Prof. Bhagirath Prasad Tripathi “Vagish Shastri”(b. 24 July 1934) Son of Pt. Yamuna Prasad Tripathi (The exceptional and distinguished services in the field of educational, literary & editing activities)Prof. Bhagirath Prasad Tripathi (well known as Vagish Shastri) is an international Sanskrit grammarian, eminent linguist, Tantric and yogi. He was born in the city of Khurai in Madhya Pradesh in 1934. His primary education was in Khurai, followed by his education in Vrindavan and Varanasi. He started his teaching career as a lecturer of Sanskrit at Tikmani Sanskrit College, Varanasi in 1959, and soon he became the Director and Professor of the Research Institute at Sampurnanand Sanskrit University (1970-1996), Varanasi in the year 1970. He served this prestigious academic post for about three decades. He received his Masters degree, Vyākaraņa Āchārya (1959); PhD Vidyāvāridhi in Grammar and Historical Linguistics (1964), German Diploma (1966) and D.Litt. Vāchaspati (1969) degrees on the Indo-European and Indo-Iranian Study of Pāninian Verbs and Semantics. These renowned research works were appreciated in the Linguistic world. He also founded many new linguistic ideas. Dr. Shastri started writing essays at the age of 19. Over 200 of his essays and Research papers were published in different journals, nationally and internationally. He was Secretary President of one section in the Fifth World Sanskrit conference. He has been Chief Editor of many series such as Sarasvati Bhavana Granthamala. He edited more than 300 manuscripts which took the form of books. He also was Chief Editor of the famous Sanskrit journal Sarasvati Susama for 26 years. He has written books on different subjects which include grammatical and philological research work, drama, history, poetry, satire, historical research work and metaphysical writings.He has written 60 original books in Sanskrit, Hindi and English languages and edited more than 200 manuscripts.
Dr. Vagish Shastri has invented a unique technique of teaching Sanskrit grammar called ‘Vagyoga’. This is a mnemonic method to enter in the soul of words,
Scientific and rote-free method of learning the Mantra Language through Natural Law
It is based upon natural law, which does not require learning by heart any sutras. This is a mathematical way of learning Sanskrit grammar. Many scholars from all over the world learned Sanskrit in very short time and they made translation of Sanskrit texts in their own language and many of them appointed professors
Sound is called as God in the Vedic literature. Even in the Old Testament word is accepted as synonympus with God. Scientists accept the creation of this cosmos from sound.
What kind of sound is synonymous with God? God resides in the heart. When gross speech gradually dissolves in the subtle-most speech, it gets purified in the place of the unified field called Para, Shabda Brahma or Mahad Brahma. The Shabda or word and world both are created when Mahad Brahma is united with Para Brahma. In other words when Prakriti (nature) moves to unite with Purusha (God). In the Tantrik literatures the place of gross and subtle-most sounds or speeches are called Chakras in the body. Chakras means lotuses. There are six lotuses consisting of different petals just like strings of a stringed musical instrument. These strings produce 51 different kinds of sounds which are known to us as letters.
Tantrikas worship the letters as deities. These come out from Anahata Chakra the place of God. The group of letters is called Matrika as it is the mother of all Vedas and Mantras. The traditional key to worship the letters and how the divine letters appear from the various chakras was lost in time. Without this knowledge students do not understand how the letters appear from the Chakra through unification of Mahad Brahma and Para Brahma together.
An analogy can be given that Prakriti is like iron particles and Purusha is like a magnet. The iron particles get attracted and move towards the magnet however the magnet always stays steady, immovable. The letters like Prakriti (iron) move towards the Purusha (Magnet) change and get attached to the letter, in the place of magnet. The whole nature Prakriti is dancing attracted towards the absolute, Purusha (God). This rule is called The Natural Law.
With help of the natural law along with philosophic, musical, historical and phonetic mnemonics curious Sadhakas compose the mantra language (modern name Sanskrit) and they enter in the heart of the
words through etymological operation, without a need to learn by the heart (rote) this divine language. The unification, yoga of Paraa Vak with Para Brahma is called Vak+Yoga=Vagyoga. Therefore the name of this technique is famous as Vagyoga Vidhi.
