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Most common lenguage in our sampradaya's books?

Posted by Ananda Mohan das on June 23, 2018 at 4:42pm in Krishna

Hare Krishna,

I'd like to start learning a bit of either sanskrit, hindi or bengali to be able to understand more fluidly our granthas.

Can you tell me which one of these three languages would be better for this end? What's the most common language in our sampradaya's books?

thanks

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    Radha Rasamayi DD June 26, 2018 at 11:11am

    Hare Krsna Prabhuji,

    PAMHO.

    What i have seen of foreigner devotees is that they learn Bengali to be able to relish CC. Regarding Sanskrit, it is the mother of all languages and must be learnt. The issue with sanskrit is - the same word will have multiple meanings. Unless one is a master, one cannot understand simply by reading sanskrit, without any help of purports. This will tend to make one confused. Therefore, it would be better to learn Bengali. 

    Haribol,

    Your servant,

    Radha Rasamayi DD

  • v j June 26, 2018 at 10:53am

    Gita & Bhagawat are in Sanskrit. Chaitanya Charitamrit is bengali. I don't have idea about other books 

    Hare Krishna 

    Radhe Radhe 

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