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<h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<h3>1975 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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Pramana means evidence, and sruti means Veda. Pratyaksa, anumana, sruti. Pratyaksa means direct, direct evidence, and anumana, hypothesis. That is Darwin's theory, something like that. And sruti, Vedic. So out of these three kinds of evidences, sruti-pramana is accepted as supreme - neither anumana nor pratyaksa.
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Prabhupada: So that is not science.

Harikesa: It's the most important part, too.

Prabhupada: Therefore we say they are rascals. And rascals will believe.

Jayatirtha: Once you said the missing link was your foot in their face. (laughter) (break)

Prabhupada: ...logic also it is admitted that inductive logic is imperfect; deductive logic is perfect. (break) ...logic means srota-pantha, parampara, sruti. Vedic language, sruti. Sruti pramana. Pramana means evidence, and sruti means Veda. Pratyaksa, anumana, sruti. Pratyaksa means direct, direct evidence, and anumana, hypothesis. That is Darwin's theory, something like that. And sruti, Vedic. So out of these three kinds of evidences, sruti-pramana is accepted as supreme - neither anumana nor pratyaksa. Pratyaksa: you are seeing the sky, but you cannot say the length and breadth. You cannot say. You are seeing daily. If you say, "I have got this telescope," so that is an imperfect. And how you can see with your eyes directly, direct sense perception? Hypothesis, anumana, guessing, that is also not perfect. And sruti, we take sruti from the perfect person, Krsna. He says, aham evasam agre (SB 2.9.33): "Before the creation I was there." We take simply.

Laksmi-narayana: Prabhupada, in the Bhagavad-gita Krsna says that in the beginning of creation He sent forth generations of men among the demigods. So the bones that they have found of those...
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