Temple Project, an initiative of a few college students aims to spread the scientific reasons behind Indian culture and tradition. Team Temple Project would also delve into other areas of work such as reviving temples to the original status they enjoyed in India's long and glorious history. We are not affiliated to any political or religious organisation.
There is no language of India, except perhaps a few tribal/ hillside ones, which is found to be "operable" without many words, used as such (Tat-sama = 'that same') or derived ones (Tad-bhava = 'that being' word as it is) from Sanskrit. When you remove these Tatsamas and Tadbhavas, what remains of them will be a bare skeleton of no use, as it were. Percentage of Skt is more in the literary than in the colloquial forms of the languages of India. Next, Skt is shown to be the mother of ALL languages of the more civilised/ united parts of mankind, a fact which some painstaking, advanced studies reveal. Hence it is known as Deva-vaak (Divi voce), or Deva Bhaasha, or Divine tongue. Western scholars of linguistics/ linguistic history/ philology/ Indology/ Sanskritology/ ...,whom it has unfortunately become the fashion to believe axiomatically as the superior in the world, until very recently were led by a certain theory that there was a parent Indo-European language, lost and untraceable now, which split into Sanskrit, Latin and Greek in their very pristine forms, and these 3 languages further split into geographical regions forming their own branches of languages which have been developed by the respective nations. The truth is that, inasmuch Sanskrit is much more systematised in tune with nature of all life, than the other two, while sharing too many similarities which led to the proto Indoa European conclusion, WAS mother even of Latin and Greek. This fact has resulted in an increasing number of active brains all over the world to study Sanskrit so that every other linguistic study will become automatically easy. However, this is a caveat here. Sanskrit is NOT hard for Indians, either, except that such an unfounded fear has been unfortunately been projected to be so by some ignorant scholars of India, since Sanskrit over the ages have been assimilated out of love and inevitability to express higher and subtler forms of thought in every field, right from sciences, philosophy, technology to sexology and pornography (!), and yet English has come to hold sway globally, due to its spread through its (a) colonialist, and imperialist ways and earlier, (b) sea faring needs, as well as (c) the continuing demand for Christian missionaries who project that Christianity means Westernisation which in turns means civilisation and culture. This myth of falsifying the original status of Sanskrit for all mankind is like the latest finding that whatever we have achieved in Western science and technology has taken place in the wrong direction. .... I can go on like this, but better,if you can persevere, you should do online research yourself, since the internet has made most (thogh not yet, all) of hidden knowledge in the form of books, easily available, on a free of cost basis. But I wish to tell the Indian diaspora, that leaving the residual falsehoods (spread mostly through ignorance and immaturity) about Sanskrit aside, that in actual practice, under proper guidance with the aid of a personal teacher or even a well programmed internet website, they should study Sanskrit as both an exercise to the brains, and a means that will open further and furthe scientific and spiritual vistas. DO not forget that it was Sanskrit which opened the very huge and challenging field of linguistic (earlier called philology or comparative study of languages) to the world. And that Sanskrit is the language of spirituality of the East, extending right upto Japan,where today's most advanced status as a technology master and management leader, owes wholly to the great Buddhist civilisation that is flourishing unsullied since about two millennia.
(ADD) I could have edited my thoughts which came in a spontaneous flurry, so as to split the sentences into shorter and simpler ones. However for this instalment, I do not do so. I do hope that readers, while forgiving me, will no doubt be able to get the full hang of what I meant notwithstanding the windy or even sometimes incomplete, sentences. Mind you, there is that universal, common thread of the same consciousness running through all of us (Vedantic Advaita, nondualism, which help the listener to comprehend/ guess at, even when the teller has all but completed expressing his thought in full but in its essence, with the remaining words!) And I wrote it out of my considerable love for, and appreciable knowledge of, the world language that is Sanskrit. If we (all interested in knowing about, learning and studying in, Skt) get less political and less argumentative, we will be able to develop a good margin on our daily routine so as to find time to learn the language simultaneously devotedly enjoy "reading" some of its simpler works (available on the internet). Please do not commit the folly of equating, as vested interests want you to, Sanskrit to the Brahmins or Hinduism (I just now told you how it is also the medium for much of Buddhism, as well as secular subjects like Yoga - mischievously propagated by some religious fanatics as 'Hindu' - Ayurveda, science of lovemaking, architecture, spirituality (different from religion). I wish to point out that Schopenhauer and many German thinkers and scientists like Erwin Schrodinger, Oppenheimer, not to mention those numerous European scholars wistfully trying to decode the mysteries of the Eastern civilisation, who devoted some time for learning Study with a desire to delve deeper into its bauties, but did not quite succeed due to their excessive preoccupation with "other" things, and later some of them regretted too. Some of Adolf Hitler's men, too,
