[Advaita-l] ***UNCHECKED*** Re: Re: RE: Re: [advaitin] apauruSheyatva of the Veda

[Bhaskar YR]

Reg  // One would always think what is meant by eternal here !! //.
Instead , what one should think of is what is meant by **mantras** here. That is what the Bhashya answers.
praNAms
Hare Krishna
mantra-s conveying the meaning which is beyond the reach of human intellect hence veda mantra-s can be labelled as not man-made that would make sense because these mantra-s talking about nitya brahma and its svarUpa,  but veda as a whole not only talking about paramArtha jnana it also comprehensively talks about karma, upAsana, vidhi, nishedha karma phala, upAsana phala, ritual part, tools to be used, lOkAntara phala by performing certain ritual etc. so these things also to be considered as eternal (nitya) like Atma nityatva we cannot keep some mantra and its phala as eternal and some other mantra explaining anitya / anAtma vastu.  I think the eternality should be attributed to not only vedAnta jnana / Atma svarUpa but also karma janita loka, lOkAntara phala, karma, upAsana etc. In that sense whatever is there everything is nitya only in its svarUpa.  Sri SSS somewhere says in Kannada : kevala chinmAtra Atmane nijavAda arthadalli ‘vedavu’ ( the real meaning of veda (yajus) is kevala chinmAtra Chaitanya tattva which is enternal).
Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
bhaskar