[Advaita-l] Purana-Sharada Sringeri

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

My bad -
Vedānta gives less importance to purāṇas, not lots of importance

(The perils of auto-correct)

On Fri, 27 Mar 2026 at 2:42 PM, Raghav Kumar Dwivedula <
raghavkumar00 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Namaste Bhaskar Prabhu ji
> I was reminded of how vedānta gives lots importance to purāṇas but such an
> attitude is regarded as blasphemous by Prabhupāda.
>
> Om
>
> On Thu, 26 Mar 2026 at 4:55 PM, Bhaskar YR via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
>> praNAms
>> Hare Krishna
>>
>> It is a well-known fact that purana-s are subject to extrapolations or
>> additions of new stuff to uphold the traditional beliefs and eulogies one
>> deity's superiority over other.  What some purana-s have been accepted as
>> authentic in one tradition, the same purana is subject to scrutiny in
>> another tradition.  vAyu purANa, padma purANa etc. are some of those
>> purANa-s which have been carrying drastic textual differences across
>> different traditions.  Some of those fabricated purana-s have the verses to
>> belittle the acharya of rival tradition.  Giving too much importance &
>> credibility to these texts should be avoided I think.
>>
>> Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
>> bhaskar
>>
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