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What is the significance of being Trivedi than Chaturvedi ?

Posted by aakash menon on October 22, 2015 at 11:01am in Krishna

Hare Krishna,

Pamho,

All glories to Srila Prabhupada and Srila Gurudeva!

Kindly help me understand why in Bhagavadgita text 9.20 only three vedas were mentioned as if they are significant and did not include 4th veda i.e. Atharvanaveda ?

Bg 9.20

trai-vidya mam soma-pah puta-papa
yajñair istva svar-gatim prarthayante
te punyam asadya surendra-lokam
asnanti divyan divi deva-bhogan
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Aakash

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  • 3ruf705dlznca October 24, 2015 at 1:57am

     BG-9.20, where Srila Prabhupad in purport refers word trai vidya to the three Vedas – Sāma, Yajur and Ṛg, but actually,

    trai vidya directly means three types of knowledge.

    Anyway, in lecture on that sloka Srila prabhupada more clearly explained that trai vidya actually means  karma-kāṇḍa, upāsanā-kāṇḍa, and jñāna-kāṇḍa which is described in vedic literature. 

    For more information about that issue, check this Srila Prabhupadas lecture on that sloka :

    Lecture on BG 9.20-22 -- New York, December 6, 1966: 

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