Q166. Are there contradictions in the Vedic Scriptures?

None. Some people say there are contradictions in the Vedic scriptures because they give conflicting instructions. The Vedic scriptures come from Lord Krishna (God) and He is also the creator of all humans and thus He knows that not all humans have the same mentalities/abilities. Hence to accommodate the variety of evolved consciousness, Lord Krishna gives instructions that are suitable for each category of humans. This is like the different educational institutions, which are suitable for people will different level of abilities. We have pre-schools, primary schools, intermediate schools, high schools, colleges, universities, and so on. Not every human will be able to acquire the same level of education. A good example of this is the 18 Puranas which are divided into three parts. Each part is suitable for people in three categories: Goodness (Sattva Guna), Passion (Rajo Guna), and Ignorance (Tamo Guna). Those who are in the mode of Goodness will be inclined to follow the instructions in the 6 Puranas of Lord Vishnu: Vishnu Purana, Naradiya Purana, Padma Purana, Garuda Purana, Varaha Purana, and Bhagavata Purana. Those who are in the mode of Passion will be inclined to follow the instructions in the 6 Puranas of Lord Brahma: Brahmanda Purana, Brahmavaivarta Purana, Markandeya Purana, Bhavishya Purana, Vamana Purana, and Brahma Purana. Those who are in the mode of Ignorance will be inclined to follow the instructions in the 6 Puranas of Lord Shiva: Matsya Purana, Kurma Purana, Linga Purana, Shiva Purana, Skanda Purana, and Agni Purana. The Bhagavad-Gita also mentions these three modes of nature: Goodness, Passion, and Ignorance. All human beings are acting in one of these three modes based on their evolved consciousness. It is a fact that not all humans have developed the same level of intelligence, abilities, and consciousness. This can be proven by the fact that not everyone is a doctor, or brain surgeon or rocket scientist. Not everyone is clean to the same degree. Not everyone is truthful to the same degree. Not everyone is kind hearted to the same degree. Not everyone is charitable to the same degree. Not everyone is a criminal. Not everyone is a terrorist and so on. The human beings have different levels of consciousness, because the consciousness has not evolved to the same level for everyone. Some humans have lower consciousness like the animals and thus they will be inclined to eat meat, and some have evolved higher consciousness and thus they would not even touch meat, like the Vaishnavas (followers of the Bhagavad-Gita and Lord Krishna). God has to give differing instructions to accommodate all humans, who all have different abilities and intelligence. For some humans God is unknown/invisible because they do not have the ability (lower consciousness) to know God and some humans know and can describe in God in full because they have higher level of consciousness. The purpose of these differing instructions, which may seem like contradictions is to slowly elevate each

human being to a higher consciousness, and to eventually know Lord Krishna as the absolute truth. Even in a family, not all the children will behave in the same way or become educated to the same level in the same filed of knowledge. The father knows this very well and will try to help each of his children based on their ability. In a similar way, the Supreme father, Lord Krishna, has provided different levels of instructions to help develop each human being slowly to the highest level of consciousness, which is to know Him as the absolute truth. For some humans it will take many millions of life times to evolve their consciousness to the highest level and some will make it in this life. If one carefully reads this book, follows the instructions, and understands that Lord Krishna is the absolute truth without any doubt. Then they have attained the perfection of human life. Eventually every soul will arrive at this conclusion, because Lord Krishna is most merciful and will help each and every soul to return back to the spiritual manifestation where everyone lives in the same body that is completely beautiful, full of knowledge, completely blissful/full of love, eternal, and with no misery. This is one of the main differences between the real God (Lord Krishna) and the so-called Gods of other religions who are completely unknown/invisible and always cursing a life of eternal hell for those who don’t follow their unknown/invisible God. Those who are intelligent will realize that Lord Krishna is the one true God, and He is completely described. The Gods of the other religions are not described, because God Is One, Lord Krishna. “Give up all other religious beliefs and just surrender unto Me [Krishna]. I will release you from all your sins. Do not worry.” (Lord Krishna, BhagavadGita 18.66) In this verse, Lord Krishna is stating that we should abandon the variety of beliefs in the Vedic scriptures, which were created due to different abilities of understanding among people, and completely abandon the non-Vedic beliefs, which are man-made or adulterated Vedic ideologies, and surrender unto Him.