Sanskrit College, Mylapore, Madras is a Great Old institution and deserves to go on. Let us do our bit to help them continue their good work. Please help them with your contributions.
Please also forward this to your contacts whom you think may want to help.
I have pasted below an appeal mail received for your information please.
Dear All, I'm sad to put this news - which is quite painful to read...however the fact of the matter needs to be brought out. It is about saving a Sanskrit Research Institute the only one alive in Tamil NaduThose who wish to contribute need not do at free of cost - become a life-time member of this prestigious institution and receive publications from this institute free of cost for the life-time. Now when you pay Rs. 2000/- and become a life member - you'll receive about 8 Hard-bound books free of cost - including 4 volumes of Mahabashyam of Sage Patanjali (the great vyaakarana treatise) in Sanskrit with English translationand a Old Sanskrit Bija Ganita (Algebra) treatiseThus your contribution will help to save one of India's premier Sanskrit research institute and also you receive books free of cost.
Kindly reach
Dr. K.S.Balasubramanian, Dy.Director, Kuppuswamy Sastri Research Institute, Sanskrit College, Mylapore, Chennai. Phone- 044-24985320
Warm regardsCG Krishnamurthi
Sanskrit centre struggles to stay aliveB Sivakumar, TNNApr 3, 2012, 06.57AM IST CHENNAI: The Kuppuswami Sastri Research Institute attached to the Sanskrit College in Mylapore is in doldrums because of lack of government patronage.The institute, one of the three involved in Sanskrit research in the country , has been surviving on private donations . With not enough resources , the management is unable to pay the faculty the benefits of the sixth pay commission.Institute director V Kameswari said the Union government stopped its financial support in 1995, after which it has been solely dependent on donations . "The institute has a trove of rare palm leaf manuscripts and books not just about Sanskrit literature but also on architecture , fine arts , geography, history and astronomy in Sanskrit ," says Kameswari.The two other such institutes are R G Bandarkar Sanskrit Institute in Pune and Ganganath Jha Sanskrit Institute in Allahabad . "We have requested a onetime grant from the Union planning commission and also annual assistance from the Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, but are yet to get any support ," says K S Balasubramanian, deputy director of the institute . The plan panel had given grants to the Mumbai Asiatic Society and Kolkata based Asiatic Society .The institute was getting about 10 lakh till 1995 but due to a misunderstanding between the government-appointe d members of the governing committee and the management , the aid was stopped .Today, there are 24 scholars at the institute , most of them women doing their PhDs. "Scholars from across the country and world visit the institute . We send out publications to many foreign universities and they in turn send their publications which are preserved here ," says Kameswari .The institute was started as a private non-profit organisation in 1944in memory of Kuppuswami Sastri , a renowned Sanskrit scholar . It has a library with books on astronomy, architecture , fine arts , mathematics , Vedas , Puranas , Upanishads and various branches of science."A private entrepreneur made a donation with which we have air conditioned the library. The palm-leaf manuscripts in the library are 600 to1,000 years old. Many of them are in Grantha script . We also have books on Jainism that speak about solving mathematical equations and explain geographical concepts ," says Kameswari , who is worried about keeping the ancient language alive.
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Hinduism- Successful everywhere outside, Failure inside the country!
Buenos Aires night club sways to Sanskrit melodies
Soulful Sanskrit melodies interspersed with different genres of music entertain guests at Groove
If you are in Buenos Aires don't forget to visit this trendy night club because you will be in for a huge surprise! Here, you won't come across salsa or reggaton music like most such places do, but soulful Sanskrit melodies that rent the air. "I had the most unusual night club experience last weekend when I was in Groove," says R. Viswanathan, India's ambassador to Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay.
"The DJ was not playing salsa, samba or reggaton. Instead, the club was vibrating with Sanskrit songs...'Jai jai Radha Ramana hari Bol', 'Jai Krishna Hare', 'Gurudeva Guru Om', 'Govinda Govinda' and 'Jai Shiva Shambo'," said Viswanathan. Lead singer Rodrigo Bustos, 29, and his band mate Nicolas Pucci, 32, were entertaining the guests with their mesmerising voice. Some 800 people, in their teens and 20s, were dancing and swaying to the music, he said. And guess what? This joint serves only soft drink instead of alcohol.
