With Prof Kak on the beauty and richness of Sanskrit and why every child should learn it

From the times of Rigveda to now, Sanskrit has thrived and helped nourish young minds. Prof. Kak reveals the importance of chanting and speaking Sanskrit from a young age and how it helps in cognitive intelligence.

[@sunilparikh8598]

IN INDIA SANSKRIT SHOULD BE MADE COMPULSORY TO OPEN THE MIND OF GROWING CHILDREN THE BEAUTY OF INDIAN HERITAGE.

[@Manjunath-ot8im]

Sanskrit should be National language of India.

[@srinivasangokul300]

Manju Yogi Fully agree. Sanskrit should be made compulsory third language in all states. Hindi should be Sanskritised and deurduised.

[@vidr5857]

Sure.Except south

[@Unfollowthem]

@@srinivasangokul300 north indians Killed Sanskrit and Responsible to its extinction..... Spreading Hindi and Wasting time and money and stirred Hatred... .3000 years of Research and development is wasting...

[@Unfollowthem]

@@vidr5857 who said dumb ass ... It national not state... Sates are free to use their own language... It will not effect to state... In fact 3000 years already using...

[@whatslifespurpose]

@@srinivasangokul300 Leave aside imposing it on people. Have you learned Sanskrit yourself to speak the language fluently first?

[@utubetruthteller]

Not only chant but meditation on sanskrit mantra opens new dimension to human minds.

[@markjohnson543]

The professor helps us understand the beauty and importance of Sanskrit. I am persuaded. It is time to study this wonderful language!

[@PGurus1]

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[@dearkrish1]

Sanskrit is the only divine language & it is the mother of all world languages!

[@Rishi123456789]

I completely agree with you. Sanskrit is the Proto-Indo-European language.

[@sakuntalaramaswamy8230]

Such a Profound and enlightening speech, bringing out the Merits of Sanskrit in such a beautiful manner. There is no doubt that Sanskrit is the most Ancient language in the world and all other Languages derived from it. We Indians are really Blessed to have this Gem, and all the Ancient Literature , which are all evidently written in Sanskrit. In Tamilnadu, most of the people certainly want to learn both Sanskrit and Hindi, given a choice. But the Politicians Play the Dirty Game of Banning , both these languages, Just for their political Gains. May God Save India from these wicked politicians Ploy. JaiHind.

[@peacockLife]

Sanskrit is a beautiful language, which has survived in as a pure form as it can given the destructive forces against it.. i hope more people learn this profound language

[@muraliram8802]

Very dignified scholar in dialogue. A valuable presentation indeed.

[@ogKrisht]

Sir, in my opinion the government must try to push people to learn Sanskrit more than it is trying to do with Hindi. Don't you agree?

[@SoundaraRajanMysore]

Wish there was some specific thoughts on how learning Sanskrit can help shape our children.

[@srinivasangokul300]

Soundara Rajan Just start learning friend. It’s our samprathaya anyways..

[@marubehags1643]

Prof Kak did say very specifically how learning Sanskrit helps at 22:34

[@vinodhnekhiladi5959]

Wonderful thought discussion. Yes indeed we fools searching all over for treasure instead of looking at home. Samkrutam is wonderful.

[@gam3827]

samskritam and pradeshika languages including Tamil, have different roles to play . Every language other than sanskrit is subject to constant change over time and place. The one that is perfect, the mother of all, stands unchanged and ever kind and ever magnanimous and loving. She is there providing support, wisdom, knowledge, know-how , new words all the time, to her children(vernacular languages) who swerve away from parental wisdom, truth and have shortcomings or simply fall short. Sanskrit enriches other languages. That is why they coexisted. Sanskrit has provided grammer and verbal support to languages all over the world , not just Bharatam. We cant read old Tamil texts and understand them clearly, as we can with sanskrit ancient texts, even though Agastya rishi wrote grammer for Tamil when he moved to south. And the British messed up Tamil script completely beyond recognition after Grantha script was dropped, now even pronunciation and sounds are missing in Tamil, as Tamils still continue to their brain-washed hatred to their own roots. In addition the divisive politicians did their part, changing script further for no reason. These were systematic attempts to alienate us from the old texts and the knowledge in them , and make us feel inferior to the west, and degenerate. Every time there is some video about Sanskrit , some fanatic(perhaps christian converts or paid agents) has to come and say "Tamil oldest, so great" etc, whether there is any relevance or not. They have neither studied anything in Tamil nor in Sanskrit. If they did, they will know the difference. My dear fellow fools, who fight about tamil, sanskrit etc but continue to study only English, which is inferior to both, : PLEASE WAKE UP AND LEARN. GIVE UP JEALOUSY AND HATRED TOWARDS YOUR OWN ANCESTORS< WHO NURTURED YOU> STOP CUTTING YOUR OWN ROOTS. You have spent generations now selling ancestral properties and paying through nose to learn English and English only, and criticize the ancient teachers who taught free !!!!

