FOOTNOTE. BGAII 3.21. Lots to be said here.

First of all, it’s not “great man”. Prabhupada writes in singular number “by the respectable leader of human society.” So “respectable leader of human society” it is, and NOT “great man”, (you speculator and guru-aparadhi Hayagriva,) as in BGAII 3.21, version 3 :

“Whatever and whichever action a respectable leader of human society performs, common men follow. And whatever standards he sets as exemplary acts, all the world pursues.”

Both editors are equally responsible here for this malinterpretation and misleading:

Hayagriva is responsible for introducing it in the first place and Jayadvaita, in his repeated stupor, for rubber stamping it. What a dull animal he is, this Jayadvaita! Wikipedia flatteringly calls him “one of ISKCON’s most independent-minded and respected thinkers.” I have no qualms however, in calling him a dull, stupid, and UNFAITHFUL animal. Please note that I refrain from using the word “dog”, as that is the ultimate humiliation, that Jayadvaita does not deserve at this point of discovery of his personality. To his great loss, he is repeating the same non-sense perhaps hundreds of times throughout Srila Prabhupada’s Bhagavad Gita As It Is.

Now the purport:

Flagrant sexism here. They don’t even realise how sexist they are, these people. It’s their second nature. Expert Srila Prabhupada ,however, carefully writes “anyone who desires to improve”, and we can see clearly that someone scribbled in superimposition “himself” on the OT paper.

But Hayagriva entirely misses the sentence. Perhaps he was on drugs or having sex with his homosexual partner. Who kows?

Jayadvaita gives ” anyone whom wants to improve “HIMSELF”. That’s flagrant sexism by all standards. He doesn’t even realise how sexist he is. That means Jayadvaita is a loooooooong way from Krishna consciousness. Jayadvaita definitely needs to vastly improve himself. And he is banned from editing. Does Jayadvaita think that women are not into improving themselves? This is a maha-holy-illusion for his holiness and he better watch out because women may give him a very stiff competition in self-improvement. The women I meet every day on Book Distribution are very much switched on. May be he should go on Book Distribution himself and face the realities of the Book Distribution Battlefield or BDB. The BDB mode can best be described as quick and decisive.

For comparative studies’ sake please find the three renditions of the purport:

ONE. Srila Prabhupada Bhagavad Gita As It Is, version three:

Purport 3.21. People in general always require a leader who can teach the public by practical behaviour. You cannot teach the public to stop smoking if you smoke yourself. Lord Caitanya said that a teacher should behave practically before he begins teaching. One who treaches in that way is called acarya or the ideal teacher. Therefore a teacher must follow the principles of shastra to reach the common man. The teacher cannot manufacture rules against the principles of the revealed scriptures. The revealed scriptures like Manusamhita and similar other scriptures, are considered the standard books to be followed by human society. As such the leader’s teaching should be based on the principles of such standard shastra. Anyone who desires to improve must follow the standard rules as they are practiced by the great teachers. The Bhagavatam also affirms that one should follow the footsteps of great devotees and that is the way of progress on the path of spiritual realization. The king or the executive head of the state, the father, the school teachers—all are considered to be natural leaders of the innocent people in general. Therefore, all such natural leaders have a great responsibility to their dependents, and as such they require to be conversant with the standard boks of moral and spiritual codes.

TWO from Freewheeling Bhagavad Gita As It Is NOT by Jayadvaita:

People in general always require a leader who can teach the public by practical behavior. A leader cannot teach the public to stop smoking if he himself smokes. Lord Caitanya said that a teacher should behave properly before he begins teaching. One who teaches in that way is called acarya, or the ideal teacher. Therefore, a teacher must follow the principles of sastra (scripture) to teach the common man. The teacher cannot manufacture rules against the principles of revealed scriptures. The revealed scriptures, like Manu-samhita and similar others, are considered the standard books to be followed by human society. Thus the leader’s teaching should be based on the principles of such standard sastras. One who desires to improve himself must follow the standard rules as they are practiced by the great teachers. The Srimad-Bhagavatam also affirms that one should follow in the footsteps of great devotees, and that is the way of progress on the path of spiritual realization. The king or the executive head of a state, the father and the schoolteacher are all considered to be natural leaders of the innocent people in general. All such natural leaders have a great responsibility to their dependents; therefore they must be conversant with standard books of moral and spiritual codes.

