CM Dhami participated in the All India Seminar, said – Sanskrit is the second state language of Uttarakhand, requested the students to spread it to the masses
Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Sunday participated in the inaugural session of ‘Akhil Bharatiya Goshthi’ organized by Sanskrit Bharati at Vyas Mandir, Bhupatwala, Haripurkalan, Dehradun. On this occasion, he prayed at Ved Vyas Mandir and wished for peace and happiness in the state.
Welcoming the people from all over the country to Devbhoomi Uttarakhand in the seminar, the Chief Minister said that every member of Sanskrit Bharati is playing an important role in the promotion of Sanskrit language. It is the pride of the state that Devvani Sanskrit is the second official language of Devbhoomi Uttarakhand. Sanskrit language is a means of expression and also the key to the complete development of man. Human civilizations have developed from Sanskrit language. Rigveda was also written in Sanskrit. Today this language has become a means of expression on a large scale in other fields of literature as well.
The Chief Minister said that the state government is taking several initiatives to preserve and promote Sanskrit language as much as possible. During the assembly session held in Gairsain, the Sanskrit Education Department conducted a Sanskrit conversation camp and motivated all the ministers, MLAs and officers to speak Sanskrit. Under the National Education Policy 2020, Sanskrit schools are being started in the state from class 1 to 5. Efforts are on to write the boards located at all bus stations, railway stations, airports in Sanskrit along with Hindi.
The Chief Minister said that all the Vedas, Puranas and scriptures of the history of Sanatan culture and the Vedic period have been composed in Sanskrit. Sanskrit language is eternal and infinite. He said that from literature to science, from religion to spirituality and from astronomy to surgery, texts related to every field have been written in Sanskrit. Thousands of years ago, Indians had gathered information about the almanac, planets and constellations due to their excellent knowledge.
The Chief Minister said that the number of vowels and consonants in Sanskrit is more than in other languages. Sanskrit is the only language in which the meaning of the sentence does not change due to the words being placed before or after it. He said that the vocabulary of Sanskrit language is also very vast. He said that 1000 names of Lord Vishnu are written in Vishnu Sahasranama, similarly there are Lalita Sahasranama and Shiva Sahasranama. It is possible only in Sanskrit that a name has a thousand synonyms.
The Chief Minister said that many words of many European languages seem to be influenced by Sanskrit. Sanskrit is a very rich, simple and practical language. He said that due to the rule of foreign invaders for many centuries, we have started moving away from Sanskrit language. We have to unite and try to bring our original language Devvani Sanskrit back into the mainstream. He said that this program will definitely leave a positive impact in this direction. He said that Sanskrit Bharati is working to promote Sanskrit in India as well as in many other countries to make Sanskrit a common spoken language again.
On this occasion, President of Parmarth Niketan Swami Chidananda Saraswati Maharaj, Prof. Gopbandhu, Dinesh Kamat, K. Srinivas Prabhu, Janaki Tripathi, and others were present.
