Intensive Online Course
in Advaita Vedanta, Meditation & Sanskrit
conducted by Swami Tadatmananda and Vasanthi-ji
The course has two parts:
1) Six-month Course – open to all students. Immediately followed by:
2) Two-year Course – open to qualified students
No fees are required for either part, but a firm commitment of at least 1 hour a day is required.
Typical daily schedule:
15 minutes Meditation Practice
30 minutes Vedantic Studies
15 minutes Sanskrit Language
Your personal schedule is completely flexible, but at least 7 hours of study will be needed to complete the assignments each week.
Weekly Program
1) Each week, carefully selected teachings from our ArshaBodha.org website and Swamiji’s YouTube channel will be assigned. You will receive an email with the necessary links.
2) Questions about each week’s assigned teachings can be sent to SwamiT@ArshaBodha.org with the subject “Course Question.” Swamiji will answer as many questions as possible in a weekly video posted on his YouTube channel (pre-recorded to avoid favoring any time zone).
3) Homework: Each week, you will identify three important points from the assigned teachings and email them to CourseHomework@ArshaBodha.org for review. This requirement will be dropped after the first six months. (Note: when I was a student, my guru required us to submit a one-page essay every day.)
Enrollment
Registration for the Six-month course closes 14 April 2026. The course begins on the following day.
Six-month Course: Fill out the registration form here: https://registration.arshabodha.org/
Two-year Course: Successful completion of the Six-month Course is a prerequisite for enrollment. Further requirements and other course details will be announced later.
Course Interaction
Personal interaction with Swamiji during the Six-month Course will not be possible. During the Two-year Course, personal online meetings with him will be scheduled periodically.
For questions of a personal nature, please contact Swamiji’s assistant, Vasanthi-ji Vasanthi@ArshaBodha.org
For administrative questions, please contact OnlineCourseAdmin@ArshaBodha.org
Syllabus for Six-Month Course
Even if you have independently studied some of the assigned course materials before, it is important to study them again, both to stay “in-sync” with everyone in the course and because you will learn much more the second time (see the first part of Swamiji’s video, Layer by Layer – How to Gain Deeper Insights from the Bhagavad Gita).
Meditation:
Based on “Inner Journey – Course in Meditation,” Introduction and Chapters 1-5.
Advaita Vedanta:
Introduction to Advaita Vedanta
Wisdom of the Rishis
Doctrine of Karma
Bhagavad Gita chapters 1-6
Works of Adi Shankara, including Atma Bodha
Selected Upanishads
Sanskrit:
Alphabet
Vowel Sandhi
Visarga Sandhi
Consonant Sandhi