[Advaita-l] [advaitin] Interacting with scholars

[Sunil Bhattacharjya]

Dear Subbuji,

Your suggestion is great indeed. However, we shall have to think of the ways as to how to overcome the logistical roadblocks such as the distances and the different time-zones separating people as well as the fluency in English and / or in Sanskrit, which many may come in the way of the telephonic interaction etc. becoming  effective. 

Regards,
Sunil KB


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On Thu, 1/19/17, V Subrahmanian v.subrahmanian at gmail.com [advaitin] <advaitin at yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 Subject: [advaitin] Interacting with scholars
 To: "A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta" <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>, "Advaitin" <advaitin at yahoogroups.com>
 Date: Thursday, January 19, 2017, 7:25 PM
 
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
     
       
       
       Dear Friends,
 In our journey on the path of
 Vedānta the need for committed study has been emphasized by
 the tradition handed down to us. The Upaniṣad itself
 teaches śravaṇam, mananam and nididhyasanam based on
 authoritative sources. It would benefit our quest much more
 if we, in the present day, inculcate the practice of being
 in touch with noted scholars. There are quite a number of
 such accomplished scholars today in India who are only too
 willing to help us by clarifying doubts, guiding us with the
 proper texts, etc. Even though some traditional scholars may
 not be very well versed in English, yet they can in some or
 the other way establish a dialogue with us if only we
 initiate it with them.
 Then, scholars there from all
 language backgrounds in India, both in the South and in the
 North. Thus Sanskrit, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu,
 Marathi, etc. can be employed to converse with them. With
 telephone and email we can be in touch with them on topics
 of Vedanta, Samskrita, Nyaya, etc. 
 Just last week a friend of mine in
 Chennai spent hours over days with MM Sri Krishnamurti
 Sastrigal, taking his help in making corrections to a book
 the former has translated. Many others have consulted other
 scholars on various such purposes and benefited from the
 treasure house of knowledge that they are.  
 I think we have to shed any
 inhibitions we might have and go all out to make the best
 use of their rich resources.  We can collectively prepare a
 list of such scholars and their contact details and make
 that available to members. 
 I request other members interested
 in this to come forward with whatever information they have
 to make this initiative a workable one.
 Thanks and
 regardssubrahmanian.v     
 
 
     
      
 
     
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