You can argue that "It is stool of an animal. How it becomes pure?" So Vedic knowledge means don't argue. You have to accept it

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"you can argue that "It is stool of an animal. How it becomes pure?" This argument will not . . . so Vedic knowledge means don't argue. You have to accept it"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1977 Conversations and Morning Walks

Cow dung is the stool of an animal. Even if we touch my own stool, I take bath. But cow dung, it is said, it is pure. If there is anywhere impure, you smear the cow dung; it will be pure. Now, you can argue that "It is stool of an animal. How it becomes pure?" This argument will not . . . so Vedic knowledge means don't argue. You have to accept it. Acintyaḥ khalu ye bhava na tas tarkena yojayet. Things . . . there are many things which is beyond your perception, so you have to accept the Vedic injunction. Then you are right. So if the Vedic injunction is, "In such and such moment you take a bath in the Ganges; you become purified," you take it. There is no question of argument. That is faith.

770109 - Conversation A - Bombay

Prabhupāda: Our Vedic principle is: whatever is enjoined in the Vedas, we should accept it without any argument. That is Vedic injunction. This example we give generally: just like śaṅkha. Śaṅkha is the bone of an animal. So according to Vedic system, if you touch the bone of an animal, dead body animal, then you have to take bath immediately. But the śaṅkha is pure. Now, you cannot argue that "It is the bone of an animal. You say one place that 'Bone of animal is impure. You have to take bath, you have touched it,' and this śaṅkha is in their Deity worship? It is contradictory." But because it is stated in the Vedas, you have to accept. This is Vedic injunction. You cannot argue. There is no question of arguing. Just like cow dung is the stool of an animal. Even if we touch my own stool, I take bath. But cow dung, it is said, it is pure. If there is anywhere impure, you smear the cow dung; it will be pure. Now, you can argue that "It is stool of an animal. How it becomes pure?" This argument will not . . . so Vedic knowledge means don't argue. You have to accept it. Acintyaḥ khalu ye bhava na tas tarkena yojayet. Things . . . there are many things which is beyond your perception, so you have to accept the Vedic injunction. Then you are right. So if the Vedic injunction is, "In such and such moment you take a bath in the Ganges; you become purified," you take it. There is no question of argument. That is faith. But faith must be there. Vedo-praṇihito dharmaḥ. Dharmaṁ tu sākṣād bhagavat-praṇītam (SB 6.3.19). Everything is there. (to devotees) Can you find out this verse from the Sixth Canto?

Jagadīśa: I know the verse.

Prabhupāda: Sixth Canto, First Part. Veda-praṇihito dhar . . . Yamarāja's instruction. Er, the Yamadūtas explain what is dharma, veda-praṇihito dharmaḥ. Where you found the page?

Pradyumna:

yamadūtā ūcuḥ

veda-praṇihito dharmo

hy adharmas tad-viparyayaḥ

vedo nārāyaṇaḥ sākṣāt

svayambhūr iti śuśruma

(SB 6.1.40)

Prabhupāda: What is the translation?

Pradyumna: "The Yamadūtas replied: That which is prescribed in the Vedas constitutes dharma, the religious principles, and the opposite of that is irreligion."