Page 8 - Appreciating Sanskrit

SANSKRIT

THE LANGUAGE OF INDIA’S SOUL

The Sanskrit language is the

devabhāṣā…based on the true and

perfect relation of vāk and artha. Every

one of its vowels and consonants has

particular and inalienable force which

exists by the nature of things and not by

development or human choice; these are

the fundamental sounds which lie at the

basis of the Tantric bījamantras and

constitute the efficacy of the mantra itself.

(Sri Aurobindo, CWSA, 16: 476)