Bhagavad-gita As It Is Manuscript
Manuscript — By Madhudvisa dasa on September 3, 2009 at 12:27 amPublished 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 Really…
this manuscript is not the authority, the published book is the authority. However out of interest we have decided to publish the “original manuscript” also.
The manuscript is presented as .pdf files and can best be viewed with the Adobe PDF viewer which can be downloaded free of charge from www.Adobe.com
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Observing the Armies on the Battlefield of Kuruksetra
- Chapter 2: Contents of the Gita Summarized
- Chapter 3: Karma-yoga
- Chapter 4: Transcendental Knowledge
- Chapter 5: Karma-yoga-Action in Krsna Consciousness
- Chapter 6: Sankhya-yoga
- Chapter 7: Knowledge of the Absolute
- Chapter 8: Attaining the Supreme
- Chapter 9: The Most Confidential Knowledge
- Chapter 10: The Opulence of the Absolute
- Chapter 11: The Universal Form
- Chapter 12: Devotional Service
- Chapter 13: Nature, the Enjoyer, and Consciousness
- Chapter 14: The Three Modes of Material Nature
- Chapter 15: The Yoga of the Supreme Person
- Chapter 16: The Divine and Demoniac Natures
- Chapter 17: The Divisions of Faith
- Chapter 18: Conclusion-The Perfection of Renunciation
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7 Comments
Wow! This is quite a scoop!
Jayadvaita Swami has had plenty of opportunities to publish these but hasn’t done so.
It will be interesting to know what he has to say about this.
Thanks so much for posting this nectar. I assume the masters for chapters 14, 17 and 18 are missing, right?
Yes. Plus part of Chapter 16. Maybe we have some of these pages and it is not scanned. I am checking.
Chapter 11 link is also broken.
Chapter 11 we have. I have fixed the link. It should work now, if you have any problems please let me know.
Where are chapters 14, 17 and 18? Can you publish those too, please? Thank you.
The manuscripts for chapters 14, 17 and 18 are apparently lost, missing, they no longer exist. And they did not exist also in the early 80’s when Jayadviata Swami revised Srila Prabhuapda’s gita. I once wrote an article about this: “No Manuscript, No Problems…” I will try and find that and post it again…
Madhudvisa dasa