Through this Vagyoga technique Sadhakas derive thousands of words from a single verb of this divine language with meaning and genders. Within 270 lessons they compose sentences and understand the meaning of the texts. This method is also called Vagyoga-sadhana. Its scope culminates in Pashyanti Vak.
(The easiest way to learn Sanskrit Language)
The Sanskrit grammar is usually taught requiring many laborious hours of pure memorization during 12 years. It frightens many would be enthusiasts. Now Acharya Dr. Vagish Shastri has simplified this arduous task of memorization through a Mnemonic Technique of instruction, making what once was tedious and boring now a delight. This unique invention is from Rigvedic source through Vagyoga Kundalini. The many hours of memorization have been reduced to minimum because this technique simply utilizes the natural production of the sound & language. The Vagyoga Technique is dependent upon understanding the intrinsic logic of the Sanskrit language through principles and law of Sound-vibration indicated in earliest Vedic literature.
The persons disirous in Yoga, Tantra, Ayurveda, Veda, Vedanta, Astrology, Religions, Buddhism, Jainism, Indian philosophies, Paninian grammar, Pali, Prakrit, Hindi, musically chanting of Sanskrit hymns, Ethics etc. are successfully speaking & writing divine language Sanskrit within 270 hours utilized in six week intensive camp course or three month course. Traditional & eminent educationist Acharya ji applies phonetical, musical, philosophical, mathematical & natural laws in his unique teaching. Only one natural formula is being developed there in the whole Mnemonic system of Sanskrit learning. The students derive thousand of words from anyone of the famous verbal roots of the divine language Sanskrit. They know the semantical developments & genders. Acharya Vagish is teaching his students the music of sacred verses of Upanishads, Bhagavadgita & other profound expressions of Indian spirituality.
The Meditators find energy moving clock-wise in circle with Vibration of Mantra at the middle of the first Chakram in one vertical line upto the Sahasrara Chakram. Watching the movement of this energy in the circle & listening the Mantra -vibration connected to this moving energy gradually at every Chakram, is the process of primary attempt to meditate the serpent power : Kundalini.
Through this technique the meditators enter inside of third eye meditation :light & colours merging Tamas into Tajas, Tajas into Sattva & then meditating elements gross to subtle they purify their consciousness through moving energy of Kundalini along with the Mantra-vibration.
As the meditators cross the first two qualities they enter to the mental body. Now they look at with their mental eyes & listen with mental ears cut off the external senses. Normally the mind is enjoying the external objects with external senses. The mind is the real sense, which appears outside through the physical holes. Then power of mind scatters in objects, the mind loses its concentration and becomes unable to unite with the internal place of eternal energy, pure consciousness, bliss and peace.
In this Vagyoga Kundalini Meditation the mind without being scattered outside has ability to unite the place of eternal pure power free from it’s tensions, deseases & waves. Meditators have unchangeable neactar of peace. Vagyoga Kundalini Meditation is a powerful technique for peaceful life. It enlightens hidden powers of the meditators. It is proved that VKM is a key to get success in the mnemonic Sanskrit learning by enlightening of consciousness.
Shri Vagish Shastri (born in 1934) empowers his disciples (sadhakas) by awakening their divine Kundalini energy. The process begins by first opening a disciple’s karna chakram or the gate of the ear. This is the gate through which the disciple invites different deities to reside in his body. This process is called Devahoo. The divine Kundalini energy thus appears through the karna chakram and expands outwards. This form of transmitting the Kundalini energy is called Shaktipaata.
Although Shri Vagish Shastri had acquired the spiritual potency to transmit and awaken the Kundalini energy for many years, he refrained from transmitting it as per the order of his Gurudeva who told him in 1956, “You should not transmit this energy for the first 25 years otherwise you would lose it.” In 2003 at the Clarks Tower Hotel Varanasi Shri Shastri Shri Shastri transmitted his energy to 340 Spanish, German and French speaking people from 30 countries during a program organized by a Spanish Yoga and Meditation Organization.
