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Quiz : What general principles can you draw from the story of 6 blind men? What can we learn from it?

Listen to the Story of Six Blind men and the Elephant from your teacher.

UNDERSTANDING THE

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Three Ways Of Gaining Knowledge :1. Pratyaksa Praman (Direct Sense Perception )

2. Anumana Praman (Theories Based On Evidence )

3.Sabda Praman (Hearing From A Bonafide Authority)

SUPER INTELLIGENCE

PRATYAKSA PRAMAN

WE CANNOT ACQUIRE ABSOLUTE KNOWLEDGE THROUGH MATERIAL SENSES.

OUR SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE IS RELATIVE

3) TENDENCY TO COMMIT MISTAKES

4) CHEATING PROPENSITY

We cannot understand the Absolute Truth through our blunt material senses because of the

following……..

FOUR DEFECTS

1) IMPERFECT

SENSES

2) TO BE ILLUSIONED

Four Defects : Imperfect senses

OUR EYES ARE BLIND outside the

range of 400 to 700millmicron

OUR EARS ARE DEAF outside the

range of 20 Hz to 20 kHz

Radio Waves X-RaysR V

Visible Range

Four Defects : Imperfect senses

Noble Prize winning Physicist Eugene Wigner points out:

“Even if we photograph stars eventually we have to take in by our senses what the photo shows.

Furthermore, without our senses we cannot handle a camera.

Even if we amplified / refined by instruments the knowledge is

no more perfect than our imperfect senses.”

Scientist

An uninformed Scientist may boast:

“We will use the instrument outside the range

for perceiving things.”

Four Defects : To be illusioned

TONGUE : Orange after sugar = sour

Orange after lemon = sweet

EARS : Cannot distinguish hissing of a cooker and train

SKIN : same water

touched with warm hand appears cool;

touched with cold hands appears warm

Guess what Truth can you see in Darkness?

When the sun rises, the darkness is dispelled;When perfect knowledge is obtained, all illusion is dispelled.

Group Task Group Task

(5 minutes)(5 minutes)

Group workGroup work: Each picture has at least two : Each picture has at least two ways to see depending on what you ways to see depending on what you choose to discard. choose to discard. Form groups to use your creativity and Form groups to use your creativity and identify the two different ways of identify the two different ways of perceiving each of the pictures. What do perceiving each of the pictures. What do you infer from such observations?you infer from such observations?

Fig 1

Fig 3 Fig 2

Four Defects : To commit mistakes

Brain was thought of as an organ to cool the blood

Pituitary or Master glands were considered a vestige or useless tissue in body !

WILDLY INCORRECT ACCOUNTS IN SCIENCE

Three astronomers recently discovered a significant mistake in the Hubble Constant, a value used as a cosmic yardstick to measure enormous distances in the universe.

Four Defects - Cheating Propensity

1912 - Connecting Link “Made-up”1953 - Fraud Revealed : Human Skull & Filed Jaw

THE PILTDOWN MAN FRAUD

ANUMANA PRAMAN(Theories based on Evidence)

ANUMANAHypothesis on the knowledge

acquired by direct perception

It may have been like this, or perhaps it was like this...

ANUMANA PRAMAN(Theories based on Evidence)

"... I am a firm believer that without speculation there is no good and original observation.…After five years work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions, which seemed to me probable..” (Origin of Species).

In one of his letters to A.R. Wallace (December 22, 1857), Darwin wrote:

ANUMANA PRAMANDarwin’s theory on How the Bear

evolved into a “monstrous whale”

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“In North America the black bear was seen swimming for hours with wide open mouth, thus catching like a whale, insects in water. Even in so extreme a case as this, if the supply of insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale.” ‘Origin of Species’ (1964 edition, page 184)

ANUMANA PRAMAN

“To suppose that the eye could have been formed by evolution, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.”

