Hare Krishna Experience

  Whatever you desire to describe that is separate in vision from the Lord simply reacts, with different forms, names and results, to agitate the mind, as the wind agitates a boat which has no resting place. Purport Śrī Vyāsadeva is the editor of all descriptions of the Vedic literatures, and thus he has described transcendental realization in different ways, namely by fruitive activities, speculative knowledge, mystic power and devotional service. Besides that, in his various  Purāṇas  he has recommended the worship of so many demigods in different forms and names. The result is that people in general are puzzled how to fix their minds in the service of the Lord; they are always disturbed about finding the real path of self-realization. Śrīla Nāradadeva is stressing this particular defect in the Vedic literatures compiled by Vyāsadeva, and thus he is trying to emphasize describing everything in relation with the Supreme Lord, and no one else. In fact, there is nothing ex...

Thus the great sage Vyāsadeva, who is very kind to the ignorant masses, edited the Vedas so they might be assimilated by less intellectual men. Purport The   Veda   is one, and the reasons for its divisions in many parts are explained herewith. The seed of all knowledge, or the   Veda,   is not a subject matter which can easily be understood by any ordinary man. There is a stricture that no one should try to learn the   Vedas   who is not a qualified   brāhmaṇa.   This stricture has been wrongly interpreted in so many ways. A class of men, who claim brahminical qualification simply by their birthright in the family of a   brāhmaṇa,   claim that the study of the   Vedas   is a monopoly of the   brāhmaṇa   caste only. Another section of the people take this as an injustice to members of other castes, who do not happen to take birth in a   brāhmaṇa   family. But both of them are misguided. The   Vedas ...