Sanskrit is better. Sanskrit is a much fuller and subtler language, so it's probably much better. But these modern languages are so artificial (by this, I mean superficial, intellectual); they cut things up into little pieces and remove the light behind. I also read On the Veda where Sri Aurobindo speaks of the difference between the modern mind and the ancient mind; and it's quite obvious, especially from the linguistic point of view. Sanskrit was certainly much more fluid, a better instrument for a more ... global, more comprehensive light, a light containing more things within itself. In these modern languages, it's as if things are passed through a sieve and broken up into separate little bits, so then you have all the work of putting them back together. And something is always lost. But I even doubt that the modern mind, built as it now is, would be able to know Sanskrit in this way. I think they are cutting up Sanskrit as well, out of habit. We need a new language. We need to make a new language. Not some kind of esperanto! - but sounds springing straight from above. The SOUND must be captured. There must be one sound at the origin of all language ... And then, to capture it and project it. To make it vibrate ... because it doesn't vibrate in the same way here as it does above. That would be an interesting work. The words must have a power - an expressive power. Yes, they should carry the meaning in themselves! page 430 , Mother's Agenda , volume 1 , 8th Oct. 1960 .

I made an experiment: writing the letter OM. When you have written it four, five, six times, it becomes excellent! I wanted to know why you were asked to do that work and what you could draw from it. So I sat down to write your yantram, and it became very living, I could see it in front of me - I kept seeing it all the while. "But then," I thought, "the VERY FACT of writing must have an effect." Then I started writing the letter OM carefully.... Well, when I came to the fourth, the fifth, it became excellent - excellent, as though it were creating a vibration. That's the power it has, an external power. But then it was very amusing (the body is like a child - really a child), suddenly it said, "Oh, what a lovely game! To be sitting like this and writing, oh, how amusing! If I had the time, it would be great fun to write and write, lots and lots and lots of times." I saw that in the body - in the body's cells. Then I understood. Basically, these are almost methods for children (children from the spiritual viewpoint), young souls - child-souls. They are methods for child-souls. I used to write my whole japa fluently like that, in Sanskrit, [[ Satprem has entire pages written and rewritten in Sanskrit by Mother. ]] now I have forgotten everything again. page 187 - Mother's Agenda , volume 4 , 26th June 1963