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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here, thank you both SO much for these wonderful suggestions and all the information! I am going to find the phone number of email of the Georgetown Hindu chaplain, that's exciting that they hired one.

PP at 09:04 thank you for all the tips, I am looking up those programs right now. [b]I am actually teaching myself Sanskrit grammar whenever I can,[/b] and part of that is because I want to read the Vedas in the original Sanskrit. The English translations are terrible - they are mostly made by Westerners who don't understand the spiritual nuances of Vedanta, or they're made by Indians who whitewash the text (like replacing individual deity names with just "God". I like honoring the many Gods of Hinduism, I like calling Varuna and Indra and Vayu and Surya by Their names and paying homage to Them, so it offends me when They are all reduced to one).[/quote]

Huh?  Why don't you enroll in an academic program to learn Sanskrit.  That seems to be the place to start.

If you haven't read those texts in the original Sanskrit because you don't know Sanskrit, then how can you be so sure the English translations are terrible?

It sounds like you have some preconceived notions about what you want those texts to be, as opposed to being generally interested in them.

I've read some English translations of Sanskrit texts, and I've never come across them replacing individual gods with just the name "God."  I'm not sure where you are experiencing this.  Are you actually reading scholarly translations?  [/quote]

Why are you so concerned?  OP is right in the way she is proceeding.  As has already been mentioned, Hinduism is learned at home, at temple and with a Guru.  This includes the understanding and deeper meanings of Sanskrit.  The Sanskrit that is taught in universities by so called "Indologists" have no proper understanding, guidance or connection to 
Hinduism.

Even learning just the grammar of Sanskrit is tied directly to Hinduism and that's not something an intro class at University will ever teach you.
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[i]Of letters I am a. Of compounds I am the dual.
I alone am unending time, the Founder facing every side.
Bhagavad Gita 10.33[/i]

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OP here, yes thank you. That person's hostility was special.[/quote]

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