Please chant the Maha-Mantra HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE HARE RAMA HARE RAMA RAMA RAMA HARE HARE, dance, honor prasadam and your life will be sublime in all respects and at the end we go Back Home Back to Godhead! This is called BHAKTI YOGA, the topmost yoga system!
“Pure devotees are those who thoroughly understand the Supreme Personality, become fully engaged in My service and talk about Me and preach about Me, and thus they are satisfied and enjoy spiritual bliss. “
So this is a pure-devotee-meter. Just like there are altimeters to determine altitude, there are barometers to determine atmospheric pressure and there are tyres pressure meters to inflate, deflate and check tyre pressure, similarly here we have a pure-devotee-meter supplied courtesy Sri Bhagavan, through the intermediary of His ten thousand years appointee Srila Prabhupada. Please take the test.
There are five parameters here:
The degree of development of one’s knowledge of God, Krishna, through Prabhupada Shastra.
Full engagement in Krishna’s service or in other words, degree of one’s engagement in Krishna’s service under proper authority.
Talk about Krishna, perhaps with fellow devotees, etc, exchange of realization about Krishna, etc, i.e. sadhu sanga.
Preaching to the mass of people. There are two things to be mentioned here.
Caitanya Caritamrta, Madhya Lila, Chapter 7, TEXT 101
SYNONYMS yare dekhe — whomever he meets; tare — to him; kahe — he says; kaha krsna-nama — kindly chant the Hare Krsna mantra; ei-mata — in this way; vaisnava — devotees of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; kaila — made; saba — all; nija-grama — his own village.
TRANSLATION Such an empowered person would request everyone and anyone — whomever he saw — to chant the holy name of Krsna. In this way all the villagers would also become devotees of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
PURPORT In order to become an empowered preacher, one must be favored by Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu or His devotee, the spiritual master. One must also request everyone to chant the maha-mantra. In this way, such a person can convert others to Vaisnavism, showing them how to become pure devotees of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Here one is advised to actually take the trouble and time to run people we meet through the full Hare Krishna maha-mantra at least once, word after word. It means the devotee speaks one word “Hare” and the interlocutor repeats “Hare”. Then next word “Krishna”, next word again “Hare” etc, etc, through all sixteen words. I have just met again an intelligent lady who chanted with me like that 4 or 5 years ago in Jennifer st in front of the Brisbane ISKCON temple. I did not recognize her and when I ask her to chant again the maha-mantra she told me the story. Now she is becoming more advanced and is reading the Bhagavad-gita As It Is.
The other thing is Srila Prabhupada eternal statements about the importance of book distribution:
Calcutta 21 February, 1972 72-02-21
San Diego My dear Bhakta das, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of January 28, 1972, and I am pleased to note that everything is progressing nicely in San Diego center. I especially appreciate your attitude toward increasing more and more the sales of our books, that will sanctify all other activities of preaching because preaching means selling books. …………………………………………………….. I Hope this will meet you in good health and happy mood. Your ever well-wisher, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/sda
AND
Bombay 10 January, 1972 72-01-10
East Cleveland My dear Sri Govinda, Please accept my blessings.
…………. I am pleased that your distribution of literatures is also increasing. Go on giving this matter your full attention. The more books we sell, the more we ourselves advance in Krishna Consciousness. Regarding your proposal to open one store, that is not a very good proposal. Our devotees cannot work in that way. Better they are preaching and selling books door-to-door.
I hope this will meet you in good health and cheerful mood. Your ever well-wisher, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/sda
and 5 ) How happy and satisfied am I from my engagement in the service of Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Am I actually enjoying spiritual bliss?
Whereas this young lady is dancing wonderfully. She must have done it in a previous life.
The young lady in the above picture teaches the world how NOT TO BE LAZY on the path of self-realization or the path of God-realization. She dances in an enthusiastic and concentrated way at the sound of kirtan:
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
In Bhagavad-gita, As It Is 10.7, in another blatant lack of truthfulness and another blatant move of literary diplomacy both editors have again banned Srila Prabhupada’s use of the word “LAZY”, obviously a very embarrassing word for some of us. Previously they have underhandedly banned engineer, logician (2.27), time serving mentality (7.16 p.), imaginative brain (7.15), transcendental performances (7.19p), “modes” in “modes of devotional service” (9.14), ” and subversive (6.10). For further details, please see https://krishnaculture.org/2021/11/27/down-with-jayadvaita-svami-and-down-with-his-bhagavad-gita-as-it-is-not/
BGAII OT & V3, 10.7, purport: “These are some of the opulences of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. And when one is firmly convinced of these instructions, he accepts such instructions with great faith and without any doubt, and certainly, he becomes engaged in devotional service. All this particular knowledge is required for increasing one’s interest in the loving devotional service of the Lord. Therefore in the ??? it is said ???. One should not be lazy in understanding fully how great Krishna is, for by knowing the greatness of Krishna, one will be able to be fixed in sincere devotional service of the Lord”
BGAII V2 10.7, purport: “These are some of the opulences of the Supreme Lord. When one is firmly convinced of them, he accepts Krsna with great faith and without any doubt, and he engages in devotional service. All this particular knowledge is required in order to increase one’s interest in the loving devotional service of the Lord. One should not neglect to understand fully how great Krsna is, for by knowing the greatness of Krsna one will be able to be fixed in sincere devotional service.”
The expression “the Supreme Personality of Godhead” has also been banned by Hayagriva and the change was rubber-stamped by Jayadvaita. We already know that Hayagriva does not like this expression, as he has replaced it without any authority whatsoever with “the Blessed Lord” on many occasions. All these dealings are apa-sampradaya.
They also failed to identify the quote wanted in the text. We shall find it later.
This article will be very short indeed, as the title speaks volumes for itself. All glories to the powerful and unrelenting Srila Prabhupada, Founder-Acarya of ISKCON! May we be blessed to have and develop the qualities required to follow in His glorious footsteps.
In short, my dear readers, what distinguishes the late Hayagriva from Jayadvaita, the imposter, is HONESTY, in Sanskrit language “arjavam.” While Hayagriva’s rendition of Bhagavad-gita As It Is may not be perfect, Hayagriva Prabhu deserves our respect for his honesty, while the imposter Jayadvaita Swami deserves our full condemnation for his deliberate deceit. Please draw your own conclusions. Jayadvaita’s thinking is stereotyped thinking. Stereotyped thinking is fake thinking. Nothing, not even Srila Prabhupada’s transcendental parampara words or vani, must overdraw the artificial limits he has set to fulfill his hidden agenda and to mislead and cheat the whole world and give ISKCON a bad name. We must indeed be careful not to become his instrument for word jugglery and thus become a shareholder in the blame. Jayadvaita is a maha-hypocrite because he dared to censur Srila Prabhupadause use of the word “subversive”, whereas he is SUBVERTER NUMBER ONE.
Bhagavad-gita 18.42 is one of its key verses. It is a key verse because it defines the Brahmin. BGAII V 3, 18.42 reads as follows: “Peacefulness, self-control, austerity, purity, tolerance, honesty, knowledge, wisdom and religiousness — these are the natural qualities by which the Brahmins work.” In this verse, the Sanskrit antecedent for honesty is “arjavam”, a very important word to be thoroughly understood and important quality to be adhered to for peaceful social interaction. And finally “arjavam” is a characteristic of the Brahmin class as per the verse itself. There are many editorial facts to establish Jayadvaita is an imposter. He definitely will not pass the test of arjavam and I have given a good account of his editorial underhandedness in my article: https://krishnaculture.org/2021/11/27/down-with-jayadvaita-svami-and-down-with-his-bhagavad-gita-as-it-is-not/.
But what has motivated me to write the present article is a new discovery in BGAII OT 9.33, purport, where Srila Prabhupada dictates: “Some of the philosophers, especially the minor philosophers, say that this world is false….” The faithful and honest Hayagriva Prabhu does not change a single word of it and renders: “Some of the philosophers, especially the minor philosophers, say that this world is false….” in the 1972 Macmillan edition. But the cunning imposter Jayadvaita sees it otherwise and renders: ” Some philosophers, especially Mayavadi philosophers, say that this world is false …..” He applied a similar fake change formula to verse BGAII 9.11, a fateful combination of numbers.
Many times while in close association with ISKCON, I had this impression that the “evil Mayavadis” are portrayed as the source of and scapegoats for all ills, wrongdoings, and faults of the world. This senseless and hypocritical Mayavadi bashing is superbly illustrated here by the imposter Jayadvaita. But this is not the real point. The real point is far worse. The real point is that the imposter Jayadvaita negates the fact that there are minor and major philosophers. According to him, the philosophers class is one. And you have guessed by now who is number ONE philosopher, right? Number one philosopher is the imposter Jayadvaita, of course. Never mind Srila Prabhupada, never mind Sankaracarya, never mind other great Acharyas who have commented on the Gita, number one Bhagavad-gita Acharya is Jayadvaita, the imposter. Imposter Jayadvaita is absolute number one Bhagavad-gita Acharya, whereas, in reality, he is simply number one imposter. In the Bhagavad-gita, Srila Prabhupada mentions the imposter Kapila. Here we have imposter Jayadvaita. And all this nonsense impostor plagiarization he accomplishes on Srila Prabhupad’s account. What a parasite! He is like the mosquito in he guise of a friendly buterfly, trying to suck the king’s blood. Slap him off! Down with him!
