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What is Sanskrit?

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What is Sanskrit?

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A. Sanskrit is the language used in yoga. In your class your teacher is likely to use Sanskrit to indicate the name of each posture. Just be patient, you will learn these overtime.

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Sanskrit is an Indo-European language and the key to classical Indian civilisation. It could be argued that every great or profound thought and utterance in India before the Year 1000 was probably thought and recorded and transmitted in Sanskrit. We’re talking about the cultural, spiritual and intellectual output of about one quarter of humanity. Sanskrit is not a natural language, in that it was never spoken in the marketplace. It was an artificial system for elite scholarly and spiritual discourse. All languages are artificial of course, but this language was self-consciously constructed as a way of conveying the most sublime, spiritual and intellectual beauty that the human brain was capable of creating, and it does it with extraordinary subtlety. When did it originate? The origins of Sanskrit are lost in the mists of time. A collection of texts called the Vedas probably date from around 1000BC. The remarkable thing is that the language in the Vedas is largely recognisable today. Bu

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The symbol represents the sound “aum” or “om” in Sanskrit (as well as Hindi and Nepalese and other languages that use the same writing script as Sanskrit). The symbol represents the sound that someone would chant during meditation. The sound is supposed to represent the most basic nature of all matter in the universe. It is a very holy symbol to Hindus (especially the worshippers of Lord Shiva).

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If you’ve never encountered Sanskrit, you don’t know what you’re missing. This ancient language is as important to the people of India as Latin and Greek are to scholars of other ancient societies and religions. It is the root language for the modern Indian dialects.

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