INR 3000/- & USD 50 for overseas participantsīrief synopsis, glossary and a Certificate of Attendance Will be provided. Here is the schedule for the second batch. In the process of achieving this, it has started many websites where Vedic Books are made available online where everyone who has access to the internet can download Vedic Books and read them. The first batch starting on the 7th of September is now complete. This is a rare opportunity to listen to the experts who will introduce the four Vedas with audio-visual demonstrations.
ATHARVA VEDA ONLINE SERIES
This series of lectures will show how Vedas have played an important role in the socio-religious traditions of India and how they have influenced the ways of thinking of Indian people. While the Vedas are the prayers addressed to various deities, they also possess secular contents, a variety of subjects, and echo the aspirations and the dreams, the hopes and the fears of Vedic man. The Vedas are often compiled into a single book, the Chathurveda Samhitha, which contains 4 separate sacred texts. They are four in number and consist of a collection of hymns(Rigveda), sacrificial formulas (Yajurveda), chants (Samaveda), and a variety of mantras (Atharvaveda).
This rich ancient Indian heritage forms a basis of almost every later development in Indian tradition.
In Indian religious tradition, they are called Shruti, the knowledge that has come down to us through ‘hearing’, mainly through the tradition of teachers and students who studied and preserved these sacred texts as their religious duty, memorizing them and passing them on to the next generations. The objective of starting this online medium is to help Vedic students and the public at large to understand the Vedic scriptures and texts with. The Vedas have always been regarded as a sacred revelation they are the oldest records of Indian religious literature and the life of the Vedic man. Vedas Online is a medium for reviving the ancient Guru-Shishya Parampara (tradition of learning from a teacher in a Gurukula or Ashrama) by leveraging the web based technology of the modern era.