Is Vedic Education Dying In India?

yes vidhunandan lal dar you are very correct just because of unemployement opportunities vedic education is dying .because now a days people don't get job by doing MBA AND BTECH.

yes vedic langauge is very important nowadays everyone prefer english and they have totally forgotten about vedic langauge. this language should create an awareness among the people.so "vedic language should be compulsory in all the schools and colleges."

Definitely it is loosing its importance and friends from this side have contributed the views in the right direction. May be, the vedic Education may find its place in one or two places here and there across the country as well as abroad. However in my opinion it has lost its roots due to the emergence of modern and sophisticated educational systems.The vedic education taught through GURUKULAM in our country has lost its base & importance.

Thanks for the referral Mr.Sankaran Venkatasubramanian

Hi friends, some literate sections of our society are hell bent on opposing everything associated with our ancient culture. Instead of feeling proud about Vedas which got created out of a richest civilization, these people are trying to keep them away from national main stream. They realized it can be done easily by discouraging Sanskrit language as most of our ancient literature are written in Sanskrit. We are still following the education system introduced by Lord Macaulay and the gist of his speech is self explanatory with respect to his motives. LORD MACAULAY’S ADDRESS TO THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT, 2 FEBRUARY 1835

“I have traveled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief. Such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such caliber, that I do not think we would ever conquer this country, unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage, and, therefore, I propose that we replace her old and ancient education system, her culture, for if the Indians think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will lose their self-esteem, their native culture and they will become what we want them, a truly dominated nation.”

The so called intellectuals succeeded in influencing our education system in early part of post independence period and tried to divide our society on the basis of cast and also succeeded partially in labeling Vedic education or gurukul system to the so called higher casts. I think it is a transition period where growth of Vedic education system is hindered because of many factors including lack of support from Governing bodies, caste and religion factors, supremacy of English over other languages, more job opportunities for English literate students etc. Though we love to practice Indian culture in our homes, but as parents we don’t like our children to pass through Vedic education and I feel this is the main reason why Vedic education is unpopular at present. I am not sure whether it is dying or not.

since education has been linked with employment and not knowledge in present society the Vadic system is dying due to lack of employment potentials .