Vedic Architecture) for Planning various buildings planning and construction work. With the help of Vastu Shastra principles, we can reduce water pollution, air pollution, sound pollution, and increasing temperature on earth. It is important to control various man-made energies. Vastu Shastra is based on various energies that come from the atmosphere like solar energy from the sun, cosmic energy, lunar energy, thermal energy, magnetic energy, light energy & wind energy. Vastu Shastra is an ancient building construction science and it also explains philosophy about the human settlement. 19 In the Indian context we found that Vastu Shastra is a science that was developed by various sages in the thousands of years. Vastu Shastra is also called the mother of sustainable architecture. The article has four main parts. At the start, it gives a brief about the importance of Vastu Shastra planning in today’s life. And in the Second part, it shows the various environmental issues that can be reduced by Vastu Shastra. The third part explains the important role of Vastu Shastra in sustainable architecture. The last part is on Green Energy Building and Vastu Shastra.