“The present civilization is in a very dangerous position because there is no arrangement anywhere in the world for genuine spiritual education.”
Financial Considerations
The Mayapur Institute administration accepts the Vedic principle that sastric knowledge should not be sold. In the past, we called the money we collected from students "tuition fees", but this made it appear that we were "selling" Vedic knowledge. We now prefer the term "service charges," as this accurately describes how we use the funds. The service charges merely cover our administrative expenses. The main principle that Srila Prabhupada emphasized – that teachers not get paid or charge for transferring transcendental knowledge – has always been, and remains a cornerstone of the Mayapur Institute’s ethos.
Due to the extraordinary qualifications of our course facilitators, we expect to have more devotees desiring to enter the course than we can accommodate. We therefore strongly recommend that devotees register online and remit their service charges online or by demand draft well in advance of the course to receive a confirmed seat.
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Students remit service charges just for the courses they take. We calculate service charges per course based upon the number of class hours in the course (see the table on the left). Students may remit these funds on our website or at the time of registration in Mayapur. Service charges do not cover room and board, but do cover course materials. Please refer to our Course Descriptions for the starting date and duration for each course. You can add or drop classes through the second day of classes. You can even start taking courses beginning with any Module of the Mayapur Institute semester, but you must get teacher approval to enter courses once they have begun. The Service Charges are Rs. 9500 (US $245) for the Bhakti-sastri Course and Rs.9000 (US $235) for the Bhaktivaibhava Course. |
* We do not give refunds, but students may apply their remittances to other courses, another devotee, or another semester.