About Us

Rta Vedic Peace Fellowship is a structured association of spiritual mentors from India who came together for deepening our understanding of the Vedas and spiritual growth.

The Fellowship includes satsangs, which are gatherings for spiritual discourse, chanting, and meditation. We focus on the teachings of specific scriptures or philosophical texts.

We are the equivalent of say Christian church groups, Bible-study groups or prayer circles who meet to study scripture and pray.

We see it as our religious duty to promote higher levels of harmony and peace at the individual level (life choices) as well as the collective or planetary level (interaction with nature). There is interconnectedness (Rta) between both and that is central to Hindu beliefs, practices and philosophy.

What is Rta?

In the Vedic tradition, Ṛta is a fundamental concept representing the principle of natural order that governs the universe. It is seen as the cosmic law that ensures the natural, moral and other orders. Over time, the concept of Rta became connected with Dharma (duty and righteousness) and Karma (the law of cause and effect) – both central to Hindu philosophy and intricately linked.

By following Dharma, individuals can generate positive Karma, creating a virtuous cycle of cause and effect. Neglecting Dharma can result in negative Karma and undesirable outcomes. Undesirable outcomes can manifest themselves at the individual and collective (planetary) levels.

The Vedas emphasize the interconnectedness of all life forms. Humans, animals, plants, and the elements are all part of a cosmic order (Rta) that needs to be respected and maintained.

Applied to our industrialisation, the upshot is that an organism cannot survive in a medium of its own waste products and has to compete for declining life-support resources.

In the Vedas, nature is seen as the manifestation of, or the art of, the Devine. As a religious Fellowship dedicated to the Devine, we do not accept the proposition which is explicit in science, that it is nature that has issued the terminal decree on all life forms on Earth. As defenders of nature, we conduct thought experiments, grounded in religious teachings and meditation, to explore whether science, the art of man has misrepresented nature, the art of the Devine.

Our Fellowship focuses on revealing that nature, as the art of the devine, has never placed any limitations on life forms on Earth. Rather, it has made ample provisions for human development. In other words, we focus on revealing that contrary to the scientific view, the Earth is neither energy-limited nor inherently entropic.

Our thought experiments are philosophical, based on religious teachings and deliberation through meditation. They take many years to mature. When a particular thought experiment has matured sufficiently to the point that we feel it may enlighten humanity in reducing developmental or planetary disharmonies, we patent and publish it, ensuring it becomes prior art in law and can only be exploited commercially by the Fellowship for its benevolent purposes.

The Vedic approach to planetary peace and harmony is distinct from Western approaches. Nonetheless, global peace is essential for a self-regulating market system, which requires ever-increasing global standards of living despite ever-decreasing natural resources.