Vedas – Vedic Authority
≻ Mystic Television Prabhupada explains that Sanjaya was the secretary of Dhritarastra, and he was seeing the battlefield and Krishna’s talking to Arjuna, just like we have live stream television. More
≻ Ancient Aryan Civilization Uncovered on the Russian Steppe The members of human society who strictly follow the principles of bhagavata-dharma and live according to the instructions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead are called Aryans or arya. More
≻ Sum & Substance: Chant Hare Krishna Kali-yuga is the age of darkness, quarrel, irreligion, deception and so forth. And in this age people are very short-lived, they are less intelligent, and they are inclined to quarrel on a slight misunderstanding. People in Kali-yuga will not be interested in spiritual matters. So in order to tactfully - sort of like putting candy coating on a medicine for a child - attract them to the essence of the whole Vedic wisdom, Vyasadeva recorded the entire history of this Mahabharata era, or Kurukshetra era, and in it he put the Bhagavad-gita, the discourse or discussion between Krishna and Arjuna, so that people who are more interested in politics, economics, morality, and romance - which is all there in the Mahabharata - would inadvertently or imperceptibly come upon this one chapter, the Bhagavad-gita. More
≻ Where does knowledge begin? - Hansadutta presents the science of Krishna Consciousness From the Vedic perspective, knowledge must be received from higher authority, even the most ordinary knowledge. Like if I ask, "How many people in this room know who is their mother and father?", everyone will say, "Yes, I know," but if I then ask, "How do you know?" You were not present when conception took place. You have accepted it on the authority of someone, either your mother, your father, your brother, your sister. But to know anything, even the most ordinary affairs, we accept some authority. More
≻ Sita Devi - Separating Myth from Truth Was Sita the daughter of the greatest demon? More
≻ Teachings of the Vedas The Vedas instruct that in order to understand transcendental knowledge, we have to hear from the authority. More
≻ Safe Crossing The Vedas are described as setu, which means "a bridge." If one wants to attain his spiritual existence, one has to cross an ocean of nescience. The Vedas are the bridge by which to cross such a great ocean. More
≻ Cloning Claims The Mahabharata deserves priority for giving the earliest known report of test-tube babies. More
≻ Vedic evidence points to staging of the moon landing You can arrange in the laboratory such television, cheat others. And you have done it. But anyway, television or man or newspaper—you believe on others. You have not personally gone. So you believe some authority. We believe some authority. What is the difference. You take newspaper as authority. We take Vedic literature as authority. More
≻ Ancient Egyptian Flying Vehicles Only a few years ago, the Chinese discovered some sanskrit documents in Lhasa, Tibet and sent them to the University of Chandrigarh to be translated. Dr. Ruth Reyna of the University said recently that the documents contain directions for building interstellar spaceships! More
≻ How Old is Our Universe? The modern historians of this earth cannot supply historical evidences of events that occurred before 5,000 years ago, and the anthropologists say that 40,000 years ago Homo sapiens had not appeared on this planet because evolution had not reached that point. But the Vedic histories, such as the Puranas and Mahabharata, relate human histories which extend millions and billions of years into the past. More
≻ Ancient weapon outperforms new weapons The heat created by the flash of a brahmastra resembles the fire exhibited in the sun globe at the time of cosmic annihilation. The radiation of atomic energy is very insignificant in comparison to the heat produced by a brahmastra. More
≻ What are the Shastras? In one essay [Thakur Bhaktivinode] Srila Bhaktisiddhanta says, "What are the shastras? They are nothing but the words of the devotees (pure devotees) or sadhus." More
≻ Srila Prabhupada is Shastra These men - who faithlessly rail AGAINST the power and authority of Srila Prabhupada - employing THEIR SO-CALLED faith or trust IN "SHASTRA" - literally cannot see the forest through the trees! More
≻ So-called Hinduism is not Vedic Dharma But India, they have given up the real religious system, sanatana-dharma, or varnashrama-dharma. Fictitiously, they have accepted a hodgepodge thing which is called Hinduism. Therefore there is trouble. More
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≻ Ancient Aryan Civilization Uncovered on the Russian Steppe The members of human society who strictly follow the principles of bhagavata-dharma and live according to the instructions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead are called Aryans or arya. More
≻ Sum & Substance: Chant Hare Krishna Kali-yuga is the age of darkness, quarrel, irreligion, deception and so forth. And in this age people are very short-lived, they are less intelligent, and they are inclined to quarrel on a slight misunderstanding. People in Kali-yuga will not be interested in spiritual matters. So in order to tactfully - sort of like putting candy coating on a medicine for a child - attract them to the essence of the whole Vedic wisdom, Vyasadeva recorded the entire history of this Mahabharata era, or Kurukshetra era, and in it he put the Bhagavad-gita, the discourse or discussion between Krishna and Arjuna, so that people who are more interested in politics, economics, morality, and romance - which is all there in the Mahabharata - would inadvertently or imperceptibly come upon this one chapter, the Bhagavad-gita. More
