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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)
