Speak Sanskrit in 10 Days (With Romanisation)

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Foreword Having perused the ten-day study-course, meant to enable conversing in Sanskrit, written by Swami Prasannatmananda, I experience 'prasannata, pleased disposition. People exhibit respect for Sanskrit language; but they are not seen with the same degree of enthusiasm for its study. I believe that by this study-course, the taste for Sanskrit will be well borne in their minds. I pray that this endeavour of Swami Prasannatmananda should be fruitful.

Introduction My experience of Sanskrit teaching from 1976 onwards, in Mumbai, Coimbatore, Chennai revealed to me that general teaching of Sanskrit only makes the student gain working knowledge of Sanskrit, with capacity to translate English passages into Sanskrit, but does not inculcate in the student, the fluent methods of speaking simple Sanskrit sentences, connected to day-to-day living. Thus they are deprived of the joy of speaking Sanskrit and consequent new enthusiasm for more and more revelry in Sanskrit. If one could introduce small simple sentences of conversational Sanskrit, in the leisure time to the people at home, friend's house and so on, especially entertaining the children, it will create interest and enthusiasm to learn small simple words and sentences of Sanskrit, and the common fear of Sanskrit, in the minds of people will be removed. This becomes a great service to the society to make them interested in Sanskrit, the main medium of our cultural lore.

Organizations like the Sanskrit wing of the erstwhile Hindu Seva Pratishthana, Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, are doing yeoman service in this direction, and I happened to go through some of their books, which were impressive to me. So I too thought of popularizing simple conversational Sanskrit among members of Chinmaya Family in Chinmaya Mission, standardizing some equivalents in Sanskrit to English words of day-to-day conversations.

I started taking successfully ten-day classes for conversational Sanskrit. I also started Easy Sanskrit Lessons in the same method in Tapovan Prasad from February 1984.

With the success of these classes on 'Speak Sanskrit in Ten days, suggestions have been forthcoming for making the course available in a printed book form for the benefit of Chinmaya Family Members in all centres of Chinmaya Mission. I invoke the blessings of our Pujya Gurudev, Swami Chinmayananda for making this endeavour useful to our Chinmaya Family Members in different centres of Chinmaya Mission.

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