laksana-vrtti / mukhya-vrtti

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> Yes, that's the first thing that came to my mind. But upon thinking about

> it for a sec I realized it was not a relative example. Such interpretation

> of sastra is an authorized one and gives a solid, permanent explanation.

> In the purport I quoted, Srila Prabhupada says "but one should not

> accept such explanations as permanent truths."

 

 

Perhaps Srila Prabhupada is refering to the explainations that in the

universal form the mountains are the Lord's bones etc. That form of the Lord

is not eternally situated in the spiritual world like the other forms of the

Lord but is subject to the material time factor (BG 11.5 purport).