Page 17 - Appreciating Sanskrit

SANSKRIT

THE LANGUAGE OF INDIA’S SOUL

A language, Sanskrit or future, and how we are

another, should be to learn and use English

acquired by whatever or any other foreign

method is most natural, tongue so as to know

efficient and stimulating helpfully the life, ideas

to the mind and we need and culture of other

not cling there to any countries and establish

past or present manner our right relations with

of teaching: but the vital the world around us.

question is how we are

to learn and make use of This is the aim and

Sanskrit and the principle of a true

indigenous languages so national education, not,

as to get to the heart and certainly, to ignore

intimate sense of our modern truth and

own culture and knowledge, but to take

establish a vivid our foundation on our

continuity between the own being, our own

still living power of our mind, our own spirit.

past and the yet (Sri Aurobindo, CWSA,

uncreated power of our 1:421)