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In the 1920’s quantum mechanics was created primarily by three great minds: Heisenberg, Bohr and Schrödinger, who were all ardent students of the Vedas. They elaborated upon these ancient books of wisdom in their own languages as well as with modern mathematical formulas in order to understand the ideas that are to be found throughout the Vedas. Sanskrit, as a language is rooted in a single equation: “Atman” = “Brahman”.
Einstein would regularly read the Bhagavad-gita. Einstein’s famous quote on the Bhagavad-gita is: “When I read the Bhagavad-gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous.”
Oppenheimer learned Sanskrit in 1933 and read the Bhagavad-gita in the original, citing it later as one of the most influential books to shape his philosophy of life, stating that “The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century.”
Upon witnessing the world’s first nuclear test in 1945, he instantly quoted Bhagavad-gita chapter 11, text 32, “Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.”
Vedic texts such as the Bahgavad-gita and the Upanishads were collectively considered the most influential books ever written by eminent people like Thoreau, Kant, Schopenhauer, Schrödinger, Werner Heisenberg , Tesla, Einstein etc.
Tesla is another great inventor that studied Sanskrit. Vivekanda’s effect on Tesla was so great that he became vegetarian, as well as celibate and started using Sanskrit words. Later on in life, Tesla began to do his work in Sanskrit.
Amazing Facts about Sanskrit
(sourced from various blogs,
& therefor not yet confirmed beyond doubt)
- Sanskrit has the greatest vocabulary of any language.
- More than 90% of the world’s languages have their roots in sanskrit.
- 80% of English can be traced to sanskrit.
- Sanskrit is most efficient language in that with the least number of words, it can convey the meaning of a sentence accurately.
- Sanskrit is “Big!” in the field of ‘Artificial Intelligence.’
- NASA, the Space Agency, has a department just to specialize in Sanskrit manuscripts.
- NASA declared sanskrit to be the “only unambiguous spoken language on the planet” – and very suitable for computer comprehension.
- Sanskrit has more than 6,000 rules for grammar.
- Sanskrit is not bound to time, like other languages are.
- There are rumors that the next generation of super computers will be based on Sanskrit.
- Many respectable futurists, scientists, computer scientists, as well as many mathematicians say things like “It seems inevitable that the world will be speaking Sanskrit or an equivalent within a couple centuries. “
- Russian State University and their space program are also obsessed with sanskrit.
- Learning of Sanskrit VASTLY improves the child’s learning functions.
- Sanskrit is not optional but mandatory in many “Super” elite private schools. i.e. the top 19 elite schools in the world, such as Le Rose, in Swiss.
To get a grip on how powerful Sanskrit is, watch the following short video:
Lets first take a look at what Baba said about language in Lord Meher:
Thus on the eve of the great seclusion, the entire atmosphere was charged with great spiritual reactions, as is evinced by the writings of Princess Norina Matchabelli, one of the close disciples of Baba:
“The Truth … has been previously revealed by the Avatars and Prophets of the past. But in the centuries, that rolled on, it got wrapped up in the phraseology of its learned exponents. Used by many people and in many contexts, their high sounding words have acquired the crust of careless usage. These words then begin to conceal the Truth rather than reveal it. They are worshipped rather than understood…. We meet these words in the mouths of friends and foes. But they only astound without enlightening…. Hence arises the need for … new language, which the world must understand … with the simplicity of children…. Once again the world is receiving the Truth without garb. Drink deep at the fountain…. Entertain in yourself the Go-back-to-God drive….”
That “Go-back-to-God drive” is what I want.
What might this new language of the New Humanity be like? We know it probably doesn’t have the self centeredness of ‘left & right.’ And we know it might be missing the distinction between ‘he & she.’ But what else is there?
Commenting on Baba’s writings, Dr. Mohandas Gandhi, his disciple, wrote a thorough critique of Baba’s writings, saying:
Regarding your book, whatever you have written by hand in English [in the book] and whatever you want to express cannot be expressed in English. I suggest that such works ought to be written in Sanskrit or Gujarati. First and foremost, there are no appropriate words in English for some or most of the terms, which would bring out their real meaning. For instance, avidya in English is ignorance; that is, the want of knowledge. But the term ignorance does not carry the true meaning and connotation of avidya, which it can never evoke. What is avidya is avidya and nothing else! It just cannot be translated.
Baba agrees with Mohandas Gandhi, and says Persian or Gujurati would be better than English. This is in Lord Meher.
