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If you want to reach to the ultimate conclusion simply by arguments and speculation, that is not possible

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"If you want to reach to the ultimate conclusion simply by arguments and speculation, that is not possible"

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The direction is, therefore, tarkaḥ apratiṣṭhaḥ (CC Madhya 17.186): "If you want to reach to the ultimate conclusion simply by arguments and speculation, that is not possible." Because argumentative power is a special gift. Suppose you can argue very nicely, that's all. I cannot. But somebody may come—he's more powerful in arguments—he can defeat you.

Just like when we go to the market, if we see that everyone is purchasing at the same time, then I think, "Oh, undoubtedly it is the exactly price. Oh, let me purchase at this price." The doubt is gone at once, because I see several persons, they're accepting at that price. So it is right price. That is the standard. Mahājano yena gataḥ sa panthāḥ.

The śāstra says that knowledge . . . because our receptive power of knowledge is very limited. We are not perfect. Our senses are not perfect. Therefore whatever knowledge we acquire by these blunt senses, they cannot be perfect.

The direction is, therefore, tarkaḥ apratiṣṭhaḥ (CC Madhya 17.186): "If you want to reach to the ultimate conclusion simply by arguments and speculation, that is not possible." Because argumentative power is a special gift. Suppose you can argue very nicely, that's all. I cannot. But somebody may come—he's more powerful in arguments—he can defeat you. So don't depend on your speculative function or arguments. Don't depend on that. They're all imperfect. Tarkaḥ apratiṣṭhaḥ. These are the direction of higher authorities.

So tarko 'pratiṣṭhaḥ śrutayo vibhinnāḥ. Śrutayaḥ means scriptures. If you take scriptures, different scriptures there are, and one scripture may differ from another scripture. So that is also very difficult, to find out the real truth, transcendence, from the scriptures. So tarko 'pratiṣṭhaḥ śrutayo vibhinnā nāsāv ṛṣir yasya mataṁ na bhinnam. And so far philosophy is concerned, each and every philosopher is different from the other philosopher. One philosopher is putting some theory, another philosophy is putting another doctrine or theory. So we are puzzled which of them has to be accepted.

Śrutayo vibhinnā nāsāv ṛṣir ya . . . because in the mundane philosophers, mundane scholars, they want to give his own interpretation of everything. That is their habit. They don't accept the interpretation of the higher authorities. They want . . . each and every one of them want to become the higher authorities.

So our this principle, this devotional principle, is not like that. We don't pose ourselves as the higher authority.

Page Title:If you want to reach to the ultimate conclusion simply by arguments and speculation, that is not possible
Compiler:Anurag
Created:2022-11-19, 08:33:49
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