After the success of Sanskrit-Digest, we are now offering a couple of fun ways for students to express in Sanskrit on the web.

In a survey, a consistent pattern was noticed among several Sanskrit students. Many students in India study Sanskrit during their school days, but they do not get an opportunity to speak or use the language after graduation. As a result, they forget the language very soon.

These students should be given opportunities to converse in Sanskrit on a regular basis, and they should be fun too. So today, we’re launching Sanskrit-Expressions - An online community tool that will enable interaction among Sanskrit learners. It has two components to it: Word-Game and Two-Liners.

The Word-game helps the users build their Sanskrit vocabulary steadily, while the Two-liners will encourage them to frame short-sentences and converse in Sanskrit. Further, the users will have complete control over their data (create/update/delete) at all times. One can also keep track and follow other writers via RSS feeds. These tools are proven to be effective tools in the past, and are used in several domains. Now, they are available to the Sanskrit community for the first time.

I conceive this as a proof-of-concept to fix a commonly observed problem which hinders the spread of Sanskrit. If user response for ‘Sanskrit-Expressions’ is on a high note, new features such as Online-Chat-Rooms shall be soon be launched.

Thanks to the sincere efforts of several NGOs such as Samskrita Bharati which enabled many to embrace Sanskrit in their daily lives. Regular Sanskrit workshops are conducted by Samskrita Bharati in India and abroad. With increasing number of Sanskrit teaching institutes, it is now important to retain the interest of the people and help them stay in touch with the language. Engaging in Satsang and community-meet is a good way to appreciate the language. For the Computer Savvy, online tools like ‘Sanskrit-Satsang‘ can help build an e-Community for Sanskrit speakers.

Guess what’s new in the online space for Sanskrit enthusiasts? Its an Online Digest, that can give you a morning dose of Sanskrit articles written by qualified writers.

“Sanskrit Voice Digest” is started as an honest effort to compile Sanskrit related blogs and articles under one roof. Currently, it has partnered with nearly 10 blog-authors and a few organizations. With its magazine-like layout, the Digest makes it easy for readers to keep tabs on all Sanskrit related articles in one place.

India is a nation of several Vedic scholars, Sanskrit pandits, and Religious gurus. The need of the hour is to educate the people (esp. the youth) about the wisdom conveyed in the ancient texts, and revive Sanskrit for the modern age. This is also the mission of “Sanskrit Voice”. In the latest effort to bring all Sanskrit readers and bloggers together, we launched the “Digest” today on June 18, 2008.

In the first week, the Digest has articles in nearly 10 categories that revolve around Sanskrit. It includes “Sanskrit Quotes” written by Kiran Paranjape, who was awarded Indic Blogger Award for best blog in Sanskrit. The wonderful ’subhashitanis’ that includes verses from Panchatantra, Bhartrihari’s Nitishatakam, and Bhagavadgita are written by Karthik Raman.

In the past two years, blogging in Sanskrit has been well practiced by the pandits and students of Sanskrit. Blogger Himanshu Pota focuses on teaching Sanskrit via his blog “Learn Sanskrit”. He told us that his blog shares his Sanskrit learning experience with other Sanskrit learners. He hopes this will encourage the learners to realise that one doesn’t have to be a Panini to start reading, writing, and talking in Sanskrit.

The Digest also compiles the articles on Sanskrit literature written by Kannan Srininvas (the author of Book “Vedic Management”) and Venetia Ansell (an English girl from Oxford University). Adding Sanatana Dharma to the context, we hope to pass the ancient wisdom, along with Sanskrit language.

The advances in web technology facilitates the creation of a virtual community just for Sanskrit enthusiasts. The RSS feeds, Widgets and Campaign buttons provide easy ways for readers to follow the updates, or learn Sanskrit glossary every day. You will find all these features packed in the parent site “Sanskrit Voice” hosted on http://sanskritvoice.com .

“Undoubtedly, it is the greatest language ever, and I feel that more initiatives to spread the language, in a written or spoken form, through blogs etc are always welcome”, says Karthik Raman - a PhD student at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Lord Ganesha is called Ganapati because he is the lord of the ganas, the demi-gods who are Lord Shiva’s attendants. “Gana” also means groups. They refer to pancha pranas (five life forces), antahkarana (four inner equipments), pancha mahabutas (the five elements), etc… Being the master, he leads all these groups in the right direction.

