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DYS Test 2
DYS Test 2
DYS Test 2
Q1. What are the 3 ways of gaining knowledge? Give one example for each. 6
1. Pratyaksha pramana (direct sense perception) e.g., we can see the moon.
3. Shabda pramana (hearing from a bonafide authority) e.g. Vedas taught through
bonafide sampradayas.
1) Imperfect senses.
2) Tendency to get illusioned.
3) Tendency to commit mistakes.
4) Tendency to cheat.
b) Darwin quoted: To suppose that eyes could have been formed by evolution seems,
I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.
c) Vedas are also called shruti / shabda or knowledge received through aural
reception.
d) Krishna Dvaipayana Vyas Deva , a literary incarnation of God, recorded all the
Vedas in writing 5000 years back for the benefit of people in Kali Yuga.
e) Shrimad Bhagvatam predicts about people in Kali Yuga that they would be mandah
(lazy), sumanda matayah (misguided), manda bhagyah (unfortunate) and above all,
upadrutah (disturbed).