The Florida Vedic College appoints the following Professors to the teaching, in the roles and functions here mentioned:
Marcus Schmieke President of the EAVS Head of the Vasati Department Head of the Vedic Astrology Department
Florian Heinzmann, MA Head of the Sanskrit Department
Irena Ganwills, MA/MSc Managing Director of the EAVS Head of the Vedanta Department
Reinhart Schacker, CAS Head of the Ayurveda Department
Merete Mattern, Dipl. Ing. Teacher of Architecture and Ecology
Sacinandana Swami Teacher of Vedanta
Jochen Weiss Teacher of Sanskrit
Jelena Neumann Teacher of Vedic Astrology
European Academy of Vedic sciences Integration of science and spirituality
The European Academy of Vedic Sciences connects research and teaching of scientific and educational institutes in more than ten countries not only in Europe but also in other parts of the world. The mission of the EAVS is to integrate ancient spiritual wisdom and modern scientific knowledge for solving the urgent problems of the modern man.
In the year 1996 Marcus Schmieke, the president of the EAVS, started to realize this vision by founding the Vedic Academy in south Germany at the Weissenstein castle which in the following ten years inspired similar academies in different European countries like England, Hungary and Croatia. After partnering in early 2004 with the renowned Florida Vedic College the idea of an international Vedic university arose which combines the potential of all national Vedic academies.
As the result of this integration the European Academy of Vedic Sciences is now aiming towards setting the international standard for top level education in Vedic sciences and arts. EAVS developed its own virtual online campus where it offers presently ten courses in Vedic Architecture (Vasati), Vedic Astrology and Sanskrit. These courses can be recognized by the Florida Vedic College, which can award the Bachelor, Masters and Doctoral titles to our students. This American titles are not comparable with European academic degrees but show the students' excellence and qualifications to the public.
The European Academy of Vedic Sciences has its base in Zagreb (Croatia) and is represented by institutes in Germany, England, Italy, Russia, India, Hungary and USA. Its current focus of interest is pointed towards offering spiritual solutions for urgent material problems of the present world situation for the individual person as well as for the society as a whole. The members of the European Academy of Vedic Sciences are convinced about the value of vedic wisdom and spiritual experience for giving guidance for the progress of science, economy, politics and the life of the modern individual.
There is a powerful Indology group of academicians, who are closely knit, have a strong network, and control the study of Samskrit, Hindu philosophy and yoga in European and American universities. They are well funded, mould their brand of students who are not always India friendly. They have friends from India too, who stand to benefit by sponsorship, exchange visits and travel. They cannot be stopped; there is no need to worry about them.
We also have many experts who teach Karate, feng-shui, zen etc. there is a genuine fear that dilution of the original may happen with time.
I feel, neither proud or ashamed; I enjoy watching it from the sidelines.
i am sorry if my subject line was too open ended.. what i meant was - on one side seeing the amount of interest generated and quality work done across the globe fills your heart - but on the same note, it pains to see that there is much more that can or could hv been done in india which is neglected - could be due to the over zealousness to hold this back by a `privileged few' for a long time and what followed was a over correction by tainting sanskrit as a lang of the "....."
Talking about Sanskrit in India is anti-secular...thats the state we are in. As already discussed in this group, brahmin bashing and anti- brahminical anti-sanskrit sentiments rule our country.
There were instances where the brahmins tried to overrule, but never the vedas say that it should be read only by brahmins nor it was practices.
Recently few of our group members got the previlege to get some old books from venkatesh's house. Out of the lot I picked, one was published in 1920. Though I have not even started reading these books, i went through the topics.
This specific book titled 'Omkara porulvilakkam' has a caption, naanooru veda pramanangaludan, ie. with 400 references from veda. The author's name is Arunagiri MUDHALIAR.
Reading sanskrit and remembering things are quite difficult. If a person has to quote 400 references just for the word 'OM' from vedas, I was wondering what a knowledge this Arunagiri Mudhaliar would have possessed. He would have been a veda virpannar. I was literally spell bound.
Compiling 400 references is not an overnight task. Should have taken atleast a decade to compile. And one needs through knowledge to compile things. So Arunagiri Mudhaliar should have started reading vedas atleast by 1890 or lates by 1900 to acquire such knowledge.
This gave me a new dimension. In 1920, the initial days of the active Dravidian movement (ie. anti brahminical movement), if a Mudhaliar is well versed in Veda's, are we not fools to still say that the brahmins never allowed others to read vedas?