Category:Authorized Scriptures
Theme Analysis
Srila Prabhupada teaches that true spiritual knowledge must be acquired from authorized scriptures, which are uniquely free from the four human frailties: illusion, mistakes, limited senses, and the cheating propensity. He explains that texts like the Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam are apauruseya, meaning they are spoken directly by the Supreme Lord and not by any ordinary human being. A bona fide guru or sadhu never manufactures new processes but strictly teaches and quotes from these invulnerable texts. Srila Prabhupada emphasizes that without referencing authorized scriptures, one risks falling prey to the imagination of self-interested propagandists, bogus incarnations, and manufactured philosophies like daridra-narayana-seva. Furthermore, the scriptures provide practical guidance for human life, dictating how to worship the arca-vigraha, perform yajnas, and follow regulative principles. Ultimately, by accepting the infallible statements of these scriptures without fashionable interpretation, the conditioned soul can easily awaken their dormant Krsna consciousness and return back to Godhead.
- The Perfection of Vedic Literature: Authorized scriptures are divine and infallible, offering perfect teachings free from the defects and cheating propensities inherent in ordinary human writings.
- The Standard for Guru and Sadhu: A bona fide spiritual master never invents independent methods but rigidly follows his predecessors, teaching and quoting exclusively from authorized sastras.
- Identifying True Incarnations: The authorized scriptures protect society from cheap, self-proclaimed incarnations by providing exact details of the Lord's appearances, including His father's name and birthplace.
- Practical Devotional Guidelines: The scriptures offer strict and practical directives for daily spiritual life, outlining the prohibitions of sinful acts and the proper methods for Deity worship and sacrifice.
- Awakening Spiritual Consciousness: The ultimate purpose of studying these texts is to revive the soul's lost relationship with the Supersoul, providing an easy and factual path back to the spiritual world.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: The Infallible Guidance of Authorized Scriptures.
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Pages in category "Authorized Scriptures"
The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total.
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- A sane man does not accept any cheap edition of an incarnation without reference to the authorized scriptures
- Actually people will be happy when a trained leader, whether a monarch or a dictator, takes control of the government and rules the people according to the standard regulations of the authorized scriptures
- Anyone denying this surrendering process as recommended both in the Bhagavad-gita and in the Srimad-Bhagavatam - and, for that matter, in all authorized scriptures - will be forced to surrender unto the laws of material nature
- Authorized scriptures like Bhagavad-gita contain the transcendental teachings of the Lord Himself or of self-realized personalities. These scriptures are free from four human frailties: illusion, mistakes, limited senses, and the cheating propensity
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- Bhagavad-gita is the most authorized scripture in the Vedic literature. Vedic literature means it is not spoken by any ordinary human being. Apauresaya means this literature, Vedic literature, is spoken directly by the Supreme Person or Lord
- By the progress of self-realization one is able to realize the Supreme Personality of Godhead by intelligence, by the help of authorized scriptures, and, principally, by the grace of the Lord
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- If a grhastha, or householder, is sufficiently educated in Vedic knowledge and has become sufficiently rich to offer worship to please the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he must perform yajnas as directed by the authorized scriptures
- In all cases all the incarnations are supported by the invulnerable statements of the authorized scriptures, and not by any imagination of some self-interested propagandist
- It is practical that by simply accepting the authorized statements of bonafide scripture without mental speculation or fashionable interpretation one fulfills the mission of human life very easily and goes back to home, back to Godhead
- It is the duty of every sincere devotee to accept the arca-vigraha at home or in the temple and worship the form of the Lord as advised in authorized scriptures and directed by the spiritual master
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- Nityananda Prabhu should not be considered instrumental for sense gratification. Although professional so-called preachers support this idea, such statements are not found in any authorized revealed scriptures
- No one can be accepted as an incarnation of the Lord if his father's name, as well as the name of the village or place in which he appears, is not mentioned by the authorized scriptures
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- One has to acquire pure knowledge from the authorized scriptures. So-called speculative arguments about the Absolute Truth are therefore useless
- One who is not well versed in the authorized scriptures and not able to answer all such inquiries should not pose as a spiritual master for the matter of material gain. It is illegal to become a spiritual master if one is unable to deliver the disciple
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- Sadhu means he gives quotation from sastras, authorized sastra. He's sadhu. Sadhu will not give anything manufactured by him. No
- Srimad-Bhagavatam and Narada-pancaratra are authorized scriptures that are considered sat-sastra, or scriptures which lead one to the path of God realization. Asat-sastras are just the opposite
- Sripada Nrsimha-vallabha Gosvami, quoting from many authorized scriptures, he has proved that in the matter of engaging oneself in the devotional service, there is no check, there is no impediment. That is confirmed in the SB: ahaituky apratihata
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- The authorized scriptures direct the individual souls to revive their relationship with the Supersoul
- The great sages performed the bathing ceremony of the goddess of fortune as directed in the authorized scriptures, the Gandharvas chanted all-auspicious Vedic mantras, and the professional women dancers very nicely danced
- The Personality of Godhead, who is worshiped by all the Vedas and Upanisads, as well as by the sankhya system of philosophy and all authorized scriptures, was considered to be born in her (Yasoda's) womb
- The prohibitions are mentioned in the authorized scriptures: One should not indulge in illicit sex life, intoxication, meat eating or gambling. These things are forbidden to one who is attempting devotional service
- The spiritual master is one who follows the instructions of his predecessors, namely the sadhus, or saintly persons. A bona fide spiritual master does not mention anything not mentioned in the authorized scriptures
- The third offense is to consider the bona fide spiritual master to be a common man. The fourth offense is to blaspheme Vedic literature and authorized scriptures like the Puranas
- There are great acaryas like Sankaracarya, Ramanujacarya, Madhvacarya, Visnu Svami, those who practically guided the whole destiny of Indian civilization - even Lord Buddha, He was Indian - but all of them accepted these authorized scriptural
- This Krsna consciousness movement is directly giving people understanding of Krsna. We are giving knowledge of Krsna based on these authorized scriptures: Bhagavad-gita and the Vedas
- Those who hanker after women and money, who are self-interested and have the mentality of merchants, can certainly discover many things with their fertile brains and speak against the authorized revealed scriptures
- Thus it is the duty of every sincere devotee to accept the arca-vigraha at home or in the temple and worship the form of the Lord as advised in authorized scriptures and directed by the spiritual master
- To get out of the entanglement of the spell of nescience, one has to awaken his spiritual consciousness, or Krsna consciousness, in terms of the authorized scriptures