Selected Verses of the Vedas, Acarya's, and Bhagavad-gita
"[...] wherever he will read, he will get benefit. Sugar candy, you taste from anywhere, it is sweet." Srila Prabhupada, Morning Walk, May 13, 1975, Perth (time: 37:36) There are four kinds of understanding: (1) direct understanding ( pratyaksa ), (2) hypothetical understanding ( anumana ), (3) historical understanding ( aitihya ) and (4) understanding through sound ( sabda ). Of these four, understanding from the Vedic scriptures, the sound representations of the Absolute Truth, is the best method. Traditional Vedic students accept understanding through sound to be the best. From Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter twenty-four, Talks with Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya Pratyaksa is the philosophical equivalent of Empiricism, the broader philosophical theory that all knowledge comes from experience. Pratyaksa is, amongst other things, the ancient equivalent of the "observation" phase of the Scientific Method. The Scientific Method is defined as follows (1) Observe a n...