Sanskrit Speeches by Samskrita Bharati (audio)

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AlOchanaamR^itaM

Yoga and the West It is becoming imperatively necessary that Indian knowledge should reveal in the Western way its scientific foundations. For if we do not do it ourselves, the Europeans will do it for us and do it badly, discrediting the knowledge in the process.
For this society of European and European-led inquirers [Max-Mueller, Theosophists etc.] arose from an impulse on which the Time-Spirit itself insists; their object, vaguely grasped at by them, was at bottom the systematic coordination, explanation and practice of Oriental religion and Oriental mental and spiritual discipline.
Unfortunately, as always happens to a great effort in unfit hands, it stumbled at the outset and went into strange paths.
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A vain attempt to thrust in modern physical science into the explanation of psychical movements, - to explain  for instance pranayam in the terms of oxygen and hydrogen! ... to make a hopeless amalgam and jumble of science, religion and philosophy all expressed in the terms of the imagination - this has been the scientific method of Theosophy. The result is that it lays its hands on truth and muddles it so badly that it comes out to the world as an untruth. And there now abound other misstatements of Indian truth, less elaborate but almost as wild and wide as Theosophy's.

From this growing confusion we must deliver the future of humanity.

- Sri Aurobindo (The Psychology of Yoga, from his notebook of 1911).

sa.ngItaM karNATaka hindusthaani lalita (telugu)
telugu purANAlu pravachanAlu sAhityaM toli velugulu
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Contents

Sample Video of a Spoken-sanskrit Class
Speeches at jAhnavI Sibiram 2007
Vyakaranam Class
Prof. Vempati Kutumba Sastry at Haimavati sa.nskR^ita Sibiram July 2006
Sri Chamu Krishna Sastry at AlakanandA sa.nskR^ita Sibiram July 2000

Samskrita Bharati: Sample Video of a Spoken-Sanskrit Class

Samskrita Bharati is an organization co-founded by Sri Chamu Krishna Sastry, for spreading the use of sa.nskR^itam in daily life. Their revolutionary teaching technique has proven that sanskrit-learning can be made both simple and fun. They make students speak in sanskrit right from the start just like how kids learn their mother tongue naturally - by first listening, then speaking, later reading and writing. As a result, Samskrita Bharati's famous 10-day (@ 2hrs/day) sanskrit sibirams enable anyone with working knowledge of an Indian language to start comfortably speaking in pure sanskrit in just 10 days!

Their teaching technique has been adopted by Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, the apex Govt. body that decides Sanskrit curriculum in India.
Don't believe it? Just watch a half-hour realvideo stream (below) of their beginners' class in action and judge for yourself.
To purchase these videos, please send email to samskritabharati@yahoo.com.
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play, rm Spoken-sanskrit class volume 1 of 40 (realvideo)

Speeches at jAhnavi sa.nskR^ita Sibiram, 2007

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play, rm play, mp3 prArambhotsava prasa~NgaH Chamu Krishna Sastri

VyakaraNam class in Bay area, Nov 2007

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play, rm play, mp3 Part 1 of 6 Nov 5
play, rm play, mp3 Part 2 of 6 Nov 7
play, rm play, mp3 Part 3 of 6 Nov 8
play, rm play, mp3 Part 4 of 6 Nov 12
play, rm play, mp3 Part 5 of 6 Nov 14
play, rm play, mp3 Part 6 of 6 Nov 14

Sri Chamu Krishna Sastry: Speeches at alakanandA sa.nskR^ita Sibiram, July 2000

These lectures by the founder of Samskrita Bharati, Sri Chamu Krishna Sastry, were delivered as part of the 10-day spoken sanskrit camp near Sacramento, CA, USA in July 2000. These were recorded by Sri. K.T. Narayana. Since they are part of a Sibiram, they are interactive in nature, and are rough recordings.

Although these are not professional recordings, I am putting them online as they discuss many important issues regarding Sanskrit. Enjoy their informal nature.

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play, rm play, mp3 samAja-hitAya vyakteH kartavyaH (The Individual's duty for the Society's well-being) - My favorite Chamu Krishna Sastri
play, rm play, mp3 kimartham samskR^itam? (Why Sanskrit?) Chamu Krishna Sastri
play, rm play, mp3 samskR^ita abhyAsasya sulabha paddhatiH (Simplifying Sanskrit learning) Chamu Krishna Sastri


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