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Please Explain, Jayadvaita Swami, Dravida Prabhu & Company
Dear Jayadvaita Swami, Dravida Prabhu & Company, please explain why you have done the following: (1) Why is it in the revised edition of the Bhagavad-gita, you and company have completely removed the foreword by Professor Edward Dimock that was printed in the original Macmillan version of the Bhagavad-gita As It Is which Srila Prabhupada [...]
Jayadvaita is Wrong — still he insists on justifying his blunders?
Aug 27, 2010 — HAWAII, USA — Dear Prabhus, please accept my most humble obeisances. Thank you for all your extensive research into Srila Prabhupada’s letters and lectures, verse comparisons, etc. And thank you for your articles, Madhudvisa Prabhu, Ramadas Prabhu, Hotra Prabhu, and any and all other sincere devotees who care so much about [...]
Srila Prabhupada on Editing His Books
[this is a "work in progress" I will add more quotes soon - Madhudvisa dasa] The Principle is No Change: “One should accept the instructions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead by bowing down at the lotus feet of the Lord. This means that anything spoken by the Personality of Godhead should be taken as [...]
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 a guru. He does not misinterpret the words of Krsna, but transmits them exactly as they [...]
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 Sanskrit editors where by now accomplished scholars. And now they were [...]