Back on the blog, dodging the what, four power surges we have every day right now? Used to be one, possibly two, on weekends. They say its due to the heat, and people are starting to use their ACs and the power plant can't supply enough electricity. I sometimes find myself chanting "nuclear".
My sanskrit book has the taunting title "Learn it in one month"! My classmate said he wanted his money back. Welcome to the wonderful world of 8 case grammar! We have the nominative and the akkusative, the dative and the ablative, the genitive and the vocative, the locative and the instrumental. And since the old speakers clearly couldn't stand such simplicity, they needed to add to the rule that case endings change along with the last vowel, or consonant of the noun in question. The word Jnana (knowledge) simply cannot be handled the same way as Atman (soul). That would be so... Lower caste, wouldn't it? It might actually have threatened the language with forreigners learning it!! So yes, we must highly elaborate it! The only way. That will show those bastards... And the casteless. They need to be taught their place, all of them!
Starting 3rd Grade of Sanskrit studies we have been fortunate enough to build small sentences for ourselves. Learn to properly distiguish "n" and "n" and "n" in our pronounciation. And yes, there are FOUR ways of pronouncing the letter P. Or T for that matter. They don't have an F. That letter is useless. Right today we started to learn Future and Past tense, since we... Aren't confused enough.
Still my favourite tho, is to learn how to brace those A's and T's and N's when I rehearse writing the letters one by one. (see pics). A first grade flashback! I hope you enjoyed that pun as much as I!! :)
(I know you did, Walther)
Oh, and I also have got to Level 2 Chanting! A real treat! Chanting level 2 means I get to say things like:
śrī-ādi-nāthāya namo astu
tasmai yenopadiṣhṭā haṭha
-yogha-vidyā vibhrājate
pronnata-rāja-yogham
āroḍhumichchoradhirohiṇīva
...Overandoverandoverandoverandover again. Mere Level 1 means I only get to say things like:
atha yogānuśāsanamaḥ
yogaścittavṛttinirodhaḥ
tadā draṣṭuḥ svarūpe'vasthānamaḥ
vṛttisārūpyamaḥ itaratra
Overandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandover... So guess who's level 2! Hehehehe...
And so ehm... My studies continue. Starting to feel intellectual. Oh, and someone complained that I was not in any of the photos here on the blog. I feel terrible about that. I hadn't realised, and I hope this picture will redeem me.
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