Because Jayadvaita is too stupid, too crooked, and too much of a coward to handle the stark realities of life, he distorts reality to suit himself only. He lives in Dreamworld, just like the French Queen Marie Antoinette. When she was asked what to feed the people too poor to afford bread, she callously replied let them get cake. Later she was executed by guillotine. He is like the frog in the well who reduces life to his well-reality but still foolishly aspire for world hegemony. The French seventeenth-century fable writer La Fontaine tells about the frog’s aspiration to become as big as the bull. The frog finally explodes in hundreds of fragments.
This is the age of information. But the imposter Jayadvaita wants to reverse this trend. He is a most reactionary and crooked individual and by suppressing most precious transcendental information, he wants to keep you all in ignorance and basically kill your chances for liberation. His under-the-table agenda is to either suppress bona fide transcendental information and / or supply fake so-called bogus transcendental information of his own making. His secret and time wasting agenda is to cloud and confuse. the C&C policy. What a rascal cheater Jayadvaita is! In the good old western US movies, these types of people quickly finish with one or several holes in the head or elsewhere, on the principle of justice. Down with the imposter Jayadvaita!!!
So either we are a victim or an accomplice of this masterful, worldwide deceit and I suppose it will be for each and every member of ISKCON, including management, to decide for him or herself on which side he or she stands. We just hope that the management will facilitate things in order to avoid mental agonies to so many honest devotees.
My apologies to Jayadvaita Swami! Bhagavad-gita speaks for itself on Satyam or truthfulness. BGAII V3 10.4-5, purport: “Satyam means things should be presented as they are for the benefit of others.Things should not be misrepresented. In the social convention, they say that we can speak truth only which is palatable to others. But that is not truth speaking. Truth speaking should be straight and forward, so that others will understand actually what the thing is. Suppose a man is a thief. Now if a person is warned that he is a thief, that is truth. But because it is unpalatable, because a man thinks that if I find out that man is a thief it is unpalatable, therefore I shall not speak, but that is not truthfulness. Truthfulness means things should be presented as they are for the benefit of others. That is the definition of truth.”
Jayadvaita has also at least on one occasion broken the Guru-tattva rule, that in one’s physical presence, a disciple cannot accept his own disciples. What other rules has he broken??? His Holiness Kadambakanana Maharaja is certainly a great kirtan leader and is the individual in question. He was once the oject of an assasination attempt in Vrndavan, India. He is a pretty straight forward talker Dutch national. This law of Guru Tattva is confirmed in a Prabhupada letter to His disciple Tusta Krishna and this letter is otherwise full of Guru Tattva:
New Delhi 2 December, 1975 75-12-02
My Dear Tusta Krishna Swami, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 21 November, 1975. Every student is expected to become Acarya. Acarya means one who knows the scriptural injunctions and follows them practically in life, and teaches them to his disciples. I have given you sannyasa with the great hope that in my absence you will preach the cult thruout the world and thus become recognized by Krishna as the most sincere servant of the Lord. So I’m very pleased that you have not deviated from the principles I have taught, and thus with power of attorney go on preaching Krishna consciousness, that will make me very happy as it is confirmed in the Guru vastakam yasya prasadat bhagavata prasadah just by satisfying your Spiritual Master who is accepted as the bona fide representative of the Lord you satisfy Krishna immediately without any doubt. I am very glad to inform you that Sudama Vipra Maharaja is also now following my principles. So I am very very happy to receive all this news. Thank you very very much. Keep trained up very rigidly and then you are bona fide Guru, and you can accept disciples on the same principle. But as a matter of etiquette it is the custom that during the lifetime of your Spiritual master you bring the prospective disciples to him, and in his absence or disappearance you can accept disciples without any limitation. This is the law of disciplic succession. I want to see my disciples become bona fide Spiritual Master and spread Krishna consciousness very widely, that will make me and Krishna very happy. I hope this letter finds you well, Your ever well wisher, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/hda
In other words Jayadvaita has broken “the law of disciple succession.”
To counter Jayadvaita’s reactionary mentality and actions, I would like to finish this article with Srila Prabhupada’s progressive transcendental words from the Preface of His Srimad-Bhagavatam:
“We must know the present need of human society. And what is that need? Human society is no longer bounded by geographical limits to particular countries or communities. Human society is broader than in the Middle Ages, and the world tendency is toward one state or one human society. The ideals of spiritual communism, according to Srimad-Bhagavatam, are based more or less on the oneness of the entire human society, nay, of the entire energy of living beings. The need is felt by great thinkers to make this a successful ideology. Srimad-Bhagavatam will fill this need in human society. It begins, therefore, with an aphorism of Vedanta philosophy, janmady asya yatah, [SB 1.1.1] to establish the ideal of a common cause. Human society, at the present moment, is not in the darkness of oblivion. It has made rapid progress in the fields of material comforts, education and economic development throughout the entire world. But there is a pinprick somewhere in the social body at large, and therefore there are large-scale quarrels, even over less important issues. There is need of a clue as to how humanity can become one in peace, friendship and prosperity with a common cause. Srimad-Bhagavatam will fill this need, for it is a cultural presentation for the respiritualization of the entire human society.
Srimad-Bhagavatam should be introduced also in the schools and colleges, for it is recommended by the great student-devotee Prahlada Maharaja in order to change the demoniac face of society.
Disparity in human society is due to lack of principles in a godless civilization. There is God, or the almighty one, from whom everything emanates, by whom everything is maintained and in whom everything is merged to rest. Material science has tried to find the ultimate source of creation very insufficiently, but it is a fact that there is one ultimate source of everything that be. This ultimate source is explained rationally and authoritatively in the beautiful Bhagavatam, or Srimad-Bhagavatam. Srimad-Bhagavatam is the transcendental science not only for knowing the ultimate source of everything but also for knowing our relation with Him and our duty toward perfection of the human society on the basis of this perfect knowledge. It is powerful reading matter in the Sanskrit language, and it is now rendered into English elaborately so that simply by a careful reading one will know God perfectly well, so much so that the reader will be sufficiently educated to defend himself from the onslaught of atheists. Over and above this, the reader will be able to convert others to accepting God as a concrete principle.”
Here is a nice, midsized, house of God, Krishna, in Ashgrove, Brisbane, Australia, all made of user-friendly bricks.
Whether we accept or reject, whether we like or dislike and even if we are philosophical and neutral, all things come to pass one way or another with inexorable certainty, as if situated on a conveyor belt which advances at a steady speed to its destined goal, at which point we will be asked in no uncertain terms, to please step off the belt and in ordinary, unsuccessful cases of body transmigration, mount a new belt for a similar trip. Bhagavad-gita As It Is, V3, 2.13 says: “As the embodied soul changes his body every moment from boyhood to youth and then to old age, similarly when there is a final change of body from one to another, the sober person does not become deluded by such a change.”
Are we ready for that?
“But Duryodhana does not know that the death does not depend on military strength or bodily strength. When death will come, nobody can check. Death is God. When Kṛṣṇa desires that “This man should be killed now,” or “He must die now,” nobody can check. Rākhe kṛṣṇa mare ke mare kṛṣṇa rākhe ke. If Kṛṣṇa desires to kill somebody, nobody can give him protection—no power. And if He wants to save somebody, nobody can kill him. This is Kṛṣṇa’s protection.” 73.07.09 BG.Lon
The Greek philosopher Heraclitus summed it up in his famous formula “Panta Rei” or “everything flows”, or as I have learned it in French secondary school in Soultz and Guebwiller, Grand Est, France: all things come to pass. I take this opportunity to acknowledge and thank all my teachers of the time for their fruitful efforts. Some stand out in my memory as Mr. Muller, the PE, and extremely efficient German teacher, Ms. Oswald, the French teacher from Madagascar ( She was actually an enthusiastic caucasian French lady, who spend some considerable time teaching in Madagascar, off the coast of East Africa ), I forget the name of my first English teacher, who had a typical English accent, but I do remember the name of the very first English class i.e. “Malta convoy one hit by a torpedo.” His accent was outstanding, with a special contortion of the lips. Not at all American! And then of course the illustrious philosophy professor Mr. Kippelen of terminal class. In France, at least at the time, terminal class was the year before the high school certificate, I suppose grade one in Anglo-Saxon countries. There was also Mr. Gabble, my first secondary Mathematic teacher, who gave me my very first number one spot in “sixieme” in the three monthly mathematic test and competititon. There was a three monthly test for every subject matter. He once made fun of student Dupras, who jumped the rail by asking me: Do you know what that is called? Of course, I answered: It is called “garde-fou,” which means a thing to keep crazy people in check. One morning his clothing was not in proper order and I shall not get into further details out of respect for the man, who was simultaneously the school director at the time. He also used to splutter. But he taught us Mathematics alright for at least one year. My dear secondary teachers, please accept the expression of my gratitude, wherever you may be at present. My primary teacher’s name was Rudloff, a disturbed fellow. I don’t remember his first name. But it was not Adolf. He was extremely violent to his own two sons, Louis and Michel, in class in front of everyone else. Being the father, he felt he could take such violent freedom and they regularly burst into tears. These were such pathetic episodes. Louis was my friend and, unlike others, I have lost complete track of him. I realized now that it was all good grade education. Whereas nowadays we see students finishing secondary school. who do not even know basic skills such as spelling. This is an alarming sign of the times. Are we really making progress here or not?