At Groove, one is not allowed to smoke and only vegetarian food is served. Adding to the amazement, this club also has a yoga guru who instructs the guests about various yoga techniques. "The instructor asked the audience to smile and exchange greetings and the audience followed all the instructions religiously and fervently. After a while, the music and dance resumed," says Viswanathan. "Despite the loud music and wild dancing in the night club, both the singers and the audience maintained a sense of reverence to the Sanskrit mantras and the Indian gods." Asked how did they attract Argentine youth with Sanskrit songs, Bustos explained: "Yoga Rave is an alternative party. It is a new concept in fun-free from alcohol, smoking and drugs. The body and and soul are connected by the mantras, yoga, meditation, music and dance in an unconventional way."
They have already attracted thousands of people since they started yoga rave in 2008 in Buenos Aires. In 2010, they took the music beyond Argentina to Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. In 2011, they performed at the Berlin World Cultural Festival. The duo has not been to India but 7,000 of their CDs have already been sold there. They released their first album "Smile" in 2009 and the second "Blossom" May 20, 2012. Bustos and Pucci drew their inspiration from Indian spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravishankar's Art of Living Foundation, said Viswanathan. The two use the Sanskrit mantras in all forms of music such as pop, rock, hiphop, reggaton and electronic music, he said.
Source: IANS
From: rvchitnis@hotmail.com;
If these kids can, so can ours.
'Where there is a will, there is a way'!
The elders in the British Society realize the importance of Sanskrit.
But us...... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To us, Sanskrit is a dead, Hindu- doubly cursed Language.
* A suggestion to seniors,
Why don't you start learning this Language, at home?
All the material is available on Internet (for free!)
It will keep the gentlemen away from interfering in day-to-day family matters and stop being nuisance to the ladies of the household.
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Sanskrit - A day of teaching Sanskrit at St James School, London.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q14wAJEEa4&feature=related
Sanskrit Language Teaching Through Video -- Part 1
Part 1-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnIBwHJPWuA&feature=related
Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZsDdGmeYX8
Samskrita Bharati ITV Interview Sri Chamu Krishna Shastry and Sowmya Joisa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhpRKY4a3ds&feature=related
From: Kumar Arun - kumar2786@hotmail.com;
A PRADIGM FOR ALL TIME
India under rule of Nehru dynasty never quite got on the right track of The Vedic Education after independence. It hurts to read from an intelligent people like yourself that "India has ignored Sanskrit studies". You should rather be always pointing pout that Indian government has been ignoring The Vedic education depriving Indians from the essential education they deserved.
Dr. Kumar Arun
S kumar <kumar_8134@yahoo.com> wrote:
THE WISDOM OF HINDU THOUGHT: A PRADIGM FOR ALL TIME
While India has ignored Sanskrit studies and relegated it to only some religious schools, Germany has continued developing Sanskrit studies, France has made Sanskrit studies compulsory in schools as per announcement by Hollande and in U.S. too many institutions have come up teaching Indian languages esp. Sanskrit.
When you learn a language that does not mean that the language leads to a career.
In fact when you do technical education at higher levels you learn German so that you could read and understand the journals. Similarly many learn French as an additional language.
But Sanskrit as the mother of all languages- even Spanish has several words of Sanskrit as German or French, adds up your knowledge and vocabulary and forget about the millions you might make without learning any additional language.
Only when you have an audience in front of you in any Country whom you address about ancient Indian heritage, you would realise the importance of Sanskrit, and you might be addressing many who are more know; knowledgeable than you in Sanskrit.
From: vasant sardesai <vasant_sardesai@yahoo.co.in>
THE WISDOM OF HINDU THOUGHT: A PRADIGM FOR ALL TIME
You are right; McCauley made Indians, intellectual slaves of the West besides killing Sanskrit and distorting and denigrating Hindu scriptures ans Sanatana Dharma.
From: Dr. Madhukar Ambekar <drmnambekar@yahoo.co.uk>
THE WISDOM OF HINDU THOUGHT: A PRADIGM FOR ALL TIME
The problem with Indian "Elite" is, if you do not shun the Wisdom of Veda and Indian Traditions you not forward thinker. Here where is the defeat of Indian Free thinking heritage of Hindu Dharma. This defeat of Hindu wisdom was very well achieved by the McCauley and his so called Indian Educated class of Intellectuals.
