Category:Described in the Scriptures
Theme Analysis
The foundation of Vedic epistemology is the absolute authority of the revealed scriptures (śāstras). Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that human common sense and sensory perception are inherently imperfect. Therefore, attempting to understand the universe or the Absolute Truth through independent speculation or artificial expansion of sensory power is a futile endeavor. The authentic scriptures provide perfect, scientific descriptions of reality, ranging from the exact size of the spirit soul (one ten-thousandth the tip of a hair) to the evolution of organic matter, as detailed in the Bhāgavata Purāṇa. If there appears to be an incongruity between human logic and the śāstra, the flaw lies entirely within human imperfection.
One of the most crucial functions of the Vedic scriptures is to protect humanity from spiritual fraud. In the Age of Kali, it has become fashionable for ordinary men to claim they are incarnations of God. However, the true avatāras are chronologically and vividly described in the authentic scriptures. The śāstras detail Their exact bodily colors, parental lineages, specific activities, and divine missions. Because a genuine incarnation never falsely claims to be one, a sincere seeker must strictly consult these scriptural descriptions to verify an incarnation's identity and avoid being cheated by pseudo-gods.
Furthermore, the scriptures provide the exact methodology for spiritual realization. The Vedic literatures are unique because they not only define what God is—whether as the localized Paramātmā, the impersonal Brahman, or the Supreme Personality, Bhagavān—but they also provide the practical process to love Him. When a devotee strictly follows the regulative principles as described in the scriptures, the Lord's name, form, and pastimes are factually televised within the core of their heart. Whether meditating on the universal virāṭ-rūpa or the eternal spiritual planets of Vaikuṇṭhaloka, the practitioner must rely exclusively on the authorized versions presented by liberated souls in the śāstras, completely rejecting mundane imagination.
- The Flaw of Common Sense: Human senses are imperfect, and therefore true knowledge must be acquired through the perfect and complete descriptions found in the śāstras.
- Identifying the Avatāra: The exact details—name, color, parents, and mission—of every genuine incarnation of God are chronologically described in the authentic scriptures, preventing fraud.
- Scientific Accuracy: The Vedas provide scientifically accurate descriptions of reality, including the dimensions of the soul, the process of evolution, and the structure of the universe.
- The Path to Realization: True spiritual realization means directly experiencing the Lord's form and pastimes exactly as they are described in the revealed scriptures, without relying on imagination.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Described in the Scriptures - The Absolute Authority of Śāstra.
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Pages in category "Described in the Scriptures"
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- All these forms (Krsna's forms) are described in the scriptures, and when they are thus presented they become worshipable. They are not imaginary as the Mayavada philosophy says
- At the present time, especially in India, so many rascals are claiming to be incarnations, and people are being misled. Therefore, the identity of an incarnation should be confirmed by the descriptions of the sastras and by wonderful activities
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- Buddha appeared to stop this nonsense (animal sacrifice) & to establish the Vedic principles of nonviolence. Therefore each & every avatara, or incarnation of God, has a particular mission, & they are all described in the revealed scriptures. BG 1972 p
- By this statement (in SB 3.26.46) of Kapila's it is confirmed that the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Brahman, has innumerable forms, which are described in the scriptures
- By understanding the pastimes of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, one can understand the truth about Krsna. By understanding Krsna, one can understand the limit of all knowledge described in various revealed scriptures
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- Darwin's theory of the evolution of organic matter is very prominent in the institutions of learning. But the Bhagavata Purana and other authoritative scriptures of scientific magnitude describe how the living entities in different forms of body evolve
- Descriptions of Krsna's eternal pastimes are in all the revealed scriptures. But one cannot understand how they are continuing eternally
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- If a chaste woman unfortunately marries a husband who is fallen, she should live separately from him. Similarly, a husband can separate himself from a woman who is not chaste according to the description of the sastra
- If this vow or ritualistic ceremony is observed according to the description of sastra, even in this life a man will be able to achieve all the benedictions he desires from the Lord
- If we do not believe in the scriptures, that is a different question, but if we have faith in the authority of such descriptions, then we must prepare for our freedom in the next life; that is possible in this human form of life
- If we want to know visnu-tattva, if we want to know Krsna, His exalted position, then here are the description of the sastra. And if we take them as it is, without malinterpretation, without showing any extraordinary intelligence by us
- Impersonal descriptions of transcendence in the scriptures indicate that the bodily features in Vaikunthaloka are never to be seen in any part of the universe
- In some of the satvata-tantras, there is a description of the nine varsas and the predominating Deity worshiped in each: (1) Vasudeva, (2) Sankarsana, (3) Pradyumna, (4) Aniruddha, (5) Narayana, (6) Nrsimha, (7) Hayagriva, (8) Mahavaraha, and (9) Brahma
- In the descriptions of him (Kuvera) in Vedic literature, it is stated that he is fabulously rich. It appears from these verses that Kailasa is situated near the residential quarters of Kuvera
- In the original Islam the form is not accepted. That is Vedic description, form and formless. Formless means no material form and form means spiritual form, simultaneous
- In the sastra it is said that a brahmana, if he's in difficulty, he may accept the profession of a ksatriya or up to vaisya, but never accept the occupation of a sudra. These are described in the sastras
- In the sastra, yoga is described as dhyanavasthita, a state of full meditation, but this is meditation upon the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- In the scripture, the color, the activities, the time and the place and the parents - everything is described about the incarnation. So that just like everything has to be understood by the symptoms, that is the scientific advancement
- In the Vedic literature there are twenty kinds of religious principles mentioned, and each of them is described in different sastras. But Lord Krsna is so kind to the fallen conditioned souls of this age that He personally appeared
