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[Guest guest]

Dear friends and fellow-"vedadhyAyin-s" of Kuwait,

 

Below is a post that appeared in

Srirangasri yesterday. Reading it will

make us all really proud! The UNESCO has declared the

Chanting of Vedas to be a priceless "intangible

heritage" of the world!

 

We as Vedic students, living and working here in a

land outside India, are trying in our own humble way

to learn Vedic chanting. We are indeed blessed! All

the time and effort that we as a group have spent

these past 2/3 years surely have been worthwhile! When

we started, all of us indeed resolved rightly! We must

understand that we have truly gained an "intangible"

wealth of inestimable value... "veda-dhanam"! ... as

even the UNESCO now seems to have recognized and

attests!

 

Let us all celebrate! We have every reason to!

 

Regards,

dAsan,

Sudarshan

 

 

 

 

> Message: 3

> Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:09:48 -0500 (EST)

> "Shaasa A. Ruzicka"

> <amritasyaputra

> UNESCO Declares Vedic Chanting an

> “Intangible Heritage of Humanity"

>

>

> UNESCO Declares Vedic Chanting an “Intangible

> Heritage of Humanity"

> *********************************************

>

http://pib.nic.in/archieve/lreleng/lyr2003/rnov2003/11112003/r1111200311.html

>

> PARIS, FRANCE, November 12, 2003: The oral tradition

> of Vedic chanting has been declared an intangible

> heritage of humanity by UNESCO. In a meeting of jury

> members on November 7, 2003, at Paris, Mr. Koichiro

> Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, declared the

> chanting of Vedas in India an outstanding example of

> heritage and form of cultural expressions. The

> proclamation says that in the age of globalization

> and modernization when cultural diversity is under

> pressure, the preservation of oral tradition of

> Vedic chanting, a unique cultural heritage, has

> great significance.

> The jury members included Dr. Richard Kurin,

> Director of the Center for Folklore and Cultural

> Heritage of the Smithsonian Institution (United

> Nations), Mr. Juan Goytisolo, Writer (Spain), Mr.

> Yoshikazu Hasegawa (Japan), Ms. Olive W.M. Lewin.

> Pianist, ethnomusicologist, Director of the Jamaica

> Orchestra for Youth (Jamaica).

> The UNESCO declaration will bring international

> recognition to the excellence of the Vedic chanting

> tradition of India, which has survived for centuries

> encoding the wisdom contained in the Vedas through

> an extraordinary effort of memorization and through

> elaborately worked out mnemonic methods. The purity

> and fail-safe technique devised for Vedic chanting

> in the olden days led to access to one of the

> ancient literatures of humanity in its entirety

> today.

> The Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and

> Culture, took the initiative to put up the

> candidature of the Vedic chanting to UNESCO. A

> presentation was prepared by Indira Gandhi National

> Centre for Arts. The Department has also prepared a

> five-year action plan to safeguard, protect, promote

> and disseminate the oral tradition of Vedas in terms

> of their uniqueness and distinctiveness, encourage

> scholars and practitioners to preserve, revitalize

> and promote their own branch of Vedic recitation as

> the custodians of their own traditions and direct

> the efforts primarily to making the tradition

> survive in its own context.

> --------

>

 

 

______________________

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[Guest guest]

Dear friends and fellow-"vedadhyAyin-s" of Kuwait,

 

Below is a post that appeared in

Srirangasri yesterday. Reading it will

make us all really proud! The UNESCO has declared the

Chanting of Vedas to be a priceless "intangible

heritage" of the world!

 

We as Vedic students, living and working here in a

land outside India, are trying in our own humble way

to learn Vedic chanting. We are indeed blessed! All

the time and effort that we as a group have spent

these past 2/3 years surely have been worthwhile! When

we started, all of us indeed resolved rightly! We must

understand that we have truly gained an "intangible"

wealth of inestimable value... "veda-dhanam"! ... as

even the UNESCO now seems to have recognized and

attests!

 

Let us all celebrate! We have every reason to!

 

Regards,

dAsan,

Sudarshan

 

 

 

 

> Message: 3

> Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:09:48 -0500 (EST)

> "Shaasa A. Ruzicka"

> <amritasyaputra

> UNESCO Declares Vedic Chanting an

> “Intangible Heritage of Humanity"

>

>

> UNESCO Declares Vedic Chanting an “Intangible

> Heritage of Humanity"

> *********************************************

>

http://pib.nic.in/archieve/lreleng/lyr2003/rnov2003/11112003/r1111200311.html

>

> PARIS, FRANCE, November 12, 2003: The oral tradition

> of Vedic chanting has been declared an intangible

> heritage of humanity by UNESCO. In a meeting of jury

> members on November 7, 2003, at Paris, Mr. Koichiro

> Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, declared the

> chanting of Vedas in India an outstanding example of

> heritage and form of cultural expressions. The

> proclamation says that in the age of globalization

> and modernization when cultural diversity is under

> pressure, the preservation of oral tradition of

> Vedic chanting, a unique cultural heritage, has

> great significance.

> The jury members included Dr. Richard Kurin,

> Director of the Center for Folklore and Cultural

> Heritage of the Smithsonian Institution (United

> Nations), Mr. Juan Goytisolo, Writer (Spain), Mr.

> Yoshikazu Hasegawa (Japan), Ms. Olive W.M. Lewin.

> Pianist, ethnomusicologist, Director of the Jamaica

> Orchestra for Youth (Jamaica).

> The UNESCO declaration will bring international

> recognition to the excellence of the Vedic chanting

> tradition of India, which has survived for centuries

> encoding the wisdom contained in the Vedas through

> an extraordinary effort of memorization and through

> elaborately worked out mnemonic methods. The purity

> and fail-safe technique devised for Vedic chanting

> in the olden days led to access to one of the

> ancient literatures of humanity in its entirety

> today.

> The Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and

> Culture, took the initiative to put up the

> candidature of the Vedic chanting to UNESCO. A

> presentation was prepared by Indira Gandhi National

> Centre for Arts. The Department has also prepared a

> five-year action plan to safeguard, protect, promote

> and disseminate the oral tradition of Vedas in terms

> of their uniqueness and distinctiveness, encourage

> scholars and practitioners to preserve, revitalize

> and promote their own branch of Vedic recitation as

> the custodians of their own traditions and direct

> the efforts primarily to making the tradition

> survive in its own context.

