thank you, fun to encounter Sanskrit here along with everything else. FFL is quite the buffet (-:
________________________________ From: cardemaister <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 8:23 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Wisdom of Chopra...ques to carde I'd say 'a' in 'father' is quite close, and for short Sanskrit a-sound, (shastra) IMO, 'o' in 'mother', as they are pronounced in translate.google.com. I guess for many people, 'A' looks more "elegant" than, say, 'aa'. (Short 'a' is the only reduced, i.e., not "pure", vowel in Sanskrit...) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long <sharelong60@...> wrote: > > How do you pronounce the capital A in shAstra? ahhhhhhhhhhh? > > > > ________________________________ > From: cardemaister <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 6:52 AM > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Wisdom of Chopra... > > >  > That's possible, but my bet is they are just near homonyms > like for instance English 'father' and 'farther', > or 'be' and 'bee'... :o > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long <sharelong60@> wrote: > > > > I can see how they're similar: Knowledge cuts through ignorance. > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: cardemaister <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> > > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 3:02 AM > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Wisdom of Chopra... > > > > > >  > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" <babajii_99@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" <babajii_99@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > One of the 'Downfalls' of the path to Enlightenment... > > > > > Is that the ego, in it's last desperate attempt to remain control, > > > > > gets completely out of hand, and the individual can fall to the 'Dark > > > > > Side' attacking others, and bringing a lot of negagive attention to > > > > > oneself...I assume this is what happened to Carlson... > > > > > > > > > > > > > There's nothing rotten in that, but he's Carlsen, with an 'e', > > > > and thus *perhaps* Danish or Norwegian ancestry, not Swedish... :D > > > > > > > Yeah, so who cares? > > > > > > > At least all of us correct spelling freaks... ;D > > > > As an example from Sanskrit: > > > > shastra 2 n. knife, dagger, sword, weapon i.g. > > > > shAstra n. instruction, precept, rule, theory, a scientific or > > canonical work. > > >
