Has anyone read the Bhagavad Gita?

[Proletariat]

Originally posted by: agentsmith101

Originally posted by: whitecloak
I have read it in the original sanskrit.

Are you Hindu too? (BTW I too have done that, however my prounciation is a bit rusty and my understanding too, however I can get the basic gist of it...sanskrit is the mother of all languages )

I remember reading about how NASA scientists were saying that Sanskrit is the most perfect form of human expression. So perfect that it could be used as a computer language or to code AI for robots.

NASA researcher, Rick Briggs has written:

"In ancient India the intention to discover truth was so consuming, that in the process, they discovered perhaps the most perfect tool for fulfilling such a search that the world has ever known -- the Sanskrit language. There is at least one language, Sanskrit, which for the duration of almost 1000 years was a living spoken language with a considerable literature of its own. Besides works of literary value, there was a long philosophical and grammatical tradition that has continued to exist with undiminished vigor until the present century. Among the accomplishments of the grammarians can be reckoned a method for paraphrasing Sanskrit in a manner that is identical not only in essence but in form with current work in Artificial Intelligence. This article demonstrates that a natural language can serve as an artificial language also, and that much work in AI has been reinventing a wheel millennia old."

 

[kalster]

i have read part of it, very interesting, gives a good perspective, how in the big picture, all the material things dont matter at all

 

[agentsmith101]

Originally posted by: kalster
i have read part of it, very interesting, gives a good perspective, how in the big picture, all the material things dont matter at all

Kinda like the computers we are all addicted to?

 

[Whitecloak]

Originally posted by: agentsmith101

Originally posted by: whitecloak
I have read it in the original sanskrit.

Are you Hindu too? (BTW I too have done that, however my prounciation is a bit rusty and my understanding too, however I can get the basic gist of it...sanskrit is the mother of all languages )

yup

 

[Landroval]

I studies Sanskrit many years ago, but sadly have forgotten much of it. I found sandhi to be very challanging

 

[SearchMaster]

I read it for a course in college, but it was a pass/fail course so let's just say I wasn't super attentive. I honestly can't remember a thing about it, but then it was 17 years ago.

 

[Storm]

Yea I read it in college for a philosophy class.

 

[amol]

I've read it ...

I'm a Hindu ... not a super-religious one, but I do refrain from eating beef and pork and I do go to the temple whenever I can

 

[Printer Bandit]

http://vedabase.net

 

[Wahsapa]

Originally posted by: Proletariat

Originally posted by: agentsmith101

Originally posted by: whitecloak
I have read it in the original sanskrit.

Are you Hindu too? (BTW I too have done that, however my prounciation is a bit rusty and my understanding too, however I can get the basic gist of it...sanskrit is the mother of all languages )

I remember reading about how NASA scientists were saying that Sanskrit is the most perfect form of human expression. So perfect that it could be used as a computer language or to code AI for robots.

NASA researcher, Rick Briggs has written:

"In ancient India the intention to discover truth was so consuming, that in the process, they discovered perhaps the most perfect tool for fulfilling such a search that the world has ever known -- the Sanskrit language. There is at least one language, Sanskrit, which for the duration of almost 1000 years was a living spoken language with a considerable literature of its own. Besides works of literary value, there was a long philosophical and grammatical tradition that has continued to exist with undiminished vigor until the present century. Among the accomplishments of the grammarians can be reckoned a method for paraphrasing Sanskrit in a manner that is identical not only in essence but in form with current work in Artificial Intelligence. This article demonstrates that a natural language can serve as an artificial language also, and that much work in AI has been reinventing a wheel millennia old."

link to article?

also where do i learn sanskrit at!