RECORD OFTHE ROCKS

MAN CAME FROM MONKEYS

HUMAN BEINGS AND MONKEYS

SIMULTANEOUSLY EXISTED

MILLIONS OF YEARS AGO

40,000

100,000

400,000

1 million1.5 million2 millionAge of Rock Strata in Years

Collapse of Darwinism

SABDA PRAMAN Hearing from a Bonafide Authority

KRISHNA

BRAHMA

NARADA

CHAITANYAMAHAPRABHU

A C BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI

Evam parampara praptam

imam rajarsayo vidhuh

How can we understand the Supreme Person who is creator

of infinite gigantic universes?

….tene brahma hriday adi kavaye….

Srimad Bhagavatam

1.1.1

The Vedic knowledge was revealed by the Supreme Person, within the

heart of the first created being, Brahma. – SB 1.1.1

This Vedic wisdom came

down in disciplic

succession through aural

reception.

Srimad Bhagavatam predicts about people in Kali-yuga

•mandäù — lazy;•sumanda-matayaù — misguided;

•manda-bhägyäù — unlucky;•hi upadrutäù — and above all disturbed.

Vyäsadeva, a literary

incarnation of God, recorded all the Vedas in writing 5,000 years back for the benefit of

people inKali Yuga.

The Vedas are also called as SHRUTIS or knowledge

received through aural reception.

The means of Vedic knowledge is to accept an authority & learn the truth by inquiring submissively.

The Vedas offer insight into -

• Who am I ?• Where have I come from ?• Where do I go after death ?

The Vedas offer insight into -

• What is the purpose of my existence ?

• Who is God ?• How am I related to God ?

Composed by sagesWording may change from age to age

Revealed absolute TruthEvery word unchanged eternally

sisters sisters sisters

Rajasic

VEDIC KNOWLEDGE

SRUTI SMRTI

UPAVEDASDhanurveda

Ayurveda, etc.

VEDASRg, Yajur,

Sama, AtharvaVEDANGAS ItihasasPuranas Six Darshanas

TantrasSpoken by LordSiva to Parvati

Ritual SutrasConnected to

Kalpa-vedangaPancaratras

Srauta Sutrasexplains

public yajnas

Grhya Sutrasexplains

home yajnas

Dharma SutrasLaw books

Vedanta(Vyasa)

(Metaphysics)theology ofUpanisads

Mimamsa(Jaimini)

(Hermeneutics)interpreting

scriptural texts

Nyaya(Gautama)

(Epistemology, logic)philosophy of

knowledgeincluding logic

Vaisesika(Kanada)

(Metaphysics)philosophy of

existence

Yoga(Patanjali)(Sadhana)

Sankhya(Atheist Kapila)(Metaphysics)

Dharma Sastrasincluding Manu-

samhita and others

18 Major

18 Minor

Samhitasmantras

Brahmanasritual explanation

of mantras

Aranyakasesoteric explanation

of mantras

UpanisadsJnana-kanda

philosophy of Brahman

Kalparitual details

Siksapronunciation

Vyakaranagrammar

Niruktaetymology

Chandasmeters

Jyotisaastronomy-time

calculation

Vaisnavaworship

Tamasic

Sattvic

sarvasya cähaà hådi sanniviñöomattaù småtir jïänam apohanaà cavedaiç ca sarvair aham eva vedyovedänta-kåd veda- vid eva cäham (Bhagavad Gita 15.15)

I am seated in everyone's heart, and from Me come remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness.

By all the Vedas, I am to be known. Indeed, I am the compiler of Vedänta, and I am the knower of the Vedas.

WHAT DID WE LEARN TODAY ? There are 3 ways of gaining Knowledge Pratyaksa, Anumana and

Sabda.• Pratyaksa Praman is direct sense perception.• Pratyaksa knowledge is relative because of 4 defects in living beings.• Four defects - Imperfect senses, To be illusioned, To commit mistakes and Cheating propensity.

Anumana Praman is based on hypothesis dependent on sense perception. Sabda Praman is hearing from a bonafide authority. Pratyaksa and Anumana gives relative knowledge ( like the story of 6 blind men) Sabda Praman gives Absolute knowledge and is most reliable and definite way of obtaining knowledge.

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