Our educational system has not been adequate for the task of turning out sufficient young leaders who can lift the country out of the polluted waters of our public life and the slime and sludge of a corrupted economy. The aim of character based higher education must be to leave a residuum called culture which would teach a meaningful philosophy of life and enrich character. In adopting westernized system, our traditions and shastras have been given a go by.

In the vedic school, the students are sent to regular day schools in the 10+2+3 educational scheme and the time before and after the school is being utilized to provide vedic education .In the process, at the end of 12 years, we would not have generated priests but men with better perception and Indianness.

Ever since, the Vedas were first revealed by Rishis long ago, they have always been a living tradition. Some Vedic Shakas are threatened with extinction. The oldest existing religious hymns on the World are in the danger of being fossilized on the book shelves. The following statistics is revealing.

The Vedas have come to be recognized as the repositories of all religious and secular duties. They are the treasure of India’s spiritual and social laws. All the different schools of Hindu philosophy ultimately trace their roots to Vedas.

Despite their hoary age, the Vedas maintain a code of accent, phonetics, form and sequence all orally handed down from generation to generation. The brahminical seers had such undaunted faith in the divinity of the Vedas and in the capacity of human memory, that they refused to reduce the Vedas to writing and held the future generation responsible for maintaining their purity.

Sri Chandrasekarendra Saraswati was the 68th Acharya in the illustrious lineage of gurus who adorned the venerated Kamakoti Peetam at kancheepuram. The Peetam acquired a new strength during his times. The devotion, fervour and intensity with which the Paramacharya as he was called, practiced what Adhi Sankara had preached, is unparallel .He lived a Spartan Life. Throughout his life, the main focus of concern and activities was rejuvenating Veda adyayana, and Dharma Sasthras and the age old tradition which had suffered a decline. ’Veda Rakshanam’ was his very life breath and he referred to this in most of his public discourses and private conversations. His providing regular support to Vedha Patashalas through the Veda Rakshna Nidhi Trust (which he founded) honouring Vedic scholars, holding regular sadhas which included discussions on arts and culture – these led to a renewed interest in Vedic religion, Dharma Sasthras and Sanskrit. His long tenure as Pithathipathi was the golden era of the Kanchi Kamakoti Pitam.