Begin with a story
Every class opens with narrative: Arjuna's dilemma, Prahlada's courage, Dhruva's determination. Stories are how the tradition has always carried its truths, and how children carry them home.
Aditi Mataji
Aditi Mataji has lived the subject she teaches: a lifelong practice of the Bhagavad-gītā's teachings, and more than twenty years of passing them on to children and adults.
Initiated in the ISKCON tradition, Mataji teaches the Gītā the way it has always been taught best: person to person, verse by verse, with stories that make timeless wisdom feel like advice from someone who knows you.
Over two decades she has taught students from age five to seventy-five, in India and in Canada, and today more than forty students join her live weekend classes online.
Her path to this work runs through two countries. In India she owned and ran a school, so children were her daily world long before they were her Gītā students. After moving to Canada she found ISKCON and met her guru, and the Gītā moved from the edge of her life to the centre of it. She still works as a teacher in Canada today; the weekend classes are the same vocation, carried into the tradition she loves most.
तद्विद्धि प्रणिपातेन परिप्रश्नेन सेवया ।उपदेक्ष्यन्ति ते ज्ञानं ज्ञानिनस्तत्त्वदर्शिनः ॥tad viddhi praṇipātena paripraśnena sevayāupadekṣyanti te jñānaṁ jñāninas tattva-darśinaḥ
“Approach a teacher, inquire submissively, and serve; the self-realized can impart knowledge because they have seen the truth.”
Bhagavad-gītā 4.34
Every class begins with a story and lands in real life.
Learn the verse itself
Students chant and gradually memorize shlokas with careful pronunciation, then unpack the Sanskrit word by word, so the verse belongs to them, not just to a book.
Bring it into the week
Every teaching lands on a practical question: what does this verse ask of me at school, at work, at home? Mataji makes sure each verse leaves the classroom with the student.
Rooted in an unbroken tradition
Mataji teaches from the Bhagavad-gītā As It Is, in the line of teachers descending through Śrīla Prabhupāda and the ISKCON tradition, a lineage that has carried the Gītā from teacher to student, unchanged in essence, generation after generation. What your family receives is not one person's interpretation, but a living inheritance.