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Dear vaishNavAs,

In the present society of rationality(?) people often
question the authenticity of religious  scriptures for
want of valid evidence in support of the views
presented in them. This category of people in general
are agnostic, if not atheistic. When an Astika
presents vEdic knowledge in a forum, often we find the
questions such as, ?how can you guarantee the contents
of the scripture? or ?how can one be sure about the
book to be apaurushEya, anAdi and nityam?,??

Without hesitation an Astika immediately replies, ?my
teacher authorized the contents for me as they were
authorized to him by his teacher, and so on so forth,
until the first guru, SrImAn nArAyaNa?. Again the
agnostic asks ?how can you be so sure that any one of
the teachers in this parampara has not lied??

If one carefully analyse this line of arguments, one
identifies the very nature of an agnostic is ?to
doubt?. Our answer to such philosophers of doubt is
that, ?how can you be ever sure of any thing when you
doubt everything?, ?when disbelief is the only thing
in which you believe?. We further ask him

1.      Device for us that fool-proof checking prototype
beyond all doubts, if exist any, to meet the
objections raised by an ideal (rational) agnostic.
2.      Describe a basis for rejecting vEda as spurious.

In case of either failure to provide any of the above,
or an answer that doesnot concretely meet to refute
vEda?s authenticity; your objection on vaidikAs remain
baseless for the following reasons
1.      you don?t know a formal method for yourself to
authenticate eternal scriptures, even though
theoretically it is possible to have them. In that
case, your failure is due to your own disease of
BLIND-disbelief. Further, you are even doubting those
who don?t have your disease.
2.      you may ask that even the spurious books may claim
the same argument, for that we say, You can experiment
on the history for the ancient presence of our
scriptures of any available human civilization. Hence,
our argument cannot be used by others.

VEDAS ARE APAURUSHEYA (un-authored by any being),
anAdi (have no beginning) and nityam (eternally
valid). HENCE SANATANA (universal)

Sarvam SrI krishNarpaNamastu.

dAsOham,
SriperumbUdUru vEnkaTa vinOd.



                
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