Introduction

1. What is the meaning of the word veda?

Veda means knowledge
2. List four defects of a conditioned soul.
a. The first defect is that he must commit mistakes
b. to be illusioned : Illusion means to accept something which is not: māyā.
Māyā means “what is not
c.cheating propensity
d.our senses are imperfect
3. List three pramanas.
pratyakṣa, anumāna and śabda.
Pratyakṣa means “direct evidence.”
anumāna, inductive knowledge: “It may be like this” – hypothesis.
Vedic knowledge is called śabda-pramāṇa.
4. Give reasons why Sabda-pramana is a superior means of acquiring knowledge.

a. Its coming from the authority

b.
5. List the two systems of knowledge in the material world.
Inductive and deductive

Inductive – Avaroha,
Deductive – deducing by experiments
Ascending or decesing

6. What are the two qualifications of a bona fide guru?

He is one who has rightly heard the Vedic message from the right source. And he must
practically be firmly established in Brahman. These are the two qualities he must have.
Otherwise he is not bona fide.

Mantra 1
7. Give the English meaning of the terms:
a. éçäväsya - controlled and onwed by the Lord
b. parä and aparä prakåti
c. Bhägavata communism - everything belongs ot Krishna
d. apauruñeya - The words spoken by the Lord

Mantra 2
8. Define karma, akarma and vikarma.

Mantra 3
9. Give the English meaning of the term ätma-hä.
10. Define the words sura and asura.

Mantra 4
The lknowlege to be received by authorities
Received thorugh bonafide deiplic succession
Mantra 5
11. What is antaryämé? - supersol woithin the heart
12. Give the English meaning of the phrase tad düre tad v antike.

Mantras 6-8
13. Give the English meaning of the terms:
a. ekatvam anupaçyataù Mantras 6-7 One who sees through the eyes of the authority
b. çuddham apäpa-viddham Mantra 8 Antiseptic and propalctic
14. How is the Lord unembodied? Mantra 8 – No difference between the body and the soul

Mantra 11
15. Give the English meaning of the name Hiraëyakaçipu. – bolden soft bed
16. The miseries of this material world serve to indirectly remind us of what? – reminds us of incompatibility
with dead matter.

Mantra 15
17. Give the English meaning of the term hiraëmayena pätreëa. – golden Dazzling effulgence