Is the archive going behind this?

No. The recorded archive is free. Membership sustains the archive; it does not fence it.

What exactly would I be supporting?

Live human time: teacher-led satsang and small study groups, held in real rooms at real hours. And, when it is ready, the Ask Swamiji study tool. Scarce things — not recordings.

Can I use Ask Swamiji now?

No. It is in private testing with a small group, and it stays there until it returns Swamiji's words accurately, with source and date, every time. We will not put his name on a tool that guesses.

When does the portal open?

We have not set a date, and we will not invent one here. The interest list is how you will hear — one letter when it opens, not a campaign.

The Wisdom Portal · In preparation

The recordings stay free. What we are preparing is the live room.

The archive — every recording is free. Alongside it, the Foundation is preparing a members' room for sustained study: live, teacher-led satsang, small study groups, and a study tool called Ask Swamiji, now in private testing. None of it is open yet. If you would like a letter when it is, leave your address. That is the whole ask.

Join the interest list One letter when the room opens. Nothing is owed and nothing is charged.

Not ready for a list? The free archive is open now — it needs no membership.

Three rooms, none of them open yet.

We would rather show you an honest closed door than a decorated empty room. Here is what the portal will hold, in plain terms, with the state each piece is actually in.

Room I · In preparation

Live satsang

Teacher-led study sessions, held live, in small enough company that your question can be asked aloud. Recordings can be copied; a seat in a live room cannot. This is the heart of the portal, and the reason it exists.

In preparation · not yet open · the interest list is the only door for now

Study groups

Small, steady circles working through one text together over months — the Gita, the Yoga Vasistha — at a reader's pace, with the archive's lectures as the common ground.

Room II · in preparation

Ask Swamiji

A study tool that searches six decades of Swamiji's recorded answers and returns his own words, with their source and date. It is in private testing with a small group, and it will not be offered to members until it answers accurately.

Room III · in private testing · his words only, never a guess

You do not have to wait for us.

The portal is in preparation, but the teaching is already open — and free. Each evening at 7:30 Eastern, a recorded lecture from the archive premieres on YouTube: a shared watch, with the chat open, so students in different time zones sit down to the same teaching at the same hour. And the teaching itself has not paused — Swamiji, at ninety-five, still teaches at the Foundation daily.

Open the free archive Tonight's premiere on YouTube

Membership here is not a paywall. It is how the archive is sustained.

The Foundation is a nonprofit. The recordings are free.

What members will sustain is the work around the archive — the digitizing, the indexing, the keeping of the lamp — and what they will receive is the one thing that cannot be recorded: live company in study.

When the room opens, membership will be offered on a sliding scale in both directions. If the figure is a stretch, give less — no one is turned away, and no one is asked why. If it is not a stretch, some members will choose to give more, and that is what carries the scholarship seats.

Already a member at vedanticwisdom.org?

Your access carries over. You will not be asked to re-register or to pay again — we will write to each member personally before anything moves, and nothing changes until you have that letter in hand.

Supporting the work

What a member's seat will hold

A seat in the live, teacher-led satsang
A place in a small study group
Ask Swamiji, when it leaves private testing
The quiet knowledge that the archive is free for everyone

Enrollment is not open yet — the interest list is the only door for now.

Prefer to support the archive today?

Asked directly, answered directly.

Is the archive going behind this?: No. The recorded archive is free. Membership sustains the archive; it does not fence it.
What exactly would I be supporting?: Live human time: teacher-led satsang and small study groups, held in real rooms at real hours. And, when it is ready, the Ask Swamiji study tool. Scarce things — not recordings.
Can I use Ask Swamiji now?: No. It is in private testing with a small group, and it stays there until it returns Swamiji's words accurately, with source and date, every time. We will not put his name on a tool that guesses.
When does the portal open?: We have not set a date, and we will not invent one here. The interest list is how you will hear — one letter when it opens, not a campaign.

Leave your address. We will write when the door opens.

No countdown, no urgency. A letter when the room is ready, sent the way a librarian would send it.

One letter when the room opens; perhaps one or two along the way. Nothing is owed and nothing is charged. Unsubscribe any time.