[@nawalmridulya4255]

stop fooling people...who said Sanskrit doesn't change? Isn't Vedic Sanskrit entirely different from Classical Sanskrit? Vedic Sanskrit changed from the Samhitas to the Upanishads just like any other language.

[@paradevparadev5371]

@@nawalmridulya4255 but he is not fooling anyone, ur fooling world by calling him fool but ur a fool,

[@vivekkapoor668]

Wonderful exposition. Thank you

[@MrDillbud]

If Urduized Hindi (Hindusthani) , were not there , Hindi would have gained more solid ground..and acceptance even in The South ..Even now, the Southerners when they learn Hindi , it is more grammatical and chaste and closer to Sanskrit ..then again, the dmk fanaticism has played the role of blocking both Sanskrit and Hindi .. Yes, every child's overall and Multi-dimensional personality and Human & Spiritual Potential would be developed by learning Sanskrit...

[@tejasvi18joshi]

Urdu is itself unnatural and fake language created by mulla party and British after 1800.

[@narsimhasureddi5957]

I don't understand how DMK stopped promotion of Sanskrit in Andhra or karnataka, or even in the North, it's better to look at the original root causes instead of clichéd opinions and blame games.

[@Rishi123456789]

@@tejasvi18joshi Urdu is a garbage fake Islamised language.

[@ragub6]

My family elders will always write in Tamizh Grantha - I am so ashamed that I did not learn from my Grand pa

[@utubetruthteller]

You still can learn from someone else.

[@ragub6]

@@utubetruthteller Would love to, but not possible... Have a special problem

[@vish2553]

Can someone explain Grantha language and Prakriti language?

[@utubetruthteller]

@@vish2553 what is grantha language never heard of it but I heard sanskrit grantha like mahabharata and ramayana.

[@srinivasangokul300]

Raguraman B Better have it written in your mother tounge and visit your nearest Sanskrit scholar - normally a temple swamigal. If you are shy doing it - browse you tube plenty of Vedic chant audio material available

[@sanatanidotnetdharmaplatfo3991]

great video

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[@satyendrapandey5183]

Nice prof.extra ordinary study of urs.god bless u

[@srinivasangokul300]

Great talk. Prof Sidharth Kak did not touch upon Tamil. So wish to post following points. 1. Both Tamil and Sanskrit are very ancient languages. Entirely different, but have coexisted for 1000s of years. 2. Textual evidence - Purusha Suktam’s first line SAHASRA SIRUSHA PURUSHA HA echos in the first paripadal “ஆயிரம் விரித்த அணங்குடை அரும்தலை”. Which means lord with thousand heads. 3. Textual evidence - Purusha Suktam says AJAYAMANAHA BAHUTHA VIJAYTHE. Namalzwar in his Thiruvaimozhi says “பிறப்பில் பல்பிறவிப் பெருமான்”. Both mean - never born, but reborn infinite times. 4. Scriptual evidence - Srimad Bhagavatam says Bhakti originated in Dravidam. Dravidam means the land mass and not race. The sage Satyavratha who interacted with Lord’s Matsya avatharam was a Pandiyan King. No prizes for guessing what was on Pandiya flag. 5. Why this divide then? Two - fake Aryan invasion theory and outright falsification of Bharat’s historical chronology. 6. Galaxy loads of evidence exists against AIT/AMT. Least of which is conclusive proof of existence of Saraswati river during Ramayana times.. But it never goes away. 7. Read “Plot in Indian Chronology” by Pandit Kota Venkatachalam. The British Indologists simply deleted 1000s of years of Bharat’s Royal dynasties to myths just to bring it “in line” with Biblical chronology which (falsely) said World was created just 5000 years ago.Hence both Mahabharata and Ramayana were dubbed as “Myths” 8. Why would falsifying chronology affect Tamil - Sanskrit relation? For example Namalzwar the 6th Alzwar was born 45 days after advent of Kali Yuga which is 3102BC. Western Indologists put it at 9BC. Why? Because 3102 BC = advent of Kaliyuga which is a myth according to fake Indologists Jai Hind

