[Advaita-l] Sanskrit and Advaitic Truth

H S Chandramouli hschandramouli at gmail.com
Mon Oct 1 02:51:16 EDT 2018


On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 11:52 AM Ryan Armstrong via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

>
> << I would just like to point out the while Jaldhar ji is correct in
> general,
> the statement "Sanskrit has all its words full of spiritual significance."
> was not made in a general manner.
> It was used by His Holiness when answering a question put by Mr. MacLaren
> as to why Sanskrita should be studied and why English is inadequate for
> conveying the fullness of the teaching of the Vedas.
> So it was used more in the sense of "Reflecting on the Upanishads allows
> penetration directly through the sound of the Sanskrita words"  rather than
> "Everything written in Sanskrit is spiritual" >>.
>

Namaste.

Just brought back to my mind some discussion in this Forum a while back as
to whether the MahAvAkyAs should be learnt only through the language of the
Shrutis for gaining Knowledge.

Just an incidental thought.

Regards


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