My understanding of why Maharishi did that was to underscore that Sanskrit formalizes the general linguistic principle that consonants must be "voiced," with a following vowel. By default, the vowel is "a," though the other vowels can be used if specified. In this "northern thing," the consonants voiced with "a" are left without the written "a" just because it's already there by default in the pronunciation.
For instance, in order to pronounce "yog," you have to voice "a" very quickly to get out the final consonant. Pronouncing yog-a, makes the "a" much more emphasized than it needs to be. Cardemeister, who apparently has expert credentials in Sanskrt, can probably add clarity here. --- In [email protected], "benjaminccollins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In the south of India (Tamil Nadu for example) they laugh about all > those dropped letters as a "northern thing"...which by the way, is an > insult. > > > > > > POWER of YOG > > > > > > So, in addition to "jogging" it would be good > > > to do some "yogging"? (Those Hindi "truncated" > > > forms of Sanskrit words make me furious! &%#!&?...) > > > > I thought that drop the final 'a' stuff was MMY bringing the language > > back in tune with Natural Law or somesuch. Your furiousness with it > > must be unstressing from the intense purity. > > > > Aleksanteri To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
