Reading the Vedic literature in the original and writing a dissertation about one's experiences doing so is one Ph D track. Tom told us that Sanskrit doesn't leave any impression in the chit. But I still remember some of the aphorisms. And I love saying them. Maybe more placebo...(-:
Yeah, I really liked your point about placebo. And I think when people try to convince each other of ideas, beliefs, etc, that's also like trying to have a placebo effect. On Friday, April 11, 2014 11:51 AM, Bhairitu <[email protected]> wrote: 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] 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... > > >
