<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Sometimes I wonder if it makes any difference at all, considering that the parents want exactly this - the little yuppie schoolboy with as few traditional hang-ups as possible, speaking English fluently. No matter, they can always wax eloquent on their "Hindu heritage", and write Hindu narratives.
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Exactly! Hindu heritage has been lived, preserved, and passed on to generations in INDIC languages. All the thousands of years of experience lives and vibrates in these languages. Can we 'translate' that experience in a few words expressed in a language that was not built and meant and suiatble for expressing that experience? Acharya Rajneesh had once said, 'hamaari bhashayen buddhon ki bhasha hain', our languages are languages of the Buddhas. Can it be replaced by something else, and can still the tradition of experience flow uninturrupted? Hardly!
It will be as artificial as singing an English Gazal.
Can the generations, who can never understand the bhava contained in the innocent words of vAtsalya of Surdas or devotion of Tulsidas and Tyagaraja or nirgun of Kabirdas or Eknath ever be able to appreciate what really was experienced by millions before them through those songs and padas? I dont think so. Then they will create and depend upon the Hindu narratives which will be only artificial kagaz-ke-phool - the never-alive paper-flowers. Life would have departed, No matter how much you try.
But then these are exactly those who have never been able to appreciate the worth of our traditions. Pity those.
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Exactly! Hindu heritage has been lived, preserved, and passed on to generations in INDIC languages. All the thousands of years of experience lives and vibrates in these languages. Can we 'translate' that experience in a few words expressed in a language that was not built and meant and suiatble for expressing that experience? Acharya Rajneesh had once said, 'hamaari bhashayen buddhon ki bhasha hain', our languages are languages of the Buddhas. Can it be replaced by something else, and can still the tradition of experience flow uninturrupted? Hardly!
It will be as artificial as singing an English Gazal.
Can the generations, who can never understand the bhava contained in the innocent words of vAtsalya of Surdas or devotion of Tulsidas and Tyagaraja or nirgun of Kabirdas or Eknath ever be able to appreciate what really was experienced by millions before them through those songs and padas? I dont think so. Then they will create and depend upon the Hindu narratives which will be only artificial kagaz-ke-phool - the never-alive paper-flowers. Life would have departed, No matter how much you try.
But then these are exactly those who have never been able to appreciate the worth of our traditions. Pity those.