The Spirit of Vedic Culture and Wisdom

Ancient Vedic culture is alive and well and richly expressed in a myriad of disciplines across the Indian subcontinent.

There is hardly a sphere of human endeavour which Vedic culture and wisdom has not touched – philosophy, literature, religious scriptures, mathematics, medicine, architecture, astronomy, astrology, nutrition, natural farming, music, song, dance, textile weaving, perfumery, sculpture, pottery, painting, religious art, jewellery, poetry, life rituals, religious ceremony, yoga, tantra and meditation.

Culture Festivals

The Institute seeks to showcase Vedic performance art at Australian Culture Festivals. Activate this link to the 2016 World Culture Festival in New Delhi where our Indian counterparts demonstrated Vedic dance and music alongside other world culture traditions.

The Australian Institute
for Vedic Culture and Wisdom

The Australian Institute was set up to preserve, celebrate and promote the ancient Vedic culture in its glory; and to explore and demonstrate how contemporary life may be enhanced by adopting some of these ancient cultural practices.

The Institute is engaged in fundraising and organising for Vedic Heritage Museums, Performance Spaces and Public Discourse Halls to showcase this ancient culture, and to demonstrate contemporary expressions of Vedic culture within Australian daily life.

The Institute initiates and participates in cultural outreach events within the wider Australian multi-cultural community.

Fundraising & Donations

We welcome your interest in preserving and showcasing the Vedic culture and refer you to the Company Secretary for further information.

Vedic Cultural
Pathways

The lustre and depth of the ancient Vedic culture is the foundation of heritage cultures across the Indian subcontinent - and we trace the imprints of its past footsteps across the many fields of activity in contemporary life.

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Music

To Indian classical music Vedic culture has contributed the Ragas (six basic musical modes);

Chanting and Ceremony

To oral history and the chanting tradition it has gifted Sanskrit Mantras (words of power in the planet’s oldest attested language); and cultural knowledge through the heritage ceremonies of Pujas, Homas and Yagnas

Rites of Passage

Householder families celebrate as they move through Samskaras (rites of purification marking milestones events throughout life);

Dance

To dance it has brought Shastriya Nritya (the eight forms of storytelling dance);

Tantra

Tantric practices are deepened through Yantra (tantric geometric art);

Fine Arts

Sixty-four Kala describe the fine arts (treatises on art forms like painting, sculpture, pottery, textiles, jewellery, perfumery, poetry, archery);

Mathematics

Vedic Mathematics formulates modern mathematics in the sixteen verses of the Ganita Sutras;

Astrology and Astronomy

Jyotish (Vedic astrology) reads the future and gives remedies for negative influences whilst Khalogavidya (Vedic astronomy) charts the cosmos

Architecture

Vaastu Shastra (the science of architecture) designs spaces to create positive energy;

Medicine and Wellness

Ayurveda (the science of life) is the world’s oldest health system which includes general medicine (Kayachikitsa), nutrition (Mitahara), medication (Aushadhi), surgery (Shalya Tantra), diagnosis (Nadi Pariksha), ENT/opthalmics/dentistry (Shalakya), neonatal/paediatrics (Kaumarabhritya); gynaecology/obstetrics (Streeroga and Prasuti Tantra); detoxification (Panchkarma) and wellness strategies such as integrative breathwork (Pranayama), meditation (Samadhi) and wisdom for mental health (Brahmajnana) and stretches for physical health (Yoga).