[@PGurus1]

Watch the next episode with Prof. Subhash Kak

[@Dharmicaction]

First 4 avatars of lord vishnu (Matsya, Kurma, Varaha, Narasimha) are cosmic allegories. Tamil and Malayalam are the oldest "kaliyuga" languages (originated after 4000 BC). Sanskrit is THE divine language. It was the spoken language of the whole world before 4000 BC. Sanskrit is also the language of the universe or pancha-mahabuthas. Sanskrit vibratory frequencies are in sync with vibratory frequencies of sub-atomic particles like bosons and fermions. Tamil does NOT have the same vibratory frequencies of sanskrit. It is the reason why sanskrit mantras cannot be replaced by tamil mantras in hindu temples. Like the universe (shakthi), sanskrit is never born and can never die. It is ageless

[@sreeharsha1828]

Samskrta is far older than Tamil. Tamil can only be traced realistically to the beginning of CE.

[@PorkiBeastMohamad]

tamil is regional language like all other languages. Sanskrit came first, then came all other regional languages

[@srinivasangokul300]

BHARATGOPAL RAJAGOPALAN Respectfully disagree friend. Yours is a predominant western lens of seeing our Samprathaya. Mine is too, but think less so. Degrading Tamil or Sanskrit is like blinding one’s own eye for a Ubaya Vendanti like self. If Sanskrit is divine; so is Tamil else why would Divya Prabandams be in Tamil? Sriman Narayana’s countless avatars starting from Sri Vishnu are very real not allegories. But you are entitled to your views. Trying to put a Gregorian colander date/year for origination of Bharat’s languages is typically western. Bharatwasis have bigger battles to fight than to do meaningless research on what was older - Sanskrit or Tamil. Thank you for the inputs. Adiyen Ramanujadasan Gokul

[@sameerjoshi4395]

Beautiful background

[@sunilparikh8598]

EXCELLENT CLARIFICATION.

[@srinivasangokul300]

To add, Sri Vaishnavas in Tamil Nadu are the living examples of Sanskrit / Tamil coexistence.. Why? Tamil Nadu Sri Vaishnavas (self included) proudly call themselves UBAYA VEDANTHIS. Sadly, a lot (including yours truly until some time back) do not know what UBAYA VEDANTHA really means. So here goes : Some Vidishtadwaithins follow and learn only Sanskrit Vedas, While some others follow only Dravida Veda- I.e 4000 Divya Prabandams. Learned Acharyans BEFORE Udayavar Ramanujar call these people “one eyed”. To have the CLEAREST understanding of Vishista Dwaitham one has to read both Sanskrit Vedas and Divyaprabandams. A Visishta Dwaithin following BOTH Sanskrit Vedas and Divya Prabandams has better clarity than the one following only Sanskrit or Dravida Veda; and is called Upaya Vedanthi. Adiyen Ramanujadasan Gokul PS : Term Dravida used in post refers to landmass, not race. Edited

[@MrDillbud]

Also, not Vidishtadwaitin .. It is VISISHTTHAADWAITAM ( THE PHILOSOPHY ) . IF ONE IS PRACTISING IT , HE IS CALLED A VISISHTTHAADWATIN..Yes, a Sri Vaishnava ..Founded by Sri Ramanujachaarya ADWAITHAM IS NON-DUAL PHILOSOPHY - Aadi Shankaraachaarya DWAITHAM IS DUAL..- Madhwachaarya VISISHTAASDWAITHAM, which is Visesha, as it differs slightly from both the above philosophies.. There are others like DWAITAADWAITHAM- Sri Vallabhaachaarya etc.,

[@srinivasangokul300]

Yogarishi Srīnivās Thank you for the correction. Yes the spelling should be UBAYA and not UPAYA, which are two different words with different meaning. Have edited the post

[@srinivasangokul300]

Bakula Thompson Adwaitha = Adi Shankara Bhagavatpadal = only Paramatma all rest illusion Dwaitha = Maha Acharyan Ragavendra Swami = agrees with Adwaitha, but positions athma as “Jeevathma” until it realizes Paramatma. Vidhistadwaitham = Udaysvar Ramanujar = Paramatma (Purusha) distinct from Jeevatmas. Both remain distinct forever; in Vaikunta too. So for Vishistadwaithis - this world and experiences of ALL Jevatmas in this world or any other is VERY REAL, NOT ILLUSION. Adiyen Ramanujadasan Gokul

[@SaketM9]

Insightful.Thank you sir.

