Even the people who spearheaded Dravidian movements had only Sanskrit names! I have pointed out Tamils have no words for some common words like ‘heart’ and ‘Face’. If you ask the names of one’s father, mother, native place, Deities, everything will be in Sanskrit. With regard to Tamil, no one in the present world can speak pure Tamil without Sanskrit. We have similar stories in the Hindu scriptures in the Yajur Veda. The tower of Babel story in the Bible is partly true. This is because we all lived under one roof at one time. In short I can show similarities, at least superficial/morphological, between any two languages in the world. When I interviewed him on behalf of the BBC Tamil Service (Tamilosai), I politely pointed out the fallacies in his argument. When I was working for the BBC WORLD SERVICE between 19, I interviewed Mr.Sathur Sekaran who wrote 140 books connecting Tamil language with all the languages in the world. The latest language theory is that you can find similar words between any two languages in the world. Now and then I read that ‘Tamil is closer to Sumerian’, ‘Tamil is connected to Finnish’, ‘Tamil has link with Japanese’ and I used to laugh at the ignorance of those “scholars”.
Both the Tamil and Sanskrit commentators have written so. Hindus believe that all the languages in India came from Lord Shiva. An old poem of Paranjothy Munivar says that Shiva was the one who taught both the languages. It is a big topic and only linguists can understand. I mean structurally they are closer than other languages. It is not because of geographical proximity. No other language in the world can come closer to Tamil than Sanskrit. But Sanskrit is the closest language to Tamil. It is true that both the languages are different. What is the link between Tamil and Sanskrit ?įoreign “Scholars” spread a theory about two different language groups -Dravidian and Aryan- which is not correct. If you read “The Search in Secret India” by Paul Brunton, you will understand it. In our own times Ramana Maharishi did this. He did preach for the four great saints through silence in his Dakshinamurthy form under the Banyan tree. Lord Shiva invented a new language called SILENCE. God understands all the languages and even the sign language of the deaf and dumb. What difference a language can make? Tongues may be different but the hearts are one. Tomorrow one more saint may come to spread the same message in Esperanto or a language newly developed. Jesus spoke in Hebrew, Mohammed spoke in Arabic, Krishna spoke in Sanskrit, Sambandar spoke in Tamil and Zoroaster spoke in Persian but the message they delivered is universal love and faith in God. Why are Vedas and Bhagavad-Gita written in Sanskrit ? Sage Agastya is associated with Tamil or Tamil country in ancient Tamil literature and Kalidasa’s works. If anyone visits Tamil Nadu and see all the 38,000 temples under the HRCE Department OR read the 27,000+ lines of the Sangam Tamil Literature or the 18,000 Saivite Poems of the Nayanmars and 4000 Vaishnavite poems of the Alvars, their doubts will be cleared. I have published over 1000 posts in these blogs in Tamil and English quoting references from the Tamil and Sanskrit literature. Sangam Tamil literature has innumerable references to Hindu Gods, Yaga, Yajna (Fire sacrifices), Vedas, Karma theory, Rebirth, Cremation, Beliefs about 40 Samskaras of the Hindus, Yama and Death, Brahmins, Caste System, Wedding ceremonies and Astrology. France has a good population of Tamils from the French ruled territories of Tamil Nadu and from Sri Lanka.Īncient Tamils were Hindus. They live traditionally in Tamil Nadu (India), Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, Mauritius, Seychelles, Fiji, Guyana and for the past thirty years in almost all the countries from North Pole (Norway, Sweden) to South Pole (New Zealand and Australia) because of Sri Lankan ethnic conflict. My answer: In today’s world 80 to 90 % of Tamils are Hindus.
In the web I came across those so called Aryan migration theory and out of India theory and I don’t believe Aryan migration and for me out the India theory make more sense. I don’t know why, I got a feeling that you would answer all my doubts. I came across your blogs and read some of your blogs and biography. So I did some research in the web and I ended up getting confused.
I love Hinduism so I wanted to learn more about it. I was brought up in a typical Tamil-Hindu family, but I was never taught any religious books. I was born in ‘K’near Nagapattinam, I moved to France when I was 13. I am 17 year old kid from a Tamil family, I received the following message by email:. Questions in the letter are answered by London swaminathan