The texts themselves tend to be rather on the obscure side. There is a lot of attention given to the value of silence, however. In the Vedic view, the wholeness of life, the unbounded field of pure creative intelligence, is the basis of all structure in the universe. This unbounded, silent center is represented in all architecture. Sthapatya establishes consciousness, or creative intelligence in the environment.
Consciousness preceeds matter in both the design process and in the actual manifestation.
Sthapatya establishes the connection of separate parts to each other and of each part to the whole. Simultaneously, it establishes the connection between the individual and the universal, the individual and the Absolute. A common feature of each Vastupurusha Mandala is that the center, known as the Brahmastan, is representative of the silent center of all life. It is the connecting point of all the other parts of the building, the unmanifest center of all of the manifest activities. One aspect of right direction involves attention to the sun's relation to the progression of activity in the house through the day.