[@Unfollowthem]

I don't know why North Indian Running behind 200 years old Hindi language instead of 3000 Years old Language.... 3000 years of research and development of Indian Knowledge is Wasting.... Hindi people are responsible for this language extinction.... Already wasted 70 years....

[@UnfilteredTrue]

Adopting english and western culture we have lost our root culture and values, we should follow both the new and old knowledge, I don't say we shouldn't learn new things but we are missing out on past knowledge by ignoring our culture and history.

[@Rishi123456789]

Hindu culture is Indo-European culture and Western culture is also Indo-European culture. Hindu culture is the most spiritual culture in the world and Western culture is the most materialistic culture in the world.

[@reetashukla3251]

सुभाष काक जी के हिंदी चैनल का नाम बताइए

[@mindoxygen7695]

Aren't Sanskrit and Tamizh of the same origin, as they share so many words? Just wondering!

[@utubetruthteller]

What is tamizh is it Tamil if it is then no because sanskrit belongs to indo European and Tamil belongs to Dravidian language and as for words those can be borrowed from one another.

[@raghavarvoltore6517]

No they are different but share a lot of common words.

[@srinivasangokul300]

mind oxygen Both completely different. But have co existed since time immemorial. Am briefly posting separately on connection between Tamil and Sanskrit literature

[@laxmanc1836]

@@utubetruthteller It's not Indo European , it's Indian.

[@vish2553]

Srinivasan Gokul there are a lot of words in Tamil that are Sanskrit. Please read the book “ Tamil Nadu, the land of Vedas “ by the great scholar Dr Nagaswamy. Being a Tamilian, I need to admit that even the oldest Tamil literature mentions about “ Nan Marai” which are Vedas and were written in Vedic Sanskrit( obviously at some later stage, as Vedas were Srutis, heard and not written ). I can’t recall now the name for Vedic Sanskrit before Panini’s Samiskritham.

[@goravvyas687]

Richness of Sanskrit in English??? Fuck!!!!!! 😁

[@amit_anand_jha]

Its just for us . It would have not meant anything if told in sanskrit . To motivate one for mathematics you communicate not in mathematics , do you ? How can they glorify sanskrit in sanskrit , a language we dont know as of now ! Now that we know its importance , we must learn it ! That would be something sensible to do .

[@adrianfcm]

Why not instead create mantras in local languages that can help people to improve intellectually? There is nothing very special about Sanskrit literature, so that particular claim is an exaggeration. The claim that modern science has not reached the point of ancient Hindu science is absurd.

[@sriilalitchintalapati909]

Mr Adrian science is still nascent and to understand the implication of Sanskrit fully , may be few more Eienstiens are to be born . People throwing pebbles from shore do not know the depth of the sea

[@vajiradushmantha2428]

This is nonsense. It' was the INDO-EUROPEAN people of the now Caucasus region who spoke proto-Sanskrit and spread it to Eastern Europe and India. Indians never travelled to Europe to spread Sanskrit. This is nonsensical stuff.

[@Rishi123456789]

Wrong. India is the Proto-Indo-European homeland. Keep seething. lmao

[@paradevparadev5371]

Indians travelled all over world, finding things is insight of sanatana dharma, bharatha so called india economy was contributed 36 percent of the world economy, we had sea routes, we travelled world, every navigator wanted to come to india through sea route so vasco da gama came, colombus went to America, how they knew about the place which they never heard of, they knew because they did business with baratha so they wanted this treasure , so an idiot like u only learnt the present day history which was written by leftist and no original history is written only written is glorifying Mudlims, so u can't do interpretation then ur a fool

[@musicalbot9172]

Aryan Invasion is a myth