Vedas — Vedic Authority

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

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

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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

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

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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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Vedas – Vedic Authority

Hansadutta das

Rittvik Representative of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Trustee, BHAKTIVEDANTA BOOK TRUST
WORLD SANKIRTAN PARTY

Vedas – Vedic Authority

Hansadutta das

Rittvik Representative of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupadaTrustee, BHAKTIVEDANTA BOOK TRUSTWORLD SANKIRTAN PARTY

Rittvik Representative of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Trustee, BHAKTIVEDANTA BOOK TRUST
WORLD SANKIRTAN PARTY