Articles By: Madhudvisa dasa
Bhagavad Gita Changes — Complete List
For the first time a complete computerized comparison of Srila Prabhuapda’s original 1972 Macmillan Bhagavad-gita As It Is and the current ISKCON “Revised and enlarged” edition is available. It is amazing, and surprising to see all the changes so clearly pointed out.
This is a side-by-side...
September 20th, 2009 | Changes | Read More
Bhagavad-gita As It Is Manuscript
Published for the first time. The manuscript of Bhagavad-gita As It Is.
This is the “original manuscript” referred to by Jayadvaita Swami which he uses to justify the BBT changes to Srila Prabhuapda’s Gita.
As I have noted elsewhere ISKCON’s New Gita Closer to the Manuscript? Not...
September 3rd, 2009 | Manuscript | Read More
Closer to Manuscript? Not really…
The “defense” Jayadavaita Swami uses in justifying his changes to Srila Prabhupada’s Bhagavad-gita As It Is is “I have made it closer to the original manuscript…” This is not a good defense.
Just imagine if I write a book and find an editor I trust and and give him...
August 31st, 2009 | Manuscript | Read More
Restoring Confidence in the BBT
The attached .pdf file contains [Restoring Confidence in the BBT.pdf] a PowerPoint presentation which Madhudvisa dasa presented to the BBT trustees at their Vrindavan meeting during Kartik in 2007.
The meeting was chared by Brahma Muhurta Prabhu and Jayadvaita Swami and all other important BBT trustees...
October 15th, 2007 | Questions | Read More
Caitanya-caritamrta Changes — Full List
A complete comparison of the 1975 original edition of Srila Prabhupada’s Sri Caitanya-caritamrta with the new ISKCON/BBT revised edition highlighting all the changes.
All changes are highlighted in the following pages. This comparison is based on the original & revised versions as they are...
August 29th, 2005 | Changes | Read More
Examples of ISKCON’s Bhagavad Gita Changes
Bhagavad-gita As It Is Changes
“Too much editing is not required. If Satsvarupa has already edited it, there is no need of further editing.” (Letter from Srila Prabhupada to Rayarama 21-Dec-67, on Bhagavad Gita editing)
“Consequently, Srila Vyasadeva is ...
May 30th, 2000 | Changes, Featured 2 | Read More
ISKCON Perfect Questions Perfect Answers Book Changes
ISKCON published a new version of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada’s book, Perfect Questions, Perfect Answers in 1993. It is a transcript of a conversation which took place in Mayapur, West Bengal, in 1972 with a Peace-Corps worker, Bob Cohen.
The original edition was more or...
August 29th, 1999 | Changes | Read More
108 ISKCON Bhagavad Gita Changes
It’s well known among ISKCON devotees that the new “Revised and Enlarged” version of Srila Prabhupada’s Bhagavad-gita As It Is is very different from Srila Prabhupada’s original book. Jayadvaita Swami says in a note in the new revised & enlarged version (1983 printing):
“…the...
March 8th, 1999 | Changes, Featured 2 | Read More
BBT Book Changes — A Question of Authority
“So, when you change, then the authority is lost. Just like in our society, sometimes they do something nonsense and they say, ‘Prabhupada said.’ (laughter) They are doing that. We know that. It is deteriorated like that.
“Therefore Krishna said, sa kaleneha mahata yogo nastah...
February 17th, 1999 | Articles | Read More
An Open Letter to the BBT on ISKCON Book Changes
Subject: An Open Letter to the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust
Date: Sun, 08 Mar 1998 12:17:23 GMT
Dear BBT Trustees,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
“This movement is being supported just by literature. So in this
way we can flood the whole world with Krsna consciousness...
March 8th, 1998 | Questions | Read More
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