Speak Sanskrit in 10 days?

June 11, 2003

Hare Krsna!

Sanjeevji

Sanskrit is not so cheap.

Please read Srila Prabhupada's books see the references quoted below.

>3. Speak Sanskrit in 10 days - the author Swami Prasannaatmaananda Saraswati is

one of the >senior most disciples of the world-renowned His Holiness Pujya Swami

Chinmayanandaji. He hails >from Andhra Pradesh and is the present Senior Acharya

(Spiritual teacher) of the Chinmaya >Mission, Madras. He took Sanyasa-Deeksha

form H.H. Swami Tejomayananda on 29/08/94. >Formerly he was known as

Brahmachari Prasanna Chaitanya. He is a Post-Graduate in mathematics, >and a

scholar in Sanskrit. He has mastered Paan'ini Sootras of Sanskrit Grammar, and

Brahma->Sootras of Vedanta.

Caitanya Caritamrta

Adi 15.5 The Lord' s Pauganda-lila Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura says

that the Lord was given lessons by a teacher named Visnu and another teacher

named Sudarsana. Later on, when He was a little grown up, He was under the care

of Gangadasa Pandita, who taught Him grammar of a higher standard. Anyone

serious about studying the Sanskrit language should first learn grammar. It is

said that simply to finish studying Sanskrit grammar takes at least twelve

years, but once one learns the grammatical rules and regulations very nicely,

all other scriptures or subject matters in Sanskrit are extremely easy to

understand, for Sanskrit grammar is the gateway to education.

70-04-05. Letter: Pradyumna So far grammar is concerned, one has to learn

Sanskrit grammar for at least 12 years, then he becomes an expert grammarian. In

India, those who are Sanskrit scholars studied in the beginning, from 5 to 15

years--that is for ten years continually--and they study grammar thoroughly.

When one is expert in grammatical rulings and formation--that is to say: sabda,

dhatu, sandhi, samasa, prakaran, vidhan, pratyaya, adhikarana--after this they

study nyaya. In this way, when one is expert in 10 to 12 years, that is by the

age of the 17th year, a student becomes very much expert and any departmental

knowledge he can master in 1 to 2 years. But you need not become such a

scholar. You require simply to understand Sastras Bhagavad-gita,

Srimad-Bhagavatam, etc. and chant Hare Krsna Mantra as much as possible. The

thing is if you give more stress on scholarly line, other devotees will try to

imitate you. Already your wife has express such intention, and as soon as we

try to be scholars, our devotional line will be slackened. These points are to

be kept in view always.

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