Conflict between puranas

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Hare Krishna,

 

 

It is a common claim by saivites and advaitins that the Vaishnava puranas

(sattvic, which talk of the fact i.e Vishnu as the Lord ) and that saiva puranas

(esp. Siva) talk of Siva's supremacy.

 

Srila Jiva Goswami writes in his sarva samvadini commentary to Krishna sandarbha

Anucheda 27 as follows:

 

 

 

TEXT 69

 

 

 

Statements in the Saivite Puranas should not be accepted unless they are

corroborated by the Vaisnava Puranas. This is confirmed in the Saivite Puranas

(Skanda Purana) where Lord Siva says to Karttikeya:

 

 

 

" Statements in the Saivite Puranas should be accepted only if they are

confirmed in the Vaisnava Puranas."

 

 

 

The followers of Lord Siva may try to present a different conclusion, but they

are simply contradicting the words of their own master, recorded in their own

scripture. From this statement of Lord Siva we may understand that the Saivite

Puranas are not a very reliable source of spiritual information. They are not

actually able to purify the conditioned souls and their position is described in

the following statement of (S.B. 1.8.52)

 

 

 

" It is not possible to filter muddy water through mud or purify a wine-stained

pot of wine."

 

 

 

One should not therefore rely on the impure statements of the Saivite Puranas.

 

 

 

TEXT 70

 

 

 

The inferiority of the Saivite Puranas is confirmed in the Uttara Khanda of the

Padma Purana, which explains that the Saivite Puranas are intended for those in

the mode of ignorance. The Matsya Purana also confirms that the Saivite Puranas

are full of faulty and ignorant conclusions.

 

 

 

Does anyone have the sarva samvadini in sanskrit so that we can get the verse in

Skanda, a tamasic purana.

 

 

 

dasa

 

Narasimhan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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