Guest guest Posted September 12, 2000 Report Share Posted September 12, 2000 Namaste Subramanian ji I really welcome your idea to post the Tattva Bodha. It will definitely benefit us greatly since it IS the 'book of definitions' for Vedanta. In fact I've read it three times already. I believe all the list members will benefit from your efforts. Thanks. Kathi > > S. V. Subrahmanian [sMTP:svskotra] > Wednesday, September 13, 2000 4:31 AM > advaitin > Re: Brahmasutra Notes and Sanskrit > > > Shri Dennisji, > > What I am stating here will not address the problem in toto, but I would > like to state for the benefit of some members, that I am working on > posting > Tatvabodha, which can be treated as a glossary (elementary level). It > certainly will not explain all the terms used, but atleast some of them. > > When I started studying (for the express purpose of posting), I had only > one > book. After I decided to start the posting, I am inundated with > literature > on that topic from nowhere all of a sudden (Divine Mother's Grace). At > the > same time, I am also tied up with professional and domestic work. Please > bear with me, I will be on it soon. I will start some time soon. We will > > make max. use of the 1 month gap that Shri Sadanandaji is going to leave > us > with during his vacation to India, and learn some basics, before he comes. > > I know this only partially answers your concern. The moderators will I > presume will handle the main issue. > > >"Dennis Waite" <dwaite > >advaitin > ><advaitin > > > Brahmasutra Notes and Sanskrit > >Tue, 12 Sep 2000 21:19:28 +0100 > > > >Dear Sadananda, > > > >Help!!! > > > >I've read through the latest set of notes and sort of get the general > drift > >but I am definitely beginning to struggle with the Sanskrit. I did > suggest > >at the beginning that this would happen. I'm afraid my short term memory > in > >general is not too brilliant these days (and not much seems to get > >transferred to long term memory!). > > > >I feel sure that others must be having difficulty too. I see two possible > >solutions. Either provide a comprehensive and fairly detailed glossary or > >start using only English for most of the terms (those not used too > >frequently). I don't think the notes would actually suffer too much if > you > >only used English. I accept the point that the Sanskrit terms often mean > so > >much more and that some of this would inevitably be lost - but really > only > >for those who are familiar with the Sanskrit. I don't think you can use > >this > >argument for those who know no Sanskrit at all; in fact I believe it must > >work in the reverse manner i.e. they understand substantially less when > >only > >Sanskrit is used. I think that what is starting to happen for me is that > I > >make a guess at the word based upon its context and then think I > understand > >what is being said - but there is a great danger that an adhyaasa will be > >made! Speaking for myself, I would like the Sanskrit to continue because, > >though I understand little, I recognise its beauty and utility. Also I do > >not want to lose what little I have learned. But having to look back over > > >an > >increasing number of pages to find the first use of the word, > refamiliarise > >oneself with the context and hence recall the essence of the meaning is > >rapidly becoming too much. > > > >Also, you often quote sutras from the shruuti but do not always give a > full > >translation. This seems a pity if, after you have taken the trouble to > find > >a relevant quotation, the reader then does not understand it. > > > >I acknowledge that all of this will be even more work for you (How do you > >find the time??) but I believe it would make your other efforts even more > >worthwhile. It might even persuade some others to study the notes who > might > >have been put off by the language. Or perhaps I am totally mistaken and > >most > >of the group have a good background in Sanskrit? Perhaps someone else in > >the > >group could provide the glossary? I would certainly have offered to do so > >but I would have to look up a very large percentage of the words to check > >spelling/meaning etc. and would probably make mistakes. If there is > someone > >who already knows them well, they could presumably just type them into a > >suitable software package and periodically sort them into alphabetical > >sequence (I guess Roman rather than devanaagarii since some members may > not > >be familiar with that order and the software package would certainly not > >be). > > > >Namaste, > > > >Dennis > > > > > > > > _______________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at > http://profiles.msn.com. > > > Discussion of Sankara's Advaita Vedanta Philosophy of nonseparablity of > Atman and Brahman. > Searchable List Archives are available at: > http://www.eScribe.com/culture/advaitin/ > Temporary holiday stoppage of Email, send a blank email to > <advaitin-nomail > > To resume normal delivery of Email, send a blank email to > <advaitin-normal > > To receive email digest (one per day, send a blank email to > <advaitin-digest > > To to advaitin list, send a blank email to > <advaitin-> > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 13, 2000 Report Share Posted September 13, 2000 Greetings Kathirasan, Where have you been? We missed your contributions to the list. Keep in touch. Love, Madhava K Kathirasan ADM NCS [kathirasan] Wednesday, September 13, 2000 5:02 AM advaitin Tattva Bodha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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