> --------

>

 

 

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i don't know how much happy i should be, when i read the original UNESCO

website posting. this recognition to vedic chanting is no isolated matter,

it is part of a 28 item list, among which are:

 

The masterpieces proclaimed are: Azerbaijani Mugham (Azerbaijan), The

Carnival of Binche (Belgium), The Andean Cosmovision of the Kallawaya

(Bolivia), The Oral and Graphic Expressions of the Wajapi (Brazil), The

Oral traditions of the Aka Pygmies of Central Africa (Central African

Republic), The Royal Ballet of Cambodia (Cambodia), The Art of Guqin Music

(China), The Carnival of Barranquilla (Colombia), La Tumba Francesa, Music

of the Oriente Brotherhood (Cuba), The Al-Sirah al-Hilaliyya Epic (Egypt),

The Kihnu Cultural Space (Estonia), The Tradition of Vedic Chanting

(India), Wayang Puppet Theatre (Indonesia), The Maroon Heritage of Moore

Town (Jamaica), Ningyo Johruri Bunraku Puppet Theatre (Japan), The Art of

Akyns, Kyrgyz Epic Tellers (Kyrgyzstan), Woodcrafting Knowledge of the

Zafimaniry (Madagascar), The Indigenous Festivity dedicated to the Dead

(Mexico), The Traditional Music of Morin Khuur (Mongolia), The Pansori

Epic Chant (Republic of Korea), Lakalaka, Dances and Sung Speeches of

Tonga (Tonga), The Arts of the Meddah, Public Storytellers (Turkey),

Vanuatu Sand Drawings (Vanuatu), Nha Nhac, Vietnamese Court Music (Viet

Nam), Arab States: Iraqi Maqam (Iraq), Songs of Sanaa (Yemen).

 

 

for those interested, the URL is

http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php@URL_ID=17120&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.\

html

or simply go to www.unesco.org and then follow the "intangible heritage" link

 

vedic chanting is at par with Music of the Oriente Brotherhood of Cuba!

 

vedic traditions are among the oldest surviving sophisticated, highly

developed traditions, that has music, linguistics, maths, wisdom,

spirituality all combined intricately!

 

:-(

 

sudarshan madabushi worked magic with the keyboard on Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at

07:13:28AM +0000:

>

> Dear friends and fellow-"vedadhyAyin-s" of Kuwait,

>

> Below is a post that appeared in

> Srirangasri yesterday. Reading it will

> make us all really proud! The UNESCO has declared the

> Chanting of Vedas to be a priceless "intangible

> heritage" of the world!

>

> We as Vedic students, living and working here in a

> land outside India, are trying in our own humble way

> to learn Vedic chanting. We are indeed blessed! All

> the time and effort that we as a group have spent

> these past 2/3 years surely have been worthwhile! When

> we started, all of us indeed resolved rightly! We must

> understand that we have truly gained an "intangible"

> wealth of inestimable value... "veda-dhanam"! ... as

> even the UNESCO now seems to have recognized and

> attests!

>

> Let us all celebrate! We have every reason to!

>

> Regards,

> dAsan,

> Sudarshan

>

>

>

>

> > Message: 3

> > Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:09:48 -0500 (EST)

> > "Shaasa A. Ruzicka"

> > <amritasyaputra

> > UNESCO Declares Vedic Chanting an

> > “Intangible Heritage of Humanity"

> >

> >

> > UNESCO Declares Vedic Chanting an “Intangible

> > Heritage of Humanity"

> > *********************************************

> >

> http://pib.nic.in/archieve/lreleng/lyr2003/rnov2003/11112003/r1111200311.html

> >

> > PARIS, FRANCE, November 12, 2003: The oral tradition

> > of Vedic chanting has been declared an intangible

> > heritage of humanity by UNESCO. In a meeting of jury

> > members on November 7, 2003, at Paris, Mr. Koichiro

> > Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, declared the

> > chanting of Vedas in India an outstanding example of

> > heritage and form of cultural expressions. The

> > proclamation says that in the age of globalization

> > and modernization when cultural diversity is under

> > pressure, the preservation of oral tradition of

> > Vedic chanting, a unique cultural heritage, has

> > great significance.

> > The jury members included Dr. Richard Kurin,

> > Director of the Center for Folklore and Cultural

> > Heritage of the Smithsonian Institution (United

> > Nations), Mr. Juan Goytisolo, Writer (Spain), Mr.

> > Yoshikazu Hasegawa (Japan), Ms. Olive W.M. Lewin.

> > Pianist, ethnomusicologist, Director of the Jamaica

> > Orchestra for Youth (Jamaica).

> > The UNESCO declaration will bring international

> > recognition to the excellence of the Vedic chanting

> > tradition of India, which has survived for centuries

> > encoding the wisdom contained in the Vedas through

> > an extraordinary effort of memorization and through

> > elaborately worked out mnemonic methods. The purity

> > and fail-safe technique devised for Vedic chanting

> > in the olden days led to access to one of the

> > ancient literatures of humanity in its entirety

> > today.

> > The Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and

> > Culture, took the initiative to put up the

> > candidature of the Vedic chanting to UNESCO. A

> > presentation was prepared by Indira Gandhi National

> > Centre for Arts. The Department has also prepared a

> > five-year action plan to safeguard, protect, promote

> > and disseminate the oral tradition of Vedas in terms

> > of their uniqueness and distinctiveness, encourage

> > scholars and practitioners to preserve, revitalize

> > and promote their own branch of Vedic recitation as

> > the custodians of their own traditions and direct

> > the efforts primarily to making the tradition

> > survive in its own context.

> > --------

> >

>

>

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I think sri Shashi has a point. But for now, I will consider this useful

assuming that we can use the resources derived out of such a proclamation for

benefit of improving vedic chanting. Although, it may not be the intention of

the proclamation, but I would like to see this in isolation as a means to

protect our vedic traditions. In that respect I am fully convinced by Sri

Sudarshan swamy for we have probably a reason to think in the direction of

rejoicing.

 

Sajjana Padapadma parama renuhu

 

Lakshmi Narasimha dasan

 

 

 

 

 

 

shashi <shashi wrote:

i don't know how much happy i should be, when i read the original UNESCO

website posting. this recognition to vedic chanting is no isolated matter,

it is part of a 28 item list, among which are:

 

The masterpieces proclaimed are: Azerbaijani Mugham (Azerbaijan), The

Carnival of Binche (Belgium), The Andean Cosmovision of the Kallawaya

(Bolivia), The Oral and Graphic Expressions of the Wajapi (Brazil), The

Oral traditions of the Aka Pygmies of Central Africa (Central African

Republic), The Royal Ballet of Cambodia (Cambodia), The Art of Guqin Music

(China), The Carnival of Barranquilla (Colombia), La Tumba Francesa, Music

of the Oriente Brotherhood (Cuba), The Al-Sirah al-Hilaliyya Epic (Egypt),

The Kihnu Cultural Space (Estonia), The Tradition of Vedic Chanting

(India), Wayang Puppet Theatre (Indonesia), The Maroon Heritage of Moore

Town (Jamaica), Ningyo Johruri Bunraku Puppet Theatre (Japan), The Art of

Akyns, Kyrgyz Epic Tellers (Kyrgyzstan), Woodcrafting Knowledge of the

Zafimaniry (Madagascar), The Indigenous Festivity dedicated to the Dead

(Mexico), The Traditional Music of Morin Khuur (Mongolia), The Pansori

Epic Chant (Republic of Korea), Lakalaka, Dances and Sung Speeches of

Tonga (Tonga), The Arts of the Meddah, Public Storytellers (Turkey),

Vanuatu Sand Drawings (Vanuatu), Nha Nhac, Vietnamese Court Music (Viet

Nam), Arab States: Iraqi Maqam (Iraq), Songs of Sanaa (Yemen).

 

 

for those interested, the URL is

http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php@URL_ID=17120&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.\

html

or simply go to www.unesco.org and then follow the "intangible heritage" link

 

vedic chanting is at par with Music of the Oriente Brotherhood of Cuba!