Now a time will come when Indians especially Hindus will have to learn Sanskrit and their scriptures through West.
V.S.Sardesai
From: shirish dave <smdave1940@yahoo.com>
It is none else than Nehruvian Congress rule in India since 60+ years that has established a culture to neglect Sanskrit by linking it as if it is a Hindu religion. Love Sanskrit is labeled saffron. Leave aside degrading saffron color, every thing that you admire related with Indian History is a saffronisation which simply means Hindu terrorists now. If you do not agree with Aryan Invasion Theory, your belief is saffron. If you admire Ram, Krishna or Shankaracharya, you are saffron. If you say Sanskrit is a most complete language, you are saffron. If you say Saraswati civilization instead of Mohen jo dero or Harappa civilization, you are saffron. There is no way out but to bury the Nehruvian Congress and its allied parties in the bay of Khambhat as to what the US done with Osama Bin Laden.
shirish dave
ACCORDING TO NASA, SANSKARIT, IS A COMPLETE LANGUAGE AND MOST SUITED AS COMPUTER LANGUAGE ETC.
THE WISDOM OF HINDU THOUGHT: A PARADIGM FOR ALL TIME
From: Babu Suseelan - babususeelan@hotmail.com;
Dr. BABU SUSEELAN
When I was a college student, I used to chant Mantra, practice yoga and Meditation and used to attend religious ceremonies. I was ridiculed by my fellow students for not being a rationalist, and not able to admire the marvels of science, and western technology. I adored abstraction, reason, humanity and modern technology. I was told by fellow Marxist students and pseudo secular professors that religion hampers freethinking and is the only reason for foreign colonial rule in India. Since then, I have read Carl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Nietzsche, Malraux, Voltaire, Rousseau, Hobbes, Descartes and Stare. These western intellectuals predicted that religious fervor will decline. Carl Marx, of course maintained that religion is the opium of the people because it alienated man from himself and the world. Moreover, said Marx, religion did not possess its own consistency. Because of our educational system was western oriented and the influence of western thinkers, many Hindus were far from enthusiastic in learning our Vedic system or practicing Hindu Dharma...
But, since then I have lived. I have traveled all over the Arab world, Europe, Africa, Asia and America. I have studied the past history of Christianity and Islam. I have seen misery, distress, discrimination and agony in Islamic and Christian societies dominated by exclusive religions. Living in the western high-tech society, I have discovered that religion cannot be sloughed off. It sticks to our heart. Faith in God has not disappeared, nor has man's mystical impulse vanished. I have found that all exclusive religions have lost its vitality and spirituality.
How do we find meaning in today's unstable world where Jihad terrorism, drug trade and violence in the name of desert dogma? The world is changing rapidly beyond the comprehension of common man. What if the old paradigms do not work anymore? What we do if the traditional, rigid, closed, mechanical, dualistic and dogmatic thought systems work to repress the transcendental quest of man?
PEOPLE IN CRISIS
In the West, I saw the marvels of modern technology. I know now, that life can be prolonged with transplants, and behavior can be modified through genetic engineering. Attitudes, feelings, states of consciousness and belief system can be altered by modern psychological and neurological techniques. Criminals can be apprehended through criminal profiles and crime scene forensic analysis. Modern computers, cell phone, face book, and modern communication system has enabled us to communicate very fast. Modern technology can use very sophisticated means of manipulation. Mass media manipulates the public into receptive, passive consumer of unwanted ideas and gadgets.
Yet, the high-tech society is in crisis. Today, man is confronted by a number of psycho-social-ecological problems. These problems appear in different forms. Alienation, mental and physical disorder, stress, divorce, teen age pregnancy, child abuse, crime, violence, suicide, alcoholism, drug abuse, and terrorism affect everybody. Statistics and simple observation inform us that there is hardly an individual, family, group, or community that is untouched by the impersonal technological society.
The purpose of science, technology and life sciences is to enhance our lives to help us for the fullest experience we have. We cannot claim that modern knowledge explosion, communication system and computers always results in happiness.