In any case, please don’t worry about the past and please chant the Hare Krishna maha-mantra now and in the future as in
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare
and automatically all purposes will be served collectively.
There is a parallel trail of thought in Bhagavad-gita As It Is, version three, (BGAII V3), chapter 2, verse 46. Minutes before the decisive battle, Lord Krishna or Partha-sarathi, is speaking the Bhagavad-gita to His friend and chariot master, Arjuna. God or Lord Krishna has millions of names, including Allah, Jehovah, and Buddha and because out of friendliness to Arjuna, He accepted what in material, military terms is the inferior position of chariot driver, His name in the Sanskrit language is Partha-sarathi. In modern warfare terms, we may say that a tank driver is generally subordinate to the tank commander. Ultimately God has no name, but God is named according to His multifarious activities:
“All purposes served by a small well can at once be served by great reservoirs of water. Similarly, all the purposes of the Vedas can be served to the student who knows the purpose behind them.”
The great and unmatchable advantage with the Hare Krishna process, especially if you are time conscious, is that you never, ever need to lose even a single second of your lifetime, because you can always chant the Hare Krishna maha-mantra in all circumstances, except at the dentist. Often we have to wait in a queue, at the bank, at the post office, at the taxi ramp, at the checkout, etc, and we can easily control our mind from being overtaken by frustration or anger simply by fixing it on the Hare Krishna mantra-mantra. Sometimes we have to wait for dictator-computer to be ready to do what we want him to do. Dictator-computer is not some kind of a deity, as some people want us to think, it is a stupid machine only, without any ultimate discriminating power because there is no spirit in it. It is simply dull matter. If you want or need to account for your mantras, beads or japa-mala and bead-bag are best. We supply japa-mala and bead bags for a small fee. Please contact us. Otherwise, any mechanical or electronic tally counter is OK. But these implements much too often are unreliable and give a false reading. One must watch that too. For example, while driving a vehicle, it is extremely dangerous and probably illegal to drive a vehicle and have one’s right hand, or left hand if you are left-hander, in the bead bag. If it’s not yet illegal, it means our Hare Krishna propaganda is weak. Some devotees have died under such circumstances. The point is that when one is driving a vehicle, there remains some unused mental energy that can be used for chanting Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare / Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare and a tally counter can be used. In Ballina, NSW, I was once stopped by police because the officer saw my lips moving from a distance and he concluded that I was making illegal use of my mobile phone. I have written an article about it as well.
The overall advantage is that you are performing the most beneficial, the most important and the most redemptive activity of this human form of life, chanting the specially Kali-yuga designed maha-mantra as in Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare / Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare. It other words the Hare Krishna practitioner is always a winner. This is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gita As It Is, version 3, 18.78, when Sanjaya, the secretary of King Dhritarashtra and to the king’s disappointment, declares: “Wherever there is Krishna, the master of all mystics and Supreme Personality of Godhead, and wherever there is Arjuna, the supreme archer, there will also certainly be opulence, victory, extraordinary power, and morality. That is my opinion.” Besides that BGAII 2.40 says: “In this endeavor there is no loss or diminution, and a little advancement in this path can protect one from a very dangerous type of fear.”
Dear Srila Prabhupada, when I study Your Original Transcript (OT) of Bhagavad-gita As It Is, I am discovering and appreciating Your different, multi-faceted personality more and more and I rejoice in your association more and more, even after 50 years of Guru-disciple association.
Here is the instance of BGAII OT 9.18, purport. You have spoken into your dictaphone: “Therefore without Krishna’s shelter, there is no existential platform.” This is the terminology and language a true philosopher, belonging to the best philosophical tradition, will use. You are not just a sentimental theologian. Every occupation has got its own specific, in-house language and this is what Arjuna alludes to in BGAII V3, 2.54 when he asks Krishna:” Arjuna inquired: O Keshava, what are the symptoms of one whose consciousness is thus fixed in transcendence? How does he speak, and what is his language? How does he remain still, and how does he walk?.” But Your unreliable and untrustworthy editors transformed it into kitchen language as follows:”….therefore without Krishna’s shelter nothing can exist.” Coming from You, I just know that only a true philosopher of the greatest classical tradition would write such a sentence. These things have been covered up by your so-called trusted editors. So now from the 5th day of November 2021 at 20 hours, GMT + 10 hours, I have irrefutable proof that You belong to that greatest and most illustrious philosophical tradition: chronologically, the most illustrious philosophical tradition of Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Lord Jesus Christ, Sankaracarya, Ramanujacarya, Madhvacarya, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Srila Jiva Goswami (“the greatest philosopher of his time”), Arthur Schopenhauer, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre to name a few only. Motivated by some vested interests in the bodily concept of life, or simply by ignorance, using the methodology of combined force and deceit, your mischievous editors have covered up your full and true identity, and many of us, your followers, have good, legitimate reasons to feel cheated by them and those who supported them for the last fifty years and still support them today and feel absolutely angry at all of them indeed. Combined together, they have cheated the world for the last fifty years and are still cheating the world today. There are here only two classes of people: innocent victims and guilty accomplices. There is no third alternative. For everyone’s interests, including the cheaters’ interests, this must be stopped ASAP.
What an immense satisfaction to have a master of such caliber as Yourself and when we shall restore and correct these unholy deviations in the official presentation of Your Bhagavad-gita As It Is, its success will increase exponentially and will achieve completion. There is no doubt about it, these innumerable rectifications will come to pass and I promise this to you, Srila Prabhupada. This is a solemn promise. The complete metamorphosis may take a little time, but it will happen because that is the virtuous way. It is already happening now. The initial start has already begun. Like all boats, we shall depend on wind conditions. On the battlefield of Kuruksetra, such seemingly great and respectable personalities like Bhisma, Dronacarya, and Karna had to be defeated and die in battle, because of their one failure in the domain of virtue: they did not rescue the chaste and devoted wife of the Pandavas, Draupadi, in her time of need in the assembly of non-gentlemen. In your 730416SB.LA, you call this “asat-sabahya” the unholy assembly: “asat-sabhayah, in the assembly of asat… Asat means those who are not gentle, not gentlemen. In the sabha, in the assembly, there was Dhrtarastra, there was Bhismadeva, Dronacarya, all elderly persons,” Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.8.24 – April 16, 1973, Los Angeles.
In Your Bhagavad-gita As It Is, official version, 16.7, word for word section, the corruption of Jayadvaita goes as far as to subtly and indirectly equate virtuous action with criminal action and vice versa and lead everyone else in that direction, down the wrong path. That single action in Your and Krishna’s Bhagavad-gita As It Is surely makes Jayadvaita a criminal himself! Jayadvaita is a morally bankrupt individual. No doubt his presentation of Bhagavad-gita As It Is is apa-sampradaya! No doubt he is an agent of Kali-yuga! To use a typical Srila Prabhupada expression: If I were to place squarely my heavy-duty work boot in his crazy face for Krishna, it will be the most virtuous action.
In Your greatness and kindness, You have been so very tolerant with some of your disciples’ literary and philosophical clumsiness and perhaps also their mischievousness. But this will now progressively come to an end and Your true glories will be revealed to the entire world to their fullest extent. Your Governing Body Commission is supposed to have the final say in all these matters. As everyone understands, my own mind is made up.
For light duty book distribution, I generally carry Reservoir of Pleasure, the 72 Macmillan Bhagavad-gita As It Is, soft bound and of course The Higher Taste. Just as there are the yummy Govinda Hare Krishna restaurants, similarly, on Book Distribution Sankirtan there is always a need to carry a Hare Krishna cookbook . A Hare Krishna cookbook, can indeed open many doors, which would otherwise remain shut. Srila Prabhupada, in His letter dated 15 June 1969, which remains as fresh as ever, to His female disciple Krishna Devi Dasi remarked:
krishna krishna krishna krishna krishna krishna krishna he krishna krishna krishna krishna krishna krishna krishna he krishna krishna krishna krishna krishna krishna raksha mam krishna krishna krishna krishna krishna krishna pahi mam rama raghava rama raghava rama raghava raksha mam krishna keshava krishna keshava krishna keshava pahi mam
“Actually, the practice of meat-eating is very detrimental to spiritual life, because in spiritual life the goal is to become free from all sinful reactions, and meat-eating means simply to force oneself to suffer the sinful reactions of killing our fellow living entities. So as many people will be taking to practicing spiritual life through the influence of our Sankirtana Movement, SUCH COOKBOOK WILL BE VERY IMPORTANT and you should work for this as you are able.”
