[Advaita-l] Puranas as Pramana

[Krishna Kashyap]

sorry, there was no need to mention Jiva Goswami's work in an Advaita list.
I thought I was sending to "Bvparishat" group.

*Best Regards,*

*Krishna Kashyap*




On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 8:14 AM Krishna Kashyap <kkashyap2011 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Interesting question on puranas.
> Incidentally, we were studying the sat-sandarbha of Sri Jiva Goswami.
> There are a number of arguments in favor of Puranas being authority. Please
> see this book:
>
> https://archive.org/details/tattva_sandarbha
> https://archive.org/details/sarva_samvadini
> english books by Gopi Parana dasa and Sathyanarayana Dasa are
> available for purchase.
>
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>
> *Best Regards,*
>
> *Krishna Kashyap*
>
>
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> On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 7:18 AM VTCS Rao via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
>> Hari om
>>
>>
>> Puranas are not a part of prasthana trayam. Then why we need to take
>> puranas as Pramana in our spiritual quest?
>>
>> Is it not futile to make any conclusions or corroboration taking examples
>> from the conflicting and confusing statements in puranas.
>>
>> I am not against reading Puranas. I am amazed with the scientific
>> revelations (for example Garuda purana on birth, Bhagavat on creation etc),
>> but these are not considered as a part of Prasthana traya.
>>
>> Any views on this from the learned in this group.
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>> Best Regards/  VTCS
>>
>> VTCS Rao
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