The aftermath - In this photo a home built with Vedic architecture still stands.
Vastu - Life Giving Principles.
As reported in "The Bleeping Herald" December 2007
by Cate Montana
On October 25, 2003, a fire began near the mountain town of Ramona in San Diego County, California. Fueled by acres of dry brush and fanned by strong Santa Ana winds, the Cedar Fire spread rapidly, burning 273,246 acres, destroying 2,232 homes, and killing 14 people. According to Jeff Harter, battalion chief of the California Fire Plan, California Department of Forestry, the speed and ferocity of the blaze "were heart stopping."
Jeanette Worland watched the fire approach across the hills, while her husband, Paul, hosed down the new home he had designed and built according to the principles of Maharishi Vedic Architecture. Pushed by 40 to 60 mph winds, the fire roared up to their home around midnight, then made a sudden 90 degree shift and passed directly outside of the house's Vastu fence. This sudden shift allowed the Worlands to evacuate - and it saved the house and everything in or near it. After shifting the blaze away from the house, minutes later the wind shifted back to its original direction and consumed the acreage directly behind the home.
The astonishing jog of the fire around the house was confirmed the next day by two fire fighters who noted with amazement that the fire seemed to lack the 'desire' to destroy this house.
Five other Maharishi Sthapatya Vedic houses located within the fire's path were similarly spared with only smoke damage. One of the five was the only house among several in a cul-de-sac not to burn.
Fast forward to this years recent devastation (2007). The Worland's and several other people's Sthapatya Vedic houses were spared again against all odds.
What happened?
Miracles are considered the result of divine intervention. But miracles have also been defined as occurrences which seem inexplicable because the laws governing them are so subtle they have not yet been discovered. In the case of these six homes, the miracle of their preservation depended upon principles that had been discovered only many thousands of years ago in India.
Vedic architecture, or Vastu architecture, also known as Sthapatya Veda, is a system of architecture and city planning based in cosmic principles that was learned by the great Indian rishis and then recorded thousands of years ago in the texts of the Vedas. As such, the system of Vedic architecture, which is still practiced and taught in India today, applies eternal cosmic principles to the built environment in which we work and dwell.
It was the system by which all six homes that survived the Cedar Fire were designed and built.