VEDA - Vedas and Vedic Knowledge Online

Latest additions, news, links (library files, links and smaller updates are not listed here but happen at least monthly)

Vedic Heritage Teaching Programme (An extensive home study course takes children from a few years of age to late teens with a series of age appropriate workbooks.)

Bhagavadgita on fighting terrorism (Rajiv Malhotra)

Krishnamacharya's Legacy (Vaishnava yogi, guru of world-famous yoga promoters)

The Sacred Secrets of Ganga

What ancients did for us - The Indians 1/6 (BBC video)

Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (video by Ben Stein on censorship in science, trailer)

The Criminalization of Raw Milk: A Mennonite Farmer is Hauled Away

Sensory deprivation experiment (video)

India – Once Plentiful: Records reveal British schemes diminshed crops and dismantled a native system of abundance

SPIN (funny video on karma)

Bhaktivedanta Manor: RSPCA aided by police killed a cow

Government Control of Hindu Temples in India: a Blatant Violation of Secularism (!)

Vedic astrologer vs. a skeptic (video)

A Prayer for the Ganges

Hindu Genocide in Kashmir online exhibition

Indians develop new iron using ancient technology

Earthlings (movie)

Supersize Me (movie)

Indo-European Linguistics (IEL), a belief system: reclaiming history of Bharatiya languages (long compilation of sources)

Making Mockery of Sachin! An attack on Hindu Rituals? Another form of threat to Hinduism!

Ancient most agricultural heritage of India

The secret behind The Secret

Comprehensive FACT exhibit on the ongoing Kashmiri Hindu genocide

Life of Sri Prahlad prabhu (4 min video)

Dr Subhash Kak Solves Einstein's Twin Paradox

Caring For Devotees: The Spiritual Counselor System - part 1/5 (Radhanatha Swami)

Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh USA - Exhibition on Hindu Culture and Dharmic Traditions

Vedic Mathematicians in Ancient India (part I)

The Holographic Universe: Does Objective Reality Exist? (Western science approaching Vedic paradigm)

Nadi astrology experience: Bhrigu Samhita reading - by Indradyumna Swami

PETA TV: Alec Baldwin Narrates Revised “Meet Your Meat”

Quite long but very good article by Rajiv Malhotra on Sulekha.com showing the current state in the field of Indian studies, USA-Indian relationship, stereotypes involved and more: Washington Post and Hinduphobia

Vedic cosmology - planetarium
Tour the transcendental world, the material world and find the way back
new version
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Vedas and Vedic culture: what you won't learn in school

In school we can learn many things but unfortunately not the important, existential ones. These are elaborated on in Vedas, a sort of manuals how to use this world and how to live in it. Obviously, they should be available to everyone.

"Veda" is Sanskrit for "knowledge". Sanskrit was the language of Vedic civilization. Vedic culture, based on Vedic scriptures (sastras) called Vedas, flourished all over the ancient world with center in India, formerly known as Bharata-varsa. Vedas are the most ancient literary works on Earth, at the same time with the profoundest and widest scope. They cover all fields of knowledge, material and spiritual. The real treasures of the East weren't jewels, spices or exotic perfumes - but the amazing treasure house of sacred and universal knowledge. This knowledge, increasingly validated by modern science, is now being embraced by leading corporations, professionals and leaders around the world. Our recent scientific and technological efforts can only to some extent approach the ancient Vedic material advancement while the Vedic spirituality is much more elevated than anything we can find in the West.

VEDA is one-of-its-kind resource related to the Vedas and Vedic culture. Although there are many different encyclopedias, until now there has been no encyclopedia focused on Vedic culture and available to wide public (if we don't take into account several dictionaries and encyclopedias published in India and used mainly by scholars). This, together with recent increase of interest in Eastern philosophy, ancient civilizations, alternative paradigms and lack of comprehensive online resources, inspired creation of this site. Its three main sections, Bhakti-yoga, Vedic Encyclopedia and Vedic Library (columns on the left), contain over 680 articles and downloadable files (about 37 MB) explaining the structure and contents of Vedic scriptures. There are also Links to many other related resources and books to buy through Amazon. The affiliate payments go to Sastradana.cz.

Because Vedas are vast and variegated, VEDA specifically focuses on Gaudiya Vaishnava Vedanta, the cream of Vedic philosophy, expounded by Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, avatar of this Kali age, and brought to the West by its foremost recent exponent Sri Srimad A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. You can find more details about this site and its development in About VEDA.

We'll be glad if you put a link on your personal site and spread the word. With topically relevant sites we are ready to exchange links. Suggestions, corrections, etc. welcome.