ISKCON Ayodhya
Study the Gita properly.Keep the practice daily.
Structured courses in scripture, devotional skills and sadhana — with live classes, written guidance, and a teacher who actually reads what you submit.
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Three ways to go deeper
Three live classes, each with its own rhythm. New students are welcome in any of them, any week.
एवं परम्पराप्राप्तमिमं राजर्षयो विदुः
Read the Gita
All eighteen chapters, verse by verse
Experience the original 1972 Macmillan Edition by Śrīla Prabhupāda with Sanskrit ślokas, transliteration, word-for-word meanings, and full Purports.
Inside a class
What forty-five minutes looks like
STEP 1
Mangalacharan
The class opens with the invocation — obeisance to the teachers who carried this text to us.
STEP 2
The verse
The Sanskrit is read, then taken apart word by word so you know what each one carries.
STEP 3
Translation and purport
The meaning in full, unhurried detail — this is the heart of the class.
STEP 4
A story from sastra
One account from the scriptures that shows the verse working.
STEP 5
A story from today
And one from ordinary modern life, because the verse is not a museum piece.
STEP 6
Five takeaways, then kirtan
The class closes with five points to carry away, the maha-mantra, and a prayer.
Founder-Ācārya
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Founder-Ācārya, ISKCON · 1896–1977
In 1922, a young Calcutta pharmacist named Abhay Charan De met his spiritual master, Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura, who asked him to carry Kṛṣṇa consciousness to the English-speaking world. He accepted the instruction and then spent more than forty years preparing to fulfil it.
In 1965, at sixty-nine years old, he boarded a cargo ship called the Jaladuta bound for New York, carrying a trunk of his own translations, a pair of hand cymbals and about forty rupees. He suffered two heart attacks during the crossing. He had no organisation waiting for him, and nobody expecting him.
In the eleven years that followed he founded ISKCON, circled the globe fourteen times, established temples on six continents, and translated and commented on some eighty volumes of Vedic literature — among them the Bhagavad-gītā As It Is that these classes are built on. He left this world in Vṛndāvana in 1977.
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As featured on National Times TV
Archana Mataji, interviewed for International Women's Month
National Times TV featured Mataji from Calgary, speaking about the Bhagavad-gītā and about teaching it to children online.
Watch the interviewStudents
In their words
Messages students sent Mataji after finishing a course. Printed as they were written.
Community
Festivals, temples and gatherings
Study is one half of it. The other half is association — and there is no substitute for being in the room.
Begin where you are
No prior study assumed. Register, sit in on a class, and see whether it is for you.