≻ Where does knowledge begin? - Hansadutta presents the science of Krishna Consciousness From the Vedic perspective, knowledge must be received from higher authority, even the most ordinary knowledge. Like if I ask, "How many people in this room know who is their mother and father?", everyone will say, "Yes, I know," but if I then ask, "How do you know?" You were not present when conception took place. You have accepted it on the authority of someone, either your mother, your father, your brother, your sister. But to know anything, even the most ordinary affairs, we accept some authority. More
≻ Sita Devi - Separating Myth from Truth Was Sita the daughter of the greatest demon? More
≻ Teachings of the Vedas The Vedas instruct that in order to understand transcendental knowledge, we have to hear from the authority. More
≻ Safe Crossing The Vedas are described as setu, which means "a bridge." If one wants to attain his spiritual existence, one has to cross an ocean of nescience. The Vedas are the bridge by which to cross such a great ocean. More
≻ Cloning Claims The Mahabharata deserves priority for giving the earliest known report of test-tube babies. More
≻ Vedic evidence points to staging of the moon landing You can arrange in the laboratory such television, cheat others. And you have done it. But anyway, television or man or newspaper—you believe on others. You have not personally gone. So you believe some authority. We believe some authority. What is the difference. You take newspaper as authority. We take Vedic literature as authority. More
≻ Ancient Egyptian Flying Vehicles Only a few years ago, the Chinese discovered some sanskrit documents in Lhasa, Tibet and sent them to the University of Chandrigarh to be translated. Dr. Ruth Reyna of the University said recently that the documents contain directions for building interstellar spaceships! More
≻ How Old is Our Universe? The modern historians of this earth cannot supply historical evidences of events that occurred before 5,000 years ago, and the anthropologists say that 40,000 years ago Homo sapiens had not appeared on this planet because evolution had not reached that point. But the Vedic histories, such as the Puranas and Mahabharata, relate human histories which extend millions and billions of years into the past. More
≻ Ancient weapon outperforms new weapons The heat created by the flash of a brahmastra resembles the fire exhibited in the sun globe at the time of cosmic annihilation. The radiation of atomic energy is very insignificant in comparison to the heat produced by a brahmastra. More
≻ What are the Shastras? In one essay [Thakur Bhaktivinode] Srila Bhaktisiddhanta says, "What are the shastras? They are nothing but the words of the devotees (pure devotees) or sadhus." More
≻ Srila Prabhupada is Shastra These men - who faithlessly rail AGAINST the power and authority of Srila Prabhupada - employing THEIR SO-CALLED faith or trust IN "SHASTRA" - literally cannot see the forest through the trees! More
≻ So-called Hinduism is not Vedic Dharma But India, they have given up the real religious system, sanatana-dharma, or varnashrama-dharma. Fictitiously, they have accepted a hodgepodge thing which is called Hinduism. Therefore there is trouble. More
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≻ Newspapers and MSM: Fail
Asking questions and getting answers is the whole engagement, according to Srila Prabhupada in the Srimad-Bhagavatam, First Canto. The students are asking questions and getting answers, the politicians are asking questions and getting answers, the housewife is asking questions and getting answers, everyone is asking questions and getting answers, and they go on asking questions and getting answers for the whole of their lives, but the questions and answers do not satisfy anyone. More
≻ Vedas unlocked from Sanskrit The Vedic mantras are received not by learning Sanskrit, but by hearing from the authorized person. Therefore it is called shruti. It is in Sanskrit because there was no other language. Sanskrit was the only language. So now they're being translated into English. So it doesn't matter whether it is in Sanskrit or English, one has to learn it by hearing from the proper person. More
≻ India's spiritual culture One reason I came to the West is that modern India has rejected spiritual knowledge. Today Indians think that if they can imitate Western technology, they will be happy. More
≻ Recipe for Gold Apart from this, if one takes a hint from this verse and learns how to mix mercury with bell metal by properly heating and melting them, one can get gold very cheaply. More
≻ Krishna Not a Hindu God, Rathayatra Not Owned by Hindus The cult of bhagavata-dharma can be spread in all circumstances, among all people and in all countries. Many envious people accuse the Krishna consciousness movement of spoiling the rigidity of so-called Hinduism. That is not actually the fact. More