My first attempts were unsuccessful. People declined to even accept benefit by touching the literature, what to speak of accepting a copy to take home! But we do not depend on the result of our endeavors. Finally after passing a final negative young couple having a snack on a bench, I came to a young guy sitting on another bench with table. He was bent over the table and absorbed in looking at the screen of his phone. I offered the magazine and he was not defensive as were previous customers and finally accepted it. In the talk that ensued he amazingly admitted that he was reading the Bible on his phone. I encouraged him with: “Congratulations, this is unique, I don’t think many people are studying the Bible in the park right now!” The amazing thing here is Krishna’s arrangement. This person was looking at God’s word on his phone and consequently searching for Him and here God Himself, Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, comes in the form of a nice painting on the cover of the nice Reservoir of Pleasure and sets Himself before this seeker of truth as described in BGAII 7.16 “O best among the Bharatas, four kinds of pious men begin their devotional service unto Me, the distressed, those in need of money, the inquisitive or those searching after the knowledge of the Absolute.” Krishna is so wonderful and we shall both remember this instance as part of our God or Krishna consciousness! Later things got easier and people got friendlier and more receptive. A met another guy with whom I had a good preaching conversation. Another lady mentioned that she visits the West End Hare Krishna restaurant every Thursday, without fail. I didn’t get a chance to ask why only on Thursdays and not every day. Another, daggy looking guy was amazed to deal with Hare Krishna. He said:” O Hare Krishna, they were here about 40 years ago….I thought they are dead and gone….there are to many religions in the world ….Then I asked him what was his own religion. He replied without inhibitions whatsoever: “My religion is alcohol and smoking” We are lucky that alcohol-and-smoking is not a world religion, even though it may be more widely spread than we think. Some other people spontaneously react positively and with good speed, just like the lady and her husband who were strolling their two months old son. This has got to do with Prabhupada’s saying that the spark of fire may fall in three places, the earth, water and dry grass, and also the modes of material nature. These people are good prospects for Krishna consciousness and deserve our attention. In this way Book Distribution, besides being a highly efficient means of purification for all parties involved and especially the distributor, is also a good testing meter for Krishna consciousness, just like a Geiger detector indicates the proximity of gold. Book distribution, just like Gurukula, is also a character forming activity. Let us all get involved in Book Distribution! And then the night fell and my book distribution activities came to end for the 4th day of december 2021.
Srila Prabhupada Srimad-Bhagavatam class, 1.16.8, Los Angeles, 5 January 1974
“There is no comparison. There is no literature throughout the universe like Srimad-Bhagavatam. There is no comparison. There is no competition.Every word is for the good of the human society, every word, each and every word. Therefore we stress so much in the book distribution. Somehow or other, if the book goes in one’s hand, he will be benefited. At least he will see, “Oh, I have taken so much price. Let me see what is there.” If he reads one shloka, his life will be successful, if one shloka, one word. This is such nice things. Therefore we are stressing so much,
All glories to Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s world wide Sankirtan Movement, all glories to Srila Prabhupada, all glories to the dedicated ISKCON book distributors!
Strictly speaking, this is a dishonest version of Srila Prabhupada’s Bhagavad-gita As It Is. Its purpose is to cloud and confuse. It is the abracadabra version. It is the waste of time version. The previous version, also called the 1972 Macmillan version, may not be perfect but it is a more honest version and is the best we have at the moment. We hope that version three will be available soon. It can be seen here as it is created: https://krishnaculture.org/bhagavad-gita-as-it-is-version-3/
The four screenshots below of BGAII OT 5.29, BGAII OT 9.11 ( X2 ), and BGAIIOT 11.1 give us first of all an idea of the sorry general state of the Original Transcript (OT). 20/20 for the respect shown to Srila Prabhupada, the world teacher, by those who handle and are in charge of the Original Transcript !!! These are some of these great American minds!
It is available here to everyone: https://bookchanges.com/bhagavad-gita-as-it-is-manuscript/. It is not an easy document to handle! In their outright disrespectful and over-self-confident attitude, the editors did not feel any compunction whatsoever to scribble all over it. We also note that the editors do not even have a basic understanding of the transcendental philosophy of Krishna consciousness. In particular, they do not seem to understand that the transcendental Lord Krishna is not at all different from His Holy Name, or in other words that the transcendental Lord Krishna is one with His Holy Name, otherwise, why would they have dared to cross out the word KRISHNA with such alacrity and on so many occasions, as we can clearly see on the screenshots? In the Siksastaka by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu Himself, the channa Supreme Personality of Godhead, stanza two, it is clearly confirmed that the Lord has invested all His transcendental energies into His transcendental names as follows:
“O My Lord, Your holy name alone can render all benedictions to living beings, and thus You have hundreds and millions of names, like Krsna and Govinda. In these transcendental names You have invested all Your transcendental energies, and there are no hard and fast rules for chanting these holy names. O My Lord, You have so kindly made it easy to approach You by Your holy names, but I am so unfortunate that I have no attraction for them.”
And if you wonder where the office fish comes in, that’s a small joke to counter a very big, sorry, and sad joke.
This is how editors and others treat the Original Transcript. BGAIIOT 11.1.What can be done with such a document??? The situation seems hopeless. 20 / 20 for respect shown to Srila Prabhupada, the teacher of the world.(sacarstic mode)
Devotee: Is it possible for a fallen soul to preach the glories of Kṛṣṇa and Lord Caitanya and the spiritual master to people outside?
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Prabhupāda: Outside? What do you mean outside?
Devotee: In society. Outside of the movement, outside of the temple.
Devotee (2): He means living out independently, and also…
Prabhupāda: Oh, yes. Why not? Why not? It is simply an example how to become Kṛṣṇa conscious. You can start a similar place in your home, in your village, in your town. You can do that. It is simply an example how to conduct Kṛṣṇa consciousness business. It is not that the business is limited. It is not limited. Therefore we have written so many books. It is a great science. You can do it anywhere—that is the mission of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. He says, pṛthivīte āche yata nagarādi grāma [Caitanya-bhāgavata, Antya 4.126] = “All over the world, as many towns and villages are there, this Kṛṣṇa conciousness movement must be spread.” So one must know the science and spread it. That is wanted. People are suffering for want of knowledge. They should be enlightened by this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. That is the business of human life. Especially Caitanya Mahāprabhu ordered the Indians to do it. He said,bhārata-bhūmite haila manuṣya-janma yāra janma sārthaka kari’ kara para-upakāra [Cc. Ādi 9.41]His mission is that anyone who has taken birth in India, he first of all make his life successful and spread this knowledge for welfare activities of the whole human society. This is required. 760426BG.MEL
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“So you are coming, I mean to say, the Indians who are present here, from a country where Kṛṣṇa appeared. It is a great fortune for you that you have taken your birth in India. It is not ordinary fortune. So why? To take Indian birth, to take birth in India, automatically they are advanced in spiritual knowledge. Still, so much fallen condition of India, still, you go to a village, they will very easily understand Kṛṣṇa consciousness, without any advanced education, because by birthright they have got the knowledge…..
…..So my request is that you are here in foreign country, you don’t forget your heritage. That is my request. Don’t be bara-sāhīb. Remain as Indian with Indian culture, and here is the temple of Kṛṣṇa; we are distributing this Kṛṣṇa culture all over the world. So don’t miss this opportunity, but you take advantage of it. That is the duty of every Indian. That is the mission of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. His mission is, especially to the Indians He says,bhārata-bhūmite haila manuṣya-janma yāra janma sārthaka kari’ kara para-upakāra [Cc. Ādi 9.41]Para-upakāra, just to do something good for others, for upakāra. So Caitanya Mahāprabhu says anyone who has taken birth in India, he should, bhārata-bhūmite manuṣya-janma haila yāra, anyone who has taken birth in India, for every one of them, it is the duty. Janma sārthaka kari’: first of all make your life successful, janma sārthaka kari’ kara para-upakāra,then you begin the welfare activities for all others. The idea is that India is enriched with Vedic knowledge, and those who are born in India, they should take advantage of this facility, especially those who are in the higher, topmost ranks, the brāhmaṇas, the kṣatriyas, the vaiśyas. Especially the brāhmaṇas. Take this education perfectly well, make your life perfect, and distribute the knowledge all over the world. This is your duty. That is the order of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. He wanted…Kṛṣṇa preached this Bhagavad-gītā, five thousand years ago, but it was not broadly preached. It was spoken on the battlefield of Kurukṣetra. Arjuna knew it and some of his other friends. But Caitanya Mahāprabhu is also Kṛṣṇa. He appeared as a devotee of Kṛṣṇa. And He distributed this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, and He wanted that every Indian should seriously take this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, make his life perfect, and distribute the knowledge. This is India’s duty. So you have got one opportunity, you Indian people, that you take this advantage of distributing Kṛṣṇa consciousness. It is good for you and for everyone who takes this knowledge very adherently.” 760620BG.TOR
Srila Prabhupada happily holding a Macmillan edition of the Bhagavad-gita As It Is.
Just as ISKCON rejected the 1972 Macmillan edition of Srila Prabhupada’s Bhagavad-gita As It Is for their own reasons, we have reasons to believe that the current “official version” does not meet the mark either and ought to be rejected as still representing, strictly speaking, a betrayal and misrepresentation of its author’s, Srila Prabhupada’s, true intentions. We estimate that the accuracy rate for both versions is not more than 33%.(thirty-three). They are corrupted versions. That does not mean however that we should stop using or distributing either version to the general public, as we are still giving the best we have. Neither is blind faith study recommended at any stage. And whatever has been achieved over the last fifty years, has been achieved on the basis of both versions. But we can do more and much, much better. As BGAII V3, 5.26 itself states, it is a matter of constantly endeavoring for improvements:
“Those who are freed from all material desires and anger, who are self-realized, self-disciplined and constantly endeavouring for perfection, are assured of their liberation in the Supreme in the very near future.”
