Parables of Rama
by Swami Rama Tirtha | 102,836 words
Stories in English used by Swami Rama to illustrate the highest teaching of Vedanta. The most difficult and intricate problems of philosophy and abstract truths, which may very well tax the brains of the most intellectual, are thus made not only simple and easy to understand but also brought home to us in a concrete form in such an interesting and ...
Story 260 - Distortion of Truth
Ramanuja, Madhavacharya and others have interpreted the Vedas in their own way and tried to prove their point of view on the authority of the Vedas. It is like the story of a drunkard Muslim who supported alcohol drinking on the authority of Koran. It is said to be mentioned in Koran, "you drink wine and you are sure to go to hell". The drunkard took only the first portion of this sentence, “you drink wine”, and supported his point on the authority of Koran. That is how they have tried to prove their point of view on the authority of the Vedas. But the Truth is the Upanishads have preached the ultimate aim of the Vedas as later on supported by Shri Sankaracharya.