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From: Matsya Avatara (das) (Govardhana - IN)
Date: 10-Jun-07 05:31 (01:31 -0400)
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Cc: (ISKCON) Lipa Dalmacija [3305] (sender: Radhe Govinda (dasa) ISM
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Subject: Bhagavata-sastri course 2007
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Why become an academic scholar
when you can be a natural scholar in the eternal
Vaisnava tradition?
Why not consider joining the BBT's new, dynamic school, the
Srimad-Bhagavata Vidyapitham
in Krsna's favorite place, Sri Govardhana?
Currently the Srimad-Bhagavata Vidyapitham is offering a three-year
Bhagavata-sastri course, the students of which learn the Sanskrit grammar
and six Sandarbhas of Sri Jiva Gosvami, acquire the skills to read and speak
Sanskrit fluently, and become immersed in the study of the major Bhagavatam
commentaries of our line. Graduates of this course will be able to pursue
further individualized study and will have the opportunity to become
translators and editors for the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, or find other
engagement in ISKCON as teachers and researchers.
Students entering the Bhagavata-sastri program should expect a
challenging, disciplined course of study that encourages not competitiveness
and selfish goals but rather a team spirit of working together for ISKCON's
preaching mission. There are no tuition charges. Those who have been
accepted for the three-year program after a two-month trial period are given
free maintenance for the duration of the program, with all their expenses
covered other than travel outside of India. At this stage the program is
open only to male devotees, preferably those who are initiated, proficient
in English, and have already undergone a serious study of Srila Prabhupada's
books. The program is in session nine months of the year, according to this
schedule:
First trimester: Oct 1 - Dec 31
Winter break: Jan 1 - Feb 4
Second trimester: Feb5 - May 5
Summer break: May 6 - June 24
Third trimester: June 25 - Sept 24
Short break: Sept 25 - 31
At the beginning of October each year, new students are accepted for
officially starting the Bhagavata-sastri program. Students who want to have
a head start may be allowed to come for an introductory period before the
school year begins.
4:30 Mangala arati
7:15-8:00 Deity greeting, guru-puja, Bhagavatam recitation
8:00-8:50 Bhagavatam class
9:00 Breakfast prasadam
Classes are conducted six days a week, following this schedule for the first
two years of the program:
10:00-10:50 Six Sandarbhas
11:00-12:15 Sanskrit grammar: Hari-namamrta-vyakarana (first year
students)
12:15-12:45 Fruit break
12:45-2:00 Sanskrit grammar: Hari-namamrta-vyakarana (second year
students)
2:00-2:50 Commentary study
3:00 Lunch prasadam
4:00-4:50 Spoken Sanskrit
In the third year, the Sanskrit language study is replaced with surveys of
philosophy and the theory of poetry, and workshops in translation skills and
class-giving.
In the Bhagavatam recitation each morning, everyone chants together one
chapter of the Sanskrit text, so that the entire Bhagavatam is completed in
a one year.
In the first course, Gopiparanadhana Dasa presents the Sandarbhas of Srila
Jiva Gosvami, his encyclopedic explanation of Srimad-Bhagavatam.
In the Sanskrit grammar course, taught by Matsya Avatara Dasa, the
entire system of Srila Jiva Gosvami's Hari-namamrta-vyakarana in an
abbridged version of one thousand sutras is presented with thorough
explanation. By memorizing the sutras, the students have knowledge of the
language literally on the tip of their tongues.
In the commentary study course, taught by Matsya Avatara Dasa and
Nityananda Dasa, verses of the Bhagavatam are studied one after another
along with their commentaries. Each verse is analyzed grammatically, and
then the commentaries on the verse are studied in their original Sanskrit,
including those of Sridhara Svami, Srila Sanatana Gosvami, Sri Jiva Gosvami,
and Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura.
Those who want to be admitted as students of the Bhagavata-sastri
program should fill out our application form, in which they are asked about
their background and service history in ISKCON. Candidates are encouraged to
provide recommendations from authorities they have served under in ISKCON.
Selected candidates will be invited for a trial period at the beginning of
the next school year or before. Free accomodations will be offered for this
period, but candidates should pay for their own travel to India, with return
tickets, and should have situations to return to in case they do not
continue past the trial period.
Those who are interested can contact Gopiparanadhana Dasa at
gopipa@pamho.net.
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