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Evidence
"According to Vedic civilization, evidence, is sruti, Vedas. If you say something and if you give evidence, proof from the Vedic literature, then it is perfect.
No such nonsense things: "I believe," "We believe," "Perhaps," "Maybe." No. Such foolish things are not accepted. Then everyone will say something. There are thousands and millions of people, everyone will imagine something and say something. Then where is the correct thing? This is not good.
Veda-pramanam..... What is explained in the Veda, that is dharma. You cannot manufacture dharma. If it is mentioned in the Vedas, what is dharma, what is adharma, then it is acceptable.
I have several times explained that you cannot make law in your comfortable home. No. Law is made by the government. And you have to accept it. You cannot say that "I believe this will be law." Who will care for your law? You may believe. You believe at your home. That will not be accepted. The law given by the government, "Keep to the right," that you must have. You cannot say, "I believe left thing"...... No......."
Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
(Srimad Bhagavatam lecture, SB 6.1.39 given in Los Angeles on 5 June 1976)
-Lecture on SB 7.5.31 -- Mauritius, October 4, 1975:
Indian man: I want to know one thing, Prabhupāda. You have just said that in the moon there is a cold atmosphere and there is still a living entity there? You see? But what the Americans have said... Of course, they have sent man there, different rockets there, satellites...
Prabhupāda: So I understand. Your authority is America, and my authority is śāstra. That is the difference.
Indian man: But they...
Prabhupāda: That is the difference. That means your authority is America. You say through the words of the American. You have not experienced. Your position: you have no experience. My position: I have no experience. But you accept the Americans, authority, and I accept the śāstra as authority. That is the difference.
Morning Walk, June 1975, Honolulu)
Prabhupada: Did you go to the moon planet or you believe the newspapers? Have you gone?
Gargamuni: No.
Prabhupada: Then if you can believe newspaper, why shall not believe in the Veda, Vedanta?
Gargamuni: No, but one man has come.
Prabhupada: So one man... You have not done. You have no experience. So one man you believe authority.
Gurukrpa: But we saw the television. They showed on the television.
Prabhupada: No. Television could not show that. You can arrange in the laboratory such television, cheat others. And you have done it. But anyway, television or man or newspaper—you believe on others. You have not personally gone. So you believe some authority. We believe some authority. What is the difference. You take newspaper as authority. We take Vedic literature as authority. Where is the difference? You have personally not gone. How do you believe? The difference is that you believe somebody, we believe somebody.
(Evening Conversation, January 25 1977, Jaganatha Puri)
"According to Vedic civilization, evidence, is sruti, Vedas. If you say something and if you give evidence, proof from the Vedic literature, then it is perfect.
No such nonsense things: "I believe," "We believe," "Perhaps," "Maybe." No. Such foolish things are not accepted. Then everyone will say something. There are thousands and millions of people, everyone will imagine something and say something. Then where is the correct thing? This is not good.
Veda-pramanam..... What is explained in the Veda, that is dharma. You cannot manufacture dharma. If it is mentioned in the Vedas, what is dharma, what is adharma, then it is acceptable.
I have several times explained that you cannot make law in your comfortable home. No. Law is made by the government. And you have to accept it. You cannot say that "I believe this will be law." Who will care for your law? You may believe. You believe at your home. That will not be accepted. The law given by the government, "Keep to the right," that you must have. You cannot say, "I believe left thing"...... No......."
Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
(Srimad Bhagavatam lecture, SB 6.1.39 given in Los Angeles on 5 June 1976)
-Lecture on SB 7.5.31 -- Mauritius, October 4, 1975:
Indian man: I want to know one thing, Prabhupāda. You have just said that in the moon there is a cold atmosphere and there is still a living entity there? You see? But what the Americans have said... Of course, they have sent man there, different rockets there, satellites...
Prabhupāda: So I understand. Your authority is America, and my authority is śāstra. That is the difference.
Indian man: But they...
Prabhupāda: That is the difference. That means your authority is America. You say through the words of the American. You have not experienced. Your position: you have no experience. My position: I have no experience. But you accept the Americans, authority, and I accept the śāstra as authority. That is the difference.
Morning Walk, June 1975, Honolulu)
Prabhupada: Did you go to the moon planet or you believe the newspapers? Have you gone?
Gargamuni: No.
Prabhupada: Then if you can believe newspaper, why shall not believe in the Veda, Vedanta?
Gargamuni: No, but one man has come.
Prabhupada: So one man... You have not done. You have no experience. So one man you believe authority.
Gurukrpa: But we saw the television. They showed on the television.
Prabhupada: No. Television could not show that. You can arrange in the laboratory such television, cheat others. And you have done it. But anyway, television or man or newspaper—you believe on others. You have not personally gone. So you believe some authority. We believe some authority. What is the difference. You take newspaper as authority. We take Vedic literature as authority. Where is the difference? You have personally not gone. How do you believe? The difference is that you believe somebody, we believe somebody.
(Evening Conversation, January 25 1977, Jaganatha Puri)