If you are looking for the singer, see Shruti Haasan. For other meanings, see Sruti (disambiguation).
In order to best understand sruti, the contrast between sruti and sm?ti must be understood. Sruti denotes a category of texts that are not of human origin. Because of their lack of authorship, they were traditionally transmitted orally by Brahmans and learned people which was thought to preserve the tradition’s purity. [5]Both sruti and sm?ti represent categories of texts that are used to establish the rule of law within the Hindu tradition. However, they each reflect a different kind of relationship that can be had with this material. [6] Sruti is solely of divine origin and contains no specific concepts of law. Because of the divine origin, it is preserved as a whole, instead of verse by verse. With sruti, the desire is more towards recitation and preservation of its divine attributes and not necessarily towards understanding and interpreting the oral tradition like that found in sm?ti. [7]
Pre-eminent in sruti literature are the four Vedas
Particular sections of the Bhagavata purana relating to the catur sloki and the concept of svayam bhagavan are considered Sruti by some Vaishnava Vedantists,[9] as is the Mahabharata (an Itihasa, or History) or at least the chapter within the Mahabharata known as the Bhagavad Gita.
