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Introduction to Vedanta – Vedanta as a pramana – a direct means for self-knowledge

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The Danger of Not Knowing Sanscrit

The church had a vested interest in maintaining control over the bible. Its priests of of the churchw were trained in the latin language. Latin is a scholarly language, like sanscrit. It was certainly problematic in europeit it led up to the reformation. A lot of the most popular teachers in india in the twentieth century didn't know sanscrit. Swami shivanunda of rishikesh wrote himself two fingers on a typewriter every morning for several hours,. Every morning he'd bang off a couple more pages on the typewriter.

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