In relation to the Ladakh language which is a closer relative of Sanskrit, a Ladakhi monk once told Dr. Helena:
In great Europe where you were born,
Man Free states are flourishing
With immense material prosperity,
Industries and technologies.
More is the worldly pleasure there,
More is the busy life.
More science, and literature,
More change in state of affairs.
Though we lack in progress here,
We have happy peace of mind.
Though we have no technologies,
We have way of deeper Dharma.
Our language in Ladakh and Tibet
Is a tongue of wise lamas,
Is a treasure full of Dharma.
No other tongue can be its equal.
Though not ‘exactly’ Sanskrit, the Ladakhi language is an offshoot of Tibetan language with strong ties to sanskrit. The same is true of to a lesser extent of Chinese. The Buddha gave the Dharma(collection of his teachings) in both Pali and Sanskrit. (For more details on the Ladakh goto Essay on the Ladakh People) Even English, Greek, Russian are all offshoots of Sanskrit. In fact, most of the words in English (75%) can be rooted back though the middle east back to Indo-arian roots.
In an article titled ‘Most Scientific Language’, the following explanation is given:
Knowledge Representation in Sanskrit and Artificial Intelligence
In the past twenty years, much time, effort, and money has been expended on designing an unambiguous representation of natural languages to make them accessible to computer processing. These efforts have centered around creating schemata designed to parallel logical relations with relations expressed by the syntax and semantics of natural languages, which are clearly cumbersome and ambiguous in their function as vehicles for the transmission of logical data. Understandably, there is a widespread belief that natural languages are unsuitable for the transmission of many ideas that artificial languages can render with great precision and mathematical rigor.
But this dichotomy, which has served as a premise underlying much work in the areas of linguistics and artificial intelligence, is a false one. There is at least one language, Sanskrit, which for the duration of almost 1,000 years was a living spoken language with a considerable literature of its own. Besides works of literary value, there was a long philosophical and grammatical tradition that has continued to exist with undiminished vigor until the present century. Among the accomplishments of the grammarians can be reckoned a method for paraphrasing Sanskrit in a manner that is identical not only in essence but in form with current work in Artificial Intelligence. This article demonstrates that a natural language can serve as an artificial language also, and that much work in AI has been reinventing a wheel millenia old.
Watch this video about how Sanskrit helped a young mathematician to learn ‘something’ that would take 10 years in just a month. This kid won what is considered greater than the Nobel prize, but for math. Manjul Bhargava is said to have solved a 200-year-old number theory puzzle using Sanskrit.
Why are they teaching Sanskrit in Private Schools such as St. James? And why do the kids love it so much? And why does it sound like “Lord of the Rings”?
Here are some famous quotes about the language
“The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely refined than either: yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs, and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all without believing them to have sprung from some common source which perhaps no longer exists.”
- Sir William Jones
“Sanskrit means ‘complete’, ‘perfect’ and ‘definitive’. In fact, this language is extremely elaborate, almost artificial, and is capable of describing multiple levels of meditation, states of consciousness and psychic, spiritual and even intellectual processes. As for vocabulary, its richness is considerable and highly diversified. Sanskrit has for centuries lent itself admirably to the diverse rules of prosody and versification. Thus we can see why poetry has played such a preponderant role in all of Indian culture and Sanskrit literature. “
- Georges Ifrah
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Amazing Facts about Sanskrit
(sourced from various blogs,
& therefor not yet confirmed beyond doubt)
- Sanskrit has the greatest vocabulary of any language.
- More than 90% of the world’s languages have their roots in sanskrit.
- 80% of English can be traced to sanskrit.
- Sanskrit is most efficient language in that with the least number of words, it can convey the meaning of a sentence accurately.
- Sanskrit is “Big!” in the field of ‘Artificial Intelligence.’
- NASA has a department just to specialize in Sanskrit manuscripts.
- NASA declared sanskrit to be the “only unambiguous spoken language on the planet” – and very suitable for computer comprehension.
- Sanskrit has more than 6,000 rules for grammar.
- Sanskrit is not bound to time, like other languages are. (I don’t understand this one just yet)
- There are rumors that the next generation of super computers will be based on Sanskrit.
- Many respectable futurists, scientists, computer scientists, as well as many mathematicians say things like “It seems inevitable that the world will be speaking Sanskrit or an equivalent within a couple centuries. “
- Russian State University and their space program are also obsessed with sanskrit.
- Learning of Sanskrit VASTLY improves the child’s learning functions.
- Sanskrit is not optional but mandatory in many elite private schools.
Read this article for a thorough overview:
Quantum Physics came from the Vedas
Thanks,
Chai Gatewalla