Hemant Sharma addressing the News9 World Summit in Germany.
The TV9 network’s News9 Global Summit takes place in the city of Stuttgart, Germany. On the second day of the three-day summit held at the historic MHP Arena football ground, Hemant Sharma, News Director of TV-9, expressed his views on the topic ‘India-Germany: The Sanskrit Connection’ . He continued his point by thanking Prime Minister Modi for his speech and message at the summit. He said that there is an amazing similarity between Sanskrit and German. We gave the first book to the world in the form of a book, which was the Veda. The first scholar who brought the Indian Vedas to the global level was a German named Professor Max Muller. You all know Swami Vivekananda, he was the first Hindutva brand ambassador in the world. Recognizing the Vedic knowledge of Max Muller, Swamiji met him.
TV-9 news director Hemant Sharma said Swamiji was so impressed by the German scholar that he said if anyone in the world had understood the essence of the Vedas, it was Max Muller. It will be understood what a greater honor than this can be for a German scholar. The roots of India and Germany are so deeply linked culturally that when we look outside India, Germany seems the closest to us. Therefore, News9’s arrival on the world stage began from Germany.
There cannot be a patio more conducive to dialogue than this one.
He said that our history with Germany is not a history of slavery, discrimination and violence. Our relationship with Germany is one of political and cultural cooperation and uniformity of literary and linguistic roots. Therefore, there can be no court of dialogue more favorable to us than this one. You have just heard a presentation on the gramophone. The gramophone was invented by Thomas Alva Edison in the 19th century. He created a device that records people’s voices. I was thinking about what the first voice on this should be. He wrote a letter to Max Müller about it.
I was in Oxford at the time. He said we want to record your voice on the gramophone antenna. He called him about this. It has been recorded on stage. Shortly after this, his voice was played before the public. People were excited to hear Max Muller’s voice. For the first time recorded sound was heard. The emotion was so great that people did not understand what Max Müller was saying.
The roots of German-Indian relations are connected
The first verse of the Rigveda sung by Max Muller ‘Agnimilee Purohitam Yagyasya Devamritvijam…’ Was. This was the first Sanskrit verse recorded on a gramophone. When Professor Max Muller was asked why he chose it, he said that the Vedas are the oldest scriptures of mankind. This is the deep relationship between Germany and India.
The TV-9 news director added that the roots of relations between Germany and India are interconnected. What is your connection like? The language of the Vedic period is Sanskrit. You can see his words in German. Its word scheme is similar to Sanskrit. The phonetics of both languages are similar. The words placed in sentences are independent, absolutely independent and almost independent in German. Perhaps this is the reason why today there are Sanskrit departments in more than 14 universities in Germany and research is being carried out.
Sanskrit is our existence, identity and history.
He said that Indian philosophy is pluralistic. Ganges is made up of many streams. The Hindu religion is also a confluence of many currents. That flows continuously. Sanskrit is our existence, identity and also history. When I look towards the West, after India, I see that Germany is the only one that takes the Sanskrit language very seriously and is continually dedicated to understanding and expanding it. Even today one can easily find Sanskrit-German dictionaries on the streets of Berlin.
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