Beginner · 6 weeks · 90 minutes a week
Vedic Foundations
What the Vedas actually say, in plain language, with nothing asked of your belief.
A first course for people who grew up with rituals but were never told the reasoning behind them. We read short passages in translation, place them in their time, and connect each one to something you already do at home.
What you'll take away - Know the four Vedas, the Upanishads and where the Gita sits - Understand yajna, mantra and sankalpa as method rather than superstition - Read a shloka with correct sandhi and meaning - Build a daily practice of ten honest minutes
Modules
Module 1
The shape of the corpus
Samhita, Brahmana, Aranyaka, Upanishad — who wrote what, and when.
Module 2
Sound before meaning
Why recitation is preserved so exactly, and what that does to attention.
Module 3
Yajna as exchange
The logic of offering, from the fire altar to the modern kitchen.
Module 4
Rta and dharma
Order, duty and the ethics that follow from them.
Module 5
The Upanishadic turn
From ritual to enquiry: atman, brahman, neti neti.
Module 6
Your own practice
Designing a sustainable sadhana and a reading list for the next year.