Learn Sanskrit - The Natural Way
Book Details
Author(s)Dr. Narendra
ISBN / ASINB008RYEG1A
ISBN-13978B008RYEG11
Sales Rank4,718,618
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Pages: 137
Introduction
Readers may be aware that the Sanskrit Karyalaya of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry has published a number of books for promoting and popularising Sanskrit in a simple form.
In this book the author tries to prove that Sanskrit is not a difficult language. In fact, it is very close to us, as it is the source of most of the languages of India and intimately related to all of them.
The book also shows how simple Sanskrit can be learnt in a very natural way. We call it The Natural Way because it follows all through the fundamental principle of all teaching — to go from the near to the far and from the known to the unknown. The entire approach is direct and simple and even the grammar is presented in a very simple way.
The usual method of teaching Sanskrit has given the impression that Sanskrit is very difficult and to learn it cramming is unavoidable. Our method provides a way out.
The book is generally useful for all who wish to learn Sanskrit without tears and specially useful for Indians.
Our aim is to lead the readers ultimately to the Vedas, because as Sri Aurobindo affirms:
"The Veda is the beginning of our spiritual knowledge; the Veda will remain its end... I believe the future of India and the world to depend on its discovery and on its application, not to the renunciation of life, but to life in the world and among men."
In this book Sanskrit has been kept as the base and English is given as an aid to understand the text. In the chapter entitled lndeclinables the English equivalent is not given, in some places where we felt that the English translation would be more complicated than the original. For the sake of a more natural presentation in English, we have not insisted on a literal translation of the texts.
Once the readers a
Introduction
Readers may be aware that the Sanskrit Karyalaya of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry has published a number of books for promoting and popularising Sanskrit in a simple form.
In this book the author tries to prove that Sanskrit is not a difficult language. In fact, it is very close to us, as it is the source of most of the languages of India and intimately related to all of them.
The book also shows how simple Sanskrit can be learnt in a very natural way. We call it The Natural Way because it follows all through the fundamental principle of all teaching — to go from the near to the far and from the known to the unknown. The entire approach is direct and simple and even the grammar is presented in a very simple way.
The usual method of teaching Sanskrit has given the impression that Sanskrit is very difficult and to learn it cramming is unavoidable. Our method provides a way out.
The book is generally useful for all who wish to learn Sanskrit without tears and specially useful for Indians.
Our aim is to lead the readers ultimately to the Vedas, because as Sri Aurobindo affirms:
"The Veda is the beginning of our spiritual knowledge; the Veda will remain its end... I believe the future of India and the world to depend on its discovery and on its application, not to the renunciation of life, but to life in the world and among men."
In this book Sanskrit has been kept as the base and English is given as an aid to understand the text. In the chapter entitled lndeclinables the English equivalent is not given, in some places where we felt that the English translation would be more complicated than the original. For the sake of a more natural presentation in English, we have not insisted on a literal translation of the texts.
Once the readers a
