A language can cause reduction in your strength?
I was busy doing something when my husband read out that somebody found Sanskrit language maintained physical strength while English caused a weakening through muscle test. I have been doing muscle test since many years and am good at it. This information made me stop whatever I was doing and check its validity immediately. And wasn’t I shocked to see that it was true?
About muscle test
Human body is an intelligent system capable of knowing itself, what is wrong with it and correcting it, provided we give enough rest. Muscle testing is a diagnostic tool that uses body’s nervous system. It gives a form of biofeedback to uncover hidden problems. Once you experience the involuntary weakness during a muscle test, there’s little room for doubt that the body is trying to tell something. Though many critics are deeply sceptical, the evidence base for applied kinesiology is expanding.
Our experiment
I made it a double blind experiment. On two small papers, I wrote A B C D E on one and folded it so that it was not visible. On the other paper wrote क ख ग घ ङ्ग and folded. Now both of us didn’t know what was written in which paper. Then I tested the hand muscle power of my husband. Gave one of the papers in his hand and tested the strength, then the other paper. One showed definite reduction in strength. Then we opened the paper to see which one maintained the strength, and it was Hindi script!
When I posted this finding,
there was a question, “Why though, is it because it's not his
mother tongue or what??!!
Well, that was a valid
question. So I took another paper, wrote letters in Malayalam and folded in a
similar way. I tested again with my husband whose mother tongue is Hindi, but
not Malayalam. Guess what, there was reduction in strength with English, but
with both Hindi and Malayalam he maintained his full strength.
Roots from Sanskrit
I realized that this called for some research. All Indian languages are
either evolved from, or enriched and nourished by Sanskrit. Sanskrit (5000
years old), the World's Oldest Language is an ancient and classical language of
India in which the first ever book of the world Rigveda was compiled. The Vedas
are dated by different scholars from 6500 B.C. to 1500 B.C. Sanskrit language
must have evolved to its expressive capability prior to that. Sanskrit
originated as Vedic Sanskrit as early as 1700-1200 BCE, and was orally
preserved as a part of the Vedic chanting tradition.
Sanskrit is the first script and mother of all languages in the world.
Panini is the scholar who standardized the grammar of Vedic Sanskrit to create
Classical Sanskrit. He is known as the father of Sanskrit and is considered the
earliest known Indian linguist. He wrote the Ashtadhyayi, which can be
translated as “eight chapters” or “Eight Chapters on Grammar”.
Even computer language is derived from Sanskrit because every word has a
specific meaning and it cannot resemble other word or meaning. The Sanskrit
language was termed as Deva-Vani ('Deva' Gods - 'Vani' language) as it was
believed to have been generated by the God Brahma who passed it to the Rishis
(sages) living in celestial abodes, who then communicated the same to their
earthly disciples from where it spread on earth.
Sanskrit and Hindi are written using the same script, Devanagari. Devanāgarī
is a compound of deva (देव) and nāgarī (नागरी). Deva means "heavenly", "divine", or
"deity". Nāgarī comes from nagara (नगर), a Sanskrit word meaning "town" or "city". Hence, devanāgarī
can be translated as "of the city of the gods". Malayalam is almost 90-95% Sanskrit, followed
by Telugu & Kannada at 80-85%. Tamil too has significant Sanskrit.
Attention
from IITs
IIT-Bombay had started a Cell for
Indian Science and Technology in Sanskrit. It isn't just Kharagpur and
Bhubaneswar that are getting on the Sanskrit bandwagon. IIT-Roorkee plans to
teach science and technology in Sanskrit texts along with an inter-disciplinary
study of Sanskrit and modern subjects.
This
is interesting
When a neuroscientist explored the “Sanskrit effect’, it was found that MRI scans show that memorizing ancient mantras increases the size of brain regions associated with cognitive function. Please read the last reference to get more detail and I am sure you will be considering learning Sanskrit yourself or to teach your children!
References:
https://experiencelife.lifetime.life/article/what-is-muscle-testing-and-how-does-it-work/
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/why-is-sanskrit-known-as-the-mother-of-all-languages
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/a-neuroscientist-explores-the-sanskrit-effect/
