Where to learn Samskrit @ Bangalore

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Dear Group,

I am interested in learning Samskrit, I am in Bangalore. I

have books, but I would prefer to learn it from a proper GURU.

 

Thanks for any pointers,

 

Regards,

Srinivasan

[Guest guest]

Dear Bhagavatas:

Please find enclosed the mail from Sri Shyam Srinivasan.

 

In fact, I attended the 10 day Personal coaching classes

besides

the Postal coaching course offered by the Bangalore based

"Himdu Seva Prathishtapanam, Samskrutha Vibaga:' in 1987

(when I was 62 yaers old) and passed in "Prathama Sreni"

(First Class0 to supplement and refresh my "first class"

in Sanskrit secured during my school and College days

ending 1945!

 

They do such a wonderful job. As you finish the course,

you can palpably feel your almost effortless mastery over

your expressions in Sanskrit.

 

The only handicap you may feel is that after all these,

there may not be many people available for you to converse

in Sanskrit and you will tend to forget for sheer lack of

opporunity, as it has happened in my case!

 

You are lucky to be in Bangalore. Wish you all the best.

Dasoham

Anbil Ramaswamy

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Mail from Sri Shyam Srinivasan

 

Dear Sri Srinivasan,

 

You are in the most ideal place to learn Sanksrit. There is famous

person by name Sri Krishna Shastri whose organization named Samskrita

Bharathi made a whole village (I think Maddur in Karnataka) talk in

Sanksrit. I and my brother went to a 10-day Sankskrit conversation

class when I was in 7th standard in school. As a result of this just

20 hour class, even after 15 years, we still can manage to have

simple conversations in sankstrit. This is due to the fact that

Sanksrit is taught thru Sanskrit as a medium and without using any

other languages. For eg, the class starts like

 

mama nAma srinivAsa:

bhavatha: nAma kim ?

bhavathya: nAma kim ?

 

By the context of such sentence, everyone in the class understands

what that means and immediately replies "mama nAma shyamsundara:"

etc. The whole class is built upon in such beautiful manner and in no

time we can feel that Sanskrit is NOT a dead language since we use it

without our knowledge in our day to day lives, no matter which

language we speak as mother tongue. We all feel comfortable to have

simple conversations (not like Vidwans ofcourse) in 10 days.

 

They have many classes oraganized throughout India and even some in

the US (west coast). You can get more details from their web page

http://www.samskrita-bharati.org/. They also have advanced classes

for those already trained in the basic. I would sincerely recommend

this class for anyone interested to learn not only to

read/write/understand but also SPEAK in this great language.

 

regards

Shyamsundar Sreenivasan

 

 

, "Srinivasan Venkataramanan"

<srinivasan_v2001> wrote:

> Dear Group,

> I am interested in learning Samskrit, I am in Bangalore. I

> have books, but I would prefer to learn it from a proper GURU.

>

> Thanks for any pointers,

>

> Regards,

> Srinivasan