Get It Done!

The Gestalt and The Algorithm.

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During the year 1986-87, with a view to discover The Sanskrit I started learning the German Language.

Die Deutsche Sprache.

I'm not sure if the above words words are correct -grammatically and also in spelling. But I never bother about these things. It's not my concern.

What I gained through learning German was the insight that was of  tremendous help in understanding the structure of a language as such.

Except English and German The other two European languages like Spanish and Italian also attracted my interest but it was German that I felt the best of all. So I opted for this language. Luckily or for whatever other reasons it proved no wrong decision.

On the contrary I was really very happy.

My only whole and sole purpose behind it was to study the structure of German so as to find out how it might be related with Sanskrit and in what way.

I missed mentioning The Greek in the earlier paragraph. Yes, Greek too might have been a better option. Maybe better to German.

But really I was not in a hurry. 

I had enough time and felt that after having learnt German satisfactorily well, I would embark upon trying The Greek.

Because an instinct / insight deep down in the heart kept telling me that basically just like all humans, all languages have also the same D N A.

However all the spoken languages all over the world havecome into existence  ultimately because having originated in and from voice.

The human voice however took the two different paths - namely -

the  प्राकृत  and the संस्कृत .

This fundamental understanding was the key and the keyword :

Das Schlusselwort 

Once I had discovered and developed this fundamental understanding, the road to success became quite easier and as much entertaining too.

I think after so many long times I don't remember all the nuances except the one that the written German has a special letter where two dots are put above a, e, i, o, and u. This alters the pronunciation to a great extent. This is how a German word is spoken as much in coherence as it's written too.

This is like Sanskrit.

The Phonetics of German and Sanskrit in that way are quite similar and resemble.

I also tried to understand the structure of The Russian and the Latin languages and therefore I wouldn't think these two are basically European.

Of course all these languages originated from voice as this was the instrument available to all everywhere on the earth.

Just as the script was developed later on and after when the spoken word and the language(s) came to exist, The Sanskrit was discovered later on at the levels of a spoken and a written language.

So accordingly, there were two spoken languages and afterwards also the two scripts -

The प्राकृत and the संस्कृत.

The word "script" is but a cognate of the Sanskrit word  श्री (लक्ष्मी)  and from this word the spoken प्राकृत  / prAkrit came into existence.

The first adaptation of the script was the "Cyril" which is attributed to Saint Cyril who designed the Russian alphabet.

"Cyril" is again a cognate and shortened form of  श्रीलिपि / shrI-Lipi.

How I got / get it done and through what gestalt and algorithm?

The Sanskrit roots explain this all. 

The intricate pattern and the tapestry of words could tell all this if we are ready and willing to see and discover with no prejudice any at all in our mind.

The compound word "I'm" or the "I am" is cognate of a single word  अयम् / इयम्. 

This word is used for the demonstrative pronoun "it".

Interestingly we could also see there is such a word conveying the same sense in  தமிழ் / Tamizh /  तमिऴ / तमिष् / तमिष़. 

It's  இது. 

In the Sanskrit there are two pronouns in the third person nominative case :

इदं / इदम्  and अदस्

The two third person pronouns cited are - "It" and "That".

"It" could easily be traced from इदं / इदम् / இநு  while "That" is a cognate and a variation of the Sanskrit word  "तत्" and having the same meaning and sense as in the English language.

However in the  தமிழ்,  there is a word - அது  denoting "That" the third person pronoun in the nominative case.

அது too could be conveniently traced to root Sanskrit word  "अदस्" or "अत्+ उ".

The two great Sanskrit aphorisms 

अयमात्मा ब्रह्म 

तत्त्वमसि

Summarily point out to the one and the same Ultimate Truth. 

The first  

ayaM AtmA brahma 

And the second 

tat twaM asi 

respectively describe the truth of -

ayaM and twaM respectively and all emphasis is there upon understanding how the third person nominative is the second person nominative and is again the first person nominative too.

This is verily and indeed the essence of Advaita Dharma / Vedanta.

I admit I've drifted away from the main theme which I'd in the beginning but I'm no doubt happy and content with this.

About Get, Gestalt, algorithm and get done -

Get is but cognate of the Sanskrit word -

गतः गतं गतम् 

Gestalt is but cognate of the Sanskrit word -

गतस्थलित गतस्थलितं गतस्थलितम्

In the German; the prefix "ge" comes from this very word as in 

gekommen.

The last word is -

Algorithm 

Al is the Sanskrit suffix प्रत्याहार "अल्" that shifts to the beginning prefix in the languages like Arabic, Hebrew, Persian which are written from right to left.

So "Algorithm" transforms into -

go rithm Al 

In Sanskrit.

go / Go In English is a direct cognate and descendent from the Sanskrit verb-root  धातु - √गं गच्छति  - meaning "to go".

Similarly we could check "go away" could be traced to " go awa aya",

Where "awa" is the Sanskrit prefix अव, and  √अय is the verb-root denoting the activity of "going".

The interesting part of this word game is "get done" when you see how the English verb "do" could easily derived from -

"डुकृञ्करणे"

This is an aphorism in the  अष्टाध्यायी  of पाणिनी, which has been beautifully used by आदि शंकराचार्य, 

In one of His composition -

भज गोविन्दम् 

आसन्ने सम्प्राप्ते मरणे, 

नहि नहि रक्षति डु कृञ् करणे।।

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In my future posts, maybe, I would like to write down so many rest of the other things that I had intended to write here in the beginning of this post but missed. 

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