 

vedic traditions are among the oldest surviving sophisticated, highly

developed traditions, that has music, linguistics, maths, wisdom,

spirituality all combined intricately!

 

:-(

 

sudarshan madabushi worked magic with the keyboard on Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at

07:13:28AM +0000:

>

> Dear friends and fellow-"vedadhyAyin-s" of Kuwait,

>

> Below is a post that appeared in

> Srirangasri yesterday. Reading it will

> make us all really proud! The UNESCO has declared the

> Chanting of Vedas to be a priceless "intangible

> heritage" of the world!

>

> We as Vedic students, living and working here in a

> land outside India, are trying in our own humble way

> to learn Vedic chanting. We are indeed blessed! All

> the time and effort that we as a group have spent

> these past 2/3 years surely have been worthwhile! When

> we started, all of us indeed resolved rightly! We must

> understand that we have truly gained an "intangible"

> wealth of inestimable value... "veda-dhanam"! ... as

> even the UNESCO now seems to have recognized and

> attests!

>

> Let us all celebrate! We have every reason to!

>

> Regards,

> dAsan,

> Sudarshan

>

>

>

>

> > Message: 3

> > Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:09:48 -0500 (EST)

> > "Shaasa A. Ruzicka"

> > <amritasyaputra

> > UNESCO Declares Vedic Chanting an

> > “Intangible Heritage of Humanity"

> >

> >

> > UNESCO Declares Vedic Chanting an “Intangible

> > Heritage of Humanity"

> > *********************************************

> >

> http://pib.nic.in/archieve/lreleng/lyr2003/rnov2003/11112003/r1111200311.html

> >

> > PARIS, FRANCE, November 12, 2003: The oral tradition

> > of Vedic chanting has been declared an intangible

> > heritage of humanity by UNESCO. In a meeting of jury

> > members on November 7, 2003, at Paris, Mr. Koichiro

> > Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, declared the

> > chanting of Vedas in India an outstanding example of

> > heritage and form of cultural expressions. The

> > proclamation says that in the age of globalization

> > and modernization when cultural diversity is under

> > pressure, the preservation of oral tradition of

> > Vedic chanting, a unique cultural heritage, has

> > great significance.

> > The jury members included Dr. Richard Kurin,

> > Director of the Center for Folklore and Cultural

> > Heritage of the Smithsonian Institution (United

> > Nations), Mr. Juan Goytisolo, Writer (Spain), Mr.

> > Yoshikazu Hasegawa (Japan), Ms. Olive W.M. Lewin.

> > Pianist, ethnomusicologist, Director of the Jamaica

> > Orchestra for Youth (Jamaica).

> > The UNESCO declaration will bring international

> > recognition to the excellence of the Vedic chanting

> > tradition of India, which has survived for centuries

> > encoding the wisdom contained in the Vedas through

> > an extraordinary effort of memorization and through

> > elaborately worked out mnemonic methods. The purity

> > and fail-safe technique devised for Vedic chanting

> > in the olden days led to access to one of the

> > ancient literatures of humanity in its entirety

> > today.

> > The Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and

> > Culture, took the initiative to put up the

> > candidature of the Vedic chanting to UNESCO. A

> > presentation was prepared by Indira Gandhi National

> > Centre for Arts. The Department has also prepared a

> > five-year action plan to safeguard, protect, promote

> > and disseminate the oral tradition of Vedas in terms

> > of their uniqueness and distinctiveness, encourage

> > scholars and practitioners to preserve, revitalize

> > and promote their own branch of Vedic recitation as

> > the custodians of their own traditions and direct

> > the efforts primarily to making the tradition

> > survive in its own context.

> > --------

> >

>

>

> ______________________

> India Mobile: Download the latest polyphonic ringtones.

> Go to http://in.mobile.

>

>

>

>

> Srirangasri-

>

>

>

> Your use of is subject to

>

>

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Hari OM! Narayana Smrithis

 

Blessed Ones,

 

Why do we need heat to the SUN??? Since the source of heat is HIM alone.

 

We never need any recognition from any of the organisation because Vedas are

Anaadi. It is still surprising that, the UNESCO or somebody by name Robert,

Harry et al... have to recognize our VEDAS!!!!

 

Be proud of our own culture & Heritage, like an ocean, if any one needs anytime

it is available. We do not need any recognition or praising from any quarters.

because Vedas are "Swayam Prakashitam" and complete always. Only thing we need

to practice and learn it properly, We should not try to give light to the SUN!!!

 

With Love & OM!

 

Krishna

 

 

narsimhan csl <cslnarsimhan wrote:

 

I think sri Shashi has a point. But for now, I will consider this useful

assuming that we can use the resources derived out of such a proclamation for

benefit of improving vedic chanting. Although, it may not be the intention of

the proclamation, but I would like to see this in isolation as a means to

protect our vedic traditions. In that respect I am fully convinced by Sri

Sudarshan swamy for we have probably a reason to think in the direction of

rejoicing.

 

Sajjana Padapadma parama renuhu

 

Lakshmi Narasimha dasan

 

 

 

 

 

 

shashi wrote:

i don't know how much happy i should be, when i read the original UNESCO

website posting. this recognition to vedic chanting is no isolated matter,

it is part of a 28 item list, among which are:

 

The masterpieces proclaimed are: Azerbaijani Mugham (Azerbaijan), The

Carnival of Binche (Belgium), The Andean Cosmovision of the Kallawaya

(Bolivia), The Oral and Graphic Expressions of the Wajapi (Brazil), The

Oral traditions of the Aka Pygmies of Central Africa (Central African

Republic), The Royal Ballet of Cambodia (Cambodia), The Art of Guqin Music

(China), The Carnival of Barranquilla (Colombia), La Tumba Francesa, Music

of the Oriente Brotherhood (Cuba), The Al-Sirah al-Hilaliyya Epic (Egypt),

The Kihnu Cultural Space (Estonia), The Tradition of Vedic Chanting

(India), Wayang Puppet Theatre (Indonesia), The Maroon Heritage of Moore

Town (Jamaica), Ningyo Johruri Bunraku Puppet Theatre (Japan), The Art of

Akyns, Kyrgyz Epic Tellers (Kyrgyzstan), Woodcrafting Knowledge of the

Zafimaniry (Madagascar), The Indigenous Festivity dedicated to the Dead

(Mexico), The Traditional Music of Morin Khuur (Mongolia), The Pansori

Epic Chant (Republic of Korea), Lakalaka, Dances and Sung Speeches of

Tonga (Tonga), The Arts of the Meddah, Public Storytellers (Turkey),

Vanuatu Sand Drawings (Vanuatu), Nha Nhac, Vietnamese Court Music (Viet

Nam), Arab States: Iraqi Maqam (Iraq), Songs of Sanaa (Yemen).

 

 

for those interested, the URL is

http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php@URL_ID=17120&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.\

html

or simply go to www.unesco.org and then follow the "intangible heritage" link

 

vedic chanting is at par with Music of the Oriente Brotherhood of Cuba!

 

vedic traditions are among the oldest surviving sophisticated, highly

developed traditions, that has music, linguistics, maths, wisdom,

spirituality all combined intricately!

