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Vedic sources

Srimad-Bhagavatam

SB Canto 5

SB 5.14 Summary: Sometimes the conditioned soul tries to save himself from inexorable time and thus takes shelter of some bogus savior. Unfortunately, the bogus savior cannot even save himself. How, then, can he protect others? The bogus saviors do not care for bona fide knowledge received from qualified brāhmaṇas and Vedic sources.
SB 5.16.4, Purport: We should therefore be satisfied with the information obtainable from Vedic sources as spoken by authorities like Śukadeva Gosvāmī.

Sri Caitanya-caritamrta

CC Adi-lila

CC Adi 5.14, Purport: Therefore we have to gather knowledge from the right source. Indeed, in reality we can get knowledge only from the Vedic sources.

Lectures

Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

Lecture on BG 16.8 -- Hawaii, February 4, 1975: The pregnancy will take place when there is actually living soul within this material creation, material combination, emulsification. That is the knowledge we get from Vedic sources. Karmaṇā daiva-netreṇa jantur deha upapatti: [SB 3.31.1] "Jantuḥ, the living entity, is getting a type of body by the karma." It is not simply lusty combination.

Correspondence

1947 to 1965 Correspondence

Letter to Sri Padampat Singhania -- Kanpur 7 May, 1957: We have to accept the Mantra and its potency from the Vedic source and follow the practice and principles only to arrive at reality of truth.

1968 Correspondence

Letter to Harer Nama -- Los Angeles 21 December, 1968: What happens in different corners of the Lord's Creation no one can say. But we can hear from the authentic Vedic sources such as the Puranas. This story of the sparrow is found in the Puranas.

Conversations and Morning Walks

1968 Conversations and Morning Walks

Interview with LA Times Reporter About Moon Trip -- December 26, 1968, Los Angeles: Prabhupāda: Knowledge received from Vedic sources. You are talking on the source of knowledge from the modern scientific books, similarly, we are talking also on the source of knowledge received from Vedas.
Page Title:Vedic sources
Compiler:Siddha Rupa, Visnu Murti
Created:Dec 12 07,
No. of Quotes:6
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=2, CC=1, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=2