Hearing from authority surpasses direct perception and logic; only devotional service transcends the laws of nature.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.46 — July 27, 1975, San Diego 750727SB-SAN DIEGO [32:41 Minutes] SB-06.01.46_750727SB-SAN DIEGO Nitāi: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Sixth Canto, First Chapter, verse number 46.
[leads devotees in chanting verse, etc.] yatheha deva-pravarās trai-vidhyam upalabhyate bhūteṣu guṇa-vaicitryāt tathānyatrānumīyate [SB 6.1.46] [break] [01:21] "O best of the demigods, as we can see three different varieties of life on account of different contamination of the three modes of nature, and thus the living entities are seen to be peaceful, most restless and foolish, or happy, unhappy and in between, or religious, nonreligious and in between, similarly we can infer that in the next life these three kinds of material nature exist." Prabhupāda: yatheha deva-pravarās trai-vidhyam upalabhyate bhūteṣu guṇa-vaicitryāt tathānyatrānumīyate [SB 6.1.46] Anumīyate. Anumīyate means hypothesis. This is also an evidence. Pratyakṣa, anumāna and...
Pratyakṣa, anumāna and śruta. According to Vedic principles, there are three different types of evidences. Everything must be proved by evidence. So these are primarily three evidences.
Pratyakṣa, direct perception. Pratyakṣa, anumāna and śruti. Anumāna means I cannot see directly, but by the symptoms I can imagine. That is anumāna.
Just like I have seen that in the month of April, May, June, we can get mangoes. That is our direct experience. So similarly we can say, in the month of January, we can say that "In the month of April, May, June, we shall have mangoes." In the January there is no mango. But because I know, I experienced in my last April, May, June, so similarly, this intuition is nothing but experience of my last life.
That is called intuition. The rascals, they say that there is no experience. Whatever life we have got just now, here experience. No.
The intuition... Just like a dog's cub born, it is also trying to find out milk from the body of the mother, and exactly in the same place putting his mouth. Or human child also. This is last experience.