[Advaita-l] Brief speech in Sanskrit

[savithri devaraj]

Namaste,

In addition to the resources mentioned, it is good to
watch and understand the movie "Adi Shankaracharya" by
G.V.Iyer in Sanskrit without subtitles. There may be
other Sanskrit movies too. This would be good to pick
up conversational Sanskrit. Samskrita bhArati is doing
a lot of good work these days. (I believe this movie
is on Youtube also.)

I believe that to understand Shankara's original
bhAshyas correctly requires quite a rigorous and
disciplined study under a competent teacher. 

Lack of standard terminology (overloaded use of words
like jnAna, avidya, mAya, yoga,...), use of figurative
speech, complexity of the topic, and the differing
abilities of the seeker further compound the issue. At
best, we might be able to come away with the lexical
meaning, but the semantic interpretation might still
be lost on us without a shrotriya brahmanishTa guru.
I am not saying we shouldn't try, but we should be
aware of the possible limitations.

Regards,
Savithri

--- GOPALAKRISHNA Sankaran <SGopalak at covansys.com>
wrote:

> Also please let me know, how to prepare a Brief
> speech in Sanskrit.
> Say a brief on Sri Sankara.
>  
> My approach is 
> First prepare in region language and convert into
> Sanskrit.
>  
> Please share your views.
>  
> Jaya Jaya Sankara and Hara Hara Sankara.
>  
>  
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> From: advaita-l-bounces at lists.advaita-vedanta.org on
> behalf of Jaldhar H. Vyas
> Sent: Sat 6/9/2007 11:43 AM
> To: A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta
> Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Learning Sanskrit
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, prem d p wrote:
> 
> > namaste...
> >
> >  dear sri vidyasankarji and other list members,
> >
> >  i would like to request you to kindly suggest the
> best way forward for
> >  a self-study of sanskrit. the purpose is
> primarily to be able to read
> >  our scriptures in general and shankara in
> particular, in original.
> >
> >  i have practically no knowledge of the language
> but has a rather
> >  good familiarity with the vocabulary from my
> mother tongue and also
> >  quite at home with devanagari.
> >
> >  i have recently actually embarked on this
> self-study using the CBSE
> >  sanskrit textbooks and guides starting from Class
> V and working
> >  my way slowly up. Is this the best way?
> >
> 
> That's certainly one way to do it.  However I think
> it is better to pick
> one work and translate it word by word with a
> dictionary and grammar at
> your side.  The Bhagavadgita or Hitopadesha are two
> good choices as the
> Sanskrit is fairly simple yet the subject matter is
> interesting.  I think
> this makes the inevitable memorization of vocabulary
> and syntax more fun
> and thus more likely to stick in the mind than the
> random passages and
> exercises found in the textbooks.
> 
> --
> Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>
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