by Rohinee Singh,
After India successfully took Yoga to the world on International Yoga Day on June 21, Sanskrit lobby has started feeling left out. To propagate Sanskrit on the same scale, scholars are now pitching the idea of having a Sanskrit language teacher in all Indian embassies. The ministry of human resource development that has to train teachers for the project has cited paucity of funds and is passing the buck to the ministry of external affairs.
The Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, deemed Sanskrit University, has written to the ministry expressing its willingness to train one hundred teachers with post graduate diploma in Sanskrit who could then be posted at Indian embassies.
The university is also of the view that yoga which is being promoted worldwide cannot be taught in isolation and that it is to be linked to Sanskrit learning. “To perform yoga asanas, knowledge of Pranayama is sufficient, but one cannot master the art of meditation, which is the highest form of yoga, without the knowledge of Sanskrit,” said Professor PN Shastry, vice chancellor of Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan.
The university has expressed its desire to train instructors who will be able to promote both yoga and Sanskrit internationally. See more…