Shastra lessons on the net

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KrishNa bhaktas,

Sri Ramachandra Budhihal in

Bangalore wants to set up audio pravachanas on the

net by famous scholars in Bangalore. He has set up a

non-profit organization called Mahabharatha

samshodhana PrathisTana and is doing activities under

that group. His estimates of the costs are about $250

initial investment and $300 monthly charges that

include sambhavana and technical uploading costs. The

lectures would be set up

as streaming audio using Real audio technology. Most

PCs have Real audio players (available for free)

installed. You will be able to download the lessons as

well.

We may also have the questions answered by

the Guru either offline (through E-mails) or through

an online chat.

 

Ramachandra is thinking that he will start with sri

mahAbharatha tatparya nirNaya which is an introductory

text that students start with. He is open to ideas and

we could have classes at different levels if there is

a need. The teachers will be top notch scholars in

Bangalore. We can decide on the details later. Initial

ideas

are that lessons would be mainly in Kannada and

Sanskrit/Kannada.

If there is a strong demand for English translations, we

will consider that.

We are also thinking of a lesson for children of age 12-20

in English

once a month. Your feedback is important and please give

that to the

list or to -owner

 

I want to check in this community if there is

interest in doing this. We want to raise funds using

subscriptions.

We need 10 students at a $30 /month level

or 20 students at $15/month level. We expect the lessons

to be freely available to everybody. So, the rs

will be

doing a " shastra pravachana daana " to the rest of the

folks.

 

Many thanks to Sri Prahlad Kulkarni, who has

agreed to coordinate the financial aspects of getting

this started. Please E-mail him at kprahlad if you are

interested in

subscribing to the lessons.

 

This could be truly innovative way to get shastra

pATha any where in the world from the best people in

the field.

 

Please let this group know what you think about

this.

 

Hare srinivasa,

Regards,

Vasu Murthy