Through the authority
Expressions researched:
"through the authorities"
|"through authorities"
|"through the authority"
|"through authority"
Bhagavad-gita As It Is
BG Chapters 13 - 18
Srimad-Bhagavatam
SB Canto 2
SB Canto 10.1 to 10.13
Sri Caitanya-caritamrta
CC Madhya-lila
Other Books by Srila Prabhupada
Teachings of Lord Caitanya
Lectures
Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures
Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures
- athāpi te deva padāmbuja-dvaya-
- prasāda-leśānugṛhīta eva hi
- jānāti tattvaṁ bhagavan-mahimno
- na cānya eko 'pi ciraṁ vicinvan
- [SB 10.14.29]
Philosophy Discussions
Śyāmasundara: Wittgenstein, in that respect he answers that these metaphysical or mystical ideas, even though they are not expressed in words, can be felt or appreciated without knowing whether it is true.
Prabhupāda: No. That is knowing. To know through authorities, that is knowing. That is real knowing. That is the process of Vedic knowledge: to know through the authorities. The same example: if somebody is asking, "Who is my father?" then he has to know through the authority of mother; otherwise there is no other way. So therefore to know through authority is perfect knowledge.Conversations and Morning Walks
1973 Conversations and Morning Walks
Mr. Wadell: Oh, yes, I agree with what you say. I am just adding another explanation.
Prabhupāda: Yes. And you cannot understand your father by any other process. This is the only process. That means things which are unknown, beyond our conception, you have to know it through the authority. Just like you know your father through the authority of your mother.
Mr. Wadell: Oh, yes, I agree. But...
Prabhupāda: But you cannot say that things which are beyond our imagination cannot be known. You cannot say that. Can be known, provided you have got the real process.
Mr. Wadell: I'm afraid I must make, so far as I am concerned, a clear division between what I know and what I believe. There are certain things... It is maybe, partly a use of words, but whereas I know that I am here and that I have people in..., I am in the same room with other men...
Prabhupāda: Do you think that this process, as I have suggested, to know one's father through the authority of the mother is not perfect?
Mr. Wadell: Oh, well, I think it's as near perfect as you can get.
Prabhupāda: Why you say, "as near"? Why still doubt?1975 Conversations and Morning Walks
Page Title: | Through the authority |
Compiler: | Visnu Murti, Haya |
Created: | 20 of Nov, 2008 |
Totals by Section: | BG=1, SB=3, CC=1, OB=1, Lec=8, Con=2, Let=0 |
No. of Quotes: | 16 |