VADATU SAMSKRUTAM GRUHE GRUHECHA PUNARAPI

VADATU SAMSKRUTAM

GRUHE GRUHECHA PUNARAPI

(Let Sanskrit Be Spoken In Each And Every House Again)

 https://ramamohanraocheruku.blogspot.com/2016/07/vadatu-samskrutam-gruhe-gruhecha.html

It is strange, pathetic and shameful on the part of all those concerned to enabling the children of intermediate class , with special reference to both the Telengana and Andhra states, to prefer Sanskrit as the language in lieu of Telugu just for the reason that the children start it from alphabets and hence no burden on them. Moreover it will fetch 90% to 98% of marks. My guess is that there are 75 million students studying Sanskrit in India; however, are learning nothing.  If India really cares about its classical heritage, it needs to figure a way to improve its teaching this great language.

 

Students flock to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT); they acquire PhD s, but mostly they become businessmen or big organisations of the like; they don’t grow up to become scholars. If this class and cream of professional scholars are exposed to Sanskrit the fund of wisdom they encompass will be beyond calculations. Everybody cares about science and management. Then who is going to care his own mother tongue and its mother Sanskrit. Money and status are not all that is required for an individual, one can eat only to the extent he can consume for which some earning is required which includes shelter and clothing. Why the rest of the money God only Knows.  As regards status it will prevail as long as one is active in the society after which nobody cares. So my request is to pay a little attention to read these few lines and give a reasonable thought to them. There is a famous line in the Ramayana, where Vibhishana says to Ravana that there are many people who speak trash to please but how many people will tell what is true as they know that it sounds bitter.

 

VADATU SAMSKRUTAM GRUHE GRUHECHA PUNARAPI -- 2

 

Sanskrit is not actually to learn but to earn with sky as the limit. It can be compared to sky. The more you go up the more it goes up. To obtain profundity in that language one has to first acquire adequate knowledge in his mother tongue. After all Sanskrit is the mother of all languages. This has to come from childhood and parents, special reference to mother, should invariably take the responsibility of equipping him with good knowledge of the mother tongue.

 Conditions that are conducive to a vibrant, creative, joyful world of Sanskrit are possible only when the child is adept at his mother tongue. In many cases, one needs a coherent and supportive structure of patronage. 20th century had replaced the mother tongue by English which does not have structural basement as much as our native languages.

In the 21st century, we need a political environment that is open and inclusive and embodies the inclusive energies of the great Sanskrit tradition, and not a divisive exclusionary, majoritarian and unhappy environment. It can’t come out of a sense of humiliation; it has to come out of a sense of pride and joy.

Sanskrit is not the preserve of any one group but a preservative for all the groups; the committed learners will take no time to know about the beauty and richness of this language.

 

. How to explain the growth of a global language like English? It was practically nothing in global terms, in the 13th century AD — like Latin, which was the language of a barbarian tribe in the Tiber valley. In contrast, Sanskrit was the language of religious professionals from the time immemorial.  Why do some languages rise to global status and others have their regional power and yet others have very local existences? Any Indian language has its place in their own order. Destiny may be an enigma. Language of any state special reference to South India, Bengal, Oria, Gujarti Marathi etc. of our country were being spoken more the respective population  was more than Latin, the mother of English, in the seventh century AD.  Then how this little language from Tiber Valley became a global cultural powerhouse. The simplest reason is they didn’t have an imperial army. They became the scape goats in the hands of unworthy, selfish, greedy and Hippocratic politicians.

 

Deceits like Max Muller, William Jones, Macaulay and Robert Caldwell manipulated in their own way to belittle our culture, our Land and our mother language to impose their own culture and language by injecting among us, the subjects under their rule, then. It was a slow poison that crept up in all our bodies and hence we are in an insane state now and skeptic about what way to take.

 

 You know even today, including all the unprint manuscripts there are more books in Sanskrit than any other world languages that includes English also. Still there are innumerable number of manuscripts lying untouched, unread. Why are they not being edited and published? Who will read if they are published? My daughter  while she was in 5th or 6th standard at Holy Angels Madras, I posed a question to her "why don't you read Indian stories of our culture, She replied when our medium of education is English , we can read books in English only and thus we imbibe their culture only." I could have an answer. I could have told that books of our culture are also there in English but there came an advice within myself that we cannot get the desired taste of laddu if it is prepared with wheat flour instead of besan.

It was the beauty of Sanskrit alankaras and chandas that interested people of China, Thailand and Java. They wanted to write Sanskrit poetry in Thai, Chinese and Javanese. The Chinese referred to it as beautiful sounds. This was in the ninth century; now people have begun to study the influence of Sanskrit poetry on Chinese. One of the things that the Murty Classical Library — being set up by Narayan Murty’s family — is that it wants to provide real evidence for India’s classical past, with the hope of dispelling fantasies about the classical past, whether it is to do with ancient surgeries or intergalactic vimanas. The Murty classical library will be providing real evidence for people around the world to get deeply into Indian cultural history on the basis of real evidence — and not on mere fantastical stories.

