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
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
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