- In this verse (CC Madhya 20.354) it is clearly stated that a real incarnation of God never claims to be a real incarnation. According to the symptoms described in the sastra, one can understand who is an avatara and who is not
- It does not matter whether they (so-called brahmanas) offer respect, nor whether they accept these sannyasis (of the Krsna Consciousness Movement) as bona fide, for the sastra describes punishment for such disobedient so-called brahmanas
- It is to be noted that sometimes in revealed scriptures Lord Siva is described as being nondifferent from the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The point is that Lord Siva and Lord Visnu are so intimately connected that there is no difference in opinion
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- Occupational duties are described in the religious scriptures. If one analyzes them, he can fully understand their qualities & faults and then give them up completely to render service unto the S P of God. Such a person is considered a first-class man
- One may understand the science of the SPG from the Vedic literatures & thus become a devotee & worship Him within the regulative principles described in the scriptures, but one will not know in this way how Krsna is served by the residents of Vrajabhumi
- Our senses are so imperfect that simply by expanding the sense power artificially, speculating, we cannot realize. These are described in different way in different scriptures
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- That spacecraft cannot reach these (Vaikuntha) planets does not mean that there are no such planets, for they are described in the revealed scriptures
- The asuras cannot recognize the existence of the Lord, although there are vivid descriptions of the Lord in the revealed scriptures, although the Lord incarnates and exhibits His uncommon strength and energy
- The authentic scriptures describe the transcendental activities, features, form and qualities of Krsna, and Krsna explains Himself in the Bhagavad-gita, the most authentic scripture in the world
- The avataras are described in the authentic scriptures (sastras), and therefore before one risks accepting a pretender as an avatara, one should refer to the sastras
- The Bhattacarya said, "We are just having a discussion among friends and considering the points described in the scriptures. Do not become angry. I am simply speaking on the strength of the sastras. Please don't take any offense"
- The Brahma-samhita describes the avataras. Indeed, all the avataras are described in the authentic scriptures. No one can become an avatara, or incarnation, although this has become fashionable in the age of Kali
- The brahmanas said, "To hell with our family! To hell with our expert service in performing the rituals exactly according to the description of the scriptures"
- The conditioned soul instead takes shelter of a man-made god described in unauthorized scriptures. Such gods are like buzzards, vultures, herons and crows. Vedic scriptures do not refer to them
- The description given in these books, are not mundane speculations, but they are authorized versions of liberated souls, presented by our humble self. So the strength is not in us, but the strength is in the Supreme Lord
- The form of the unlimited eternal is sometimes conceived as the universal form, and in the Vedic literatures like the Upanisads the form of the limited eternal is vividly described
- The inhabitants in Vaikunthaloka are all personalities with spiritual bodily features not to be found in the material world. We can find the descriptions in the revealed scriptures like Srimad-Bhagavatam
- The living entity has a small material body taken in various species and forms, and similarly the whole universe is but the material body of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This body is described in the sastras as virat-rupa
- The Lord's name, form, quality, pastimes, entourage, etc., as they are described in the revealed scriptures or as performed in the Vaikunthalokas, far, far beyond the material cosmic manifestation, are factually being televised in the heart of the devotee
- The meditation should concentrate on the person of the Supreme Godhead, either in His virat-rupa, the gigantic universal form, or in His sac-cid-ananda-vigraha (BS 5.1), as described in the scriptures
- The Paramatma feature is described in the sastras as having four hands, holding disc, conchshell, lotus flower and club
- The qualifications for brahmanas are described in the scriptures, in Srimad-Bhagavatam, Bhagavad-gita and all other Vedic literatures. Brahmana is not a hereditary title or position
- The sastra describes that the magnitude of the living entity is one ten-thousandth the size of the tip of a hair
- The scriptures describe in detail the divisions of society, with their inherent characteristics. Therefore we commit a serious mistake when we regard the different classes of men as belonging to particular countries or races
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead has different varieties of incarnations, including the guna-avataras, manvantara-avataras, lila-avataras and yuga-avataras, all of which are described in the sastras
- The Vedic scriptures are different in that they can direct the individual in the proper way to love God. Other scriptures do not give information on how one can love God, nor do they actually define or describe what or who the Godhead actually is
- There is an authoritative Vedic literature called Pinda-siddhi in which the scientific understanding of pregnancy is very nicely described
- There is chronological number, which incarnation, what is His (Krsna's) chronological number, what's His father's name, what is His mother's name, what are His activities, how the bodily feature, what is the mission. Everything is described in the sastra
- These (Krsna killing Putana and lifting the Govardhan Hill) are some of the superhuman activities of the Lord described in the authoritative Vedic literatures like the Puranas, Itihasas (histories) and Upanisads
- These ecstasies are not described in the sastras, and they are inconceivable to common men. Therefore people in general do not believe in them
- This kind of hard labor (of Western people) is described in the sastras as the life of pigs and stool-eaters
- This place is also known as Viraja, because it is free from the influence of the three qualities of the material world. In the Mrtyunjaya-tantra, a Vedic scripture, there is a vivid description of this Karana Ocean, or Viraja
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- Yogis meditate upon the localized Paramatma situated in the heart, jnanis worship the impersonal Brahman as the Supreme Absolute Truth, and devotees worship Vasudeva, the Supreme Personality of God, whose transcendental body is described in the sastras
- You can say: "I am very perfectly executing the ritualistic ceremonies and the tenets described in my scripture, Bible" or Veda. That's very good. But what is the result? The result is that you must develop or increase your tendency to hear about God
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