 

:-(

 

sudarshan madabushi worked magic with the keyboard on Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at

07:13:28AM +0000:

>

> Dear friends and fellow-"vedadhyAyin-s" of Kuwait,

>

> Below is a post that appeared in

> Srirangasri yesterday. Reading it will

> make us all really proud! The UNESCO has declared the

> Chanting of Vedas to be a priceless "intangible

> heritage" of the world!

>

> We as Vedic students, living and working here in a

> land outside India, are trying in our own humble way

> to learn Vedic chanting. We are indeed blessed! All

> the time and effort that we as a group have spent

> these past 2/3 years surely have been worthwhile! When

> we started, all of us indeed resolved rightly! We must

> understand that we have truly gained an "intangible"

> wealth of inestimable value... "veda-dhanam"! ... as

> even the UNESCO now seems to have recognized and

> attests!

>

> Let us all celebrate! We have every reason to!

>

> Regards,

> dAsan,

> Sudarshan

>

>

>

>

> > Message: 3

> > Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:09:48 -0500 (EST)

> > "Shaasa A. Ruzicka"

> >

> > UNESCO Declares Vedic Chanting an

> > “Intangible Heritage of Humanity"

> >

> >

> > UNESCO Declares Vedic Chanting an “Intangible

> > Heritage of Humanity"

> > *********************************************

> >

> http://pib.nic.in/archieve/lreleng/lyr2003/rnov2003/11112003/r1111200311.html

> >

> > PARIS, FRANCE, November 12, 2003: The oral tradition

> > of Vedic chanting has been declared an intangible

> > heritage of humanity by UNESCO. In a meeting of jury

> > members on November 7, 2003, at Paris, Mr. Koichiro

> > Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, declared the

> > chanting of Vedas in India an outstanding example of

> > heritage and form of cultural expressions. The

> > proclamation says that in the age of globalization

> > and modernization when cultural diversity is under

> > pressure, the preservation of oral tradition of

> > Vedic chanting, a unique cultural heritage, has

> > great significance.

> > The jury members included Dr. Richard Kurin,

> > Director of the Center for Folklore and Cultural

> > Heritage of the Smithsonian Institution (United

> > Nations), Mr. Juan Goytisolo, Writer (Spain), Mr.

> > Yoshikazu Hasegawa (Japan), Ms. Olive W.M. Lewin.

> > Pianist, ethnomusicologist, Director of the Jamaica

> > Orchestra for Youth (Jamaica).

> > The UNESCO declaration will bring international

> > recognition to the excellence of the Vedic chanting

> > tradition of India, which has survived for centuries

> > encoding the wisdom contained in the Vedas through

> > an extraordinary effort of memorization and through

> > elaborately worked out mnemonic methods. The purity

> > and fail-safe technique devised for Vedic chanting

> > in the olden days led to access to one of the

> > ancient literatures of humanity in its entirety

> > today.

> > The Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and

> > Culture, took the initiative to put up the

> > candidature of the Vedic chanting to UNESCO. A

> > presentation was prepared by Indira Gandhi National

> > Centre for Arts. The Department has also prepared a

> > five-year action plan to safeguard, protect, promote

> > and disseminate the oral tradition of Vedas in terms

> > of their uniqueness and distinctiveness, encourage

> > scholars and practitioners to preserve, revitalize

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Dear Krishna Prasadji,

 

Very true. One cannot try to give light to the Sun. It is always the Sun that

gives the light. It is always the Lord who protects the vedas from times of

yore. UNESCO could be one of his means, I view it that way.Otherwise, why some

one completely unconnected with Vedas has to proclaimed this.

 

Lakshmi Narasimha dasan

 

Krishna Prasad <rkrishp99 wrote: Hari OM! Narayana Smrithis

 

Blessed Ones,

 

Why do we need heat to the SUN??? Since the source of heat is HIM alone.

 

We never need any recognition from any of the organisation because Vedas are

Anaadi. It is still surprising that, the UNESCO or somebody by name Robert,

Harry et al... have to recognize our VEDAS!!!!

 

Be proud of our own culture & Heritage, like an ocean, if any one needs anytime

it is available. We do not need any recognition or praising from any quarters.

because Vedas are "Swayam Prakashitam" and complete always. Only thing we need

to practice and learn it properly, We should not try to give light to the SUN!!!

 

With Love & OM!

 

Krishna

 

 

narsimhan csl <cslnarsimhan wrote:

 

I think sri Shashi has a point. But for now, I will consider this useful

assuming that we can use the resources derived out of such a proclamation for

benefit of improving vedic chanting. Although, it may not be the intention of

the proclamation, but I would like to see this in isolation as a means to

protect our vedic traditions. In that respect I am fully convinced by Sri

Sudarshan swamy for we have probably a reason to think in the direction of

rejoicing.

 

Sajjana Padapadma parama renuhu

 

Lakshmi Narasimha dasan

 

 

 

 

 

 

shashi wrote:

i don't know how much happy i should be, when i read the original UNESCO

website posting. this recognition to vedic chanting is no isolated matter,

it is part of a 28 item list, among which are:

 

The masterpieces proclaimed are: Azerbaijani Mugham (Azerbaijan), The

Carnival of Binche (Belgium), The Andean Cosmovision of the Kallawaya

(Bolivia), The Oral and Graphic Expressions of the Wajapi (Brazil), The

Oral traditions of the Aka Pygmies of Central Africa (Central African

Republic), The Royal Ballet of Cambodia (Cambodia), The Art of Guqin Music

(China), The Carnival of Barranquilla (Colombia), La Tumba Francesa, Music

of the Oriente Brotherhood (Cuba), The Al-Sirah al-Hilaliyya Epic (Egypt),

The Kihnu Cultural Space (Estonia), The Tradition of Vedic Chanting

(India), Wayang Puppet Theatre (Indonesia), The Maroon Heritage of Moore

Town (Jamaica), Ningyo Johruri Bunraku Puppet Theatre (Japan), The Art of

Akyns, Kyrgyz Epic Tellers (Kyrgyzstan), Woodcrafting Knowledge of the

Zafimaniry (Madagascar), The Indigenous Festivity dedicated to the Dead

(Mexico), The Traditional Music of Morin Khuur (Mongolia), The Pansori

Epic Chant (Republic of Korea), Lakalaka, Dances and Sung Speeches of

Tonga (Tonga), The Arts of the Meddah, Public Storytellers (Turkey),

Vanuatu Sand Drawings (Vanuatu), Nha Nhac, Vietnamese Court Music (Viet

Nam), Arab States: Iraqi Maqam (Iraq), Songs of Sanaa (Yemen).

 

 

for those interested, the URL is

http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php@URL_ID=17120&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.\

html

or simply go to www.unesco.org and then follow the "intangible heritage" link

 

vedic chanting is at par with Music of the Oriente Brotherhood of Cuba!

 

vedic traditions are among the oldest surviving sophisticated, highly

developed traditions, that has music, linguistics, maths, wisdom,

spirituality all combined intricately!

