Teacher: Aparna Dhir Khandelwal

*Prerequisite: Graduation in any area of knowledge. Sanskrit/Vedic Texts, Philosophy, or Psychology will be a preferred base to understand the course.*

This is a 3-unit course. The word ‘Veda’ means knowledge; hence primarily they are a chief source of Indian religion and culture along with the roots of various studies such as Medicine, Astronomy, Philosophy, Botany, Social Sciences, Fine Arts, among others, that are easily traceable in the Vedic literature. Vedic seers expressed their divine experiences and vision of truth in Vedas; so, this holds unique significance for the entire mankind. In present times, Art of Living is very popular, and people are rushing towards it to live life according to some pre-defined principles of life but many of us are hardly aware that these principles are well spoken or written by great Vedic sages in our ancient scriptures. We all have forgotten that ‘Personality Development’ is the development process to enhance one’s personality and attitude through organized thought and behavior patterns that make up a person's unique personality emerge over time. All this is systematically inherited by us, as these are deeply rooted in our ancient Indian traditions.

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Instructor: Dr. Aparna Dhir

Dr. Aparna (Dhir) Khandelwal is an Assistant Professor, the School of Indic Studies, Institute of Advanced Sciences, Dartmouth, MA, USA. She is an alumnus of the University of Delhi. She holds Ph.D. in Sanskrit with research interests in Vedas and Indology. She authored a book “Yajurvediye Brahamano mein Jyotish ke Tattva” and has presented several research papers in various national & international conferences out of which her few papers are awarded. Over dozen published papers & articles in journals and magazines are to her credit. ‘Indigenous Social Democratic Institutions of the Vedic Tradition’ is the research project she involves at School of Indic Studies that defines the concept for HaatNow.

She is associated with WAVES-India for more than ten years and currently serving as honorary secretary (Admin). She is engaged as executive editor for Vedic Waves Blog and WAVES YouTube channel both are running successfully with over 90,000 hits and 1.24K subscribers respectively. She is also an advisory board member of Vedic journal ‘Vaidika Vag Jyotih’-Biannual Journal published in Haridwar, Uttrakhand, India. 

Phone: +91-9990433340 (India)        E-mail: adhir@inads.org