Does God Exist - Part 2 Session 3 summary Feb 11th 2013

• How Do I Know Him?
• Three Ways to Acquire Knowledge
• Pratyaksha Praman - Knowledge acquired to the senses
• Incomplete
• Scriptures say we have 4 defects
• Senses are Imperfect
• We are always under illusion
• Tendency to Commit Mistakes
• Cheating Propensity
• Anuman Praman- Logic and Analytical Reasoning, Knowledge through Inference
• Eg of 6 blind men trying to explain the body of an Elephant
• Our Analytical understanding is also based upon the input from the senses which themselves are imperfect
• Shabda Praman- Hearing from an authority
• Saves Time and Inconvenience and it is safe
• E.g. Going to Australia to discover it, consuming arsenic to understand its potency
• Test of Authority:
• Opinion does not change 
• All times, circumstances and places the truth remains. Even if new facts come opinion remains the same
• It has stood the test of time
• It has not been proven wrong
•  Vedas – The Ultimate Body of knowledge 
• Describe the Absolute Truth
  Stood the Test of Time
• Different Scriptures Bhagavad Gita, Bible, Quran, Torah, etc
• The essence is the same
• The truths were revelaed according to time place and circumstances.
• The Summary of the Vedas
• Bhagavad Gita (Law Book)
• Srimad Bhagavatam (Law Journal)