laksana-vrtti / mukhya-vrtti

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What is the meaning of the last sentance of this purport? What is the

necessity Srila Prabhupada speaks about? Any examples when and how the Vedic

literature is described in terms of laksana vritti?

 

Your servant,

Mahat-tattva dasa

 

 

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura comments that mukhya-vrtti ("the

direct meaning") is abhidha-vrtti, or the meaning that one can understand

immediately from the statements of dictionaries, whereas gauna-vrtti ("the

indirect meaning") is a meaning that one imagines without consulting the

dictionary. For example, one politician has said that Kuruksetra refers to

the body, but in the dictionary there is no such definition. Therefore this

imaginary meaning is gauna-vrtti, whereas the direct meaning found in the

dictionary is mukhya-vrtti or abhidha-vrtti. This is the distinction between

the two. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu recommends that one understand the Vedic

literature in terms of abhidha-vrtti, and the gauna-vrtti He rejects.

Sometimes, however, as a matter of necessity, the Vedic literature is

described in terms of the laksana-vrtti or gauna-vrtti, but one should not

accept such explanations as permanent truths.

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Adi 7.110