For millennia, people have turned to the tranquil verses of Sanskrit for relief from anxiety. Yet for a generation accustomed to answers arriving in 0.2 seconds, reading the Bhagavad Gita can be difficult. Gen Z/Alpha aren’t abandoning culture and scripture because of the content itself, but their present modes of delivery: antiquated language, dense philosophical jargon, and difficult learning curves that require too much time and training for many to master.
Amogh Shrivastava, a student at South City International School, recognised the need to revive ancient Shastra, while acknowledging the current limitations keeping it away from the masses. “We are arguably the generation that needs this clarity most,” he says. “We grew up hyper-connected, but we also received distraction as a constant companion. The answers were behind a barrier few of us wanted to climb. So I built a door.”
That door is VedicByte, a conversational platform that transforms ancient Indian philosophy into concise, relatable answers for modern problems and dilemmas. It gives users a platform to ask questions and get answers grounded in ancient Indian thought. Instead of letting a computer come up with scriptural quotations, Amogh created a system that relies on a validated archive of over 250 texts from Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, sectarian philosophies, folklore, Tantra, and other traditions.
The platform treats millennia-old philosophy as a prescription for contemporary living. It offers three principal tools: Shastra AI (Breaks down weighty concepts such as dharma, one’s purpose and duty, and detachment into practical advice), Karma Bot (Maps the likely long-term consequences of a choice and encourages reflection on those consequences), and Mind to Pseudocode (Takes chaotic late-night overthinking and reorganises it into a clear, logical, step-by-step plan).
According to platform data, VedicByte has recorded 75,000 views and handled more than 50,000 queries from 10 countries. In a user survey, 82% of respondents reported a clearer understanding of Vedic philosophy after using the platform.
The system uses retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG. It first searches the archive for passages relevant to a user’s question. Each passage is converted into a vector embedding, a numerical representation of its meaning. When a user submits a question, the system compares that question’s embedding with the passage embeddings using top-k cosine similarity. The passages are then fed into the GPT-5 API, which generates a reliable response, passing integrated hallucination checks. In practice, when a user asks a question, the tool finds the precise ancient text and translates it into clear, helpful, practical advice that is relevant today.
Amogh has also taken these ideas to audio with Vedic Code, a Spotify podcast that explores how ancient Indian heritage connects with modern technology. Across 10 episodes covering subjects from how ancient Rasa theory applies to emotional technology to leadership lessons drawn from Chanakya’s ancient manual, the series has surpassed 50,000 streams.
“Ancient wisdom and modern life are not fighting each other,” Amogh says. “Sanskrit texts and modern screens seem worlds apart, but underneath they are doing the same thing: helping a stressed human find a thoughtful solution.”
Through his work, Amogh is demonstrating that ancient wisdom can remain relevant. The answers to some of our most pressing 21st-century problems were written thousands of years ago. They merely needed a teenager to open the door. The door is open. The question now is who will walk through it, and what they will build next.
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