vaag eva vishvaa bhuvanaani jajne

Dear Colleagues and Friends !

There is a saying in the Vedas that it is out of the potent Word that the universe has manifested in it's multifaceted reality.A true word is born of a true mind and it prompts a true action.Thus language plays an important role in shaping our mind and action.The cliche 'mind your own language' has a deeper sense.An individual as well as a society and a country ought to have a language which brings into being better minds and nobler actions which always make our world better.Language is the repository of our past,is a guide to our present and is a promissory note for our future,for it is our resolve couched in language that opens up doors on the brighter or gloomier tomorrows.That's just why grammarians,linguists and philosophers or yogins all over the world nurse and nurture the best in language which helps us catch up with the truth here or hereafter.

Many languages we have in the world, a few centuries of them in India alone,but Samskrit is unique,now the psycholinguists and computer scientists are further lending proof to this.She is the breathing apparatus of India's longest living vibrant and incessantly self-rejuvenating culture.Now the world of languages and linguists must celebrate the fact that recently the state of Uttarakhand has declared Samskrit as it's second official language.The serene Himalayan state has set an example worth emulating by other states and even the centre by placing Samskrit by the side of Hindi which is the official language as spelt in the constitution.This will be doing a long due justice to saints and statesmen like Swami Vivekananda,Swami Dayananda,Sri Aurobindo,the Mother of Pondicherry,Mahatma Gandhi,B.R.Ambedkar,K.M.Munshi and many others who put a premium on Samskrit education which was ruthlessly repressed and distorted during the British rule.

Let Samskrit regenerate herself to prove her historic legacy and living vitality in serving her divine vision and mission of a great India leading a great world !

Yours in truth,

Surendra