About the programme
Archana Maheshwari
Course Teacher — Dharm Samvad
400+
Classes given
2023
Teaching since
2020
With ISKCON since
Archana Maheshwari holds a Master's degree and is currently pursuing her PhD. She completed her Bhakti Shastri at ISKCON Noida — a demanding course of scriptural study — and has been studying the Bhagavad-gita since 2020.
Her teaching has developed under the guidance of Swati Mataji, who supervises examinations at ISKCON Ayodhya and has shaped how these classes are structured, examined, and held to a standard students can trust.
She has been connected with ISKCON since 2020 and has been teaching since 2023, having given over 400 classes. She currently teaches long-term scripture and devotional-study courses through this programme, across adult and children-focused formats — Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam alike.
Under her guidance
Swati Mataji
Spiritual mentor & examination supervisor, ISKCON Ayodhya
Swati Mataji is the senior guide behind this programme. Archana Maheshwari has studied and taught under her for years — not as a formality on a page, but in the ordinary work of preparing classes, reviewing how students are progressing, and deciding what standard a course should actually hold.
At ISKCON Ayodhya she serves as supervisor, invigilator, and examiner. When students sit for chapter exams and receive certificates, those papers pass through her oversight. That is why attendance, revision, and open-book exams here are not decorative: someone experienced is watching that the study is real.
Students rarely meet her in every weekly class, but her influence is in the structure — the pace, the seriousness of examination, the expectation that Bhagavad-gita and Bhagavatam are studied carefully rather than skimmed. Mataji consults her when a course needs adjusting or when a student needs more than encouragement.
Guidance
Archana Maheshwari teaches the weekly classes. Swati Mataji — her mentor at ISKCON Ayodhya — supervises examinations and sets the standard behind them. We are affiliated with ISKCON Ayodhya, which issues certificates on completion.
Dev Shekhar Prabhu
Gita Manishi & Project Director, ISKCON Ayodhya
Dev Shekhar Prabhu serves as Gita Manishi and Project Director at ISKCON Ayodhya. In public coverage of ISKCON Ayodhya's outreach work, he is presented as a senior spokesperson and guide for the community's educational and humanitarian efforts.
Recent ISKCON News coverage shows him speaking on behalf of major Ayodhya initiatives including large prasadam distribution drives and public messages centered on peace, social harmony and practical spiritual service.
That makes him not just a ceremonial name on the page, but a respected guiding presence behind the standards, spirit and broader mission this programme is aligned with.
Sri Sri Radha Gokulanand
VedaSpace is affiliated with ISKCON Ayodhya, whose presiding Deities are Sri Sri Radha Gokulanand, along with Sri Sri Jagannath, Baldev and Subhadra Maharani.