An extraordinary event in 1980 is worth mentioning. This event took place when Shri Vagish Shastri was in Baal Aashram, Dariya ganj, Delhi. There was an old digambara Jain Muni named Dharma Sagara Maharaja who resided there. One morning he had suddenly become unconscious and the Ashrama devotees where anxious about his well-being. They knew about the Shaktipaat power of Shri Shastri. So they requested him to cure the Jain Muni. Shri Shastri ordered his wife Srimati Sanskrit Bharati to transmit the energy to the unconscious Jain Muni however the Ashrama devotees would not allow a woman to enter in the room of a digambara Muni in darkness. As Shri Shastri entered the room and put his feet on the mat on which the digambara was lying, the old Muni suddenly woke up and sat on the mat. This was the power of Shri Shastriji’s energy.
Shri Shastri provides technique to awaken the energy in the mooladhara chakra of his disciples which is then channelized to the upper chakras. Through the Vagyoga Theory Shri Shastri connects with the Manipur energy. Through ‘Vaishvaanara Vahni’ in the ear of his disciples they develop divine ears, ‘divyam shrotram’ (Patanjali Yoga Sutra 3.41). Through the chanting of Mantras the disciple can channelize the Kundalini energy to the third eye, bindu and from the bindu to the crown, sahasraara chakram. Through this the disciples experience the union of kula and akula energies, oneness. The latent energy opens up in their brain giving an experience of peace, blissfulness and enlightenment and thus empowering them to create infinite new thoughts.
Shri Shastri is a unique living example of the spiritual energetic source of the unified field in the body of a human being. All curious devotees can charge their latent energy with the key of H.H.Gurudeva Shri Vagish Shastri and try to find knowledge of salvation. Having obtained this knowledge a person promptly attains supreme peace (Bhagavad Gita, 4.39)
He has written 65 original books in Sanskrit, Hindi and English languages and edited more than 300 manuscripts. After his death many unpublished manuscripts found in his room (Library) of his. 5 books are unpublished on Gita Vyutpatti and Other Subject.
Prof. Tripathi invented a new technique for the teaching of Sanskrit without the need of painstaking memorization of hundreds of grammatical formulas, named: Vāgyoga: Natural Law and Mnemonics. Hundreds of scholars have benefited from this educational technique and many of them have beenappointed as professors in foreign universities. Five books have been published about this technique in Hindi and English languages. His Vāgyoga: Conversational Sanskrit (2000) book is translated in the Russian Language. By the Vāgyoga theory Prof. Tripathi refuted the claim of Stephen Hawking, the British Scientist.
(a) Exceptional achievement in the Pāṇinian Grammar and Linguistics:
Prof. Tripathi taught Pāṇinian Grammar and wrote four original books on Pāṇinian Grammar and Linguistics. He refuted the claim of the eminent linguist of America W.D. Whitney in his book: Pāṇinīya Dhātupāṭha-samīkṣā and won the Kalidasa Award from Dr. Sampurnanad, the Governor of Rajasthan (1966). In the World, this was his first semantical study on the Sanskrit Verbs: Dhātvartha Vijňānam (1980).
(b) He solved unsolved grammatical problems in his Linguistic study of the Secondary Derivatives (1967) and ‘Sanskrit Vāṅmaya Manthanam’ (1990). He invented diacritical marks on Devanāgari letters for Indo-European Pronunciation (Pāṇinīya Dhātupāṭha-samīkṣā).
(c) Prof. Tripathi guided more than 40 bonafied Research Scholars, both Indian and Foreign.
(d) Prof. Tripathi started exceptional Post Graduate Research & Editing training course for M. Phil and Ph.D. degrees (1992-93) in the Traditional University.
(e) Prof. Tripathi made wide publicity of Sanskrit by teaching Sanskrit pronunciation to Pop Star, Madonna.
(f) Prof. Tripathi delivered hundreds of educational speeches and Radio talks in India and abroad.
(g) He delivered lectures in the Third, Fourth and Fifth World Sanskrit Conferences at Paris (1977), Weimar, Germany (1979) and BHU Varanasi (1981) consecutively. Moreover, he taught Sanskrit and philosophy in Germany (2003), Switzerland (2005), Brazil (2012), Moscow (2013) and participated in Oriental Conferences.