In this high-society, spiritual vitality and cultural life is stagnated. Art is replaced with commercials. Religious ideology becomes propaganda and a dogma. People spend more time not for introspection but for seeking pleasure and indulgence in their personal desires. Love, requiring personal commitment is replaced by momentary pleasures of sex. Happiness is a marketed commodity based on "having fun". In general, the individual is left without a sense of internal worth or self-identity. As a result, people are alienated from the high-tech society they have created. As Albert Camus has depicted, man is "the stranger" not alone to his universe and society, but to himself". When people turn their gaze inward, they find incredulity, aimlessness, rootless, dehumanization, insecurity, irrationality, resentment and aloneness. Modern high-tech society and organized religions and dualistic dogmas have promised that life will be unremittingly blissful is not persuasive enough for the common man.
How do we cope with the ideas impermanence, novelty, constant transition, frequent change and terrorism? We need a new thought system that could transform us from passive bystanders to passionate architects of our future.
DIFFERENT PARADIGMS
Religion, sociology, life and physical sciences offer different assumptions, theories, paradigms and models to understand human nature, our problems and solutions. These theories, models, concepts, assumptions, practices and methods of understanding humans are characterized by various intellectual tendencies. All these exclusive dogmas, theories and models offer explanations that are different and inconsistent with one another.
THE REDUCTIONIST PARADIGM
The mechanical, reductionist models of modern science view human being as an object apart from his or her eco-systems. The reductionist paradigms regard the universe as a giant machine where operational laws could be discovered by rational analysis of its parts. As a result, human beings are separated from nature and fragmented. Many theories and Models are developed to understand the minute details of human being. But these mechanical models are not always well integrated in a way that allows us to fully comprehend human nature. They offer multiple explanations, approaches, methods and means in understanding human problems and practical solutions. In such reductionist models, cause is forgotten for function. Humane philosophy and spirituality are replaced for planning, skills building and mass propaganda. Truth seeking, harmony, peace and spiritual salvation, and ecological perspective are replaced with pragmatism, utility, profit making and mass marketing.
THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL PARADIGMS
The humanistic, existential and phenomenological paradigms view humans as forward moving and concerned with existential choices. They value feelings and other qualities that are unique to man. Phenomenologist stresses the importance of the individual's immediate conscious experience in determining reality. Objective reality of the world, faith in God, and religious experiences are not important determinant of man's actions, so claims phenomenologist. There is no sure path to a true reality or definite spiritual values to live. Human beings do not know their potential and they are in a state of "Being and Becoming". Individuals are not offered any direct action for self-realization, or direct guidance for spiritual life. Existential practitioners consider that a non-judgmental attitude and no-directive therapy will solve all human problems. Individuals are left alone to choose their own life style without any guidance or direction. There is ambiguity in purpose, confusion in knowledge and conflicting values in all phenomenological paradigms.
THE MARXIST MODEL
The Communist Manifesto States that the "the history of all hitherto existing society is the history
Of class Struggle." Class conflict, terror, mass agitation is the major means for the Marxist dogmatic to Gain political power and survive. The atheists' propaganda aims to make people believe that there is no GOD and no karmic retribution so that people would no longer be restrained by their conscience. Instead, they would focus on class struggle and acquiring material wealth by all means. Under Marxism, the individual has no freedom and they can be controlled by force, manipulated, intimidated and threatened with harm. The morally bankrupt, Godless Marxism can bring only enormous fear and Suffering to the world. The Marxists believe in violence, conflict, war, tyranny, massacre and terror. Marxists were successful in disintegrating tradition culture, belief system and life principles. The concepts of empathy, harmony, peaceful existence, religious tolerance have been replaced with class struggle, conflict and hatred. The result has been a total collapse of social, moral, religious and ecological systems and a profound crisis for human beings. The Marxists believe in killing people like a serial killer. Through killing, the Marxists satisfy their perverted sense of the ultimate power of deciding people's life and death. The question is: can we have healthy persons in an unhealthy Marxist paradigm- a system based On essentially unhealthy model. Marxist Model based on violence, terror and intimidation Cannot heal us or solve common human problems.
THE DUALISTIC PRADIGM
The Dualistic paradigms view man continually in conflict between God and Devil, Allah and Jin. Without doubt, the closed, dogmatic, addictive paradigms often create conflict between believers and non-believers. These rigid dogmas view Good and Evil, God and Devil (Allah and JIN) as antithetical to one another. Faith in their GOD or Allah is the only way for salvation. The non-believer, the outsiders are called the Kafir or pagan and they are condemned for ever.
