How are we to hand over our cultural values to our next generation when westernisation is the current trend via the media, social and peer pressures. The Indian cultural forms will disappear from this nation if its constituent elements are not understood and imbibed by our next generation. The culture will become history as many great cultures of humanity did. The children, for want of a structured cultural value education, will be lost to us, as we become relics of the past for them.

The Vedic Heritage Teaching Programme is the outcome of years of work teaching Vedanta and Vedic Heritage to adults and children under the auspices of Arsha Dharma Kulam, New York, a regional affiliate of Arsha Vidya Pitham. Community participation and support, open dialogue with students, and the authors own commitment to the Vedic study were the inspiration for taking on this work more than a decade ago. The Vedic Heritage Teaching Programme is a guide for families and communities that wish to teach the Vedic Heritage to their children in an authentic, systematic manner. The subject matter has been organised into three volumes/ ten parts, tailored to the ages of the children.

The Vedic Heritage Teaching Programme is a boon to the educational institutions of India and to the Indian families that have been groping in the dark to systematically. Share the meaning of the Indian values and culture with the children for want of properly structured authentic programme. Every Indian family must own this programme to understand the profound indigenous culture of this land. Every educational institution of this country must impliment this programme by training its teachers (teachers' training camps are held bi-annually).

Each volume offers subject matter relevant to the child's age and stage of development. The teaching format is based on a school year consisting of forty classes, each class ranging from one to one-and-a-half hours per week. The entire Vedic Heritage Teaching Pro-gramme is unfolded weekly over a period of ten years.