 

:-(

 

sudarshan madabushi worked magic with the keyboard on Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at

07:13:28AM +0000:

>

> Dear friends and fellow-"vedadhyAyin-s" of Kuwait,

>

> Below is a post that appeared in

> Srirangasri yesterday. Reading it will

> make us all really proud! The UNESCO has declared the

> Chanting of Vedas to be a priceless "intangible

> heritage" of the world!

>

> We as Vedic students, living and working here in a

> land outside India, are trying in our own humble way

> to learn Vedic chanting. We are indeed blessed! All

> the time and effort that we as a group have spent

> these past 2/3 years surely have been worthwhile! When

> we started, all of us indeed resolved rightly! We must

> understand that we have truly gained an "intangible"

> wealth of inestimable value... "veda-dhanam"! ... as

> even the UNESCO now seems to have recognized and

> attests!

>

> Let us all celebrate! We have every reason to!

>

> Regards,

> dAsan,

> Sudarshan

>

>

>

>

> > Message: 3

> > Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:09:48 -0500 (EST)

> > "Shaasa A. Ruzicka"

> >

> > UNESCO Declares Vedic Chanting an

> > “Intangible Heritage of Humanity"

> >

> >

> > UNESCO Declares Vedic Chanting an “Intangible

> > Heritage of Humanity"

> > *********************************************

> >

> http://pib.nic.in/archieve/lreleng/lyr2003/rnov2003/11112003/r1111200311.html

> >

> > PARIS, FRANCE, November 12, 2003: The oral tradition

> > of Vedic chanting has been declared an intangible

> > heritage of humanity by UNESCO. In a meeting of jury

> > members on November 7, 2003, at Paris, Mr. Koichiro

> > Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, declared the

> > chanting of Vedas in India an outstanding example of

> > heritage and form of cultural expressions. The

> > proclamation says that in the age of globalization

> > and modernization when cultural diversity is under

> > pressure, the preservation of oral tradition of

> > Vedic chanting, a unique cultural heritage, has

> > great significance.

> > The jury members included Dr. Richard Kurin,

> > Director of the Center for Folklore and Cultural

> > Heritage of the Smithsonian Institution (United

> > Nations), Mr. Juan Goytisolo, Writer (Spain), Mr.

> > Yoshikazu Hasegawa (Japan), Ms. Olive W.M. Lewin.

> > Pianist, ethnomusicologist, Director of the Jamaica

> > Orchestra for Youth (Jamaica).

> > The UNESCO declaration will bring international

> > recognition to the excellence of the Vedic chanting

> > tradition of India, which has survived for centuries

> > encoding the wisdom contained in the Vedas through

> > an extraordinary effort of memorization and through

> > elaborately worked out mnemonic methods. The purity

> > and fail-safe technique devised for Vedic chanting

> > in the olden days led to access to one of the

> > ancient literatures of humanity in its entirety

> > today.

> > The Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and

> > Culture, took the initiative to put up the

> > candidature of the Vedic chanting to UNESCO. A

> > presentation was prepared by Indira Gandhi National

> > Centre for Arts. The Department has also prepared a

> > five-year action plan to safeguard, protect, promote

> > and disseminate the oral tradition of Vedas in terms

> > of their uniqueness and distinctiveness, encourage

> > scholars and practitioners to preserve, revitalize

> > and promote their own branch of Vedic recitation as

> > the custodians of their own traditions and direct

> > the efforts primarily to making the tradition

> > survive in its own context.

> > --------

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Dear Bhagavathas,

 

Our Pranams to you all.

 

We dont crave for any recognition of The Vedas from any one. But if someone

honours The Vedas it is of course welcome. Lord does not want us to praise Him,

as He is beyond any praise from any one.But when we do Praise Him with

sincerity,He very much relishes it and listens to our prattlings with pleasure.

 

We are happy more and more people are brought into The Fold of the Greatness of

Our Vedas.

 

Dasan

 

Kombur Vankipuram Madhavan.

 

narsimhan csl <cslnarsimhan wrote:

 

 

 

Dear Krishna Prasadji,

 

Very true. One cannot try to give light to the Sun. It is always the Sun that

gives the light. It is always the Lord who protects the vedas from times of

yore. UNESCO could be one of his means, I view it that way.Otherwise, why some

one completely unconnected with Vedas has to proclaimed this.

 

Lakshmi Narasimha dasan

 

Krishna Prasad wrote: Hari OM! Narayana Smrithis

 

Blessed Ones,

 

Why do we need heat to the SUN??? Since the source of heat is HIM alone.

 

We never need any recognition from any of the organisation because Vedas are

Anaadi. It is still surprising that, the UNESCO or somebody by name Robert,

Harry et al... have to recognize our VEDAS!!!!

 

Be proud of our own culture & Heritage, like an ocean, if any one needs anytime

it is available. We do not need any recognition or praising from any quarters.

because Vedas are "Swayam Prakashitam" and complete always. Only thing we need

to practice and learn it properly, We should not try to give light to the SUN!!!

 

With Love & OM!

 

Krishna

 

 

narsimhan csl wrote:

 

I think sri Shashi has a point. But for now, I will consider this useful

assuming that we can use the resources derived out of such a proclamation for

benefit of improving vedic chanting. Although, it may not be the intention of

the proclamation, but I would like to see this in isolation as a means to

protect our vedic traditions. In that respect I am fully convinced by Sri

Sudarshan swamy for we have probably a reason to think in the direction of

rejoicing.

 

Sajjana Padapadma parama renuhu

 

Lakshmi Narasimha dasan

 

 

 

 

 

 

shashi wrote:

i don't know how much happy i should be, when i read the original UNESCO

website posting. this recognition to vedic chanting is no isolated matter,

it is part of a 28 item list, among which are:

 

The masterpieces proclaimed are: Azerbaijani Mugham (Azerbaijan), The

Carnival of Binche (Belgium), The Andean Cosmovision of the Kallawaya

(Bolivia), The Oral and Graphic Expressions of the Wajapi (Brazil), The

Oral traditions of the Aka Pygmies of Central Africa (Central African

Republic), The Royal Ballet of Cambodia (Cambodia), The Art of Guqin Music

(China), The Carnival of Barranquilla (Colombia), La Tumba Francesa, Music

of the Oriente Brotherhood (Cuba), The Al-Sirah al-Hilaliyya Epic (Egypt),

The Kihnu Cultural Space (Estonia), The Tradition of Vedic Chanting

(India), Wayang Puppet Theatre (Indonesia), The Maroon Heritage of Moore

Town (Jamaica), Ningyo Johruri Bunraku Puppet Theatre (Japan), The Art of

Akyns, Kyrgyz Epic Tellers (Kyrgyzstan), Woodcrafting Knowledge of the

Zafimaniry (Madagascar), The Indigenous Festivity dedicated to the Dead

(Mexico), The Traditional Music of Morin Khuur (Mongolia), The Pansori

Epic Chant (Republic of Korea), Lakalaka, Dances and Sung Speeches of

Tonga (Tonga), The Arts of the Meddah, Public Storytellers (Turkey),

Vanuatu Sand Drawings (Vanuatu), Nha Nhac, Vietnamese Court Music (Viet

Nam), Arab States: Iraqi Maqam (Iraq), Songs of Sanaa (Yemen).

