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When Cows can Speak Sanskrit: Yoga, Cultural Revival, and Animal Testing Ethics
Will animals on their new INAPH cards have a category for which languages they speak?
In September 2018, the self-styled godman, Swami Nithyananda, declared that he had been testing animals so that they could actually speak Sanskrit and Tamil. According to his own testimony, he’s been casually testing them with an unspecified software that will help them grow the necessary speech organs to speak, of course, in Sanskrit and Tamil…
Nithyananda also claimed that he would deliver within one year these results. Time is up.
He said, “I will demonstrate…monkeys and other few animals, which do not have many of the internal organs we all have, by initiating them into superconscious breakthrough, they will grow these organs, and I will establish it, prove it through a scientific, medical test and researches (sic).”
“I am declaring, after testing this software, yesterday. Yesterday, actually, I casually tested this software. It was perfectly working. It was perfectly working. That is the reason I am claiming now. Understand? Let this be on record, ‘I will establish this.’”
“I will develop a proper, phonetic, linguistic capable vocal cord for monkeys. Phonetic…
