This is a Sacred tradition in Hindu scriptural studies. Philosophical truths are not declared with the authoritativeness of a personal authorship of any reliable and dependable Master. Now-a-days, we find that Philosophers declare their philosophical theories over their own signatures. There are many who declare their findings on the basis of their own individual experiences. This is not accepted as a valid reason in the Hindu thought. Merely to declare a truth because it was or is the experience of one individual cannot in itself be sufficient sanction to accept that philosophy. For, if the unreality of the world is the experience of persons like Gaudapada, to the ordinary man, the world is real in his experience and so, we must have more evidence to give greater authority to Master's words, than merely the excuse that it his experience.
If experience of one is acceptable, the experience of the other must also be equally acceptable. The reason is, why we prefer one over the other should be clearly understood. Thus even in the scriptures we, off and on, find the Masters advising their disciples that, " that is what I was taught by my Master who told me, that he learnt this from his Master" . Thus we accept as scriptural (Agama) only, such declarations which have reached us through a hierarchy on the teachers and the taught.
Mandukya Upanisad Karika' Vaitathya Prakarana Page No.116
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