Not only do we reject the current official version of Bhagavad-gita As It Is, but an attempt is made to propose a positive alternative. It is not very difficult and above all it is not at all impossible.
Please find below a non-exhaustive list of a few good reasons for such leaning:
Text 2.52 Version 3
“When your intelligence (in Krishna consciousness) will surpass the totality of the dense forest of illusion, at that time you shall become callous to all that has been heard and all that is to be heard.”
Purport.
Purport. There are many good example in the lives of great devotees of the Lord how they became callous to the rituals of the Vedas simply by devotional service to the Lord. When a person factually understands Krishna, and one’s relationship with Krishna, naturally one becomes completely callous to the rituals of fruitive activities. It is said that an experienced brahmin becomes callous to the rituals of fruitive activities. Sri Madhavendra Puri, a great devotee and acharya in the line of devotees, says like this:
sandhya-vandana bhadram astu bhavato bhoh snana tubhyam namo
bho devah pitaras ca tarpana-vidhau naham ksamah ksamyatam
smaram smaram agham harami tad alam manye kim anyena me
“O my prayers three times a day, all glory to you. O bathing, I offer my obeisances unto you. O demigods! O forefathers! Please excuse me for my inability to offer you my respects. Now I am able to remember the great descendant of the Yadu dynasty (Krishna), and the enemy of Kamsa at any place where I may sit, and thus I can get myself freed from all sinful bondage. I think this sufficient for me.”
In human life, the Vedic rites and rituals are imperative for the beginner, comprehending all kinds of prayers three times a day, to take bath early in the morning, offering respects to the forefathers, etc. But when one is fully in Krishna consciousness, an disengagedin His transcendenal loving service, one becomes callous to all these regulative principles, because he has already reached the perfection of life. If one can reach the platform of understanding and serving the Supreme Lord, he has no longer any duty as executing different types of penances and sacrifices as recommended in the revealed scriptures. And conversely, if one has not understood that the purpose of the Vedas is to reach Krishna, and simply engages in the rituals etc., then he is also uselessly wasting time in such engagements. Such persons in Krishna consciousness transcend the limit of shabda-brahma, or the range of the Vedas and Upanishads.
In this verse 2.52 of Bhagavad-gita As It Is, previous editors have systematically cut out the word “callous” not less than five times and we protest strongly against such unauthorized changes and corruption, which represent a betrayal of Srila Prabhupada, the original author. This is illegal! If Srila Prabhupada takes the trouble to use five times the same word “callous” in the same verse and purport, as is the case here, and the editors remove the same word five times, then it is an open and shut case. Srila Prabhupada is right and the editors are wrong. This is flagrant cheating and abuse of authority. They cheat Srila Prabhupada. They cheat the world and they cheat themselves. Srila Prabhupada’s version, as above, ought to be restored ASAP. The word callous is used in BG 6.20-23.
In this verse 2.52, we sense Srila Prabhupada’s nuanced and carefully considered style of expression. In this verse, we sense the majesty and greatness of Srila Prabhupada literary style. The following quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson applies:” I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad-Gita. It was the first of books. It was as if an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence which in another age and climate pondered and thus disposed of the same questions that exercise us.” Hare Krishna.
BG 2.54 “How does he sit” is just ridiculous. Srila Prabhupada gives vebatim the question in BG2.58 P. “That is the answer to the question as to how the yogi is situated”
BG 2.42-23 It is known by now that the editors do not like Srila Prabhupada’s expression “Poor fund of knowledge” and that is their prerogative. But to have the audacity to replace it with their own “small knowledge” is illegal and an outright affront to Srila Prabhupada. It also represents an usurpation of power. These types of dealings are serious matters with dire consequences for everyone. In the verse and in the first paragraph of the purport Srila prabhupada’s perfect expresssion “poor fund of knowledge”is replaced three times out of four. We do not accept and reject such whimsical changes.
BG 2.41. The editors banned twice the very central expression “Krishna consciousness.” Another lowering of standards.
BG 6.47 Big mistake. The preposition makes the difference. In OT, Srila Prabhupada uses abiding BY Me. That means “obey” is meant and not “dwelling.” Besides that “abide in” is archaic according to the following dictionary quote:
abide | əˈbʌɪd | verb1 [no object] (abide by) accept or act in accordance with (a rule, decision, or recommendation): I said I would abide by their decision. 2 [with object] (can/could not abide) informal be unable to tolerate (someone or something): if there is one thing I cannot abide it is a lack of discipline. 3 [no object] (of a feeling or memory) continue without fading or being lost: at least one memory will abide. • archaic live; dwell: many unskilful Men do abide in our City of London.
BG 6.42 What is the need for replacing “eulogise” with “praise?” Repeated again in 6.46 purport. This certainly represents a literary loss in style. Rather than “praise, “eulogise” will please the more educated.
BG 6.34 By suppressing Srila Prabhupada’s parenthesis (by the yoga practice you describe) both editors transform a relative statement into an absolute statement about the difficulties in controlling the mind. This is a serious misrepresentation in intensity. The intensity is maximized and therefore exagerated.
In BG 6.20-23 Jayadvaita’s whimsical rascaldom is clearly exposed when he capitalises “Self.” First of all we do not know whether by capitalising he means the individual self or the Supreme Self. This would have to be established. Srila Prabhupada does not capitalise “self,” nor does Hayagriva and the meaning is very clear. Self refers to the individual self. But Jayadvaita unhesitantly capitalizes “Self,” as if a matter of course. He knows much better than Guru! So we may infer that “Self” with a capital refers to the Supreme Self or Supersoul. So what is Jayadvaita? A monist who identifies the Supreme Self with the individual self or simply a whimsical and nasty fellow intend on confusing people and wasting our time. He is generally very strongly averse to using capitals. They usually quote a conversation with Srila Prabhupada against capital use. This instance again disqualifies his rendition of BGAII and disqualifies Jayadvaita as an editor as well. Another trusted man who lets down / fails Srila Prabhupada, as we have seen so often in the past.
BG 6.17 Why Prabhupada’s plural becomes a singular???
BG 6.11-12 Is it Brihad or Brihan-Naradia?
BG 6.10 Bogus suppression of “Krishna consciousness” and “subversive.”
BG 6.8 purport: two deviations here: “perfect knowledge” becomes “transcendental knowledge” and more importantly “aimless mental speculation” becomes just “mental speculation.” Also it would appear that the verse quoted is originally in the Padma Purana as per OT and reproduced in BRS 1.2.234.
BG 2.31 Here again a complete betrayal and watering down of Srila Prabhupada’s message. OT says: ” The ksatriyas are specially trained for such challenge and killing art, because religious violence is a necessary factor for the upkeep of the society.” Whereas both current versions say: “The ksatriyas are specially trained for challenging and killing because religious violence is sometimes a necessary factor.” Which proves again that none of the two Bhagavad-gitas available really qualify to be called Bhagavad-gita As It Is by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. These two presentations are mere travesti.
BG 2.30 Why massacre the second sentence of the purport? “Beginning from “asocyan anvasocas tvam” up to “dehi nityam avadhyo’yam”, He has described the immortal soul in various ways, and at every step He has tried to establish that the soul is immortal, but that the body is temporary.”Hayagriva initiates and Jayadvaita rubber stamps. What disdain, carelessness and affront toward Guru, Srila Prabhupada!
BG 2.27 P Why drop “according to logicians?”
BG 2.23 Why drop “as it is contemplated by persons with a poor fund of knowledge” in “Arjuna became liberated by the knowledge received from Krsna, but he never became one with Krsna, as it is contemplated by persons with a poor fund of knowledge?” This is not acceptable!
Why change BGAIIOT’s 2.18 “immaterial” to “unimportant”? Why? Any good reason? This is whimsical. Change for the sake of it is to be rejected. So is this foolish arrogance to know better than Guru. “Immaterial” is a very nice word for the context. It has got an extra dimension over “unimportant.” The proof is that Srila Prabhupada choose it. So hands off please! This is Hayagriva’s initial responsibility and Jayadvaita’s secondary responsibility for rubber stamping it.
These editors are so foolish that they even dare to disrespect the Goddess of Fortune by dropping Srila Prabhupada’s capitals for the Goddess of Fortune. This is the apogee of thoughtlessness and the Goddess of Fortune will certainly reciprocate accordingly! BGAII 1.14 P
Jayadvaita wants all householders to dwell in hell, BGAII 1.43. He twisted the meaning. That’s again an expression of his seething envy at work. What an embarrassement he represents for the Sannyasa Ashram!
BGAII 2.13 Why would Hayagriva replace “the Supreme Personality of Godhead” with “the Supreme Lord.” His personal aversion for this typically Prabhupada expression is revealed as he replaces it with “the Blessed Lord” throughout Prabhupada’s Gita. But this is very, very, very wrong, because Srila Prabhupada’s purpose in repeating the expression “the Supreme Personality of Godhead” is to establish exactly that Krishna is “the Supreme Personality of Godhead” and not Lord Braham or Lord Shiva or anyone else. That means Hayagriva betrays and renders a disservice to Srila Prabhupada by weakening His message.
