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Re: Animal-Killing, and Soul-Merging Condemned
susarla.krishna@studentserver1.swmed.edu (Hari Krishna Susarla) writes:
>In article <4fecr0$7jm@babbage.ece.uc.edu>,
> gmadras@pinto.engr.ucdavis.edu (Giri) wrote:
>Puraanas are not to be to be thought of as less than the Vedas, however. In
>Chandogya Upanishads, they are considered by Naarada Muni to be the Fifth
>Veda.
HKSji, I guess you are referring to Ch. U 7.1.4,
itihasa-purANa pancamaH vedanaM vedaH
Would you kindly explain to me how this can be interpreted to
mean purANa-s are fifth veda ?
First, the word is singular so it can refer to only one purANa,
while there are atleast 18 [including tamsic ones:)]. Can you support
that the contention that it refers to all purANa-s; commentaries by
Shankara, Madhva or Ramanuja would be OK.
As far as i understand upanishhads, Sanatkumara asks Narada to
list the branches of knowledge. If I remember right, Narada says
Rig, Yagur, Sama, Atharva, Itihasa-PurANa and grammar (?). I would
interpret it as Narada saying this is the fifth branch of knowledge
he knows because by your logic, grammar would become the six veda.
Of course, all this contentions of mine fails if you are not
referring to this verse in Ch.U or if you support it from commentaries
by Shankara, Ramanuja or Madhva on this verse.
Please note that I am not saying you are wrong, but kindly asking
you to support this statement with commentaries from acharyas. Thanks very much.
The reason is you, A, B can intrepret this in various ways but i would
rather believe the three acharyas to you,A,B [no offense to you].
>> HKSji, I can hardly understand what you are trying to point out here.
>>I was quoting a person from alt.meditation who said the hare krsna ideology
>>is the only path. I specifically said I did not know whether he was from
>>ISKCON etc. This is what the person said in the article on alt.meditation
>>subject bhakti.
>You need to be more clear about who you are talking about. I don't know who
>this guy was, but anyway now you know he probably was not an ISKCON member.
>regards,
>-- HKS
HKSji, sorry if I was not clear in my earlier posting. I was pointing
out that people in alt.meditation quote from Srila Prabhupada and twist
his words to suit their needs [like christ and krsna are the same etc].
Maybe you can write him a short note pointing out the correct translation
and what Srila Prabhupada actually says. Thanks.
This had nothing to do with ISKCON. Glad the confusion is cleared up atleast
between us.
Namaste,
Giri
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