--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merlin <vedamerlin@...> wrote: > > > > MUM > Learn Sanskrit Online > > > https://www.mgcwp.org/ico/emailing/2012-09-30_MUM_SANSKRIT/2012-09-30_MUM_SANSKRIT.html > > > Â > > > Maharishi Vedic Science Through Distance Education > Learn Sanskrit Online > > > > > The > College of Maharishi Vedic Science at Maharishi University of > Management is announcing a new distance education course on > reading > Sanskrit, beginning Oct 29th 2012 and continuing through January > 2013 (with time out for the holidays). > In this 10-lesson course you will learn to read the texts of the Vedic > Literatureâ"such as the Bhagavad-Gita and Ramayanâ"in the Devanagari > script. It is not a course for learning grammar and meaning, but experience > and research has found that reading the Vedic Literature for its sound > enhances experiences of higher states of consciousness. > You will be guided for correct pronunciation by a Sanskrit Acharya with > many years of working closely with His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. > Depending upon how much time you devote, you could be reading the > Bhagavad-Gita in Sanskrit by the end of the > course.
Good luck with that! I still prefer reading the transliterated text. The main reason might be my slight visual defect (macula scar because of watching the Sun too long when I was about 14 years of age) in my right, otherwise stronger eye. Without that I might read devanaagarii quite fluently. Of course I could read using merely my left eye, but for some peculiar reason it doesn't feel very good. The scar is not that bad, but it remarkably slows down my reading, in any system of writing. Never tried to measure that, but it might be up to 75 percent, or even more, if I'd test it. That's mainly because I tend to misread some words, and the sentence doesn't make any sense after that...
