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The course

Learn Hinduism from the beginning

Sixty lessons so far, in order, and thirty more every month. The first six are free.

Months
1–2
Lessons
60
Free
6
Depths
Child · Seeker · Scholar
Languages
English + हिन्दी

60 lessons · about 69 minutes to read the free ones

The lessons, in order

  1. What Hinduism Is23 min
  2. Hindu, Hinduism and Sanātana Dharma10 min
  3. How Hindu Tradition Is Passed On9 min
  4. Śruti and Smṛti7 min
  5. The Vedas11 min
  6. The Upaniṣads9 min

  7. Lesson 07 onward is part of MembershipMembership

    Every lesson below opens with its beginning, so you can see what it covers. You can join at any point. Finishing the first six is not required.

    Lesson 7, membership. Itihāsa and Purāṇa7 min
  8. Lesson 8, membership. Why Hindu Texts Do Not Always Say the Same Thing6 min
  9. Lesson 9, membership. Brahman5 min
  10. Lesson 10, membership. Ātman5 min
  11. Lesson 11, membership. Ātman and Brahman5 min
  12. Lesson 12, membership. Īśvara and the Personal Divine5 min
  13. Lesson 13, membership. Dharma4 min
  14. Lesson 14, membership. Karma5 min
  15. Lesson 15, membership. Saṃsāra and Rebirth4 min
  16. Lesson 16, membership. Mokṣa4 min
  17. Lesson 17, membership. The Four Puruṣārthas4 min
  18. Lesson 18, membership. The Āśrama Stages of Life5 min
  19. Lesson 19, membership. What Yoga Means4 min
  20. Lesson 20, membership. The Paths of Yoga5 min
  21. Lesson 21, membership. Bhakti4 min
  22. Lesson 22, membership. Why Hinduism Has Many Divine Forms4 min
  23. Lesson 23, membership. Viṣṇu and Vaiṣṇava Traditions3 min
  24. Lesson 24, membership. Avatāra4 min
  25. Lesson 25, membership. Śiva and Śaiva Traditions4 min
  26. Lesson 26, membership. Devī, Śakti and Śākta Traditions4 min
  27. Lesson 27, membership. Mūrti and the Sacred Image4 min
  28. Lesson 28, membership. Pūjā4 min
  29. Lesson 29, membership. Mantra and Japa4 min
  30. Lesson 30, membership. Mandir and Darśan4 min
  31. Lesson 31, membership. Varṇa: The Four-Fold Order6 min
  32. Lesson 32, membership. Jāti: The Order People Actually Live In4 min
  33. Lesson 33, membership. Where the Word "Caste" Came From4 min
  34. Lesson 34, membership. Purity, Pollution and the Body4 min
  35. Lesson 35, membership. Untouchability, and the Hindus Who Refused It5 min
  36. Lesson 36, membership. Who Was Allowed to Speak5 min
  37. Lesson 37, membership. Saṃskāra: The Rites That Make a Life4 min
  38. Lesson 38, membership. Marriage6 min
  39. Lesson 39, membership. Death, and What the Living Owe the Dead5 min
  40. Lesson 40, membership. Food5 min
  41. Lesson 41, membership. The Festival Year4 min
  42. Lesson 42, membership. A Chronology You Can Actually Use5 min
  43. Lesson 43, membership. The Fire and the Image5 min
  44. Lesson 44, membership. Temples, Kings and Patronage4 min
  45. Lesson 45, membership. The Śramaṇa Turn4 min
  46. Lesson 46, membership. What a Darśana Is5 min
  47. Lesson 47, membership. Sāṃkhya: Counting the World6 min
  48. Lesson 48, membership. Nyāya and Vaiśeṣika: How Anyone Knows Anything4 min
  49. Lesson 49, membership. Mīmāṃsā: The Authority of the Word4 min
  50. Lesson 50, membership. Vedānta I: Śaṅkara4 min
  51. Lesson 51, membership. Vedānta II: Rāmānuja and Madhva5 min
  52. Lesson 52, membership. The Objectors4 min
  53. Lesson 53, membership. When Theology Changed Language6 min
  54. Lesson 54, membership. The Tamil Poets4 min
  55. Lesson 55, membership. The Moving and the Standing6 min
  56. Lesson 56, membership. The Ones Who Are5 min
  57. Lesson 57, membership. The Joints of the Bamboo5 min
  58. Lesson 58, membership. Tantra Means Loom5 min
  59. Lesson 59, membership. Sacred Books of the Hindus6 min
  60. Lesson 60, membership. What This Course Has Not Told You6 min