Bhagavad-gita As It Is Manuscript

Manuscript — By on September 3, 2009 9:48 am

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 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

5 Comments

  1. Bhakta Harry says:
    September 9, 2009 at 6:10 am

    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.

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  2. Worm In Stool says:
    September 10, 2009 at 6:11 am

    Thanks so much for posting this nectar. I assume the masters for chapters 14, 17 and 18 are missing, right?

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    • Madhudvisa dasa says:
      September 15, 2009 at 6:18 am

      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 Prabhupada’s Gita. I once wrote an article about this: “No Manuscript, No Problems…” I will try and find that and post it again…

      There is no manuscript available for these chapters.

      Actually this is not really the “manuscript” at all. It is an early draft of the book. Srila Prabhupada personally worked on this early draft with Haryagriva to produce the actual manuscript which was presented to Macmillan for printing. That is the real “original manuscript.” And that is almost identical to Srila Prabhupada’s original Macmillan Gita.

      Chant Hare Krishna and be happy!

      Madhudvisa dasa

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  3. Bhakta says:
    February 10, 2012 at 1:22 pm

    What about the original dictation tapes ? where are they ?

    Hare Krishna

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    • Madhudvisa dasa says:
      February 14, 2012 at 8:34 am

      Hare Krishna

      For the first 6 or so chapters Srila Prabhupada typed the manuscript himself so we have the typed pages from Prabhupada himself, therefore there are no dictation tapes for that. After that Prabhupada started dictating onto tape but as soon as the tapes were transcribed the tapes were apparently used again, recorded over, so as far as we are aware no dictation tapes exist for the Bhagavad gita. And the original typed transcriptions also may not exist, what is there is a collection of typed ‘manuscript’ pages from various points in the editing process. And for some chapters there are not even any ‘manuscript’ pages. Those chapters the only thing that exists is the printed 1972 Macmillan Gita which is the real, authorized version of the book…

      Chant Hare Krishna and be happy!

      Madhudvisa dasa

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