Our Vision

Our vision is to empower students to value Vēdic knowledge and skills that will support them as life-long learners.

Our Mission

What do we do?
  • Community: We build an enthusiastic creative community of vēdic learners.
  • Quality: We provide relevant high-quality knowledge transfer of Vēdas.
  • Excellence: We are dedicated to a continuing vēdic tradition of excellence in an ever changing world.
  • Vēdic-Centered: Our university is a vēdic-centered organization delivering excellence in knowledge.
How do we do?
  • Research Focused: The mission of the university is to be at the forefront of the advancement of knowledge in the 21st Century that will give students the tools that they need to live meaningful Vēdic lives.
  • Peer Learning: Learners work in groups that help communication and teamwork. Hearing the perspectives of team members helps learners to see things from multiple perspectives.
  • Discovery: Learners discover solution to problems themselves instead of being told the answers.
Value Statement

Graduates will be motivated life-long learners and productive global Vēdic citizens.

Our Objectives

  • Learning the language of Sanskrit through Siksha (Basics of Sanskrit language) and Ashtādyayi (grammar).
  • Understand the Vēdic Philosophy as explained by the Upanishads to understand the nature of Ishwar (God) or what is called as Vēdanta.
  • Understand the Vēdic Darshanas or what is called as the six thoughts of understanding the Srishti (creation) by Ishwar (God).
  • Understanding mantras from Vēdas, Upavēdas, Brāhmannās, Upanishads, Darshanās, and other Vēdic Literature that are applicable to the selected research area/domain.
  • Benefit the contemporary knowledge and society by doing research of Vēda Mantras and extracting the knowledge present in Vēdas.

Please read about our founder Dr. Venkata Ramana Chaganti

Authority to Operate

Exemption Statement:

Degree programs of study offered by “University of Applied Vedic Sciences” have been declared exempt from the requirements for licensure, under provisions of North Carolina General Statutes Section (G.S.) 116-15 (d) for exemption from licensure with respect to religious education. Exemption from licensure is not based upon assessment of program quality under established licensing standards.

Vēdic Authority

यथे॒मां वाचं॑ कल्या॒णीमा॒वदा॑नि॒ जने॑भ्यः। ब्र॒ह्म॒रा॒ज॒न्या᳖भ्या शूद्राय॒ चार्या॑य च॒ स्वाय॒ चार॑णाय च।
प्रि॒यो दे॒वानां॒ दक्षि॑णायै दा॒तुरि॒ह भू॑यासम॒यं मे॒ कामः॒ समृ॑ध्यता॒मुप॑ मा॒दो न॑मतु ॥२ ॥

According to Yajur Vēda mantra (26.2) (The above mantra) everyone in the universe is eligible to read Vēdas. According to Manu “educating people by teaching Vēdas is the best act that any individual or society can do”.

Who can read Vēdas?

According to Maharshi Dayananda Saraswathi “Vēdas are given by God. God is omnipotent, ubiquitous and has eternal knowledge. Therefore His Vēdas are without illusion and are self vouching”.

Vēdas are the knowledge of God. At the beginning of creation God gave the knowledge of four Vēdas to four Rishis. Rig Vēd to Agni, Yajur Vēd to Vāyu, Sāma Vēd to Surya and Atharva Vēd to Angirasa. Here the names Agni, Vāyu, Surya and Angirasa belong to Rishis who are humans and are not of any Devatha (divine material) found in Vēdas. The language of Vēdas is Samskrut (Sanskrit). According to Rishis Vēdas are described as follows. Those in which the properties, activities and nature of God are described and in which there is no dispute in the order of creation of the world and in which proofs of science can be found and in which there is no illusion or confusion and in which cause and reason about the universe and its constituents are described and in which truth and only truth is given and which are self vouching are called Vēdas, Sruthis, Nigamas, Chanddass or Mantras.


Maharshi Dayananda Saraswathi