Efforts in learning sanskrit - HH Bharati Teertha Mahaswamigal

https://youtu.be/My3XxA2jKHo

Although *Sringeri Sr Shankaracharya, Sri Bharathi Teertha,* is sending out this message in Kannada, it can be easily understood even by the layman, even by the non-Kannada people. Because it is in Sanskritized Kannada. Also, there are English subtitles to help us understand his message.

      

     But, in this milieu, we should not forget, we should not overlook, the passion, the anxiety, the fervour, the urge, embedded in his voice, when he ASKS US ALL TO TAKE UP THE STUDY OF SANSKRIT LANGUAGE in right earnest. He does not discount the fact that it may be difficult. So what ?? Learning Veda Mantras, Music, Violin, or for that matter anything NEW, anything to the UNINITIATED, *Will be difficult.* We can overcome the difficulty with *our Effort, our Prayatna प्रयत्न*. Nay, not a One-Time Prayatna. *But a Nirantara Prayatna, निरन्तर प्रयत्न.*

          He also trashes the other frequently offered objection to learning Sanskrit. He says "Age can never ever be a barrier, if we have a Strong Will to Learn, and the Effort, the Prayatna to Learn.

      In the Bhagavad-Gita, Arjuna says, one of the most difficult thing in life, is *Control of our Mind - मनो निग्रहः* Arjuna says in the 6th Chapter, Shlokas 34 & 35 :

*चञ्चलं हि मनः कृष्ण प्रमाथि बलवद्दृढम् ।*तस्याहं निग्रहं मन्ये वायोरिव सुदुष्करम् ।।*

Hey Krishna, how do I control this Mind, that is always vacillating, strong and intractable. I consider the Control of Mind as even very much more difficult than controlling Wind Force such as Hurricane, Cyclone or a Tornado.

*श्रीभगवानुवाच*

*असंशयं महाबाहो मनो दुर्निग्रहं चलम् ।*

*अभ्यासेन तु कौन्तेय वैराग्येण च गृह्यते ।।*

Sri Krishna says,

    Undoubtedly Arjuna, I agree that Control of Mind is very difficult. (But, it is not something Impossible.) It is certainly possible through *PRACTICE,* and also a sense of *DETACHMENT.*

          If the Difficult Mind itself can be controlled with Practice, then why can't we learn Sanskrit with Practice.

            Without Prayatna nothing is Possible. With Prayatna nothing is Impossible.

       As the American poet, *H.W. Longfellow* says in his *A Psalm of Life,*

*Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant !*

*Let the dead Past bury it's dead !*

*Act, – act in the living Present !*

*Heart within, and God o'erhead !*

*Let us, then, be up and doing,*

*With a heart for any fate;*

*Still achieving, still pursuing,*

*Learn to labour and to wait.*