 

 

for those interested, the URL is

http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php@URL_ID=17120&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.\

html

or simply go to www.unesco.org and then follow the "intangible heritage" link

 

vedic chanting is at par with Music of the Oriente Brotherhood of Cuba!

 

vedic traditions are among the oldest surviving sophisticated, highly

developed traditions, that has music, linguistics, maths, wisdom,

spirituality all combined intricately!

 

:-(

 

sudarshan madabushi worked magic with the keyboard on Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at

07:13:28AM +0000:

>

> Dear friends and fellow-"vedadhyAyin-s" of Kuwait,

>

> Below is a post that appeared in

> Srirangasri yesterday. Reading it will

> make us all really proud! The UNESCO has declared the

> Chanting of Vedas to be a priceless "intangible

> heritage" of the world!

>

> We as Vedic students, living and working here in a

> land outside India, are trying in our own humble way

> to learn Vedic chanting. We are indeed blessed! All

> the time and effort that we as a group have spent

> these past 2/3 years surely have been worthwhile! When

> we started, all of us indeed resolved rightly! We must

> understand that we have truly gained an "intangible"

> wealth of inestimable value... "veda-dhanam"! ... as

> even the UNESCO now seems to have recognized and

> attests!

>

> Let us all celebrate! We have every reason to!

>

> Regards,

> dAsan,

> Sudarshan

>

>

>

>

> > Message: 3

> > Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:09:48 -0500 (EST)

> > "Shaasa A. Ruzicka"

> >

> > UNESCO Declares Vedic Chanting an

> > “Intangible Heritage of Humanity"

> >

> >

> > UNESCO Declares Vedic Chanting an “Intangible

> > Heritage of Humanity"

> > *********************************************

> >

> http://pib.nic.in/archieve/lreleng/lyr2003/rnov2003/11112003/r1111200311.html

> >

> > PARIS, FRANCE, November 12, 2003: The oral tradition

> > of Vedic chanting has been declared an intangible

> > heritage of humanity by UNESCO. In a meeting of jury

> > members on November 7, 2003, at Paris, Mr. Koichiro

> > Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, declared the

> > chanting of Vedas in India an outstanding example of

> > heritage and form of cultural expressions. The

> > proclamation says that in the age of globalization

> > and modernization when cultural diversity is under

> > pressure, the preservation of oral tradition of

> > Vedic chanting, a unique cultural heritage, has

> > great significance.

> > The jury members included Dr. Richard Kurin,

> > Director of the Center for Folklore and Cultural

> > Heritage of the Smithsonian Institution (United

> > Nations), Mr. Juan Goytisolo, Writer (Spain), Mr.

> > Yoshikazu Hasegawa (Japan), Ms. Olive W.M. Lewin.

> > Pianist, ethnomusicologist, Director of the Jamaica

> > Orchestra for Youth (Jamaica).

> > The UNESCO declaration will bring international

> > recognition to the excellence of the Vedic chanting

> > tradition of India, which has survived for centuries

> > encoding the wisdom contained in the Vedas through

> > an extraordinary effort of memorization and through

> > elaborately worked out mnemonic methods. The purity

> > and fail-safe technique devised for Vedic chanting

> > in the olden days led to access to one of the

> > ancient literatures of humanity in its entirety

> > today.

> > The Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and

> > Culture, took the initiative to put up the

> > candidature of the Vedic chanting to UNESCO. A

> > presentation was prepared by Indira Gandhi National

> > Centre for Arts. The Department has also prepared a

> > five-year action plan to safeguard, protect, promote

> > and disseminate the oral tradition of Vedas in terms

> > of their uniqueness and distinctiveness, encourage

> > scholars and practitioners to preserve, revitalize

> > and promote their own branch of Vedic recitation as

> > the custodians of their own traditions and direct

> > the efforts primarily to making the tradition

> > survive in its own context.

> > --------

> >

>

>

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Dear friends,

 

The reason for my happiness at UNESCO's declaration

stems from precisely the reasons mentioned in Sri csl

narsimhan's kind message below.

 

Nobody in India, no Indian certainly, needs a UN

mandate for the Vedas. The Vedas pre-exist the UNESCO

and the Vedas shall undoubtedly survive it too. Even

without a UN declaration surely Indians all over the

world know in their hearts that the Veda is an

"intangible heritage of humanity".

 

What however makes the subject UNESCO declaration

special (to me at least) is that for the first time

(to the best of my knowledge) a world premier body

like the UN (that too a secular organization) has

recognized and affirmed the timeless religious &

spiritual legacy of India to all humanity. Is this not

a matter of pride for the land of India and its

peoples? After all, we see reason to take pride when

someone tells us that that much of the good work done

at NASA or Microsoft is done by Indian scientific

minds! Why shouldn't we similarly take pride when a

world-body such as the UN formally acknowledges the

Vedas of India to be a world heritage?

 

I also do not understand why we should be disappointed

that the UNESCO while hailing the Vedas has similarly

conferred honours on "28 other heritages of the

world". God's great world is garden of many treasures

and wonders... There are perhaps other treasures in

His world too besides the Vedas. Why should we doubt

it or be aggrieved? Let us rejoice in our part of the

Lord's garden, the Vedas. In any case, the UN as a

world-body must exhibit a global perspective and hence

perhaps has chosen 28 other items of "humanity

heritages".

 

No one can also reasonably believe that because of the

UNESCO declaration, the United Nations will now begin

to fund and support all our Vedic pundits and

"pUrOhits" back in India! The task of protecting and

promoting the Vedas is primarily the responsibility

and duty of Indians (most notably of the Brahmin

families). The World Wildlife Fund some years ago

declared the Indian tiger to be an "endangered

species" and resolved to help save the species. But

that did not absolve native Indian conservationists

and communities from their duties to save the tiger...

they alone in fact could accomplish the task.

Similarly, no matter how gratifying it is to know

about the UNESCO declaration on the Vedas, we must

realize that the primary responsibility to preserve

and propogate the Vedas lies in our hands alone and

none else!

 

In a limited sense, we may take the subject UNESCO

declaration to be a warning that the priceless

heritage of the Vedas too is today "endangered" and

humanity better take note and begin acting for its

conservation. To that end, I think the UNESCO

declaration definitely needs to be appreciated and

rejoiced about.

 

Trust this explains my earlier mail on the subject.

 

Regards,

dAsan,

Sudarshan

 

 

 

 

--- narsimhan csl <cslnarsimhan wrote: >

>

> I think sri Shashi has a point. But for now, I will

> consider this useful assuming that we can use the

> resources derived out of such a proclamation for

> benefit of improving vedic chanting. Although, it

> may not be the intention of the proclamation, but I

> would like to see this in isolation as a means to

> protect our vedic traditions. In that respect I am

> fully convinced by Sri Sudarshan swamy for we have

> probably a reason to think in the direction of

> rejoicing.

