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Regulated activities are prescribed in the Vedas, and the Vedas are directly manifested from the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Consequently the all-pervading allTranscendence is eternally situated in acts of sacrifice. BG 3.15
Veda means knowledge. The Vedic literature is a vast body of knowledge comprising of about a hundred billion Sanskrit verses.
The Vedas are compared to a desire tree because they contain all things knowable by man.
The Vedas contain regulated principles of knowledge covering social, political, religious, economic, military, medicinal, chemical physical, metaphysical, and other subject matter and above all specific directs for spiritual realization.
rg-yajuhrg-yajuh-samatharvas ca bharatam paca-ratrakam pacamulamula-ramayanam caiva veda ity eva sabditah puranani ca yaniha vaisnavani vido viduh svatahsvatah-pramanyam etesam natra kicid vicaryate ki
The Rg Veda, Yajur Veda, Sama Veda, Atharva Veda, Mahabharata, Pacaratra and original Pa Ramayana are all considered by authorities to be veda. The knowers also know those Puranas dedicated to Lord Visnu to enjoy the same status. These literatures are self-evident, and there is selfnothing in them to speculate about. Bhavisya Purana
There are eighteen major puranas. Of all the puranas, the Bhagavata Purana (Srimad(SrimadBhagavatam) is considered the most important.
KarmaKarma-kanda: elevation to heavenly planets or achieving material benefits through performance of yajna (sacrifices) for demigods, dana (charity), tapa (penance). This is call pravriti marg.
JnanaJnana-Kanda: Decreasing material involvement and understanding the Supreme Truth through speculative knowledge. This is called nivritti marg.
Amongst all types of upasana or worship, The worship of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vasudeva, or Krishna, is Considered the topmost and is vividly Described in the Srimad-Bhagavatam.
Three-fold revelation of the Vedas: Shruti (aurally received) Nyaya (logic) 4 Vedas, 108 Upanisads Knowledge is revealed in the heart by hear and accepting. Knowledge that can manifest in the heart through logic Histories about realized souls whose example we can follow
Vedanta Sutra
Sambandha: Relationship: Who am I? Who is God? What is my relation to God? Abhideya: The process for elevation, bhakti, devotional service. Prayojana: The supreme goal of life, prema, love of God.
Krishna first reveals the Vedic Knowledge to Brahma, the first manifested living entity in the material world.
Krishna first expands himself as the Maha-Vishnu for the Mahaperformance of creation. From his exhalation, unlimited universes expand from his pores. The Maha-Vishnu then Mahaexpans himself and enters each individual universe as the Gabhodakasayi Vishnu.
The Garbhodakasayi Vishnu then fills half the universe with the water born of his on perspiration (Gabha ocean) and lies down on the bed of Ananta-sesa. Thereafter, a lotus Anantaflower is born from his navel.
Lord Brahma is born from this lotus flower. He climbs down the lotus stem in search of his origin and is instructed (from within the heart) to perform penance.
Krishna reveal to Lord Brahma his transcendental realm. Lord Brahma inquires from Krishna and Krishna reveals the answers.
Bhautikanam ca bhavanam / sakti-hrasam ca tat-krtam Asraddadhanan nihsattvam / durmedhan hrastitayusah Durbhagams ca janan viksya / munir divyena caksusa Sarva varnasramanam yad / dadhyau hitam amogha-drk
The great sage, who was fully equipped in knowledge, could see, through his transcendental vision, the deterioration of everything material, due to the influence of the age. He could also see that the faithless people in general would be reduced in duration of life and would be impatient due to lack of goodness. Thus he contemplated for the welfare of men in all statuses and orders of life. SB 1.4.17-18
Veda
Rg Veda
Same Veda
Yajur Veda
Atharva Veda
Upanisads
Srimad-Bhagavatam Maha-Purana
Vedanta-Suta
Vyasa, divides the Vedas into four parts, including the 108 Upanisads (philosophical discourses on parts of the Vedas), The fifth Veda, which included Mahabharata (containing the Bhagavad-Gita) and the 18 Puranas, containing the cream of All Vedic literature, the Srimad-Bhagavatam.
Science and philosophy is not authoritative because of constant paradigm shifts. Person who represent modern day paradigm lack qualities. Can we really place our faith in them.
Deductive / descending method: refers to that knowledge that is acquired by hearing. It is not experimental knowledge.
For example, if you want to know who your father is, who can answer you? Your mother. If the mother says, "Here is your father," you have to accept itIf you want to know who your father is and if you accept your mother as the authority, then whatever she says can be accepted without argument Similarly, if you want to know something beyond your experience, beyond your experimental knowledge, beyond the activities of the senses, then you have to accept the Vedas. There is no question of experimenting. It has already been experimented. It is already settled. The version of the mother, for instance, has to be accepted as truth. There is no other way.
Ch. 1 BG, Arjuna spends his time speculating to understand truth, only to be led to utter frustration. When he decides to communicate with Krishna on Krishnas terms (parampara, submissive inquiry of guru), he meets with great success.