May 8 – “Panini, the Ancient Architect of Consciousness”
Vedic Ritual & Meta-Language
Host: Baba Rampuri
12 noon New York • 9 am San Francisco • 5 pm London • 6 pm Berlin
In this session we will discuss the sage Rishi Panini, whose 5th century BC text, The Ashtadhyayi, is considered by some to be humankind’s greatest known intellectual accomplishment. We will discuss the text itself, it’s application & raison d’etre in ancient India, the Vedic sacrifice, mantras, & analogies. We will see how the West’s discovery of Panini & his text changed the way speech is understood, created the discipline of linguistics, & how by the 1940’s had influenced mathematics to the degree that computer programming languages became possible. Almost every major figure in Indian traditions is influenced by him, & the knowledge in his text is at the foundation of almost all the various disciplines in Indian traditions. The knowledge of Panini and his work is indispensable for anyone involved in traditional Indian culture.
In this session we will discuss the sage Rishi Panini, whose 5th century BC text, The Ashtadhyayi, is considered by some to be humankind’s greatest known intellectual accomplishment. We will discuss the text itself, it’s application & raison d’etre in ancient India, the Vedic sacrifice, mantras, & analogies. We will see how the West’s discovery of Panini & his text changed the way speech is understood, created the discipline of linguistics, & how by the 1940’s had influenced mathematics to the degree that computer programming languages became possible. Almost every major figure in Indian traditions is influenced by him, & the knowledge in his text is at the foundation of almost all the various disciplines in Indian traditions. The knowledge of Panini and his work is indispensable for anyone involved in traditional Indian culture.Topics will include: Uniqueness of Sanskrit, sacred grammar and sacred geometry, Vedic ritual, mantra, metalanguage, Sacred Speech and modern mathematics and virtual applications.
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