He is “Jagavandana”, the most worshipful in this world. Symbolically, he stands for Knowledge, and is the son of faith and trust. Ganesha is “Siddhisadana”, the abode of all siddhis.

Ganesha is called “Vinayaka” (Visista nayaka) - The incomparable leader. So, one who posseses faith and knowledge becomes the very abode of all success (siddhisadana) and a very good leader. One of the leadership qualities is compassion, and Lord Ganesha has it in abundance. He is called “Krpasindhu” - the ocean of compassion.

Ganesha is described as “Gajavadana” - with elephant’s face. The elephant’s trunk has enormous strength and is also capable of identifying fine distinctions. Ganesha’s beauty is that he is capable of doing everything - “Saba layaka”. He is also “Modaka priya”, which means lover of Joy. He is a symbol of joy, auspiciousness and goodness.

If we can try to emulate him, we can gain joy, peace and success.

Here is a promo video that I created for Sanskrit Voice.

The translation runs as:
May the Deepawali (Diwali) take the humanity towards Eternal Light! This light is the physical light created by the earthen Lamp, for seeing around, where I do exist. May it lead me to Eternal flame and to provide me meaningful Long life, the higher Yoga of Supreme realization and grant me the boon of Spiritual illumination!

All the phonemes of the word Deepawali have been explained in the Sanskrit Sloka. The three lines are the sound structures of the term Deepawali, signifying the quintessence of the effulgence of the clay lamps ,The fourth line of the Shloka is prayer for all.

The Sanskrit word Deepavali means an array of lights that stands for victory of brightness over darkness. The festival marks the victory of good over evil, and uplifting of spiritual darkness. Symbolically it marks the homecoming of goodwill and faith after an absence, as suggested by the story of Ramayana.

Ref: KashmirGroup

An impressive article on why we should thank Sanskrit has been well written on LifeDivine. Check it out sometime…

The human mind in its progress marches from knowledge to knowledge, or it renews and enlarges previous knowledge that has been obscured and overlaid, or it seizes on old imperfect clues and is led by them to new discoveries. - Aurobindo

Our vedological studies have yielded a sensational result which became the foundation of our really groundbreaking new book “Key to the Vedas”!

Our “textual archeology” of the Vedas has revealed behind a magnificent supercode an incomparable computer operational system (sic!) with a large digital database!

Rare are those scholars who dare tackle the Four Vedas as an integral whole. This is really a pioneering work opening new dimensions, new integral Vedangas and Darshanas based methodology and absolutely new unexplored content of the ancient sacred texts of India.

During the last four years, we have been trying to comprehend the enormous amount of binary mathematical-astronomical information found enclosed in syllabic verses of the Four Vedas. Now, we affirm with aplomb that we have found a really working supercode. A new era of exploration of Indian past has dawned!!!

THE IDEA OF THE “KEY TO THE VEDAS”
The book by M. I. Mikhailov and N. S. Mikhailov, Key to the Vedas: Integral Hermeneutics, Minsk, 2005, 376 pp. is an authorial English translation of the First Part of the second enlarged edition of the Key to the Vedas, which appeared first in 2005 in Russian.

IT PRESENTS A STEP-BY-STEP ROADMAP TO SUCCESSFUL DECODING OF THE MOST CRYPTIC TEXTS IN THE WORLD.
This publication contains methodology of the decipherment and interpretation of the computer program Catur-Veda (considered usually a sacred scripture), its philosophy and its digital codes including the Vedic printing (so called Harappan) script. Yes! They work together - Rishis, Devas, Mantras and Yantras. Beyond any doubt!

Here’s just a sample of what you’ll find in the book:
- How to choose a proper method for Vedic or Sanskrit historical research

- Why all European, American and Indian textual criticisms are misleading and not reliable when dealing with the secret language of the Vedas

- Why using them even as a “FREE service” could be the kiss of death for Vedic research

- Choosing the proper way of understanding - When higher authority is NOT better, and how to tell the difference

- How to interpret and decode the most intricate ciphers and their conjunctions of the magnificent Vedic Operational System consisting of Four Vedas and its subprograms with GUARANTEED results

- How to harness the power of mathematics and its logic for automated decipherment of the Vedic astronomical supercode and digital databases encoded in the Vedas

- The truth about Vedic Cosmic Philosophy and its astronomical application

- How to interpret mathematically Vedic so-called “sacrifices”… Here’s exactly how they work, and why they can be your ticket to instant understanding of the Vedic astronomy

The Key to the Vedas is your Resource Guide - Virtually everything you need to scrutinize the Vedic mechanics and programming at your fingertips, accessible with the click of a button of your calculator. Stop wasting time surfing the web and searching the libraries for hours… It’s all right here.

