Musings on Sita's "agni-pravEsam"

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Dear members and friends who are following this thread,

On reading through some of my posts in the recent past, I came across some

minor errors. I am extremely sorry for these and I would like to hasten to

point out the most egregious of them to you.

 

In my post #12 of December 13 I had written as follows:

 

Quote:

 

"The Vedic, more specifically Vedantic, tradition recognizes the following

"alternate ways" which one can resort to in one's pursuit or apprehension

of "para-brahmi-c" Truth :

 

(1) "pratyaksham" ----- the evidence of the eyes; the Truth as it appears

to the naked eye; "seeing is believing", so to say.

 

(2) "anumAnam" ----- the Truth as may be derived from rational inference

 

(3) "sabda-pramANam" --- the Truth as ingrained in the Vedic word, acoustic

or "vAkya"

 

(4) "yag~nyam" ---- the Truth attained through the Vedic deed of

sacrifice

 

Un-quote

 

Way No. (4) above i.e the path of "yagn~yam" is not generally regarded as a

"pramANam" in the strict Vedantic sense.

 

Please disregard No.(4) and consider only (1) (2) and (3) for the purposes

of our ensuing discussion.

Thanks,

adiyEn,

sudarshan