THREE from Freewheeling Bhagavad Gita As It Is NOT by Hayagriva:

People in general always require a leader who can teach the public by practical behavior. A leader cannot teach the public to stop smoking if he himself smokes. Lord Caitanya said that a teacher should behave properly even before he begins teaching. One who teaches in that way is called acarya, or the ideal teacher. Therefore, a teacher must follow the principles of sastra (scripture) to reach the common man. The teacher cannot manufacture rules against the principles of revealed scriptures. The revealed scriptures, like Manu-samhita and similar others, are considered the standard books to be followed by human society. Thus the leader’s teaching should be based on the principles of the standard rules as they are practiced by the great teachers. The Srimad-Bhagavatam also affirms that one should follow in the footsteps of great devotees, and that is the way of progress on the path of spiritual realization. The king or the executive head of a state, the father and the school teacher are all considered to be natural leaders of the innocent people in general. All such natural leaders have a great responsibility to their dependants; therefore they must be conversant with standard books of moral and spiritual codes.

First sentence coincides in all three editions.

Second sentence, the deviations begin:

Prabhupada says: “You cannot teach the public to stop smoking if you smoke yourself.” A crystal clear statement by Srila Prabhupada. Any editor in his right mind will not dare to touch it. But both editors Hayagriva and Jayadvaita foolishly and brazenly insult Prabhupada and replace it with their own concoction and meaning because of course, their position is superior to Srila Prabhupada’s and because of course they both know better than Srila Prabhupada. So they kick Srila Prabhupada in the face whereas they are the ones who ought to be kicked in the face with boots:”A leader cannot teach the public to stop smoking if he himself smokes.”The unspoken message is: “Prabhupada, we are really sorry to have to tell you that, but you really dont know what you are talking about and let the Hayagriva and Jayadvaita parampara talk here please, ok? Especially the fact that we have a lot of experience in smoking all kinds speaks in our favour!!! Whereas You Srila Prabhupada you haven’t even smoked one single cigarette in your entire life. So what do YOU know about smoking? Please be quiet now and let us do the speaking as we are most qualified in smoking matters, ok? Besides that how can you address us so directly since we are still involved in smoking. So its go to be the leaders who got to show the example to stop smoking first and then we’ll follow the leaders We ll do that when the leaders do it. ” That is a typical adulterated devotee situation, where the bhakta considers his own interest supreme and every else subordinate to it.

Third and fourth sentence.

Srila Prabhupada says:”Lord Caitanya said that a teacher should behave practically before he begins teaching. One who teaches in that way is called acarya or the ideal teacher.” Here again in their restlessness the editors feel a need to replace Prabhupada’s “practically” with their own “properly”. But Srila Prabhupada “practically” is better by miles because it implies the idea of putting one’s philosophy into practice. But the editors think” He, we are here and we got to do something. So let’s do anything.” That is monkey philosophy of active foolishness. We are lucky again as the editors agree with Srila Prabhupada on sentence four.

Sentence five.

Here something funny happens. Hayagriva fully agrees with Srila Prabhupada. But the so called super-intelligent and super-nasty Jayadvaita must contradict both. He just cannot resist it. This is why I say that Hayagriva is at least an honest person, whereas Jayadvaita is just a NASTY CHEATER. Jayadvaita, you NASTY CHEATER it’s not “to teach the common man” as you would have it. It’s “to reach the common man” as Srila Prabhupada writes it Himself and you know it. Jayadvaita is a NASTY, UNPRINCIPLED, VAISHYA CLASS FELLOW CHEATER whose main aim is to confuse everything and everyone. He ought to be kicked out. At the very least he ought to be silenced. That includes indeed to repudiate his rendition of BGAII immediately.

Sentence six, no problem.

Sentence seven. Both monkey-like editors feel the irresistible need to drop the word “scripture.”The sentence is weakened by their whimsical decisions.

.