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. This benefit is about one's personal exploration as a human being, or one's spiritual journey. 4.1 Two thoughts for pondering to begin with... 4.1.1 On one hand, there is a sense in modern times (specially in the west) that the spiritual experience is separate from day-today experience. 4.1.2 On the other hand, there are certain historical religious philosophies which ask for 'renunciation' or 'sacrifice' in this life (without any human experience or understanding)....... for better life in 'Heaven'. 4.2 Coming back to normalcy... Recognized scholar of many cultural traditions, theoretical physicist and entrepreneur Dr. Dean Brown indicated "When it comes to human cultures, while there have been different types of streams (such as Hebrew, Mian, American Indian, African, Polynesian, Chinese, Samskrit), they have one core thing in common....they are all based on 'experience'." In one's spiritual journey , or in personal exploration ...

. Most languages are created with obvious goals of transmitting ideas, thoughts, logic. Samskrit created to transmit "Vibrations" also. Vibrations have phonetic importance. They will work on you. Very vibration embedded in Samskrit language character, would transform your state of mind. Linda Sparrowe, renowned writer, mentor and yoga practioner in her article 'Joy of Sanskrit' published with 'American Sanskrit Institute', mentions ,"The design of a Sanskrit is such that the sounds perfectly express the vibrational essence of that (object or theme) which they describe." Example: Most of people who chant Mantras, do not know the full meaning of a mantra; But still feel happy, relaxed while chanting them. Ever wondered... Why ? Let's try to understands this. While usual conversational languages help us connect with the outside world, their forming characters do not have thought connected to them. Example...In English, character 'A' does not...

. 2.1 Samskrit is based upon sound . (Most languages are text-centric or pictographic in nature). If sound changes, meaning changes. 36 consonants, 12 vovels and root-words(called 'dhatu') are core to Samskrit. 2.2 Each root has a meaning . Morphology of Samskrit for word formation is unique and of its own kind. A word is formed from a tiny seed root (called dhatu) in a precise grammatical order. 'Dhatu' is a feature unique to Samskrit. Each word can be broken down to the root, in similar way a computer algorithm would parse a word. Ex. word 'Guru' : This is divisible into 'Gu' and 'Ru'. 'Gu' means darkness and 'Ru' means removal. 'Guru' is therefore he who removes darkness(i.e. ignorance) 2.3 Samskrit is self contained . Sequence of words does not matter in Samskrit sentence. Each Samskrit word is beautifully rule bounded. example: In English, 'Rama goes to Village'. Now if we re-shuffle the words a little, then ...

(Part Of Samskrit Learning Series: Why Learning Samskrit Is Benefitial To You, Hurdles On THe Way and How To Overcome Them...) Benefit 1. Samskrit Is Brain Development Tonic : Cognitive Capacity, Creativity, Competitiveness Various studies in brain sciences and multilingual systems have demonstrated that a multilingual brain develops more densely, enhancing problem sloving, cognitive, diverse thinking skills. An individual with added multilingual capacity outperforms similar person with lesser capacity. But then why Samskrit in this context ? Consider the fact that Samsrkit has indirectly or directly influenced many languages in the world , including more than 85% of languages in Indian subcontinent. Learning Sanskrit, you are considering a greater capacity. Some of the benefits attached to learning Samskrit: - clarity in speech - perfection in pronunciation - articulation in conversation - sharpness in memory - flow in thinking - logic in analysis - rationality in understanding - accu...

Goal of this Series This series is a modest attempt to facilitate the awareness... irrespective or race, religion, gender, location... of Samskrit language, and possible benefits it has to offer to a progressive mind. While there are significantly unique benefits to specific professionals, individuals, seekers, and groups, details of them beyond a brief mention, are considered outside the scope of the series. The series focuses on factors that are of common interest of all rational thinking individuals in the modern world. It is expected to be covered in series of 15 small posts. (Samskrit is also spelled as Sanskrit, Samskrut, Sanskrut) Some References http://www.samskritabharati.org/ Samskrit Bharati http://www.speaksanskrit.org/ MIT, Stanford, University of Maryland, CMU/U Pitt, UPenn, Purdue, CalTech and PSU Collaboration for Samskrit http://www.americansanskrit.com/ American Sanskrit Institute http://sanskritdocuments.org/ Good collection of Sanskrit Documents http://speaksams...