24 Jun 2021
[A question posed to Śrī Anil that was brought to Swāmi]
Swāmi replied:- Before believing the holy scripture, you must read the whole scripture without any bias and prejudice that the whole scripture came from God. Had the whole scripture came from God, certainly every word is infinitely true. There is no trace of doubt in this concept because we have full blind faith in the omniscient God. But, we can’t maintain this blind faith on the scripture because we have not seen God dictating this scripture. We are only seeing the scripture. In such case, how can you rule out the probability of the possible insertion of some statement by ignorant devotees in this scripture? What is the guarantee that you can give to Me about this doubt? How can you say that My doubt is wrong without giving any proof? A doubt may be right or wrong. A doubt need not be wrong always. I am not reading the scripture with this doubt initially. I am reading the scripture with full faith on God as the author of this scripture. I have developed a doubt in a place while reading the scripture.
If you give Me a logical answer after logical discussion with Me, I will accept and proceed further to read the scripture. Without logical answer if you say “doubt is wrong and if you doubt the scripture, it is equal to doubting God”, I will not accept it. I know certainly that God is beyond logic, which means that the real nature of God can’t be found out through logic. This is the meaning of the word ‘unimaginable or beyond logic’. This does not mean that God will speak illogical things. If He speaks illogical things, He can’t be omniscient. You are supporting this illogical point without giving Me logical explanation because perhaps, you have some selfish motive based on this illogical point. You can’t exploit Me with the help of this illogical point by bringing the name of God as the author of every statement in the scripture.
Hence, My conclusion is that certainly God is the author of this scripture in the beginning, but, in the course of time, some illogical and ignorant followers must have inserted this illogical concept to fulfil his/her selfish beneficial motive. By this conclusion, I reject this illogical point as an introduced impurity in the scripture and I will follow this line of logical discussion throughout My study of this holy scripture. I am only rejecting that selfish clever follower of God and not rejecting God, who is certainly the author of this scripture minus the insertions made by the ignorant and selfish followers. The statement must be logical, which will be accepted even by an atheist. The atheist denies God, but, does not deny the logical statements of God pertaining to ethics and morality. Śaṇkara says that one shall have Sadasat Viveka, which means that the Viveka or sharp logical analysis must be possessed to discriminate Sat or truth from Asat or false.
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