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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 4, Ch. 2]
TEXT 31
एष एव हि लोकानां शिवः पन्थाः सनातनः । 
  यं पूर्वे चानुसंतस्युर्यत्प्रमाणं जनार्दनः ॥३१॥
eṣa eva hi lokānām 
  śivaḥ panthāḥ sanātanaḥ 
  yam pūrve cānusantasthur 
  yat pramāṇam janārdanaḥ
eṣaḥ—the Vedas; eva—certainly; hi—for; lokānām—of all people; śivaḥ—auspicious; panthāḥ—path; sanātanaḥ—eternal; yam—which (Vedic path); pūrve—in the past; ca—and; anusantasthuḥ—was rigidly followed; yat—in which; pramāṇam—the evidence; janārdanaḥ—Janārdana.
TRANSLATION
The Vedas give the eternal regulative principles for auspicious advancement in human civilization which have been rigidly followed in the past. The strong evidence of this principle is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is called Janārdana, the well-wisher of all living entities.
PURPORT
In the  Bhagavad-gītā  the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, has claimed that He is the father of all living entities, regardless of form. There are 8,400,000 different species of life forms, and Lord Kṛṣṇa claims that He is the father of all. Because the living entities are parts and parcels of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, they are all sons of the Lord, and for their benefit, because they are hovering under the impression that they can lord it over material nature, the  Vedas  are given to them for their guidance. Therefore the  Vedas  are called  apauruṣeya , for they are not written by any man or demigod, including the first living creature, Brahmā. Brahmā is not the creator or author of the  Vedas . He is also one of the living beings in this material world; therefore he does not have the power to write or speak the  Vedas  independently. Every living entity within this material world is subject to four deficiencies: he commits mistakes, he accepts one thing for another, he cheats, and he has imperfect senses. The  Vedas , however, are not written by any living creature within this material world. Therefore they are said to be  apauruṣeya . No one can trace out the history of the  Vedas . Of course, modern human civilization has no chronological history of the world or the universe, and it cannot present actual historical facts older than 3,000 years. But no one has