Update

I feel as though I am amiss if I don't give at least a brief report of what is going on here. It seems that I have gone through another long period of silence on the blog, which is not particularly good if you are "building" an audience. Or whatever it is that motivates us to engage in action of any kind. I have started teaching my two daily classes. It has changed my mood completely to be directly engaging with students and again trying to share my love of Sanskrit with them. The last couple of weeks I have been working on the manual again, mostly formatting, so that the students have a hard copy to scribble on. I am going to pick up the hard copy later this morning. Jiva Tirtha Sanskrit 7.5. After ten classes one student asked, Am I supposed to be memorizing this? Yes, my friends, I am afraid soPretty ambitious, I know. Foolish also. Anyway, I told my students that Panini was the first linguist and his analysis went quite far and influenced Indian thinkI have packed my more than 50 years of interaction with the Sanskrit language into a one year course. ing throughout millennia, and still does. That there are individuals like Babaji's students who are attracted to the traiditional Indian intellectual approach. In my other class we are doing Bhagavad Gītā and are going through several commentaries of the Gītā in Sanskrit. It is rather refreshing to revisit the karma-yoga section of the Gītā. I wrote some things about this chapter on this blog a few years ago. The Indian version of the work ethic. This worldly asceticism. A few days ago Namarasaji posted this video of a conversation I had with him a few weeks earlier. I wrote the following:

Radhe Radhe ! I was flattered when Namarasa invited me on his program. I think he is courageous to have done so, and I think that he is serving his function as an American devotee by showing some faith in free speech and the open exchange of ideas. The treasures of the Sanatan Dharma lie in the free expression of spiritual ideas and experimentation. Our path is enriched by the relentless search for those in whom Truth and Love reside. kṛṣṇa-bhakti-rasa-bhāvita-matiḥ kriyatāṁ yadi kuto'pi labhyate tatra laulyam api mūlyam ekalaṁ janma-koṭi-sukṛtair na labhyate ||14|| The Chaitanya tree has many branches. Let them all flourish. Jai Sri Radhe! I got a fair number of positive reactions. But less than 2K views...