Re: NATLANG/Learning : Sanskrit
| From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, August 14, 2003, 7:33 |
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In a message dated 2003:08:13 03:46:09 PM, elemtilas@YAHOO.COM writes:
>--- Thomas Leigh <thomas@...>
>wrote:
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>> > (hey, never mind that no-one ever speaks
>> Sanskrit.
>
>> Deutsche Welle broadcasts a Sanskrit program.
>
>I also suspect that a number of Hindu Indians
>will be surprised to learn that "no one speaks
>it" anymore! ;)
And many who are converts to Hinduism and those, like me,
who are influenced by some Hindu ideas/ideals.
---
Hanuman Zhang
NADA BRAHMA - Sanskrit, "sound [is the] Godhead"
"God utters me like a word containing a partial thought of himself." -Thomas
Merton
LILA - Sanskrit, "divine play/sport/whimsy" - "the universe is what happens
when God wants to play" - "joyous exercise of spontaneity involved in the art
of creation"