 

So, now the time has come that we should wake up and look around what is happening and how avert the various threats posed by the beasts in human disguise.

 

VADATU SAMSKRUTAM GRUHE GRUHECHA PUNARAPI--3

(Let Sanskrit Be Spoken In Each And Every House Again)

 

Let us know the most amazing facts about Sanskrit.

 

Sanskrit has the largest vocabulary of all languages in the world. 1 kharvamu, 02 arbudamu, 78 koti 50 lakhala (102,78,50,00000) words have been used till now in Sanskrit. If it will be used in computers & technology, then more than these number of words will be used in next 100 years.

 Sanskrit has the power to say a sentence in a minimum number of words than any other language.

 Germany spends more on Sanskrit education than India. America has Sanskrit studies depts in Harvard, UT Austin, U Chicago, Brown, Princeton, ++. NASA has a department to research on Sanskrit manuscripts.

 Sanskrit is the most computer-friendly language.(Ref: Forbes Magazine July 1987, Bill Gates, NASA). Sanskrit and all derived Prakruta languages like Telugu, Marathi, Gujrati, Can be computationally and fully parsed into English with Computational Linguistics.

 Sanskrit is a highly regularized language. In fact, NASA declared it to be the “only unambiguous spoken language on the planet” – and very suitable for computer comprehension.

 Sanskrit is an official language of the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Muttur gram in Karnataka speaks and conducts affairs in Sanskrit language only.

There is a report by a NASA scientist that America is creating 6th and 7th generation super computers based on Sanskrit language. Project deadline is 2025 for 6th generation and 2034 for 7th generation computer. After this there will be a revolution all over the world to learn Sanskrit.

 The language is rich in most advanced science, contained in Vedas, Upanishads, Shruti, Smriti, Puranas, Mahabharata, Ramayana etc. (Ref: Russian State University, NASA etc. NASA possesses 60,000 palm leaf manuscripts, which they are studying.)

 Learning of Sanskrit improves brain functioning. Students start getting better marks in other subjects like Mathematics, Science etc., which some people find difficult. It enhances memory power. James Junior School, London, has made Sanskrit compulsory. Students of this school are among the toppers year after year. This has been followed by some schools in Ireland also.

 Research has shown that the phonetics of this language has roots in various energy points of the body and reading, speaking or reciting Sanskrit stimulates these points and raises the energy levels, whereby resistance against illnesses, relaxation to mind and reduction of stress are achieved.

 Sanskrit is the only language, which uses all the nerves of the tongue. By its pronunciation, energy points in the body are activated that causes the blood circulation to improve. This, coupled with the enhanced brain functioning and higher energy levels, ensures better health. Blood Pressure, diabetes, cholesterol etc. are controlled. (Ref: American Hindu University)

 There are reports that Russians, Germans and Americans are actively doing research on Hindu’s sacred books and are producing them back in their names. Seventeen countries around the world have a University or two to study Sanskrit to gain technological advantages.

Surprisingly, it is not just a language. Sanskrit is the primordial conduit between Human Thought and the Soul; Physics and Metaphysics; Subtle and Gross; Culture and Art; Nature and its Author; Created and the Creator.

 Sanskrit is the scholarly language of 3 major World religions – Hinduism, Buddhism (along with Pali) and Jainism (second to Prakrit).

 Today, there are a handful of Indian villages (in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh) where Sanskrit is still spoken as the main language. For example in the village of Mattur in Karnataka, more than 90% of the population knows Sanskrit. Mathur/Mattur is a village 10 kms from Shimoga and speaks Sanskrit for day-to-day communication.

 

 Sanskrit daily newspaper, Sudharma, published out of Mysore, has been running since 1970 and is now available online as an e-paper (sudharma.epapertoday.com)!

 The best type of calendar being used is Hindu calendar(as the New Year starts with the geological change of the solar system)

(Ref: German state unive The UK is presently researching on a defence system based on Hindu’s shri chakra.

Another interesting fact about Sanskrit language was that the process of introducing new words into the language continued for a long period until it was stopped by the great grammarian Panini who wrote an entire grammar for the language laying down rules for the derivation of each and every word in Sanskrit and disallowed the introducing of new words by giving a full list of Roots and Nouns. Even after Panini, some changes occur which were regularised by Vararuchi and finally by Patanjali. Any infringement of the rules as laid down by Patanjali was regarded as a grammatical error and hence the Sanskrit Language has remained in same without any change from the date of Patanjali (about 250 B.C.) up to this day.

