SANSKRIT PROMOTION: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

Sanskrit promotion is not useful for our livelihood. It is not useful for competitive career or business. It is not spoken by anybody; excepting probably very few Veda Pundits. In short; Sanskrit promotion is not likely to yield any personal material benefit at all!

But Sanskrit appears to harbor the wisdom of ancient visionaries and the enlightened scholars in different fields of knowledge and art; and its promotion therefore seems to hold the key to global blossoming. Hence its promotion is a response; to the inner urge of global conscience!

Some practical steps for Sanskrit promotion could be:

1. Thinking about day to day life/circumstances and offering the wisdom for global welfare e. g.

NA VYDHIH NA VISHAM TAPAT
TATHA NADHISHVA BHUTALE
KHEDAYAH SWA SHAREERSTHAM
MAURKHYAM EKAM YATHA NRUNAM

2. Dwibhasha samvadam: Trying to communicate where ever possible and feasible in two languages including Sanskrit.
3. Audiovisual aids for pronunciation
4. Sanskrit News and/or Bilingual news on all channels (as case of news for deaf) and Sanskrit news in all the news papers every day
5. Spread of Sanskrit hymns records, audio cassettes, audio and video CDs, DVDs, MP3s, power point presentations
6. Incentives right from beginning for students, teachers and Veda pundits; through scholarships, awards, honors, felicitations and honorary degrees and titles
7. Efforts by the Sanskrit path-shalas to recognize the problems in society and participate in solving them; thus becoming; “relevant”.
8. Developing soft ware for Sanskrit translation and translation to Sanskrit from other languages.
9. Publishing Sanskrit notes, tips, quotes, Subhashita; in periodicals of all languages.
10. Making commercial Sanskrit movies and plays, besides Sanskrit based performing arts