Live Caitanya Caritamrta · CC Madhya 20.353
Receive Knowledge Through Revealed Scripture
“The Vedic literatures composed by the omniscient Mahāmuni Vyāsadeva are evidence of all spiritual existence. Only through these revealed scriptures can all conditioned souls attain knowledge.
What the purport teaches
- Spiritual knowledge is not gained by manufacturing ideas in the mind. It rests on śabda-pramāṇa, evidence from Vedic literature.
- Śrīla Vyāsadeva is called Mahāmuni and Vedavyāsa. He divided the Vedas into four divisions, expanded them into eighteen Purāṇas and summarized Vedic knowledge in the Vedānta-sūtra.
- He also compiled the Mahābhārata, accepted as the fifth Veda. The Bhagavad-gītā is contained within it and is therefore also Vedic literature.
Try this today
Read a short passage from the Bhagavad-gītā and write down one teaching it explicitly gives.
Ask yourself
How can I distinguish an idea I have imagined from knowledge received through revealed scripture?
Carry the question through the day, then answer it in your own words before sleep.
The study points are short summaries drawn from Śrīla Prabhupāda's translation and purport; the practice and question are plain words for trying the verse today.