Blog tagged as Sanskrit

"BHARATA" – we have heard this word so many times and know that it is the original/ancient name for India. But how many of us really know the meaning of the term ‘Bharata’? 

The term ‘Bharata’ is derived from two Sanskrit words/roots: ‘bha’ that means light or knowledge or illumination...

Sanskrit - Gateway to the ‘Middle/Balanced’ Path for the Middle Aged

The ‘Middle Age’ is that peculiar time period in the life of an individual where the youth is starting to fade away and old age is starting to come in. Some of the challenges of an individual in the middle age are as under:

• The middl...

The ‘Youthfulness’ of Sanskrit for the Youth

Swami Vivekananda has rightly said “Youth is the best time. The way in which you utilize this period will decide the nature of coming years that lie ahead of you.” The youth today, indeed have within them the dynamism, creativity and energy, whic...

Sanskrit – The Yogic Health Booster

There is a famous saying "Health is Wealth." And how rightly so in today's times! The level of stress and anxiety especially among youth has greatly increased and their health is deteriorating. Ordinarily, a health practitioner/doctor would pres...

How Sanskrit Deepens Yoga, Meditation & Inner Well-Being

Yoga, meditation and mantra chanting often reach us first through sound. Yet beneath every familiar term — asana, prāṇa, dhyāna — lies Sanskrit, the language that gives these practices their philosophical and spiritual depth. Even a little ...

Lost in Translation: Learn Sanskrit to get to the Source

How many times have you read the Bhagavad Gita or the Upanishads in English, only to find three different translations giving you three different meanings for the same verse? 

Many times while trying to chant the shlokas, you struggle and f...