I have Got To Warn You About Something Important. Contrary to popular belief, one of the biggest problems facing Vedic and Sanskrit start-up scholars is NOT lack of information… It’s INFORMATION OVERLOAD… False promises… Usual pitfalls of colonial, naturalistic, nationalistic and religious ideology…

You may already know what I’m talking about. Sometimes it seems like there are endless decisions to make, way to many choices… And you wind up not knowing where to start.

The Key to the Vedas is designed to catapult you through all that. In clear, concise, take-you-by-the-hand-and-show-you-the-secret language, it gives you clear direction and will have you understand the most cryptic expressions and procedures as quickly as humanly possible.

THE MAGIC KEY
Here is more proof that the book can give you a clear-cut vision of really amazing methodology. The Vedic mantra-s, now with the aid of computer, have been read by us as encryptions or complex Syncretic Digital Codes needed for mathematical astronomy of Jyotih-Shastra and calendrical ritual of the Kalpa-Sutras. Mantras, which were codified during an epoch of glorious Vedic civilization and domination of space consciousness, present the mathematical data of exact astronomical observations in extraordinary compacted form.

AN IMPORTANT TURNING POINT
This discovery of a new method of interpretation forms an important turning point in scientific comprehension of the Vedic scriptures and the origins of civilization. The book will show you how you can literally discover an absolutely unimaginable aspect of the most ancient civilization on Earth, a database-driven chronometrical recital supercomputer, a true digital signature of Aliens or, most probably, academicians of the Paradise Lost in the form of the deepest sacred scripture now known as the Vedas (Sciences), in front of which Egyptian pyramids and even our contemporary computer operational systems fade and are similar to rude reflections of the original.

PITFALLS OF PRECEDENT COLONIAL AND POST-COLONIAL INDOLOGY
The book shows the pitfalls of precedent colonial and post-colonial indology, which slowed down the progress in decipherment of the Vedas and Proto-Indian script. On the other hand, the book highly appreciates efforts of those Indian, Russian and Western scholars who tried sincerely to understand the hidden philosophical and scientific (Vedic) terminology in the Vedas, Mahabharata, Brahmanas and Shastras.

Fortunately, some philosophers and scientists such as Aurobindo, B. G. Tilak, astronomer Siddharth, mathematicians Kapoor, V. N. Subbarayappa, Shankaracharya Krishnatirtha, programmers Subhash Kak, R. V. S. S. Avadhanulu, philosophers S. P. Singh, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi have cached glimpses of some eternal truths. They investigated a few aspects of the Vedas leaving aside interior cryptic mathematical codes not easily detected. But finally, they are found, restored, studied and applied by us with amazing output. It’s a true revolution in indological scholarship, a divine revelation, if you want. Vedas have restored themselves and have begun to enlighten the harmony of the mathematically organized eternal Chronocosmos.

By Dr. Mikhail Mikhailov

Do you want to wish someone on their birthday in a more meaningful way than the usual one? Here it is… sing it in sanskrit.

Meaning:
O! Friend, may this birthday of yours
Bring in auspiciousness and happiness.
We pray that you enjoy hundred beautiful years of life, and
May the Lord always protect you.
By your virtuous act, earn fame and
May your life be fulfilling.

Hmm~ This makes more sense than saying “Happy birthday to you…” in several different tunes. Sure this is more difficult to sing too. To make it easier for you, I will try to get a podcast for this.

Ref: Chinmaya Mission DFW

Meaning:
A dancer should sing with her mouth, express the meaning (of the song) by hand (gestures), show psychological states (expressions) by her eyes and beat time (show rhythm) with her feet.

Ref: Nandanam

If you embed at-least one of the below components in your blog / website, please let me know. I shall soon add your site to the list of Sanskrit lovers on this page.

1. Campaign buttons in your blog / website
2. A Sanskrit Glossary display unit in your blog / website

Thanks to all the supporters!