Bhagavad Gita - Book 8, Volume 1

LANGUAGE OF THE GODS

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In Saṃskṛt the connection is immediate; the result is instantaneous. That is why I tell people to listen to Saṃskṛt devotional verses for at least 10 minutes a day. It does not matter whether you understand it or not.

Just listen to any Saṃskṛt verse — whether it is Viṣṇu Sahasranāma, Bhagavad Gītā, Śiva Sahasranāma or something else. Even if you don't understand the meaning of the verses, the very energy of the vibrations will purify your body.

SHABDA

TATTVA

There is something called śabda
tattva, the principle of sound.
When air travels from our navel
area to the throat, the śabda
tattva changes the air into
words. If this element is not
there, only air comes out; no
words come out.

In other languages the more we
use śabda tattva, the more tired
we become. However in
Saṃskṛt, the śabda tattva
strengthens us. The more we
chant, the more energetic we
become! It is like the generator
automatically re-charging the
battery and the battery running
the generator.
It is completely interconnected.

The Saṃskṛt language strengthens the śabda tattva that converts air into sound or words. This is why it does not matter whether or not we understand it. Listening to the sound, the very vibration, has an effect on our being. Modern day research proves that the vibrations of the verses can straightaway remove impurities. This is why masters ask us to offer different types of worship as a means to chant Saṃskṛt verses. We simply heal ourselves.

These are two different energies of Lord Viṣṇu; one manifested as Arjuna and the other as Kṛṣṇa. The whole drama happened so that the Gītā took shape to enrich humanity! Otherwise, even the disciple with the least consciousness would not have asked so many questions, again and again.