That's good because you need Sanskrit to really understand these ancient
texts. But I had never even heard from Vedic Science graduates if it
was taught. It was definitely an advantage for me when learning tantra.
On 04/11/2014 09:39 AM, Share Long wrote:
noozguru, when I was taking the MA in SCI 1991-92, we had a month of
Sanskrit with Tom Egenes who has a Ph D in it from Univ of Virginia.
He still teaches there but now the program is called MS in Vedic
Science. People who go on for the Ph D get to the point where they can
read the Vedic literature in the original.
On Friday, April 11, 2014 11:15 AM, Bhairitu <[email protected]>
wrote:
I doubt that even MUM has any courses in Sanskrit. At least I never
heard anyone who attended there say it was taught. You forget that
some of the "governors" including myself did the TM-Sidhi's course
with the Citizen's courses. They were said to be the same thing
anyway. Doing it that way I was able to break it into 3 sessions and
keep my music gig.
As for Sanskrit what teachers got for the puja were sheets with
transliterations. These were carefully done to correlate with
American English. So we didn't actually "learn" Sanskrit other than
the translations of puja into English and the Sanskrit words for that.
When I visited Ammachi's ashram in India they conducted courses in
Sanskrits for the devotees. In the 1990s I bought Vyas Houson's full
home course on Sanskrit which is very well put together. The American
Sanskrit Institute often holds weekend courses where you learn
Devanagari which is enough to get one started. From a practical
standpoint it was very useful when traveling in India where you will
see signs in that script and then the English with it. Often the
script is just sounding out the English. :-D
On 04/11/2014 12:49 AM, [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
Is it true that the Governors got the siddhi-suutras in Sanskrit?
I mean, the YF suutra in Sanskrit I saw years ago (on minet.org, or
somesuch)
is really strange, because, as I recall it, it seems to be based on
Vyaasa's and/or Bhoja's commentary
rather than the original suutras...
