In English
The correct pronunciation of is essential
When born, the is a labourer (); birth does not entitle him to take up the study of this Mystery, even if the boy happens to be the son of a great vedic scholar! It is only when he has been formally initiated by a special ceremony that he can start the study of the sacred scriptures. The ceremony makes him a ; he is then born again into a sacred world of study and responsibility. Many have fallen from this responsibility of maintaining a certain ascetic simplicity of life and a certain level of scholarship. When the pure metal has been turned into an alloy, it has to be put into the crucible again. Again, whenever we find genuine vedic vessels like these , we have to protect and preserve them. If people sit quietly when stones are thrown on these vessels by little folk swayed by foolish hatred, the vessels will be broken and will also become inaccessible. If are driven into the forest, the will enter the forest with them, for they are the repositories of . They study the correct pronunciation of each syllable and have, by a remarkable technique of keeping it in memory, preserved it through the ages, through all the calamities India had to endure. A boy was reading his English lessons aloud at home, but he did them so wrongly that the parents were one day put into a great fright. MILK was what the boy was reading. He spelt it out first and then read the entire word. He shouted, emmayelkay milk, emmayelkay milk, emmayelkay milk so fast and so nervously that the parents felt he was shouting in fear, “ ” - meaning rat in Telugu. Correct pronunciation is essential. Encourage the to dedicate their lives to the proper study of the scriptures; you too will benefit by that study, as you are benefitting these days here.