Re: [FairfieldLife] Transcendental Meditation: Remembering the legacy

[authfriend]

"Transliteration" is the wrong term. It means "to represent or spell in the 
characters of another alphabet." Only the occasional Sanskrit term in the 
commentary of Maharishi's Gita is transliterated from the Devanagari to the 
Latin alphabet (e.g., niryogakshema in the commentary on II:45). Katz helped 
Maharishi with the translation of the Sanskrit into English, i.e., Sanskrit 
words and sentences to English words and sentences. 
 Apparently MMY was fluent in at least two languages other than English. 
 So, he probably started reading the Hindu scriptures by the time he was 
 in grade school. From what I've read, MMY could easly have learned to 
 read the Gita in Sanskrit since it is very similar to Hindi. What was 
 needed was a transliteration which was supplied by Vernon Katz, a 
 scholar from Oxford U. in England. But, Vernon Katz's Gita 
 transliteration sure can't be compared to yours! From what I've read, 
 Tony Nader can read and write Sanskrit like it was his mother tongue. Go 
 figure.