About Agama Academy

While India is becoming a world leader in the new forms of knowledge as embodied in the hard sciences, much of India's traditional wisdom and heritage are in danger of being lost. The Indian subcontinent holds an immense treasury of manuscripts and orally transmitted knowledge grounded in the unique experiences and universal wisdom of its sages, yogis, and philosophers. Due to the disappearance of traditional patronage, the pressure of globalization and the ravages of a harsh climate on fragile palm-leaf and delicate paper manuscripts, much of this knowledge and the traditions that hold it have not only fallen into obscurity but are in danger of being lost to the world forever.

About Agama Patasala

The Agama Patasala or school of Agamic study is the traditional context for the preservation of the Vedic culture and recitation. In modern India the Agama Patasala system is rapidly disappearing as fewer young people pursue these studies and also traditional sources of funding diminished.

The focus of their curriculum is on mastery of the entire Agama, memorizing of verses, understanding their meaning and application, reciting them in complex cyclical patterns, reciting them in impeccable pronunciation, inflection and resonance and create a strong custodians of these powerful mantras and the traditions.