Originally Posted by
Believer
But we do see the people on a higher plane, unwilling or unable to come down to the level of common man for their sermons. They may take part in puja and chanting with everyone, but the spiritual discourse part is limited to other evolved souls only. What to speak of the great Acharyas, beginner level people are generally ignored/shunned even by the ones who have little bit more scriptural knowledge than us.
Perhaps somebody with a better sense of history of Sanskrit might come along to enlighten us with documented facts about its decline.
Pranam.