Veda Academy Offers Sanskrit Course

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LEARNING SANSKRIT AT HOME -

WITH THE CORRESPONDENCE COURSE OF THE VEDA ACADEMY

 

Dear Vaisnavas and Vaisnavis,

Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 

More and more devotees consider knowledge of the Sanskrit language as

important for their spiritual life. Even in material society, the interest

for this language is steadily increasing, as our experience shows. To offer

both groups an easy, but comprehensive entrance to Sanskrit, the Veda

Academy has developed a six-months correspondence course for people without

or with only basic previous knowledge.

 

This course purposefully does not intend to replace an academic study.

Rather, it is meant as a language course for all those who have no

inclination or possibility to study at a university. It is not on Ph.D.

level, but it will be sufficient for most people, especially for devotees

who need Sanskrit for finding a better approach to our devotional life and

literature.

 

The advantage of a correspondence course is that you can study independently

of space and time. We send you the complete study material, including a 180

min VHS video tape with a training session for writing Devanagari and proper

pronounciation. Numerous examples, exercises and homework assignment help

you to get a good practise. You are personally attended by a study mentor

who corrects your homework and is ready to clear any question you may have.

You will learn in this course:

 

o to read and write texts in Devanagari script;

o thus gaining a significant advantage for your next India trip since

Devanagari is also the script of Hindi;

o to pronounce properly any text and mantra;

o to form simple sentences in Sanskrit;

o to read easy Sanskrit texts and understand their grammatical

structure;

o to learn many terms from Vedic science, like vastu, ayurveda,

astrology, yoga, philosophy etc. and understand their linguistic roots.

 

The examples and exercises are mainly based on the Bhagavad-gita. A further

six-months continuation course will train you systematically to understand

each of the 700 Bhagavad-gita slokas fully. Thus, after one year study at

the Veda Academy you will be able to deeply comprehend the linguistic

message of most of our Sanskrit scriptures.

 

The course ends with a voluntary examination. By succesful passing you will

be awarded with the "Sanskrit Praveshaka" diploma of the Veda Academy which

is part of a comprehensive study of Vedic sciences.

 

The author and current study mentor, Gaura-siromani Dasa (38 years) has been

a devotee in ISKCON for 8 years. Before having become a devotee, he studied

Physics, Sanskrit and Indology at the Heidelberg university. He also studied

our Vaisnava scriptures extensively at the VIHE in Vrndavana where he holds

the degree of honor of the Bhakti-shastri course. He serves at the Veda

Academy as teacher and seminar lecturer in Sanskrit and Vedic philosophy.

 

If you are interested please contact:

 

Gadadhara Dasa

Hirschgrund 94

D-01814 Schöna

Tel. ++49-(0)35028-80093

Fax ++49-(0)35028-80089

Email: Gadadhara.SNS (AT) pamho (DOT) net

 

Your servant

Gadadhara Dasa