Ocean of Lights

Reported Utterance

Words to Mr. N. R. Vakil, spoken on 1914-04-18

90 words

Question:

Are the four Vedic sacred books inspired from God?

Translation:

Provisional translation

They contain many inspired utterances, but through the lapse of time human ideas have crept in and afterward men have come to believe that they are all, in their totality, the revealed words of God.

Translations (1)

DAS. Diary notebooks and letters of Mirza Ahmad Sohrab, Dec. 1912 – Jun. 1915. English and Persian diary notebooks and letters held in the U.S. National Bahá’í Archives. Often quoted in other sources such as SW. Catalog entries are indexed by date and include only the English notebooks and letters. Letters from 1 Jul 1913 through 19 Oct. 1914 found here: https://bahai-library.com/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914

DAS.1914-04-18

https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_09.pdf#page=38