Foundation for Indian Arts, Culture and Academics
Brahmavidya is a 32-year-old foundation dedicated to the development, promotion, and research of Indian arts, with a particular emphasis on Indian dance. We believe that the Indian arts, in their plurality, function, and purpose, embody the essence of ‘brahmavidya’.
We also hold that all art is a form of worship—of Truth, Auspiciousness, and Beauty. Our activities further extend to the promotion and teaching of Yoga and Sanskrit.
The main activity of the institution is the teaching of classical arts, specifically Bharatanatyam and Karnataka Music. In addition, it has conducted numerous mini-seminars, workshops, and lecture-demonstrations by visiting scholars and musicians. The institution has a student strength of over one hundred pupils from India and abroad who are learning dance and music.
The institution offers special training in Bharatanatyam and Indian Classical Music, providing academic facilities not only to enrolled students but also to other deserving pupils whose financial background makes it difficult for them to pursue these divine arts.
We have undertaken a very special project focused on the acquisition of books, manuscripts, instrumentarium, equipment, and other resources that are of immense and immediate use to our students. We have also formulated and launched a prestigious Gurukula project, Upayukta Bhārata. This is a composite mode of imparting both theoretical and performance-based knowledge, especially in Classical Music and Dance. We are guided by an expert consulting team in the formulation of these initiatives.
The Upayukta Bhārata curriculum includes Music, Dance, Yoga, Traditional Indian Theatre techniques, Modern Choreography, in-depth research, recreation of past cultural content, and contemporisation. Upayukta Bhārata is both inter- and intra-disciplinary in nature.
That vidyā which bestows śrī is known as śrīvidyā. The term śrī now encompasses the trivarga—wealth, dual attainment, auspiciousness, gloriousness, brightness, tools for success, aesthetics, prosperity, higher anointment, commendation, and more. Śrīvidyā bestows both parā and aparā attainments (anubhava-siddha-mārga, bhoga-svarga-apavarga-dā). Within this tradition, there are two aspects: śrīpradhāna (śrī as the primary intent) and śrīprāpti (the attainment of śrī). The śrīguru, as the very embodiment of Devī with bountiful compassion, bestows śrīpradhāna, while śrīprāpti is achieved through puruṣaprayatna—the mindful practice of the śrīvidyā mārga by the upāsaka.
We maintain a growing repository of Indological and Musicological textual treatises and have initiated extensive programs to digitize these valuable and often unpublished works. These digital copies will be made available through our website for the benefit of scholars and students. In time, our website will serve as a rich repository of these source texts and research articles. Please feel free to contact us for any academic inquiries regarding these materials.
Our faculty and visiting scholars are among the most renowned in their respective fields. Their works and profiles will soon be available on this website for your reference and direct contact.
Brahmavidya, under its current project titled “An Eyeful of Matrix”—briefly named eyem (a vernacular recensional spelling of the tāntric Icchā Śakti bījākṣara aiem)—will now host several hitherto unpublished textual treatises in both Indological and Musicological domains, along with select Tantric texts.
These texts will be made available in easily readable PDF formats, which can either be viewed directly on our website or downloaded to your digital devices—such as mobile phones or personal computers—for later use.
Please feel free to contact us for more details.
in his magnum opus ‘saundaryalaharī’
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This Page will portray many discussions on Indology and Indian musicology. Rangapravesha : is it what it was named for ? The concept of Rangapravesha is specifically applicable to Bharatanatyam taken in a purely historical sense. However, it is being bandied and performed even for Karnataka Music too. In this…