[Advaita-l] Scholarly Article on Why Vedas are Valid

[Rajaram Venkataramani]

I agree. I would like to reach out to you to write the paper in a standard
format. Are you based in the NA, Europe or APAC? Pl. drop me a private note
with your contact number.

2011/10/19 श्रीमल्ललितालालितः <lalitaalaalitah at gmail.com>

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> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 19:01, Rajaram Venkataramani
> <rajaramvenk at gmail.com>wrote:
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> > Now, you mentioned that we will re-interpret the sastras in the light
> > of new data.
>
>
> Not like this.
> veda-s are pramANa for dharma and brahma only.
> Because they are pramANa-s, they can't conflict any other pramANa.
> But, if you insist that they propound other things too...
> then as long as they don't conflict they are treated as valid and not
> otherwise.
>
>
> > How is this a genuine intellectual approach?
>
>
> Show me bias to prove it malicious.
> I already said that I don't discover any rule for my comfort. I get data
> and
> deduce them. I don't create data.
> So, from such reading I know that we treat a pramANa valid till it is not
> negated. So, where is error in my approach.
>
>
> > The
> > knowledge conveyed by Vedas yesterday cannot be different from the
> > knowledge conveyed today or tomorrow.
>
>
> Correct.
>
>
> > It is like Christians saying
> > that Bible talks evolution (intelligent design) only and we
> > interpreted incorrectly all along.
> >
>
> Not so is the case of veda-s. You can understand now.
> We never said that any conflict is possible.
> Why ?
> You know now.
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