People who have studied Sanskrit ?

[Schizophonia]

Title.

My new year of studies begins soon and i choose sanskit as an option, I read the Wikipedia page and it cited a book that said it's like a "mantra language," like a song where the sounds directly echo a frequency basically; that sounds interesting.

 

[Schizophonia]

+ bonus, clairvoyance exercise of the day: I am of course going through this topic largely to lowkey point out that I am potentially particularly intelligent

Edited September 8 by Schizophonia

[Sugarcoat]

I guess it’s only useful if you plan on seriously studying Sanskrit texts 

[Natasha Tori Maru]

Apparently Sanskrit and Hebrew have a lot of phonetic correlation to geometric patterning - when the sounds are resonated through a vibrating plate with sand, for example, geometric patterns arise. 

I think it is called cymatics? If I recall correctly. My grandad used to show me examples when I was a kid.

You might find it fascinating! I did!

[Sandroew]

17 hours ago, Schizophonia said:

a "mantra language," like a song where the sounds directly echo a frequency basically;

 

2 hours ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

Apparently Sanskrit and Hebrew have a lot of phonetic correlation to geometric patterning

Yooo that is interesting, but how/why did they do this ? Through empirical knowledge or they knew something thats lost on us ?

[Natasha Tori Maru]

12 hours ago, Sandroew said:

Yooo that is interesting, but how/why did they do this ? Through empirical knowledge or they knew something that's lost on us ?

I totally do not know! Looking back at our history, and just how many natural disasters we have had that have near wiped life off the earth, it doesn't seem outlandish to me to think there is a lot of lost knowledge out there. 

Even the libraries of Alexandra, or better yet, the Vatican's locked down library - there is so much we do not know.

Sound is fascinating to me, as I think there is more to it than we know.

Even sound weapons used by the military are a thing. Resonance can induce movement in objects. We can explode glass and destroy things with sound. Infrasound has been reported to do crazy things to people.

Wouldn't surprise me if something like 'OM' could be sung in unison with a technology/object to achieve something.

 

[theleelajoker]

There is something fascinating about Sanskrit language.

For one, it's how meaning is created and the grammar is structured. The yoga sutra has very few words but says a lot!

The other one is the sound, the frequency, the vibration. Sometimes I meet people and I am amazed by their energy, especially by their voice. Chatting to them often revealed that they do mantra singing. I sing too sometimes (for myself) and it's interesting because I often feel how the singing directly translates to changes in my body, for instance I feel the area around my stomach or throat relax.

Hebrew can also give me some interesting effects. Once I watched a movie, normal stuff and then a character started to talk ok Hebrew. I had no idea what he is talking about but my body instantly reacted with goose bumps.

@Schizophonia will be fun studying it for sure

 

[caspex]

I know maybe 10% sanskrit from all the shastras I have read. I have done a lot of mantra chanting and here's what I know about sanskrit.

Sanskrit sticks incredibly fast to memory. Maybe it is just me but I can memorize a page of sanskrit 10 times faster than any other language i know (english and hindi).

It just works so well together there is no way Sanskrit is a naturally occurring language, it is most definitely a constructed one.

In fact, you don't have even to know the meaning of the words, there is something about how the syllables go together that make it easy to remember. No wonder there's a school of hinduism where people memorize the entire vedas (about 20000 mantras).

As for mantras, they won't work if you don't do the correct sadhna along with the mantra. Even within the sadhna, you need to visualise things  correctly. Baseless parroting doesn't get you anywhere.

[Carl-Richard]

On 11.9.2025 at 6:09 PM, caspex said:

It just works so well together there is no way Sanskrit is a naturally occurring language, it is most definitely a constructed one.

By aliens? 🫨

[Schizophonia]

On 09/09/2025 at 8:37 AM, Sugarcoat said:

I guess it’s only useful if you plan on seriously studying Sanskrit texts 

I think we are going to do that

[Schizophonia]

@caspex @theleelajoker @Natasha Tori Maru It's very interesting thanks. 

[Rigel]

On 2025-09-09 at 10:26 PM, Natasha Tori Maru said:

Wouldn't surprise me if something like 'OM' could be sung in unison with a technology/object to achieve something.

 

I’ve been doing this exact thing daily for 5 years now. I do more than unison but it always must resolve back to one.

edit: more like 7-8 years now that I think about it. Oh boy time flies.

Edited September 14 by Rigel

[caspex]

On 14/9/2025 at 7:00 AM, Carl-Richard said:

By aliens? 🫨

Prolly not aliens. I imagine a bunch of rishis got together in what would be the leading group of scholars around the land at that time and decided to standardize the already existing language.

[Hojo]

I watched a sanskrit porno they were talking as if they were robots in the dubs. Sort of like is a robot was pretending to be human.

Edited Tuesday at 03:17 AM by Hojo

[Jodistrict]

Sanskrit is a language designed for speaking and transmitting language orally.  It has rules called Sandhi which modify the end of a word depending on the next syllable, which allows for fluent speaking.  The Vedas were transmitted orally for centuries by scribes memorizing the entire text.  This would be impossible in English.  In Sanskrit the text is arranged in versus like poetry and with a rhythm which aids memorization. 

Here is an excellent source for beginning Sanskrit.

https://learnsanskrit.org/guide/

How to use a Sanskrit dictionary

https://www.yogicstudies.com/blog/how-to-use-online-sanskrit-dictionaries-tutorial?utm_source=chatgpt.com

 

Devanangari Tutor which includes the pronunciation.

https://enjoylearningsanskrit.com/devanagari-tutor/

 

Devanagari Phonology Chart    (click on symbols to get pronounciation)

https://ubcsanskrit.ca/lesson1/devanāgarī.html