Matri-Sanskritam vijayatam
The Mother on Sanskrit
.... Everyone should learn that [Sanskrit] Especially everyone who works here should learn that ....not the Sanskrit of the scholars ....all, all of them, wherever they may have born.
In principle, Mother, that is what we are thinking of - next year to make all the children do Sanskrit, plus their mother tongue.
Yes, Not Sanskrit from the view of scholarship, but Sanskrit, how to put it? - that opens the door to all the languages of India. I think that is indispensable. The ideal would be, in a few years, to have a rejuvenated Sanskrit as the representative language of India, that is a Sanskrit spoken in such a way- that Sanskrit is behind all the languages of India and it should be that. This was Sri Aurobindo's idea when we spoke about it. Because now English is the language of the whole country, but that is abnormal, It is very helpful for relations with the rest of the world, but just as each country has its own language, there should .... And so here, as soon as one begins to want a national language everyone starts quarreling, each one wants it to be his own, and that is foolish. But no will could object to Sanskrit. It is more ancient language than the others and it contains the sounds, the root-sounds of many words.
This is something I studied with Sri Aurobindo and it is obviously very interesting. Some of these roots can be found in all the languages of the world - sounds, root-sounds which are found in all those languages. Well this, this thing, this is what the national language should be. Every child born in India should know it, as every child born in France has to know French. He does not speak properly, he does not know it thoroughly, but he has to know French a little, and in all the countries of the world it is the same thing. He has to know the national language. And then when he learns, he learns as many languages as he likes. At the moment we are still embroiled in quarrels and this is a very bad atmosphere in which to build anything. But I hope that a day will come when it will be possible.
So I would like to have a simple Sanskrit taught here as simple as possible. but not "simplified" - simple by going back to its origin ...all these sounds the sounds that are the roots of the words which were formed afterwards. I don't know whether there is anyone here who could do that. In fact I don't know whether there is anyone in India who could do it. Sri Aurobindo knew.But someone who knows Sanskrit can.... For a language that could be universal throughout the country.
11 November 1967. CWM. Vol 12 pp 416-417.
The Mother on Sanskrit
.... Everyone should learn that [Sanskrit] Especially everyone who works here should learn that ....not the Sanskrit of the scholars ....all, all of them, wherever they may have born.
In principle, Mother, that is what we are thinking of - next year to make all the children do Sanskrit, plus their mother tongue.
Yes, Not Sanskrit from the view of scholarship, but Sanskrit, how to put it? - that opens the door to all the languages of India. I think that is indispensable. The ideal would be, in a few years, to have a rejuvenated Sanskrit as the representative language of India, that is a Sanskrit spoken in such a way- that Sanskrit is behind all the languages of India and it should be that. This was Sri Aurobindo's idea when we spoke about it. Because now English is the language of the whole country, but that is abnormal, It is very helpful for relations with the rest of the world, but just as each country has its own language, there should .... And so here, as soon as one begins to want a national language everyone starts quarreling, each one wants it to be his own, and that is foolish. But no will could object to Sanskrit. It is more ancient language than the others and it contains the sounds, the root-sounds of many words.
This is something I studied with Sri Aurobindo and it is obviously very interesting. Some of these roots can be found in all the languages of the world - sounds, root-sounds which are found in all those languages. Well this, this thing, this is what the national language should be. Every child born in India should know it, as every child born in France has to know French. He does not speak properly, he does not know it thoroughly, but he has to know French a little, and in all the countries of the world it is the same thing. He has to know the national language. And then when he learns, he learns as many languages as he likes. At the moment we are still embroiled in quarrels and this is a very bad atmosphere in which to build anything. But I hope that a day will come when it will be possible.
So I would like to have a simple Sanskrit taught here as simple as possible. but not "simplified" - simple by going back to its origin ...all these sounds the sounds that are the roots of the words which were formed afterwards. I don't know whether there is anyone here who could do that. In fact I don't know whether there is anyone in India who could do it. Sri Aurobindo knew.But someone who knows Sanskrit can.... For a language that could be universal throughout the country.
11 November 1967. CWM. Vol 12 pp 416-417.
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