There is no language of India, except perhaps a few tribal/ hillside ones, which is found to be "operable" without many words, used as such (Tat-sama = 'that same') or derived ones (Tad-bhava = 'that being' word as it is) from Sanskrit. When you remove these Tatsamas and Tadbhavas, what remains of them will be a bare skeleton of no use, as it were. Percentage of Skt is more in the literary than in the colloquial forms of the languages of India. Next, Skt is shown to be the mother of ALL languages of the more civilised/ united parts of mankind, a fact which some painstaking, advanced studies reveal. Hence it is known as Deva-vaak (Divi voce), or Deva Bhaasha, or Divine tongue. Western scholars of linguistics/ linguistic history/ philology/ Indology/ Sanskritology/ ...,whom it has unfortunately become the fashion to believe axiomatically as the superior in the world, until very recently were led by a certain theory that there was a parent Indo-European language, lost and untraceable now, which split into Sanskrit, Latin and Greek in their very pristine forms, and these 3 languages further split into geographical regions forming their own branches of languages which have been developed by the respective nations. The truth is that, inasmuch Sanskrit is much more systematised in tune with nature of all life, than the other two, while sharing too many similarities which led to the proto Indoa European conclusion, WAS mother even of Latin and Greek. This fact has resulted in an increasing number of active brains all over the world to study Sanskrit so that every other linguistic study will become automatically easy. However, this is a caveat here. Sanskrit is NOT hard for Indians, either, except that such an unfounded fear has been
ReplyDeleteunfortunately been projected to be so by some ignorant scholars of India, since Sanskrit over the ages have been assimilated out of love and inevitability to express higher and subtler forms of thought in every field, right from sciences, philosophy, technology to sexology and pornography (!), and yet English has come to hold sway globally, due to its spread through its (a) colonialist, and imperialist ways and earlier, (b) sea faring needs, as well as (c) the continuing demand for Christian missionaries who project that Christianity means Westernisation which in turns means civilisation and culture. This myth of falsifying the original status of Sanskrit for all mankind is like the latest finding that whatever we have achieved in Western science and technology has taken place in the wrong direction. .... I can go on like this, but better,if you can persevere, you should do online research yourself, since the internet has made most (thogh not yet, all) of hidden knowledge in the form of books, easily available, on a free of cost basis. But I wish to tell the Indian diaspora, that leaving the residual falsehoods (spread mostly through ignorance and immaturity) about Sanskrit aside, that in actual practice, under proper guidance with the aid of a personal teacher or even a well programmed internet website, they should study Sanskrit as both an exercise to the brains, and a means that will open further and furthe scientific and spiritual vistas. DO not forget that it was Sanskrit which opened the very huge and challenging field of linguistic (earlier called philology or comparative study of languages) to the world. And that Sanskrit is the language of spirituality of the East, extending right upto Japan,where today's most advanced status as a technology master and management leader, owes wholly to the great Buddhist civilisation that is flourishing unsullied since about two millennia.
(ADD) I could have edited my thoughts which came in a spontaneous flurry, so as to split the sentences into shorter and simpler ones. However for this instalment, I do not do so. I do hope that readers, while forgiving me, will no doubt be able to get the full hang of what I meant notwithstanding the windy or even sometimes incomplete, sentences. Mind you, there is that universal, common thread of the same consciousness running through all of us (Vedantic Advaita, nondualism, which help the listener to comprehend/ guess at, even when the teller has all but completed expressing his thought in full but in its essence, with the remaining words!) And I wrote it out of my considerable love for, and appreciable knowledge of, the world language that is Sanskrit. If we (all interested in knowing about, learning and studying in, Skt) get less political and less argumentative, we will be able to develop a good margin on our daily routine so as to find time to learn the language simultaneously devotedly enjoy "reading" some of its simpler works (available on the internet). Please do not commit the folly of equating, as vested interests want you to, Sanskrit to the Brahmins or Hinduism (I just now told you how it is also the medium for much of Buddhism, as well as secular subjects like Yoga - mischievously propagated by some religious fanatics as 'Hindu' - Ayurveda, science of lovemaking, architecture, spirituality (different from religion). I wish to point out that Schopenhauer and many German thinkers and scientists like Erwin Schrodinger, Oppenheimer, not to mention those numerous European scholars wistfully trying to decode the mysteries of the Eastern civilisation, who devoted some time for learning Study with a desire to delve deeper into its bauties, but did not quite succeed due to their excessive preoccupation with "other" things, and later some of them regretted too. Some of Adolf Hitler's men, too,
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