HINDUTVA: THE SYSTEMIC, ALL INCLUSIVE PARADIGM
These closed, rigid, dogmatic paradigms create conflict, hatred, and violence cannot solve our problems. In other words, there is no solution for our personal-social ills short of fundamental whole-system change. The first step is to face our taboos and toxic patterns with honesty and integrity. Hindutva offers a powerful paradigm to solve common human problems. Our Snathana Dharma can expose the deep roots of the present day crisis-from personal to international-and provides the philosophical catalyst for individual, social and global change. Individuals, families and nations cannot be fully healthy and harmonious in a world filled with rigid, dysfunctional paradigms and systems. Our Vedic theories and models can successfully help individuals, families and communities to change and live in peace and harmony. Vedic models can be applied to reshape unhealthy social structures too.
Hinduism is open- ended, systemic, broader and all inclusive. Hinduism teaches that all human beings, nature, and the eco- systems are part and parcel of the ultimate reality. Consequently, all human beings enjoy equal possibilities of coming with each other, with God and nature. It is life affirming, tolerant, pluralistic, and all inclusive. In our Vedic system, all elements, events and processes are interwoven, mutually influencing, and endlessly moving in a dynamic flow. Human beings are not viewed as ascendant over nature, but each is part of the other (Purusha-Prakrthi). Hindu thought is not a rigid, closed system or a blind faith. It is science, philosophy, and a prescription for daily living with positive values, peace, and harmony. IT gives spiritual guidelines (Atma-Bodha) for GOD realization (Brahma-Jnana). It provides, clear, correct and comprehensive guidelines for man to transform himself from the limits of the present materialistic existence. A spiritual life can be attained within the limits of the present life. Hinduism offer different ways to reach a harmonious life co-exist with different people, and perfection. The Vedas, Upanishads, the Puranas, and the Bhagavat Gita identify various paths (Margas) for peaceful, harmonious and happy life for GOD realization. Karma Marga, Jnana Marga, and Bhakthi Marga have its own distinctiveness and each one can be practiced.
Hinduism also prescribes means for practicing, promoting and protecting DHARMA. Artha, Kama, and Moksha. Understanding and practicing these concepts will unite the conflicting man in the ever changing society. In this high-tech society, Hinduism can be put into application by all people without restrictions. Under our Vedic system, all human beings enjoy equal possibilities of coming into contact with each other, with GOD and Nature. The eternal Vedic system is universal, all inclusive, tolerant, non-discriminatory, and pluralistic. Practice of Hinduism will affect the choices one makes in the ever changing, transient High-Tech society, the individual, groups and the community is raised to the highest level. The anxiety, self-doubt, stress and alienation can be overcome because of technological manipulation, and consumerism no longer influences one's behavior. The individual, groups, family and community gains the courage to act which will help him/her to transcend modern maladies. They gain inner strength not only to participate in the high-tech society but also to reach the higher spiritual level. As a result, ethical, economic, and psychological decisions can be made for personal-social-family life with peace, freedom and harmony. Apathetic conformism and "emotional crowd behavior" will disappear. Then we will not become victims of violence, conversion, and psychological manipulation. We will become masters of our own destiny. We will enjoy freedom, and we can provide the vitality and spiritual force without fear to unify the whole world.
To gain Hindu wisdom, Hindus must choose appropriate Hindu Dharma and expand the individual resources based on Hindu thought, The, all Hindus will grow in wisdom, and Hindu wisdom can grow into services for others or of causes. Hindu art, culture, philosophy, literature, science, psychology and music can refine human vision, which further develops the individual, family and the world. Human beings can understand the world and move into the future with a compelling Hindu perspective and vision.
It requires all Hindus around the world to move forward with self-esteem, assertiveness, discipline and unity. If Hindus are united with Hindu dharma, we can achieve the humanizing mission of the world.
THE WISDOM OF HINDU THOUGHT: A PRADIGM FOR ALL TIME
The problem with Indian "Elite" is, if you do not shun the Wisdom of Veda and Indian Traditions you not forward thinker. Here where is the defeat of Indian Free thinking heritage of Hindu Dharma. This defeat of Hindu wisdom was very well achieved by the McCauley and his so called Indian Educated class of Intellectuals.
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