By examining the initiatives and actions of these two editors on Srila Prabhupada’s BGAII-vani, we conclude that foolishness and arrogance go together. They are intertwined. Foolishness produces arrogance. Just like foolishness produces rascaldom. A fool is always a rascal and it is wiser to avoid his company. He is an irresponsible rascal, because he does not know what he is doing. But a rascal is not necessarily a fool. There are very many intelligent rascals and are alluded to in BGAII 7.15:” Being over taken by their atheistic nature, the miscreant, the grossly foolish, the lowest of mankind and those whose knowledge is nullified, do not surrender unto Me.”
Another typical instance of cheating and falsification is the introduction of “self” with a capital letter in BG 3.17, 6.20-23, 6.25, 6.26 in the current edition, BGAII V2. This is monism or advaita-vada, a non-Vaishnava philosophy. The self and the Superself are equal in quality- and even that statement is not one hundred percent true- and the self and the Superself are vastly different in quantity. The Superself is infinite and the individual self is infinitesimal. Therefore the convention is that the ordinary living entity’s “self” is spelled with a small “s”. Please beware, we are being confused and misled by Jayadvaita Swami, the second editor. His secret agenda is clouding things and confusing people. In other words he is a champion time waister. The suggested rendition for BG 3.17 is: “One who is, however, taking pleasure in the self on account of his self-realization of human life and is satisfied in the matter of the self only, fully satiated, for him, there is no duty.” Jayadvaita goes as far as falsifying the word for word rendition to justify his actions. The Macmillan edition did not have these flaws. The current BGAII version 2 that was supposed to be more advanced is actually setting us back in these respects. In BG OT 4.5, purport, we note Srila Prabhupada’s appropriate use of “Self” with a capital letter in “And because the Lord is identical with His body and Self…” because in this context it refers to the Superself, Krishna. But for the ordinary living entity “self’ in lower case ought to be used. As his name jaya-advaita indicates, he is the champion of monism or advaita-vada, a black sheep.
Bhagavad-gita As It Is is not just some kind of a powerful shout-about in the ether of well articulated slogans. It is a lot more than that. It is a philosophical treatise of the highest order, therefore, every detail originally inserted by the author is important and ought to be handled and respected as such. In particular Srila Prabhupada’s parentheses ought to be taken into consideration and reprinted as is the case above and for verses 3.1 and 3.13.
Some of Srila Prabhupada’s well-placed keywords in the text, such as engineer (4.13), logician (2.27), time serving mentality (7.16 p.), imaginative brain (7.15), transcendental performances (7.19p), “modes” in “modes of devotional service” (9.14), ” LAZY’ in BGAII 10.7, purport, subversive (6.10) and “industrialists” 10.36 have unceremoniously been censored for no legitimate reason. This is in fact corruption! Another typical Prabhupada expression that the editors have almost systematically expunged is “persons with a poor fund of knowledge.” In BG 3.29 the expression can still be found in the word for word: akritsna-vidah – persons with a poor fund of knowledge. But it has been dropped from the verse. (BG 9.4,p.) In 6.10, the exact formulation of the part omitted is “without being attracted by subversive things like feelings of possessiveness.” I personally feel that my life would have been very differently positive if this message would have reached me before April 2019.
THESE INSTANCES OF ERASURE CERTAINLY REPRESENT ELEMENTS OF WILLFUL AND PERHAPS CRIMINAL CORRUPTION OF SRILA PRABHUPADA’S INTENDED MESSAGE–whether it is criminal is for the law experts to decide. STRICTLY SPEAKING, THESE TYPES OF DISHONESTIES ALONE WILL BE SUFFICIENT TO DISQUALIFY BOTH EDITIONS FROM BEING CALLED: Bhagavad-gita As It Is by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Srila Prabhupada never ever practiced dishonesty and never ever encouraged it, either before the 1965 onwards ISKCON era or during the ISKCON era. Srila Prabhupada is clean.
“Regarding dishonest means being used I have never advised or taught anyone like that. That is not my idea. This record distribution has caused havoc. It should be stopped immediately. I have also asked Hansadutta to stop it. Book distribution is our real business. If we give them a record, they simply hear some magical sounds and take it for sense gratification, but if they receive one of our books and read even one page, they get eternally benefited. Therefore I am stressing this book distribution, not other things. Stop record selling completely. This is my order.”
Ref. VedaBase => Letter to: Ajita — Bombay 6 January, 1975
“Regarding the controversy about book distribution techniques, you are right. Our occupation must be honest. Everyone should adore our members as honest. If we do something which is deteriorating to the popular sentiments of the public in favor of our movement, that is not good. Somehow or other we should not become unpopular in the public eye. These dishonest methods must be stopped. It is hampering our reputation all over the world. Money collected for feeding people in India should be collected under the name ISKCON Food Relief. Not any other name. And every farthing of that money must be sent to India, or better yet, buy food grains there and ship them here and we will distribute. But every farthing collected for that purpose must be used for that purpose. I have already sent one letter to Ramesvara explaining these points.”
Ref. VedaBase => Letter to: Rupanuga — Bombay 9 January, 1975
“Please accept my blessings. I have received your invitation to the opening of Prasadam Distributing International Inc., and I found it nicely presented. Krsna will give you intelligence how to engage in honest, brilliant, glorious work on His behalf. There is no need to engage in anything dishonest. Krsna has given enough money, now earn by honest means.”
Ref. VedaBase => Letter to: Alex, Bob, Drdhavrata, Gupta, Rsabhadeva, Stan — Bhuvanesvara 24 January, 1977
Other words have simply been added whimsically, without authority whatsoever:
The word “bestial” of Bg 6.40, purport, cannot be found anywhere in the original transcript (OT). It is an editor’s speculation and unauthorised addition. Please kick it out.
In Bg 4.1 the word “son” is suppressed twice. This may represent an expression of the anti-family sentiments and “callous” policies of ISKCON’s immature renunciates leaders (Sannyasis). Here is what Srila Prabhupada intended: “The Personality of Godhead, Lord Sri Krishna, said: I instructed this imperishable science of the relationship with the Supreme to the sun-god of the name Vivasvan and Vivasvan instructed the same to his son Manu, the father of mankind, and Manu in his turn instructed the same to his son Iksvaku.” Again, this ought to be corrected ASAP.
In BG 7.15, purport, both versions decline to credit the ashram bhavam asrita class of an “imaginative brain”, as Srila Prabhupada does in the OT. Another misrepresentation of Srila Prabhupada! In OT 7.19 there is no mention of death (after many, many births ) and here again the editors seems to falsify the word for word to suit their purposes. Plain cheating!
Srila Prabhupada always uses “Brahmin” not “Brahmana.” “Brahmin” sounds much better because of the presence of two different vowels “a” and “i” and is accepted by the dictionary as a variant spelling of “Brahman”. No problem there. Because these words and expressions are Srila Prabhupada’s very own, by making such unauthorized alterations, we are actually pushing Prabhupada out of His own rendition of Bhagavad-gita. This is an offensive form of “nirvisesa-vada” or impersonalism and must be avoided at all costs. We must be able to accept and present to the world Srila Prabhupada in full, as He is. Just like Sri Krishna Himself, Srila Prabhupada As He Is is most attractive!
The editors often paraphrase Srila Prabhupada where is it not at all required and a strict verbatim reproduction of Srila Prabhupada’s transcendental message, with some minor composition adjustments, is thoroughly possible and enjoyable. We find this attitude positively offensive to Srila Prabhupada as it implies that the student thinks that he has now become much better than the master and does not hesitate to display his so-called superiority with ostentation. In the Vedic context, this is a suicidal mentality. In an attitude of submission to her husband, Dhritarashtra, Gandhari blindfolded herself because her husband was blind and thus amassed mystic powers that, by Krishna’s trick, failed to protect her wicked son Duryodhana from having his spine broken by the club of Bhimasena on the battlefield of Kurukshetra. Srila Prabhupada is a true mover and shaker and what have the editors accomplished in comparison? Therefore we don’t care for the editor’s language. We care for Srila Prabhupada’s language. Here is a telling example. In BGAII 8.9, purport, Srila Prabhupada speaks “This is a very troublesome job.” This is a perfect Prabhupada sentence. But the editors with a typical offensive mentality felt the need to” better” the expression to “That is very difficult.” Two words only out of six have been conserved! We may therefore say that both versions of BGAII have a 33.33 (thirty-three point thirty-three) percent accuracy when a hundred percent or very close can be achieved. In this way, the editors have the audacity to usurp Srila Prabhupada’s position of world Acharya! Down with them! Srila Prabhupada is a most towering Acharya or teacher in the history of the world. So let us, therefore, stick to Him. Let us, therefore, stick to the Prabhupada mood and be successful in our attempts.
Here is an example of the literary diplomacy and lack of truthfulness of both editors in banning Srila Prabhupada’s use of the word “LAZY”!
