[Advaita-l] Apoureshyatva - Faith or Logic?

[kuntimaddi sadananda]

Subbiji - PraNAms

Wonderful explanation. 
I was going to write exactly the same as Vedas themselves declare that they are also apara vidyaa. In addition not only Vedas even the objective knowledge is also apourusheyam, as I think Noble laurate Dr. Chandrashekar put it, in that even the scientific knowledge is dis-covered by intuition. Intuition is nothing but a mind in meditation. The Rishis are also veda drashtaas as veda (knowledge) is revealed to them when they are in meditation. Intuition is like jnaana kshakshu.

My 2c

Hari Om!
Sadananda  


> 
> In all matters other than the Atman, the ONLY siddha vastu,
> no absolute
> finality can be reached.  It is because its nature is
> so.  It is pertaining
> to mAyA.  And it has to be so.  What logic we
> might rely upon is also
> within this realm alone and it is enough if it serves its
> purpose.  And the
> purpose is: go beyond the words and look at the
> spirit.  The true Acharya
> will point out to the spirit and let the true aspirant get
> the most benefit
> of it.  For, the purpose of the apaurusheya veda is
> getting him the
> knowledge of his true self and thereafter itself recede into
> the not-self,
> mAyA/mithyA.   Shankara explicitly says : the
> shruti has no real purpose of
> asserting creation; the talk about creation is aimed at a
> completely
> different purpose: to turn the aspirant's attention from the
> creation to
> the conscious creator. The questions regarding cosmology,
> evolution, etc.
> will remain for ever with one asserting and another
> challenging it. But the
> Self, when one realizes it needs no asserting and cannot be
> challenged
> either.  That is the end ( I mean also the purpose) of
> the Veda.  That is
> why the Lord says in the Gita: shraddhaavAn labhte jnAnam:
> the one with
> faith will attain Knowledge.  The logic the sampradaya
> uses is sufficient
> to make this faith work and take it to its logical end:
> realization of the
> Self and end of samsara, with which the Veda too ends, for
> him.  This is
> the message of the adhyAsa bhashya.  I have come to see
> the root of every
> question and every solution to be already contained in this
> peerless
> masterpiece.  The more we understand, appreciate, this
> work the less will
> be our questions.
> 
> regards,
> subrahmanian.v
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