India, what can it teach us?

After a very long time, a book makes me interested. This time also by sheer force of chance, stumbled across,'India What can it teach us?'. This is a series of lectures to the Imperial(now its called Indian) Civil Service candidates from Britain in 1880s about to land in India to rule India for the British/East India Company.

In the title of the book or even in lecture title, as ''What can India teach us?'' Who is the us? In 1880s it was the Imperial/Indian Civil Service candidates, but now in 2016, it could very well be the English educated loyalists who even now follow strictly many systems of the English people in education and administration including the very name of the examination....to this date as ICS.

First 3 titles of the lectures/book,

Lecture 1 - What can India teach us?

Lecture 2 - On the truthful character of the Hindus.

Lecture 3 - Human interest of Sanskrit Literature.

If I were to look over the whole world to find out the country most richly endowed with all the wealth, power, and beauty that nature can bestow – in some parts a very paradise on earth – I should point to India. If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most full developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions of some of them which well deserve the attention even of those who have studied Plato and Kant – I should point to India. And if I were to ask myself from what literature we, here in Europe, we who have been nurtured almost exclusively on the thoughts of Greeks and Romans, and of one Semitic race, the Jewish, may draw that corrective which is most wanted in order to make our inner life more perfect, more comprehensive, more universal, in fact more truly human, a life, not for this life only, but a transfigured and eternal life – again I should point to India.

That very Sanskrit, the study of which may at first seem so tedious to you and so useless, if only you will carry it on, as you may carry it on here at Cambridge better than anywhere else, will open before you large layers of literature, as yet almost unknown and unexplored, and allow you an insight into strata of thought deeper than any you have known before,and rich in lessons that appeal to the deepest sympathies of the human heart.

In ''Human interest of Sanskrit Literature'', he says,I should advise every young man who wishes to enjoy his life in India, and to spend his years there with profit to himself and to others to learn Sanskrit and to learn it well.

http://gretil.sub.uni-goettingen.de/gretil_elib/Mue883__MuellerFM_IndiaWhat.pdf

அந்த பாஷையைப் பேசினால் அதுவே மநுஷ்யனுக்கு ஸம்ஸ்காரத்தைச் செய்கிறது. தேவ பாஷையிலிருந்து உண்டானதால் திவ்ய சக்திகளின் அநுக்கிரஹத்தைப் பெறும் படியாகச் செய்கிறது. ஸம்ஸ்கிருத சப்தங்கள் உத்தமமான நாடி சலனங்களால் நல்லது செய்வதோடு nervous system -ஐ [நரம்பு மண்டலத்தை] க்கூட வலுவாக்கி, ஆரோக்கியம் தருகிறது என்கிறார்கள்.

http://www.kamakoti.org/tamil/Kural75.htm

Would the Tamil Nadu politicians/educationists wake up from their deep slumber and make Sanskrit Mandatory like in this St James school, London?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsY3NVrviiw

Would the central govt make it mandatory to know Sanskrit in ICS,for exactly the same reasons why its mentioned to ICS candidates by Max Muller in 1880s?