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Learn Sanskrit Month 1

Agniveer is pleased to introduce lessons in Sanskrit for general consumption. This is a course for 20 months and we shall keep adding lessons in beginning of each month.
The course is intended towards those who understand Devanagari script and know simple English. No familiarity in Sanskrit is assumed. However those who have faint memories of Sanskrit in their school days would be able to grasp the initial lessons faster.
Sanskrit forms the foundation of our culture (not only for India but for entire humanity), it being the language of the oldest literature known to humanity. We hope these lessons would help most of us come closer to our roots.
Just few tips on speedy learning:
a. Do not get too bogged down by grammar and usage while you learn Sanskrit. Often Sanskrit is considered to be all about mugging up lots of declensions and conjugations and this fears off most students. Instead take is as a natural language. Feel free to make the most blatant grammatical errors so far you are able to convey your message. Develop a feel for the language instead of thinking about grammar.
How did we learn Hindi or English or our mother tongue? Did we learn grammar first or language first? And do we speak these languages in a grammatically correct fashion even today? Why burden Sanskrit with overdose of grammar in very beginning then?
Simply start talking on every other thing in Sanskrit and enjoy the funny pronunciations you make or blatant errors you make in grammar. Have a laugh on that and simply continue. Soon you will develop a natural grip over the language and grammar will be automatically taken care of.
b. Try using Sanskrit words even in your mother language. After all Sanskrit is the mother of all languages. Let the children associate with their Mom and have their foundations strengthened! And in process, your road to mastery of Sanskrit will also be traversed faster.
c. Download a copy of Introduction to Vedas (Hindi) from http://agniveer.com/2045/introduction-to-vedas/ if you know Hindi. This is an amazing text not only to understand Vedic concepts but learn Sanskrit naturally. Because most sections of the book are presented in very simple Sanskrit as well as Hindi. In some sections there are deviations in Sanskrit and Hindi message and it would be a good idea to explore those areas and form the right opinion!
If we find interest in this pilot, we would also work towards web-based live classroom teaching on Sanskrit, a Sanskrit course for Hindi students as well as an expert course on Vedic Grammar. May Ishwar provide us strength for all this.
Download: Sanskrut Lesson 1 to 9 – Month 1
For supplements, download from http://www.chitrapurmath.net/sanskrit/supplements_rev.asp
Source of Lessons – Sri Chitrapur Math http://chitrapurmath.net

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101 COMMENTS

  1. I had a doubt in the first month lessons:
    Since “The verb has to agree with the subject,” why do we need to have different form of verb for different “vachans(number)” or “purush(peerson)” ? The information about vachan(and purush) is conveyed by the subject, just as the information about gender is conveyed. Why do we have to put the information of vachan and purush in the verb as well, but not the information of gender ?
    Isnt this a redundancy ?

  2. Hi Agniveer,
    Thanks for uploading this.. I always had a desire to learn Sanskrit. Unfortunately, it was not a part of my curriculum and I couldn’t find the right material. I just finished reading the first pdf and found it to be useful. I have also read some of your blogs and they are pretty interesting. Looks like you have one more fan. Keep up the good work.
    Thank you.

  3. Om,
    Everyone who wants to learn sanskrit looks for good books,materials et al,but the sacred scriputers say ,
    First & the very important condition to learn sanskrit is BRAHMACHARYA(ब्रहमचरय),because many learn ,many things daily,but those are the blessed who first follow brahmacharya ,and then perform worldly duties,because of brahmacharya ,you give your mind a boost like a rocket launcher ,so if some study the sacred language without brahmacharya his study is fultile,you can see there are vedas,upnishads with are written with full blown celibacy as the time move we have less efficient work on sanskrit ,so in the present day you can see all are tamsic,even those scientist who are interested sanskrit are tamsic some are willing to study sanskrit to beat his competetor,some because of igo (panditness) any many other reasons,because those who study sacred language or even other their study will go in vain without brahmacharya like ravan ,who was learned pandit devotee of Shivji ,from whose damru the the alphabet of devnagri came with sound, the customs ,language ,traditions behind the people of Bharat has very deep spritual scientific meaning,because their ancestors performed the biggest,toughest yama i.e. brahmacharya, SO THE BIG FAT TIP TO ALL SINCERE LEARNERS OF SANSKRIT PRACTICE PRACTICE &PRACTICE BRAHMACHARYA ,as Swami vivekanada says by celibacy all learning can be mastered in a very short time,
    Also somebody has given the comment that swami dayananda learned sanskrit directly from their mother or local language without even knowning hindi. So the secret behind is BRAHMACHARYA not the books ,youtube video or any website.
    Hari ॐ Peace be upon all.

  4. What do you all think of this professor who says Sanskrit is taught only to the Brahmins, and wants to change that with a scholarship he created and is looking for further funding. http://chronicle.com/article/Columbia-Professor-Broadens/128546/
    Why do you think such a professor deliberately ignores all the efforts made by Indians by Hindus by the government of India all these years to bring Sankrit to everyone who wants to learn it? The impression one gets after reading this article is that it is he alone that is bringing Sanskrit outside of the priesthood. Notice for all his talk of the Dalits not having the opportunity to learn Sanskrit and naming the scholarship after the former Dalit Ambedekar, the first person he gave the scholarship to was not a Dalit, or any under privileged Hindu, but to a Muslim girl. Which is fine but this white professor shouldn’t pretend to be some champion of Dalits who are Hindu.

  5. thank you for this post
    had been looking for something like this because it is the base of our culture
    and the lessons are very easy and conceptual i learnt these 9 lessons in less than 3 days which makes learning sanskrit very inspiring
    thank you again

  6. I read a post on quora. There Guru Drona was not treated with respect. I want to read Mahabharata complete and make the world realise what our Veds , Puranas are really. So please help me. I just know hindi well.
    Thank You

  7. Sir, I am reading your lessons on Sanskrit and got a doubt. as in Sanskrit, word order does not matter. Then what is the meaning of सा मंदिरम अभित जनान पष्यति । Sorry, i couldnt put ‘visarg’ after ‘abhit’ and spelled ‘pashyati’ wrong. Does it mean ‘she sees people around the temple’ or ‘she sees temple around the people’?
    One more: सज्जनौ दुरजनौ तुदत । (there is a visarg after tudat). But does it mean ‘two bad men trouble two good men’ or ‘two good men trouble two good men’?
    Pls clear, Sir.

  8. Thank you very much. It would be lovely to have a group to talk in Sanskrit. Anybody has any suggestion? Skype? We need to talk and practise, so that we can become fluent and make Sanskrit popular

  9. There are two more letters in varna. The short (hraswa) & long (deergha) of ए ओ.
    That makes 18 varnas or the independent primal sounds. (As much as the chapters of the Bhagawad Gita). South Indian Languages like Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu retain those letters and use them extensively.
    The Vedas and Sanskrit developed in consonance with the Tamil roots wherein one letter denoted first four letters of a varga. The temples of the South are more closer to Tantric & Aagamas.

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