BGAII OT 10.7 purport: “These are some of the opulences of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. And when one is firmly convinced of these instructions, he accepts such instructions with great faith and without any doubt and certainly he becomes engaged in devotional service. All this particular knowledge is required for increasing one’s interest in the loving devotional service of the Lord. Therefore in the ??? it is said ???. One should no be lazy in understanding fully how great Krishna is, for by knowing the greatness of Krishna, one will be able to be fixed in sincere devotional service of the Lord.”
and BGAII V2 10.7 purport:”These are some of the opulences of the Supreme Lord. When one is firmly convinced of them, he accepts Krsna with great faith and without any doubt, and he engages in devotional service. All this particular knowledge is required in order to increase one’s interest in the loving devotional service of the Lord. One should not neglect to understand fully how great Krsna is, for by knowing the greatness of Krsna one will be able to be fixed in sincere devotional service.” The expression “the Supreme Personality of Godhead” was also dropped by Hayagriva, who does not like this expression anyway as he has demonstrated by inventing “the Blessed Lord” instead. And Jayadvaita has rubber stamped the change.
Here is another example of unnecessary paraphrasing Srila Prabhupada. In my view, this type of activity represents high treason and an outright slap into Srila Prabhupada’s face. Good luck to you folks! You think you are sprinting to the goal, but the goal, Krishna, will remain ever unobtainable for individuals with such disrespectful mentality towards Guru. In her attempt to bind Krishna, even mother Yasoda found that her rope was always two inches too short, even though she was not at all disrespectful, but full of transcendental motherly love for her adopted son Krishna. The point being, despite our passionate and ignorant endeavors, Krishna only accepts to be bound when He is pleased with our endeavors and when He is pleased to do so. Krishna is not cheap. He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead
BGAII OT, 8.24: “When fire and light are mentioned herewith, it is to be understood that the presiding deity over fire and light is mentioned. Similarly, when day is mentioned, the presiding deity of the day is to be understood. When the fortnight of the moon is mentioned, it is to be understood that the deity of the moon is indicated.”
BGAII V 2, 8.24: “When fire, light, day and the fortnight of the moon are mentioned, it is to be understood that over all of them there are various presiding deities who make arrangements for the passage of the soul.”
BGAII V 1, 8.24: “When fire, light, day moon are mentioned, it is to be understood that over all of them there are various presiding deities who make arrangements for the passage of the soul.”
Here in BGAII 9.2 purport, the editors expose their half-hearted commitment to the path of bhakti-yoga or Krishna consciousness.
In the original transcript, Srila Prabhupada speaks as follows (BGAII OT 9.2 p.): “The method itself is so nice and pure that by simply engaging in the process one becomes more and more pure.”
With their magic sorcerers’ wand the editors make it (BGAII V 2, 9.2 p.) “The method itself is so pure that by simply engaging in it one becomes pure.” By cutting out the word and expression “nice” and “more and more pure” both editors tone down and decrease Srila Prabhupada’s first-class presentation and preaching impact. It appears that they are acting as maya’s agents to subvert Srila Prabhupada’s preaching. Let us remember that they censored Srila Prabhupada’s use of “subversive” in 6.10. Let us also remember that they sometimes espouse not only nirvisesa-vada (impersonalism) but also advaita-vada (monism) as previously demonstrated.
Moreover, in the Original Transcript (OT), Srila Prabhupada repeats the expression “Krishna Consciousness” over and over again. But in many cases, such as 2.52, 2.53, 2.68, 3.31, 4.10, 4.15, 4.22, 4.23, 4.41, 5.7 (2X), 5.11, 5,12 (2X), 5.18, 5.29 (2X), 6.10, 6.28, 6.29 (2X), 7.1, 7.30 and 3.18 purport, to give a few only, the editors have simply and shamelessly suppressed this wonderful expression. Krishna consciousness represents, in fact, the object of our samadhi, the basis of our lives, the very stuff everyone of us is made of, and not the least the name of The International Society for Krishna Consciousness or ISKCON, Srila Prabhupada has gloriously created on the 13th of July 1996, in New York City. Why is this so ??? This is both an affront to Srila Prabhupada and a great disservice to all those souls who are seriously interested in self-realization. I had previously noticed this anomaly and on March 25, 2018, had alreday written the article titled KRISHNA MISSING. ONE MILLION DOLLARS REWARD, which can be seen by scrolling down the home page. In OT 5.29 the expression “the person in Krishna consciousness” was obliterated with one single penstroke. I wonder if Krishna’s body bled on the occasion, as in the story. It is done so manifestly that one can sense some envy here, envy of Krishna and envy of His bona fide representative, Srila Prabhupada.
Krishna consciousness is all we have and Krishna consciousness is all we are about. Srila Prabhupada wants to increase our Krishna consciousness and by removing the expression “Krishna consciousness” innumerable times, the editors automatically decrease the readers’ Krishna consciousness. This is a deliberate and impudent affront to Srila Prabhupada – at best a foolish affront – and a great disservice to all fallen souls. This is all about sense gratification and we may challenge the editors and all those who support them and ask them whose senses are they trying to please by making such omnipresent, whimsical and fake alterations? Are they trying to please the public’s senses? Are they trying to please their own senses? We know that neither Srila Prabhupada, nor Krishna will be pleased by such fake activities.
On the positive side one cannot but admire how perfectly Jayadvaita Swami has expressed verse 3.34: “There are principles to regulate attachment and aversion pertaining to the senses and their objects. One should not come under the control of such attachment and aversion, because they are stumbling blocks on the path of self-realization.” From time to time Jayadvaita really has a streak of genius! But both editors have doubts. Here is the proof. In BGAII OT 8.14, purport, Srila Prabhupada writes: “There is no impediment for a pure devotee wherever he is.” In BGAII V1 & V 2, the editors make it “There should be no impediments. He should be able to carry out his service anywhere and at any time.” These are the statements of persons who have doubts. And why do they take the liberty to introduce their personal doubts into Srila Prabhupada’s transcendental message and why is this tolerated?
In BGAII OT, 9.25, purport, Srila Prabhupada dictated: “Similarly, one can achieve the pitri planets by performing a specific yajna.” Someone crossed out “achieve” and replaced it with “attain.” This is a typical so-called improvement. What is the use of such work, one may ask? Such action is counterproductive, nonsensical, useless, futile, petty, ignorant, stupid, arrogant and a waste of time for all of us! You have no business with editorial work. Better be useful in Krishna’s service and go and clean toilets. THE MOST AMAZING THING THOUGH IS THAT IT IS NOW OFFICIAL VERSION. This happens twice, in the first and third sentence of purport 9.25 When I look up my Apple Thesaurus, the first three equivalents for “achieve” are attain, reach and arrive at. The editor may then say: “So “attain” is a perfect equivalent. The parampara answer will be: “The acarya wrote “achieve” and we have no business to meddle.” AND WHERE DOES THE ARROGANT AND INSULTINGLY DISCOURAGING FIRST PARAGRAPH OF PURPORT TO 9.26 COME FROM, MR. JAYADVAITA??? It is 24 lines long. It cannot be found in the Macmillan edition. So far I haven’t found it in the OT. Where does it come from, please??? Dravida Prabhu tells me that it comes from the 1968 abridged edition. But upon further questioning, he remains silent.
And where does the first paragraph of BGAII 9.26, purport come from? Where does it come from?
MISLEADING DISTORTIONS AND FALSE STATEMENTS.
BGAII V 2, 4.5 p., “the best Vedic scholars do NOT understand Krishna” is a false statement, according to Srila Prabhupada, Who writes in OT :” Such eternal, blissful, all knowledge forms of the Lord are usually understood by the best Vedic scholars, but they are always manifest to pure, unalloyed devotees.” The correct statement is found in the Macmillan edition. The same may apply to BG 1.43. and about who is sent to hell. And there is the false and intellectually twisted rendition of “nivrittim” in word for word of BGAII V2 16.7.
In BGAII V2, 6.2 Jayadvaita, in his fake ecstasy, trumpets that one can NEVER, NEVER, NEVER become a yogi. Hayagriva does not do so. Another setback! What a sanctimonious attitude and statement! Kick it out. Srila Prabhupada with much more humility simply says:” For without giving up the desire for sense gratification, no one becomes a yogi”
AND THEN THERE IS SEXISM and one case of sexism in reverse. At least on a dozen of occasions, Srila Prabhupada’s use of “person” has been replaced with the word “man.” Granted Srila Prabhupada uses “man” quite a bit, that is the judgement of the Acharya. Our position is to respect it. My suggestion is that as soon as the editors replace Srila Prabhupada’s “person” with “man”, it falls under the heading of sexism. The latest find is in BGAII 7.26, purport: OT’s “millions and millions of people” becomes in both versions “millions and millions of men.” That’s sexist millions and millions of times! Don’t you think we ought to revert to Srila Prabhupada’s wisdom? From practical experience we find that Srila Prabhupada gave equal rights to men and women not only to join His movement but to stay comfortably and practice self-realization.
BG 2.55 “living entity” becomes “man”
Sexism with a big “S” here in BGAII 9.3, purport, and falsification of the statement:
BGAII OT 9.3 p. “There are three divisions of such Krishna conscious persons. The first class Krishna conscious person, the second class Krishna conscious persons and the third class Krishna conscious person. Those who have no faith………..”