≻ Evidence or Mythology? Now, we have got evidence from the Vedic literature. But the other party, they have no evidence. They are simply speculationist. We can give some evidence. The Vedas are accepted by acharyas, and they are following, and they are getting the result. More
≻ Outcastes Cast Away Hindu Bondage The whole Vedic scheme is that from the lowest grade of existence, one can be elevated to the highest grade. More
≻ Tax Law, US Government & Krishna - fiction when convenient? When I was in Calcutta, there was a rent tax passed by the government, and some expert lawyer changed the whole thing by his interpretation. The government had to re-enact, you see, because the purpose was foiled by the interpretation of the lawyer. You see? So we are not out for foiling the purpose of Krishna for which the Bhagavad-gita is said. More
≻ A book review: The Secret is out - Bhagavad-gita As It Is has the answers All the other books of the world... if they are burned, nothing will be lost, because it is all just deception. More
≻ On the Lookout for Two Eclipses We have already witnessed some of the effects of the total lunar eclipse predicted for March 3rd, 2007. According to pundit Miles Davis aka Patita Pavana das (Lingering Effects of Eclipses), the EFI (eclipse field of influence) extends to 45 days preceding and 45 days after the event More
≻ Vedic Scientific and Technological Texts Ancient Sanskrit literature is replete with references to wonder missiles, miracle rays, interstellar travel and astounding medical cures. More
≻ Sanskrit, Mother of All Human Speech and Thought All Western scholars who really apply their mind to the problem will find themselves concurring with Mr. Hallhead that Sanskrit is the oldest language, and that it was spoken all over the world. More
≻ Dravids and Languages This disproves the fancied hostility between Aryans and Dravids. It must now be realized that Vedic culture is otherwise known as Aryan culture, and Dravids were the first generation seers and sages who spread Aryan culture throughout the world. More
≻ Reclining Vishnu Statues Since according to Vedic tradition Lord Vishnu reclining on the coils of the eternal cobra created the cosmos, it is but natural that statues depicting Lord Vishnu as the creator and sustainer of the universe should have been erected at important locations throughout the world... More
≻ Religious Scriptures That generalizing argument is an excuse to hang all manner of scriptures from the Vedas to the Buddhist Tripitakas or Shatapitakas, the Christian Bible, the Islamic Koran and many others on a common washing line. More
≻ The Vedas We may summarize the attempts made by several scholars to fix the age of the Vedas. Maxmueller, the doyen of the Wester school, whose faulty assumptions are being blindly followed by the West-dominated academic world of today, based all his calculations on the then prevalent blundersome assumption that the world was created in 4004 B.C. More
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≻ Vedas unlocked from Sanskrit The Vedic mantras are received not by learning Sanskrit, but by hearing from the authorized person. Therefore it is called shruti. It is in Sanskrit because there was no other language. Sanskrit was the only language. So now they're being translated into English. So it doesn't matter whether it is in Sanskrit or English, one has to learn it by hearing from the proper person. More
≻ India's spiritual culture One reason I came to the West is that modern India has rejected spiritual knowledge. Today Indians think that if they can imitate Western technology, they will be happy. More
≻ Recipe for Gold Apart from this, if one takes a hint from this verse and learns how to mix mercury with bell metal by properly heating and melting them, one can get gold very cheaply. More
≻ Krishna Not a Hindu God, Rathayatra Not Owned by Hindus The cult of bhagavata-dharma can be spread in all circumstances, among all people and in all countries. Many envious people accuse the Krishna consciousness movement of spoiling the rigidity of so-called Hinduism. That is not actually the fact. More
≻ Evidence or Mythology? Now, we have got evidence from the Vedic literature. But the other party, they have no evidence. They are simply speculationist. We can give some evidence. The Vedas are accepted by acharyas, and they are following, and they are getting the result. More
≻ Outcastes Cast Away Hindu Bondage The whole Vedic scheme is that from the lowest grade of existence, one can be elevated to the highest grade. More
≻ Tax Law, US Government & Krishna - fiction when convenient? When I was in Calcutta, there was a rent tax passed by the government, and some expert lawyer changed the whole thing by his interpretation. The government had to re-enact, you see, because the purpose was foiled by the interpretation of the lawyer. You see? So we are not out for foiling the purpose of Krishna for which the Bhagavad-gita is said. More
≻ A book review: The Secret is out - Bhagavad-gita As It Is has the answers All the other books of the world... if they are burned, nothing will be lost, because it is all just deception. More
≻ On the Lookout for Two Eclipses We have already witnessed some of the effects of the total lunar eclipse predicted for March 3rd, 2007. According to pundit Miles Davis aka Patita Pavana das (Lingering Effects of Eclipses), the EFI (eclipse field of influence) extends to 45 days preceding and 45 days after the event More