 संस्कृत is the only language in the world that exists since millions of years. Millions of languages that emerged from Sanskrit are dead and millions will come but Sanskrit will remain eternal. It is truly language of Bhagwan. Wealth of information on Sanskrit language.

. The most life critical books published thousands of years ago are 100% intact and available. Among them, Bhagvad Gita, Yoga sutra, Bhagavatam, Upanishads,

 Sanskrit is a scientifically discovered language, discovered by sages and rishis, with sounds based on ध्वनीशास्त्र.

Muddy water and food muddy up body. Clean water and food clean body and keep it functioning correctly without breakdown for the longest time. The same is true for language and mind. Sanskrit and its derivative Prakrutam languages are the medium of choice for clear, concise and effective communication worldwide. Try it and see.

Sanskrit is the only language with sacredness built in its sounds like OM. OM and mantra chanting elevates consciousness, intelligence and peace of mind.

In most Indian languages, upto 90% words are derived from  संस्क्रुत. Most of them have 50%+ words, almost same as Sanskrit. Anyone can learn Sanskrit in 12-18 months with a 4 hr. investment per week. Bite size books are published by Bharatiya Sanskrit Bhavan and available in Pune ABC and major cities. Major cities around the world have chapters of Samskrit Bharati

(https://samskritabharati.in/)

When in Mattur, speak the Mother of all Tongues!

SHIVAMOGGA: If there's a village which has one foot in Vedic times and another in the 21st century, it's Mattur, tucked away in verdant Shivamogga district where men, women and children would be more likely to say 'bhavati kusalam' rather than 'oota aaytha.." And that's because from age immemorial, a child is schooled to think, eat and speak Sanskrit.

Located on the banks of the River Tunga, Mattur holds the distinction of being one of the handful of villages where residents still converse in Sanskrit. It is mainly inhabited by the Sanketis, a Brahmin community that settled down in Mattur about 800 years ago. A large chunk of the Sanketis are believed to have migrated to Karnataka from a place called Shankottai on the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border. For a religious scholar or seer, it is a delight to hear people speaking the language so fluently.

Till the early 1980s, Sanskrit was considered the language of the upper caste Brahmins, which is not true in fact. It was then that the priest of the local religious centre asked residents to adopt Sanskrit as their native language. At present, the village's population is around 3,000, with 600 Brahmins among them. In all, the Sanketi population in the country is 30,000-40,000.

During a convention of Sanketis held in Mattur in 2010, a team of scholars had gone to Shankottai to trace the links of the Sanketis. But they were unable to find any similarity between the culture and ways of living of the two communities.

Most residents of the village, small children included, can fluently speak Sanskrit and almost everyone understands the language. Young boys are taught Vedas from the age of ten at the local school where English is also taught. Gamaka art, the ancient traditional art form of singing and storytelling is also practised in Mattur.

Sanskrit is the common language on the streets -- from the vegetable vendor to priest, everyone speaks the ancient language. The younger generation wears jeans, T-shirts and rides hi-tech bikes, but when they speak, it's in Sanskrit. That does not mean Mattur is detached from the modern world. Almost every house in this village has an IT professional, with many of them employed abroad.

Sanskrit scholar Mattur Srinidhi told Deccan Chronicle that "though Sanskrit is an informal and friendly language, no one is enthusiastic about it in modern times. Maybe Sanskrit reached a saturation point after a phase of development," he said, explaining why the language lost its popularity.

In 1981, youth leader Chamu Krishna Shastry and a few others approached scholar Na. Krishnappa and said they would like to start a journal in Sanskrit to create awareness in society about the language.

Mr. Krishnappa replied that a journal could be launched but people should also be taught to understand and speak the language fluently. Mr. Shastry then launched the 'Speak Sanskrit Movement '(Samskrita Bharati) which now exists in 37 countries across the world. Books to teach Sanskrit have been introduced at the nursery level thanks to this movement.

There is a quiet revolution happening in the language of the sages, with new words being added to it. If new words and derivatives are found, they are referred to the Aksharam Unit of Samskrita Bharati in Bengaluru, where promotional activities are undertaken. 

The government is doing its bit and has declared that Sanskrit Day be observed on Poornima (full moon) day in the month of Shravana (July-August) every year. The language continues to offer researchers a treasure trove of knowledge with references to the speed of light and loss of weight traced to the Sanskrit shlokas by Vedic scholar Vidyaranya. Sanskrit hymns are associated with medicinal value - for instance, it is believed that the chanting of the 'Gayatri Mantra' activates certain cells in the human body.

Sanskrit continues to fascinate the modern mind with the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, undertaking research on 'Bhagavadgita in Management' which proves that the Gita is not just a sacred book of the Hindus but can also offer nuggets of wisdom to management students, Mr. Srinidhi concluded. For those who love to delve into history and hunger to hear how the ancients spoke, a trip to Mattur could provide a lot of answers.

Swasthi,