Category:Perfect Source
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda teaches that the conditioned soul, bound by imperfect senses, cannot arrive at the Absolute Truth through mental speculation. To acquire factual, flawless understanding, one must receive knowledge from the supreme perfect source, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, and His authorized disciplic succession. By submissively accepting this divine revelation, known as śabda-pramāṇa, anyone can perfect their life, free themselves from the miseries of material existence, and distribute this absolute truth for the ultimate benefit of humanity.
- The Failure of Mental Speculation Due to our inherent material defects, intellectual endeavors and empirical research always fall short of discovering the truth. Speculative knowledge is ultimately unhelpful without guidance from a superior, infallible authority.
- Accepting Vedic Evidence In the Vedic tradition, absolute truth is acquired through aural reception from authoritative scriptures. One can effortlessly possess perfect knowledge simply by accepting the statements of the Vedas and the great ācāryas.
- Hearing from Śrī Kṛṣṇa and the Paramparā The supreme perfect source of all knowledge is God Himself. Just as a child gains perfect knowledge by accepting their mother's authority, a conditioned soul achieves flawless understanding by hearing from Śrī Kṛṣṇa through the paramparā.
- Preaching the Perfect Knowledge The duty of a pure devotee is not to manufacture new philosophies but to distribute the exact message received from the Supreme Lord. The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement presents this perfect, authoritative knowledge to the entire world.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Perfect Source.
Pages in category "Perfect Source"
The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
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- One simply has to hear from the perfect source (this is called parampara) and follow the principles for practical application in life; thus one can attain the highest perfection of life - liberation - and go back home, back to Godhead
- One who has perfectly heard from the perfect source becomes convinced about the all-pervading Personality of Godhead and thus becomes enthusiastic in glorifying the Lord
- Our process is to receive the perfect knowledge from the perfect source and distribute it. We don't manufacture knowledge
- Our speculative knowledge, intellectual platform, is not helpful. We must receive knowledge from superior source, perfect source. That knowledge is perfect
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- The child is imperfect, but when he gets the knowledge from the perfect source, mother, then it is perfect. Similarly, we, we never say that we are perfect. If you are perfect, then why you are learning? We are trying to become perfect
- The messages of Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam should be preached all over the world very loudly. That is the duty of a pure devotee who has actually heard about them from the perfect sources
- The sastras are accepted by the acaryas, the great teachers. And we get knowledge from the sastra. I may be imperfect, but I get knowledge from the perfect source. That is perfect knowledge
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- We have taken the perfect information from the perfect source. We say not one million; 900,000. This is called Vedic knowledge. This is perfect
- We say there are 900,000 forms of life within the water. We have not gone within the water; neither as biologist we have studied. We have taken the perfect information from the perfect source. We say 900,000. This is called Vedic knowledge
- We should take guidance from a perfect source of knowledge, and utilize it for making our life perfect. That is wanted