≻ Vedic Scientific and Technological Texts Ancient Sanskrit literature is replete with references to wonder missiles, miracle rays, interstellar travel and astounding medical cures. More
≻ Sanskrit, Mother of All Human Speech and Thought All Western scholars who really apply their mind to the problem will find themselves concurring with Mr. Hallhead that Sanskrit is the oldest language, and that it was spoken all over the world. More
≻ Dravids and Languages This disproves the fancied hostility between Aryans and Dravids. It must now be realized that Vedic culture is otherwise known as Aryan culture, and Dravids were the first generation seers and sages who spread Aryan culture throughout the world. More
≻ Reclining Vishnu Statues Since according to Vedic tradition Lord Vishnu reclining on the coils of the eternal cobra created the cosmos, it is but natural that statues depicting Lord Vishnu as the creator and sustainer of the universe should have been erected at important locations throughout the world... More
≻ Religious Scriptures That generalizing argument is an excuse to hang all manner of scriptures from the Vedas to the Buddhist Tripitakas or Shatapitakas, the Christian Bible, the Islamic Koran and many others on a common washing line. More
≻ The Vedas We may summarize the attempts made by several scholars to fix the age of the Vedas. Maxmueller, the doyen of the Wester school, whose faulty assumptions are being blindly followed by the West-dominated academic world of today, based all his calculations on the then prevalent blundersome assumption that the world was created in 4004 B.C. More
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≻ The 5000-Year
Barrier All
modern historical research in any direction seems to stumble into some
mysterious, incognizable 5000-year barrier. More
≻ September Eclipses This coming week we can look forward to the first of two eclipses this month, a partial lunar eclipse on Thursday, September 7, 2006, followed close on its heels by an annular solar eclipse on September 22nd, the 4th Friday of the month. More
≻ Vedic Literatures: Fact or Mythology? Why not? If we have an ocean of salt water and a sea of sweet water, why not an ocean of milk, an ocean of liquor or ocean of honey? We have an ocean of oil underground, and we have an ocean of salt water above ground. More
≻ The Age of Modern Reason and Rise of Secularism: Avoidance of the Established Truth In the Deductive Process we deduce the conclusion from the statement of higher authorities. Whereas by the Inductive Process we make a research in the truth by our own imperfect knowledge and induce a conclusion. Say, for example, if we want to know how man is mortal then we have to make a research in statistics of daily death occurrences. More
≻ Potency of Sound It is stated also in the Vedanta-sutra that sound is the origin of all objects of material possession and that by sound one can also dissolve this material existence. More
≻ Eclipses and Vedic Cosmography and Astronomy In the Vedic literature it is often mentioned that Rahu causes solar and lunar eclipses by passing in front of the sun or moon. To many people, this seems to blatantly contradict the modern explanation of eclipses, which holds that a solar eclipse is caused by the passage of the moon in front of the sun and a lunar eclipse is caused by the moon's passage through the earth's shadow. However... More
≻ The Krishna Consciousness Movement is the Genuine Vedic Way With reference to your article in the Los Angeles Times dated Sunday, January 11, 1970, under the heading "Krishna Chant," I beg to point out that the Hindu religion is perfectly based on the personal conception of God, or Vishnu. More
≻ Hearing from the Right Source There is television. There is radio. There are newspapers. There are so many things to hear about. But that is not the hearing that will help us to become self-realized. More
≻ 500,000 palm leaf texts found in family collections In a unique initiative to catalogue the priceless heritage of the past, students in Tamil Nadu have discovered nearly 500,000 palm leaf manuscripts, including a Mahabharata text said to be over 1,000 years old, from private collections. More
≻ Incarnation for the Modern Age: Who was Chaitanya Mahaprabhu? Sri Chaitanya's incarnation was a hidden incarnation, thus He buried references to His appearance deep within the ocean of Vedic texts. More
≻ Sword from the Sky We have dispensed with the solar event called Eclipse Elmo that passed on the 2nd in our letter to Shriman Hansadutta das Prabhu published yesterday. Since the month continues to remain overshadowed by one more untoward event, Eclipse Eleanor on the 17th, I shall dilate a little on the ramifications of that event. More
≻ Pakistan Earthquake Predicted in Advance by Vedic Astrologer When you came last, we discussed Vedic astrology and I made a prediction that came true in the few days following our last meeting. More
≻ Who is the Author? If you do not know the teachings of the Buddha, His original teachings, that means you do not know the teachings, and therefore it is pointless for me to discuss with you, since you have no authority. More
