Basu Ghosh Prabhu... kindly reconsider your opinion...

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> > why did Prabhupada say that he wants his disciples to study the Vedic

> > literatures like Gita, Bhagavatam & Cc.

>

> just to point out one little thing that come to my mind is, Vedic

> literatures doesn't necessarily mean the Vedas. Vedic means whatever

> concerns Vedas, for example, the ongoing discussion is also vedic

> discussion (so far we stick to vedic prniciples).

 

Here the word the Vedic literatues means the smrti-sastras like the

Itihasas, Puranas, Cc etc. The Vedas are sruti-sastras. So there is surely a

difference.

 

Your servant,

Nayana-ranjana das