Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 35

Fragment ID: 8218

First Reading of the Upanishads

Is it true that the deep significance of mantras like “OM Shanti Shanti Shanti” and of words like “paix” in the Mother’s Prayers is lost because of too much familiarity?

Yes, it must be the familiarity – for I remember when I first read the OM Shanti Shanti Shanti of the Upanishads it had a powerful effect on me. In French it depends on the form or the way in which it is put.

14 February 1936