I was just curious..I would love to learn Sanskrit and read the Vedas, Bhagavad Gita, and translate for myself.
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YES!  When I believed in Judaism, I started to learn Hebrew because the prayers and Torah reading were in Hebrew at my synagogue.  Plus, I absolutely love languages.\n\nNow that I am Hindu, I really want to learn Sanskrit.  I think it is important to know the original languages, plus Sanskrit is such a beautiful language.  I am always surprised to see how close it actually is to English!  There are words that you can see they are related, even though you would think English and Sanskrit would be nothing alike.\n\nI started to try to learn Sanskrit, but I have not gotten very far because I am so busy with school work.\n\nI even bought a pretty expensive set of CD's to learn it from the American Sanskrit Institute.  I think the CD's are very good, but I just haven't had the time.\n\nI would also like to learn other Indian languages so I can understand the people at my Temple.  But they speak so many different languages.  Some speak Hindi, and others speak Tamil and other languages.\n\nEDIT:  You probably already know this site, but just in case you missed it:  \nhttp://vedabase.net/bg/en\nIt has the Gita and tells you word by word what each word means in Sanskrit.  This may be a good way to learn.
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Indian Priests who recite Sanskrit Mantras in temples; \nSome Great Indian Swamis who study the Vedas in its orginal form (untranslated). \n\nNow there are alot foreigners who are interested studying the hidden secrets of Vedas, hence they are heading over to India to study the Sanskrit Language.
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Try reading the karma sutra and just have fun trying after all variety is the spice of life!
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This book is a must for every aspiring Truth seeker irrespective of his religion.\n\nThis book has given insight milllions of people around the globe.  Yogananda has so bearutifully explained the complex Yoga system through his biography.\n\nI liked the chapter "Law of Miracles" and "Resurrection of guru.."  it has given awsome account of astral planes and an insight into what happens after death
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READ KAMASUTRA BY VATSAYAN !
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Ya only if u know how to read..........lol\n;-)\nYou didn't replied my question seriously so i won't either..\nBye
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It is best not to look for the meanings of the individual Sanskrit words but their use in context.  What you need is either a good phrase translator or a guru.  The site below is one meant to help during the preparation for Puja through Pancha Anga and Sat Suddhi:
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No. That is from the Lotus Sutra. You will find it in Buddhist writings.
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I think it would be darn near impossible to "Completely" study any religion.  There is so much to each religion.  I can't say that I have studied a religion completely at all.
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enjoy with both.... my friend..... learn the shifting duties...it will be useful
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I changed my faith to Hinduism from what I was brought up with, after YEARS of studying all I could about various religions, the Bible, and other Scriptures, ancient and world history, archaeology, etc.  I also "studied" myself.  I prayed a lot and came to understood that Hinduism is the religion of my soul, the religion I was when I was a child, before I was told what to believe.
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I do it for free for google.\n\nI translate English to Hindi, Punjabi and Sanskrit and back.
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The answer lies in your own mindset.  These two languages have existed side by side for many many centuries.  Sanskrit is 'dead' in the sense that it is not used in day to day speech any where. Yet has an amazing power to influence religion, literature and living through its influence. Tamil is spoken in many countries around the world and again has a past that any one can be proud of. They are "foes" only in some minds. \n\ncc
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Of course you can. If i study Islam all my life there are still new things to learn. Its impossible to know everything before becoming a Muslim. I have no need for new testaments or old testaments i have my Quran which is the finale book from God. Have i read the bible? yes.
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I love physics and astrology too but ended up studying japanese. I still regret it a bit. Studying japanese has given me a lot but I still wonder what would have happened had I followed my dream.\n日本語を勉強してよかったけどな。。。\n天文学を勉強すればどうなったのかな？？？
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Well, I too had heard about this study around 3 years ago. It said that Ancient Greek and Sanskrit can be used more efficiently as programming languages for computer. For Sanskrit, the reason is that Sanskrit is a language where the position of a particular word in the sentence does not generally change the meaning of the sentence. Strange but true. Happy to know someone else also know it. Merry Christmas!\n\n--------------------------------------\n\nHi Belle, First of all, I should complement you for asking interesting questions. You should now start selecting the best answers amongst the people who have answered you. Merry Christmas!
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*Muttering for some of my better answers this last week got caught in those deletions*\nI myself am a rather strange mixture of eastern (mostly Buddhist), druidic and shamanistic beliefs. As to information sources, this one seems pretty good for a one stop comparison of most major religions including wicca. http://www.religionfacts.com