What AVSER is
AVSER teaches the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava tradition from Vṛndāvana — in courses you can study at your own pace, evenings you can come to, and quizzes that take five minutes.
It is run by ISKCON, as a non-profit. Everything collected pays for the teaching, the prasādam and the people who prepare both.
The teaching happens where the tradition is kept — and reaches whoever can open a link.
Three things, and nothing else yet
Video lessons with downloadable verse sheets, a short assessment after each section, and a certificate at the end. Bought once and kept — no subscription, nothing to renew, and lessons added later arrive free to everyone who already has the course.
The Sunday Feast every week, festivals through the year, and some evenings offered live online. We ask you to book because the prasādam is cooked to the number expected — that is the only reason.
Ten questions, five minutes, written for every level. Every answer is explained when you finish — including the ones you got right — and if we find a key was wrong, everybody is rescored and told.
Four decisions we have made and will keep
We send nine messages, and no others
Your sign-in code, your ticket, your receipt, your result, your certificate, one reminder two hours before an event, and a note when a course you own gains a lesson. Nothing promotional, ever. There is no list to leave, because there is no list.
Your number is never shared
It is how you sign in, and that is all it is used for. It is not sold, not passed to another centre, and not used to find you anywhere else.
Nothing is hidden behind a level
Everything AVSER offers is open to everybody from the first day. We keep a record of what you have taken part in, but it does not change what you are shown or what you may join.
No money is taken at the gate
Every rupee arrives by one route, online, so it can be traced without anyone having to be trusted or remembered. A walk-in pays through the same link as everybody else.
Teachers who have been at this a long time
Twenty-two years teaching the Gītā to students in Vṛndāvana and abroad. Translator of two volumes of the Gauḍīya commentaries.
Teaches reading from the script up, for people who have only ever met the verses in transliteration.