“Sanskrit is the Mother of all Languages”

Jayapataka, November 20, 1975, Bombay: ..Why the Germans are good Sanskrit scholars? Why?

Prabhupada: Yes. Because they had very good tendency for learning Sanskrit to know so many things. That was their research. They knew it that in Sanskrit language there are so many wonderful things.

Dr. Patel: Now, sir, they say that in American universities also, many universities have started teaching Sanskrit.

Prabhupada: Yes. In every school, every college, every university, there is Sanskrit. Hare Krishna. Jaya. [break]

Dr. Patel: …was the real man who, when he started studying Vedas, he realized that in Sanskrit language there is a huge literature of great importance. He spread the things in Germany. No, he was staying in England.

Prabhupada: By international scholars’ meeting these diacritic marks were discovered for studying Sanskrit. The diacritic marks which we use, that is international agreement of Sanskrit scholars.

Dr. Patel: Yes. Yes. Those marks. A, and a and u and ai and these dots. Yes, that is international. Nobody can claim. That is long back, sir. I think Max Muller’s time.

Prabhupada: Yes.

Dr. Patel: There were so many scholars, even in Paris, Germany, and Italy.

Prabhupada: Professor Roe and Webb, they were professor in Presidency College when we were school children. They admitted Sanskrit is the mother of all languages.

Dr. Patel: In fact, Persian is the first letter of Sanskrit which looks like that. When you study Persian, so many words—Sanskrit directly taken Persian. In the Russian language, I mean, so many words are there of Sanskrit.

Prabhupada: No, whole world you’ll find Sanskrit. The first word, mother and father, that is Sanskrit, matri and pitri.

Yasomatinandana: Ha, everywhere. Everywhere starts like that, all the languages.

Dr. Patel: Jna, to know, from that, knowledge, jna.

Prabhupada: Yes. Hare Krishna. Jaya. Jaya. [break]

Brahmananda: …mother is ”mere” and father is ”pere.”

Prabhupada: [break] …is madri? Ba, pha.

Brahmananda: In Spanish, father is ”padre.”

Dr. Patel: Latin and Sanskrit are more or less common. They have got those sapta-vibhaktis in Latin also.

Prabhupada: And this “Christ” has come from Kristo, Krishna. Yes.

Dr. Patel: The cow from… Gao from cow, and cow from gao. No? It is absolutely not…, so very easy.

Prabhupada: We are Krsnian, and they are Christian. There is similarity.

Dr. Patel: Nomenclature. Christ was really a bhagavata, I mean, in a true sense.

Prabhupada: Anyone who accepts God, he is bhagavata.

Dr. Patel: Christ, sir, really taught absolutely bhagavata-dharma. The way… All his sayings, the New Testament and his Sermon on Mount, all is absolutely Bhagavata. I have studied it very, in great detail and compared the two myself. So Christ was the greatest Hindu, to tell the truth. But as those people in the Middle East were heathens and absolutely junglis, they crucified him. Had he been here he would have been a big saint and avatara.

Prabhupada: Recent history is that he did not die. He came to Kashmir.

Dr. Patel: Came to Kashmir. There is a tomb in Kashmir. I read some literature about it. His resurrection… They say that they smuggled him out of that cave. It is possible. When he was on the cross, he…

Prabhupada: No, even by yoga system…

Dr. Patel: He must have gone in a trance.

Prabhupada: He lived by trance.

Dr. Patel: He was a great devotee. There is no doubt about it.

Prabhupada: By trance.

Dr. Patel: When he… On the cross they say he uttered, “Father, don’t forsake me.” That is the time he went into trance most probably. Eh? He must have gone in trance when he uttered the last words, “Father, don’t forsake me.” And then when he was brought down in the lap of his mother and they took him in the cave, no? Under the guard of those Italian soldiers.

Then there was a big hurricane or something like that and they all ran away. And after that he was smuggled away from that place. Christ has rebuilt his father’s temple in true sense, the way he spread the Christianity. The churches have degenerated in his teaching, unfortunately. It is the church. That happens with every, in every, I mean, these things, teachings. Race, this race is very bold, indeed, that God choicest race, these Jews, somehow or other.
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