[To interviewer] Why are the mantras only in Sanskrit? Is it okay?
The word mantra is itself in Sanskrit. Mantra means 'mananat trayate iti mantraha'.
If you chant it, if you will recite it, you will be protected.
Actually mantra cannot be in other languages because other languages, they don't have that powerful sound.
Like Sanskrit does. Sanskrit has almost 52 vowels and consonants.
And they are very very powerful. Even though it is ancient language, but it is still mystery how the people discovered this language which is so powerful.
Even the consonant itself is very powerful. Vowels by itself is very powerful.
But if you make combination of that, it becomes so powerful.
And in like mantra, mantra is a combination of sounds.
And that sound is something positive or divine.
So that's why mantra means the sound which is divine and the combination of the divine sounds is called mantra.
And whenever you recite it, whenever you say it, it protects you.
Not only you, around you, if it is your family, friends, or relatives, or any other living beings will be protected.
So the mantra cannot be in other language because they don't have that powerful sound.
And they don't have the meaning of the alphabet itself. Sanskrit has that ability, that even the A, the first sound, it means something.
But if you go to the roman script, if it is A, it has no meaning. Only they say that this is the first letter of the alphabet.
But in Sanskrit, every letter of the script has its own meaning.
A means creative, A means generative, A means very very powerful sound.
It is Brahma. So it is like every single letter in Sanskrit is, it has meaning.
So that's why when you have to put some kind of together, it has meaning, plus it affects your body, mind, and your thoughts.
That's why mantra is very divine.
You put just 3 sounds together: A, U, and M. A, U, M. It becomes aum [om].
And in every language in the world, this is the root. Aum is the root, but they are saying in different way.
You can say Amen, you can say Aum, or...but the root is same.
Aum means 3 very powerful sounds: A, U, and M.
U means Vishnu in Sanskrit. M means Shiva in Sanskrit.
So the combination of Brahma, Vishnu, Maheshvara. Just 3 sounds only put together, it becomes like very very powerful.
It becomes like God. So no wonder in Hindu mythology Aum is God.
Aum is very natural sound. So the mantra only in Sanskrit. There is no other languages.
Yes in other languages there must be melody, there must be very much rhythm in rhythmic languages or very much sweetness in it.
And could be very good poetry or other works we found out in different languages.
But in Sanskrit has everything. Sanskrit language has poetry, Sanskrit language has different kind of teachings work.
So, I consider that mantra can only be recited in Sanskrit.
Not the other languages, in the other languages in the world actually.
So I think you need to understand that it has very much effect on the body.
As soon as you say just one sound, Aum, it affects your whole chakras, whole body, whole mind and thoughts.