[Advaita-l] Fwd: {भारतीयविद्वत्परिषत्} Grace of Sarasvati: An 11-year-old ‘vyasa’ of ‘Bhagavata Purana’

Murali k methusala8 at gmail.com
Fri Nov 16 04:35:41 EST 2018


Namaste Subrahmanianji,

Thanks for sharing this link. It was wonderful to listen to these videos.
As Nityanandji mentions, May our land be blessed with more prodigies like
Ayusha Krishna.

Best,
Murali

On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 at 22:57, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

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> From: Nityanand Misra <nmisra at gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 9:48 PM
> Subject: {भारतीयविद्वत्परिषत्} Grace of Sarasvati: An 11-year-old ‘vyasa’
> of ‘Bhagavata Purana’
> To: <bvparishat at googlegroups.com>
>
>
> Pranama-s to all list members.
>
> We are in an age where one of our greatest fears is what will happen to
> Sanskrit in the next generation. Will we have the such ‘pandit’-s, as we
> had in the past, for whom ‘vidya’ is ‘kanthastha’? Amidst these fears, it
> is heartening to come across ‘bala-vyasa’-s of the ‘Bhagavata Purana’,
> which is considered the gold standard for Sanskrit scholarship (विद्यावतां
> भागवते परीक्षा).
>
> A few days ago, I chanced upon a news report on one such ‘bala-vyasa’:
> Ayusha Krishna Nayana (Ayusha Nautiyal) from Uttarakhand. The 2017 report
> said that  this ‘bala-shukadeva’, who was ten years old then, has been
> delivering ‘katha’-s on the Bhagavata Purana since when he was just six
> years old!! The report stated that he has committed the entire ‘Bhagavata
> Purana’ and other Puranic literature to his memory. I watched some of his
> videos and realized that the claims are true. This walking example of
> Sarasvati’s grace knows the entire ‘Bhagavata Purana’, many other Puranic
> texts, and the ‘Ramacharitamanasa’ by heart. In his ‘katha’ performances,
> mellifluous Sanskrit verses flow out from his mouth like the flow of the
> Ganga. They are followed by lucid explanations as the audience hears in
> rapt attention. The voice is that of a child, the delivery is that of a
> seasoned ‘katha’ artiste, and the content is that of a *pāradṛśvan* of the
> ‘Bhagavata Purana’.
>
> Here is an example of his ‘katha’ performance:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S28lrY11VRo
>
> Here is his interview from last year:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddZrz89em_0
>
> Hoping many more such child prodigies are born in India and inspire people
> to study Sanskrit literature and Hindu texts.
>
> Thanks, Nityananda
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