>

> Sajjana Padapadma parama renuhu

>

> Lakshmi Narasimha dasan

shashi <shashi wrote:

> i don't know how much happy i should be, when i read

> the original UNESCO

> website posting. this recognition to vedic chanting

> is no isolated matter,

> it is part of a 28 item list, among which are:

>

> The masterpieces proclaimed are: Azerbaijani Mugham

> (Azerbaijan), The

> Carnival of Binche (Belgium), The Andean Cosmovision

> of the Kallawaya

> (Bolivia), The Oral and Graphic Expressions of the

> Wajapi (Brazil), The

> Oral traditions of the Aka Pygmies of Central Africa

> (Central African

> Republic), The Royal Ballet of Cambodia (Cambodia),

> The Art of Guqin Music

> (China), The Carnival of Barranquilla (Colombia), La

> Tumba Francesa, Music

> of the Oriente Brotherhood (Cuba), The Al-Sirah

> al-Hilaliyya Epic (Egypt),

> The Kihnu Cultural Space (Estonia), The Tradition of

> Vedic Chanting

> (India), Wayang Puppet Theatre (Indonesia), The

> Maroon Heritage of Moore

> Town (Jamaica), Ningyo Johruri Bunraku Puppet

> Theatre (Japan), The Art of

> Akyns, Kyrgyz Epic Tellers (Kyrgyzstan),

> Woodcrafting Knowledge of the

> Zafimaniry (Madagascar), The Indigenous Festivity

> dedicated to the Dead

> (Mexico), The Traditional Music of Morin Khuur

> (Mongolia), The Pansori

> Epic Chant (Republic of Korea), Lakalaka, Dances and

> Sung Speeches of

> Tonga (Tonga), The Arts of the Meddah, Public

> Storytellers (Turkey),

> Vanuatu Sand Drawings (Vanuatu), Nha Nhac,

> Vietnamese Court Music (Viet

> Nam), Arab States: Iraqi Maqam (Iraq), Songs of

> Sanaa (Yemen).

>

>

> for those interested, the URL is

>

http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php@URL_ID=17120&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.\

html

> or simply go to www.unesco.org and then follow the

> "intangible heritage" link

>

> vedic chanting is at par with Music of the Oriente

> Brotherhood of Cuba!

>

> vedic traditions are among the oldest surviving

> sophisticated, highly

> developed traditions, that has music, linguistics,

> maths, wisdom,

> spirituality all combined intricately!

>

> :-(

>

> sudarshan madabushi worked magic with the keyboard

> on Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 07:13:28AM +0000:

> >

> > Dear friends and fellow-"vedadhyAyin-s" of Kuwait,

> >

> > Below is a post that appeared in

> > Srirangasri yesterday. Reading it

> will

> > make us all really proud! The UNESCO has declared

> the

> > Chanting of Vedas to be a priceless "intangible

> > heritage" of the world!

> >

> > We as Vedic students, living and working here in a

> > land outside India, are trying in our own humble

> way

> > to learn Vedic chanting. We are indeed blessed!

> All

> > the time and effort that we as a group have spent

> > these past 2/3 years surely have been worthwhile!

> When

> > we started, all of us indeed resolved rightly! We

> must

> > understand that we have truly gained an

> "intangible"

> > wealth of inestimable value... "veda-dhanam"! ...

> as

> > even the UNESCO now seems to have recognized and

> > attests!

> >

> > Let us all celebrate! We have every reason to!

> >

> > Regards,

> > dAsan,

> > Sudarshan

> >

> >

> >

> >

> > > Message: 3

> > > Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:09:48 -0500 (EST)

> > > "Shaasa A. Ruzicka"

> > > <amritasyaputra

> > > UNESCO Declares Vedic Chanting an

> > > “Intangible Heritage of Humanity"

> > >

> > >

> > > UNESCO Declares Vedic Chanting an “Intangible

> > > Heritage of Humanity"

> > > *********************************************

> > >

> >

>

http://pib.nic.in/archieve/lreleng/lyr2003/rnov2003/11112003/r1111200311.html

> > >

> > > PARIS, FRANCE, November 12, 2003: The oral

> tradition

> > > of Vedic chanting has been declared an

> intangible

> > > heritage of humanity by UNESCO. In a meeting of

> jury

> > > members on November 7, 2003, at Paris, Mr.

> Koichiro

> > > Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, declared

> the

> > > chanting of Vedas in India an outstanding

> example of

> > > heritage and form of cultural expressions. The

> > > proclamation says that in the age of

> globalization

> > > and modernization when cultural diversity is

> under

> > > pressure, the preservation of oral tradition of

> > > Vedic chanting, a unique cultural heritage, has

> > > great significance.

> > > The jury members included Dr. Richard Kurin,

> > > Director of the Center for Folklore and Cultural

> > > Heritage of the Smithsonian Institution (United

> > > Nations), Mr. Juan Goytisolo, Writer (Spain),

> Mr.

> > > Yoshikazu Hasegawa (Japan), Ms. Olive W.M.

> Lewin.

> > > Pianist, ethnomusicologist, Director of the

> Jamaica

> > > Orchestra for Youth (Jamaica).

> > > The UNESCO declaration will bring international

> > > recognition to the excellence of the Vedic

> chanting

> > > tradition of India, which has survived for

> centuries

> > > encoding the wisdom contained in the Vedas

> through

> > > an extraordinary effort of memorization and

> through

> > > elaborately worked out mnemonic methods. The

> purity

> > > and fail-safe technique devised for Vedic

> chanting

> > > in the olden days led to access to one of the

> > > ancient literatures of humanity in its entirety

> > > today.

> > > The Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism

> and

> > > Culture, took the initiative to put up the

> > > candidature of the Vedic chanting to UNESCO. A

> > > presentation was prepared by Indira Gandhi

> National

> > > Centre for Arts. The Department has also

> prepared a

> > > five-year action plan to safeguard, protect,

> promote

> > > and disseminate the oral tradition of Vedas in

> terms

> > > of their uniqueness and distinctiveness,

> encourage

> > > scholars and practitioners to preserve,

> revitalize

> > > and promote their own branch of Vedic recitation

> as

> > > the custodians of their own traditions and

> direct

>

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[Guest guest]

Well written

"I also do not understand why we should be

disappointed that the UNESCO while hailing the Vedas

has similarly conferred honours on "28 other heritages

of the world". God's great world is garden of many

treasures and wonders... There are perhaps other

treasures in His world too besides the Vedas. Why

should we doubt it or be aggrieved? Let us rejoice in

our part of the Lord's garden, the Vedas. In any

case, the UN as a world-body must exhibit a global

perspective and hence perhaps has chosen 28 other

items of "humanity heritages".

[Guest guest]

Dear friends,

 

The reason for my happiness at UNESCO's declaration

stems from precisely the reasons mentioned below in

Sri csl narsimhan's kind message below.

 

Nobody in India, no Indian certainly, needs a UN

mandate for the Vedas. The Vedas pre-exist the UNESCO

and the Vedas shall undoubtedly survive it too. Even

without a UN declaration Indians all over the world

know in their hearts that the Veda is an "intangible

heritage of humanity".

 

What however makes the subject UNESCO declaration

special (to me at least) is that for the first time

(to the best of my knowledge) a world premier body

like the UN (that too a secular organization) has

recognized and affirmed the timeless religious &

spiritual legacy of India to all humanity. Is this not

a matter of pride for the land of India and its ethos?

