Page 17 - Appreciating Sanskrit

SANSKRIT

THE LANGUAGE OF INDIA’S SOUL

A language, Sanskrit or to learn and use English

another, should be or any other foreign

acquired by whatever tongue so as to know

method is most natural, helpfully the life, ideas

efficient and stimulating and culture of other

to the mind and we need countries and establish

not cling there to any our right relations with

past or present manner the world around us.

of teaching: but the vital

question is how we are This is the aim and

to learn and make use of principle of a true

Sanskrit and the national education, not,

indigenous languages so certainly, to ignore

as to get to the heart and modern truth and

intimate sense of our knowledge, but to take

own culture and our foundation on our

establish a vivid own being, our own

continuity between the mind, our own spirit.

still living power of our

past and the yet ~ Sri Aurobindo

uncreated power of our CWSA, 1:421

future, and how we are