≻ Buddha and the Vedantists The impersonalists they accept Vedas as authority, but they go against the verdict of the Vedas. Lord Chaitanya has depicted this impersonalist class of men as more dangerous than the Buddhists. More
≻ A Brief Overview of Vedic Mathematics As is true with anything connected to the original Vedic Culture of the world, the various aspects of Vedic Math are not only astounding, but are in essence simple, efficient and infinitely practical. More
≻ Vedic Authority — Reestablished Adi Shankara introduced something more than Buddhism, but something less than the complete conception of the Absolute Truth. In this way he at least brought the general mass of people back under the shelter of the Vedic authority. More
≻ Vedic Calendar for 2004 Available Just released: Trivedi's American Panchang. What is a panchang? A panchang is a Vedic Calendar. Incidentally, the very word "calendar" comes from the Sanskrit word for time or kala. More
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≻ September Eclipses This coming week we can look forward to the first of two eclipses this month, a partial lunar eclipse on Thursday, September 7, 2006, followed close on its heels by an annular solar eclipse on September 22nd, the 4th Friday of the month. More
≻ Vedic Literatures: Fact or Mythology? Why not? If we have an ocean of salt water and a sea of sweet water, why not an ocean of milk, an ocean of liquor or ocean of honey? We have an ocean of oil underground, and we have an ocean of salt water above ground. More
≻ The Age of Modern Reason and Rise of Secularism: Avoidance of the Established Truth In the Deductive Process we deduce the conclusion from the statement of higher authorities. Whereas by the Inductive Process we make a research in the truth by our own imperfect knowledge and induce a conclusion. Say, for example, if we want to know how man is mortal then we have to make a research in statistics of daily death occurrences. More
≻ Potency of Sound It is stated also in the Vedanta-sutra that sound is the origin of all objects of material possession and that by sound one can also dissolve this material existence. More
≻ Eclipses and Vedic Cosmography and Astronomy In the Vedic literature it is often mentioned that Rahu causes solar and lunar eclipses by passing in front of the sun or moon. To many people, this seems to blatantly contradict the modern explanation of eclipses, which holds that a solar eclipse is caused by the passage of the moon in front of the sun and a lunar eclipse is caused by the moon's passage through the earth's shadow. However... More
≻ The Krishna Consciousness Movement is the Genuine Vedic Way With reference to your article in the Los Angeles Times dated Sunday, January 11, 1970, under the heading "Krishna Chant," I beg to point out that the Hindu religion is perfectly based on the personal conception of God, or Vishnu. More
≻ Hearing from the Right Source There is television. There is radio. There are newspapers. There are so many things to hear about. But that is not the hearing that will help us to become self-realized. More
≻ 500,000 palm leaf texts found in family collections In a unique initiative to catalogue the priceless heritage of the past, students in Tamil Nadu have discovered nearly 500,000 palm leaf manuscripts, including a Mahabharata text said to be over 1,000 years old, from private collections. More
≻ Incarnation for the Modern Age: Who was Chaitanya Mahaprabhu? Sri Chaitanya's incarnation was a hidden incarnation, thus He buried references to His appearance deep within the ocean of Vedic texts. More
≻ Sword from the Sky We have dispensed with the solar event called Eclipse Elmo that passed on the 2nd in our letter to Shriman Hansadutta das Prabhu published yesterday. Since the month continues to remain overshadowed by one more untoward event, Eclipse Eleanor on the 17th, I shall dilate a little on the ramifications of that event. More
≻ Pakistan Earthquake Predicted in Advance by Vedic Astrologer When you came last, we discussed Vedic astrology and I made a prediction that came true in the few days following our last meeting. More
≻ Who is the Author? If you do not know the teachings of the Buddha, His original teachings, that means you do not know the teachings, and therefore it is pointless for me to discuss with you, since you have no authority. More
≻ Buddha and the Vedantists The impersonalists they accept Vedas as authority, but they go against the verdict of the Vedas. Lord Chaitanya has depicted this impersonalist class of men as more dangerous than the Buddhists. More
≻ A Brief Overview of Vedic Mathematics As is true with anything connected to the original Vedic Culture of the world, the various aspects of Vedic Math are not only astounding, but are in essence simple, efficient and infinitely practical. More
≻ Vedic Authority — Reestablished Adi Shankara introduced something more than Buddhism, but something less than the complete conception of the Absolute Truth. In this way he at least brought the general mass of people back under the shelter of the Vedic authority. More
≻ Vedic Calendar for 2004 Available Just released: Trivedi's American Panchang. What is a panchang? A panchang is a Vedic Calendar. Incidentally, the very word "calendar" comes from the Sanskrit word for time or kala. More
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