(h) The Muslim community did not accept singing Vande Mātaram, the national song of India. Leaders who did not know Sanskrit misinterperated the meaning of “Vande” in their speeches. Prof. B.P. Tripathi Vagish Shastri solved that problem by giving the etymological meaning of Vande.
(i) Prof. Shastri solved the problem of the Adam’s Bridge through explanation of his scholarly analysis.
(j) He exposed the Aryan’s home by etymological, geographical, historical and comparative study in his book: ‘The migration of Aryans from India’ (2010) and ‘Sanskrit enhanced knowledge of the West’ (2010).
(k) One research scholar awarded a Ph.D degree for the Research work on the Sanskrit Literature of Prof. Tripathi from the Indore University (2000).
(a) Prof. Tripathi edited and supervised more than two hundred (300) rare manuscripts of Sanskrit, Pali and Prakrit Languages as the Director, Research Institute, Sampurnanand Sanskrit University, Varanasi.
(b) Prof. Tripathi edited a Research Journal, ‘Sārasvatī Sushamā’ for twenty seven years. He inspired young writers and promoted the knowledge of them.
(a) Prof. Tripathi’s written More then 65 Orignal books of Sanskrit, Hindi and English Literature promoted these languages.
(b) Prof. Tripathi furnished a UGC Project on the Photography of Tantric Manuscripts of Darbar Library, Nepal and a Project of Subject Dictionaries of eighteen Mahāpurāṇas.
(c) Prof. Tripathi’s Sanskrit commentary on Yoga Cūḍamaṇi Upaniṣad was published (1994).
(d) He enriched the satirical Sanskrit literature by the composition of ‘Narma Saptaśatī’ consisting of seven hundred ślokas (1984).
(e) He enriched the dramatic literature of Sanskrit by the composition of Kṛṣakāṇāṁ Nāgapāśaḥ” (1958) a radio one act play.
(f) He enriched the story literature of Sanskrit by composing, ‘Kathā Saṁvartikā’ (1959).
(g) He enriched philosophical Sanskrit Literature by composing 16 hundred ślokas in Śrī Vāgyoga- Tantram (2010).
(h) He enriched Sanskrit prose literature by the composition of “Sanskrit Vāṅmaya Manthanam” (1990) and “Tolstoy Kathā-Saptakam” (1970).
(i) He enriched the Śataka literature of Sanskrit by the composition of Ātaṅkavāda Śatakam (1992) and “Nisarga-sarasāňjaliḥ (2013). This poetic work is about Nature.
With the grace of the many spiritual masters of Ayodhya and Himalayas whom Gurudeva studied under, immense abilities awakened in him. This made him well-versed in Paraa and Aparaa Vidyaas. Such as:
Whitney‘s principal target in accusing Pāṇini and Pāṇiniyas of unreliability was the Dhatupatha. He set forth his views that of nearly 2000 roots of Dhatupatha published by Westergaard and Bohtlingk more than half of these are not attested in literature. The most ambitious work in the direction noted is Pāniniya Dhātupātha Samikşhā (1965) wherein the author gives an alphabetically arranged catalogue of roots found in different Dhatupathas together with attestation – verbal and nominal forms – in Sanskrit, Pali, Apabhramsa and other Prakrits. BPT Vagish Shastri’s professed aim is to refute Whitney‘s Claim.
The radio drama Krişakānām Nāgpāshah is a symbolic play with the tone and tenor of patriotism which aims at common harmony, pride in one’s own nation, and sacrifice for one’s motherland which is highly relevant. This is a creative work from the vibrant pen of BPT Vagish Shastri
Grammatical and philological research work
Creative writing in Sanskrit, Hindi and English
His creative writing of drama, story, poetry, satire is present in his books
Historical research work
He refused the claim of archaeologist Alexander Cunningham who suggested native place of Bundelas in Maharashtra. This book describes an etymological identification of the mysterious ‘pulindas’ mentioned in later Vedic, Epic, pauranika and inscriptional literature.
Metaphysical writing
New Sanskrit grammar
Shastri has published three books on his invented Sanskrit Grammar “Vagyoga Technique”.
Dictionary
Research papers
More than 200 research papers are published[14]