After all, we see reason to take pride when someone

tells us that that much of the good work done at NASA

is done by Indian scientific minds! Why shouldn't we

similarly take pride when a world body such as the UN

formally acknowledges the Vedas of India to be a world

treasure?

 

I also do not understand why we should be disappointed

that the UNESCO while hailing the Vedas has similarly

conferred honours on "28 other heritages of the

world". This large world is God's great garden of

treasures... There are perhaps other treasures in His

world too besides the Vedas. Why should we be

aggrieved? In any case, the UN as a world-body must

exhibit a global perspective.

 

 

 

 

--- narsimhan csl <cslnarsimhan wrote: >

>

> I think sri Shashi has a point. But for now, I will

> consider this useful assuming that we can use the

> resources derived out of such a proclamation for

> benefit of improving vedic chanting. Although, it

> may not be the intention of the proclamation, but I

> would like to see this in isolation as a means to

> protect our vedic traditions. In that respect I am

> fully convinced by Sri Sudarshan swamy for we have

> probably a reason to think in the direction of

> rejoicing.

>

> Sajjana Padapadma parama renuhu

>

> Lakshmi Narasimha dasan

shashi <shashi wrote:

> i don't know how much happy i should be, when i read

> the original UNESCO

> website posting. this recognition to vedic chanting

> is no isolated matter,

> it is part of a 28 item list, among which are:

>

> The masterpieces proclaimed are: Azerbaijani Mugham

> (Azerbaijan), The

> Carnival of Binche (Belgium), The Andean Cosmovision

> of the Kallawaya

> (Bolivia), The Oral and Graphic Expressions of the

> Wajapi (Brazil), The

> Oral traditions of the Aka Pygmies of Central Africa

> (Central African

> Republic), The Royal Ballet of Cambodia (Cambodia),

> The Art of Guqin Music

> (China), The Carnival of Barranquilla (Colombia), La

> Tumba Francesa, Music

> of the Oriente Brotherhood (Cuba), The Al-Sirah

> al-Hilaliyya Epic (Egypt),

> The Kihnu Cultural Space (Estonia), The Tradition of

> Vedic Chanting

> (India), Wayang Puppet Theatre (Indonesia), The

> Maroon Heritage of Moore

> Town (Jamaica), Ningyo Johruri Bunraku Puppet

> Theatre (Japan), The Art of

> Akyns, Kyrgyz Epic Tellers (Kyrgyzstan),

> Woodcrafting Knowledge of the

> Zafimaniry (Madagascar), The Indigenous Festivity

> dedicated to the Dead

> (Mexico), The Traditional Music of Morin Khuur

> (Mongolia), The Pansori

> Epic Chant (Republic of Korea), Lakalaka, Dances and

> Sung Speeches of

> Tonga (Tonga), The Arts of the Meddah, Public

> Storytellers (Turkey),

> Vanuatu Sand Drawings (Vanuatu), Nha Nhac,

> Vietnamese Court Music (Viet

> Nam), Arab States: Iraqi Maqam (Iraq), Songs of

> Sanaa (Yemen).

>

>

> for those interested, the URL is

>

http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php@URL_ID=17120&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.\

html

> or simply go to www.unesco.org and then follow the

> "intangible heritage" link

>

> vedic chanting is at par with Music of the Oriente

> Brotherhood of Cuba!

>

> vedic traditions are among the oldest surviving

> sophisticated, highly

> developed traditions, that has music, linguistics,

> maths, wisdom,

> spirituality all combined intricately!

>

> :-(

>

> sudarshan madabushi worked magic with the keyboard

> on Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 07:13:28AM +0000:

> >

> > Dear friends and fellow-"vedadhyAyin-s" of Kuwait,

> >

> > Below is a post that appeared in

> > Srirangasri yesterday. Reading it

> will

> > make us all really proud! The UNESCO has declared

> the

> > Chanting of Vedas to be a priceless "intangible

> > heritage" of the world!

> >

> > We as Vedic students, living and working here in a

> > land outside India, are trying in our own humble

> way

> > to learn Vedic chanting. We are indeed blessed!

> All

> > the time and effort that we as a group have spent

> > these past 2/3 years surely have been worthwhile!

> When

> > we started, all of us indeed resolved rightly! We

> must

> > understand that we have truly gained an

> "intangible"

> > wealth of inestimable value... "veda-dhanam"! ...

> as

> > even the UNESCO now seems to have recognized and

> > attests!

> >

> > Let us all celebrate! We have every reason to!

> >

> > Regards,

> > dAsan,

> > Sudarshan

> >

> >

> >

> >

> > > Message: 3

> > > Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:09:48 -0500 (EST)

> > > "Shaasa A. Ruzicka"

> > > <amritasyaputra

> > > UNESCO Declares Vedic Chanting an

> > > “Intangible Heritage of Humanity"

> > >

> > >

> > > UNESCO Declares Vedic Chanting an “Intangible

> > > Heritage of Humanity"

> > > *********************************************

> > >

> >

>

http://pib.nic.in/archieve/lreleng/lyr2003/rnov2003/11112003/r1111200311.html

> > >

> > > PARIS, FRANCE, November 12, 2003: The oral

> tradition

> > > of Vedic chanting has been declared an

> intangible

> > > heritage of humanity by UNESCO. In a meeting of

> jury

> > > members on November 7, 2003, at Paris, Mr.

> Koichiro

> > > Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, declared

> the

> > > chanting of Vedas in India an outstanding

> example of

> > > heritage and form of cultural expressions. The

> > > proclamation says that in the age of

> globalization

> > > and modernization when cultural diversity is

> under

> > > pressure, the preservation of oral tradition of

> > > Vedic chanting, a unique cultural heritage, has

> > > great significance.

> > > The jury members included Dr. Richard Kurin,

> > > Director of the Center for Folklore and Cultural

> > > Heritage of the Smithsonian Institution (United

> > > Nations), Mr. Juan Goytisolo, Writer (Spain),

> Mr.

> > > Yoshikazu Hasegawa (Japan), Ms. Olive W.M.

> Lewin.

> > > Pianist, ethnomusicologist, Director of the

> Jamaica

> > > Orchestra for Youth (Jamaica).

> > > The UNESCO declaration will bring international

> > > recognition to the excellence of the Vedic

> chanting

> > > tradition of India, which has survived for

> centuries

> > > encoding the wisdom contained in the Vedas

> through

> > > an extraordinary effort of memorization and

> through

> > > elaborately worked out mnemonic methods. The

> purity

> > > and fail-safe technique devised for Vedic

> chanting

> > > in the olden days led to access to one of the

> > > ancient literatures of humanity in its entirety

> > > today.

> > > The Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism

> and

> > > Culture, took the initiative to put up the

> > > candidature of the Vedic chanting to UNESCO. A

> > > presentation was prepared by Indira Gandhi

> National

> > > Centre for Arts. The Department has also

> prepared a

> > > five-year action plan to safeguard, protect,

> promote

> > > and disseminate the oral tradition of Vedas in

> terms

> > > of their uniqueness and distinctiveness,

> encourage

> > > scholars and practitioners to preserve,

> revitalize

> > > and promote their own branch of Vedic recitation

> as

> > > the custodians of their own traditions and

> direct

>

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