BGAII V1 & 2, 9.3 p.”There are three divisions of Krsna-conscious men. In the third class are those who have no faith.”
BGAII 10.27. Sexist Hayagriva and sexist Jayadvaita. Srila Prabhupada’s “human beings” becomes “men.” Does the king rule over men only? Are women automatically outlawed? What nonsense!
BGAII 10.37 p. TWICE 1)”Arjuna is the best among all human beings” becomes in both versions ” Arjuna is the best of men” What kind of men? The hairy chest beating Neanderthal men indeed, a reflection of the editors! But Arjuna certainly does not belong to that class of men. He is the best of Aryans. 2) Srila Pabhupada associates “muni” and “person.” Both editors associate “muni” and “men.” Perhaps both editors are correct after all because the two words start with the same letter “m.”(sacarstic mode)
BGAII 1.40 Srila Prabhupada respectfully uses the expression “ladies of the family.” Both editors write “the women of the family.” That’s a drop of some grades of respect toward women and sounds a little vulgar in the context. Let us not trend towards “asat Sabhaya.”
BG 2.52 “When a person factually understands Krsna and one’s relationship with Krsna, naturally one becomes completely callous to the rituals of fruitive activities.” becomes “When a person factually understands Krsna and his relationship with Krsna, he naturally becomes completely indifferent to the rituals of fruitive activities,”
Sexism in reverse. BGAII 10.38. In the verse Srila Prabhupada dictates: “…and of all wise men I am knowledge itself.” Both editors give instead: ” and of the wise I am wisdom.” The “men” word has disappeared.
At last some FUNNY ANECDOTES to relax the atmosphere:
In purport of OT 6.17, the transcriber typed : Thakur Haridas would not even accept prasadam, and would not even sleep for a moment without finishing his daily routine work of chanting with his beads three hundred thousand rounds.” Fortunately someone who was a bit of a lesser chantoholic crossed out “rounds” and added in handwriting the correct “names.” Param vijayate Sri Krishna sankirtanam!
NOTE THIS: another memorable ERROR OF the transcriber at BG 9.30: “Devotional service is more or less a declaration of love with the illusory energy.” Instead of “Devotional service is more or less a declaration of war against the illusory energy.”
Attention all artistic persons, please beware of Krishna. Here in 10.18, the transcriber addresses Krishna as “the killer of the artistic person.” Actually, I just realized this is meant to be “atheistic.”(16.12.2021)
OT 10.26 “Brilliant tree” or banyan tree? What is it? Perhaps the “Indian tree.”
BGAII 10.27, purport, first sentence: ” The devotee demigods and the demons (asuras) once took a sea journey. On the journey, nectar and poison were produced…..” Did they book their journey with Flight Centre perhaps? And did they produce nectar and poison out of their lunch bags?
BGAII 10.34, purport. Poor elementary mathematics. Six equals seven.
In BGAII 10.35, purport, both versions blunder by dropping “transcendental.” “Brahma is the initiator of this Gayatri mantra and it is transcendentally coming down in disciple succession.” Hayagriva introduces the blunder and Jayadvaita rubber stamps the blunder. We get the impression that Jayadvaita in his haste to slam the job didn’t really care a dam. On innumerable occasions, we also get the distinct impression that Jayadvaita needs to compact the text at all costs. Here is part of the purport 10.37:”Of all cheating processes, gambling is the best cheating process and therefore on accountof its supremacy among all cheating, gambling is also a representation of Krishna. This means that those who are deceitful, Krishna will be more deceitful to them. If Krishna should want to deceive any person, nobody can surpass Him in His greatness. Greatness is not one-sided, it must be all-sided.” Jayadvaita write: “Of all cheating processes, gambling stands supreme and therefore represents Krsna. As the Supreme, Krsna can be more deceitful than any mere man. The unfortunate commentator who wants to cheat Krsna and the public by saying that there is something greater than Krsna is cheated by Krsna, and the commentator cannot understand Krsna after any length of time. If Krsna chooses to deceive a person, no one can surpass Him in His deceit. His greatness is not simply one-sided-it is all-sided.” he freely adds a comments about the cheating commentator, which is nowhere to be found in the OT. We can only conclude that Jayavaita addresses himself as the “cheating commentator.”
From BGAII 9.16 onwards Srila Prabhupada reminds us of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Who is His grammar school used to explain everything in terms of Krishna, Krishna, Krishna to the point where his student left the school. Or later when he would simply roam around and mutter Krishna, Krishna, Krishna in His transcendental ecstasy. There is more to be said about this, but it requires some preparatory research in the Caitanya Caritamrita. This can also been seen in the wonderful, Indian made movies in two parts: Nimai of Nadia and Nilacala Mahaprabhu approved by Srila Prabhupada.
Srila Prabhupada, when I read Your Original Transcript of Bhagavad-gita As It Is, I am appreciating Your personality and its different multiple facets more and more and I am falling more and more in love with You. Here is the example of BGAII OT 9.18 purport. You write: “Therefore without Krishna’s shelter, there is no existential platform.” I just know that this is a phrase that only a true philosopher of the greatest classical tradition would write. So now from the 5 th day of November 2021 at 20 hours, I have irrefutable proof that You belong to that greatest and most illustrious philosophical tradition: Plato, Socrates, Sankaracarya, Ramanujacarya, Madhvacarya, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre to name a few only. What an immense satisfaction to have a master of such caliber and if we were to restore these things in the official presentation of Your Bhagavad-gita As It Is, its success would increase exponentially. There is no doubt about it. In Your greatness and kindness, You have been so tolerant with your disciples’ literary clumsiness. But that can come to an end now and Your true glories can be revealed to the entire world to their full extend.
Not only are these two editors trying to throw out Srila Prabhupada, the philosopher from his own Bhagavad-gita but they are as well attempting to throw out Prabhupada, the scientist: “Jñānaṁ vijñāna-sahitam. Jñāna, this knowledge, most confidential knowledge, it is not sentiment. Vijñāna-sahitam. It is science. Just like in scientific knowledge you must know theoretically and practically. Not only that, you simply know that so much oxygen, so much hydrogen produces water by mixing… That is theoretical. You have to make water by mixing these two chemicals—that is practical. So in the B.A.C. examination they take examination, test, theoretical and practical.” 750417BG.Vrnd
In the two last sentences of 7.28, purport, two important half-sentences (and the greatest condition of sinful activity. Forgetfulness of one’s constitutional position is the greatest violation of law) have been dropped, which cheapens things very much. OT 7.28 “The impersonalists do not know that to forget one’s constitutional position as subordinate to the Supreme Lord is the greatest violation of God’s law and the greatest condition of sinful activity. Forgetfulness of one’s constitutional position is the greatest violation of law and unless one is reinstated in his own constitutional position, it is not possible to understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead or fully engage in His transcendental loving service with determination.”
BGAII 8.11 is misrepresented in both versions. Here is Srila Prabhupada’s OT: “Learned persons who utter Omkara and great sages in the renounced order enter into Brahman. Desiring such perfection of life, one practices the life of celibacy. I shall explain to you this process as the means for attaining salvation.”
For BGAII 9.11 Jayadvaita miserably departs from Hayagriva’s perfect OT rendition:
“Fools deride Me when I descend in the human form. They do not know My transcendental nature and My supreme dominion over all that be.”
This example alone seals his fate as as untrustworthy speculators unfit to walk the path of the parampara system.
The mood of the current edition of Bhagavad-gita As It Is lacks deference and consistency. It lack respect because many capital letters used by Srila Prabhupada in the original transcript have been banned. Under the guise of using Sanskrit words, the editors avoid capitals. For example, Srila Prabhupada personally always capitalizes “Yajna” and the pronoun”who”, when it refers to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The same applies to the word “Acharya”, or teacher.
It lacks consistency because Jayadvaita Svami made it a point to introduced a capital letter for “self” in 3.17. Why then is there no capital for “self” in 4.41 and elsewhere? We are talking about the same individual self. This again really looks like a cheap, farcical expedient on his part. Or is it that his secret and mischievous purpose and mission is the play with the readers’ mind and confuse and mislead them? This is a dangerous game indeed.
Concisely and conclusively, Bhagavad-gita As It Is is NOT a first class presentation to Srila Prabhupada, who is very fond of first class work. We are being manipulated by imperfect editors. To be appointed as the custodian of Srila Prabhupada’s literary legacy, does not grant one the right to alter whimsically the transcendental message. Doing so represents a breach of trust and is an indictable offense. We propose to re-baptize both versions as Bhagavad-gita As It Is NOT by Hayagriva, and Bhagavad-gita As It Is NOT by Jayadvaita
It is essential that both the message and the style of writing appeals to the widest possible audience, and because out of millions and billions, Srila Prabhupada was especially deputed by Sri Krishna to deliver His message, we postulate that the most universally appealing style of writing for this purpose will be Srila Prabhupada’s own. Srila Prabhupada is a true mover and shaker and what have both editors accomplished in comparison? Therefore we don’t care for the editors’ language. We care for Srila Prabhupada’s language. In this way, the editors have the audacity to usurp Srila Prabhupada’s position! Down with them! Srila Prabhupada is a most towering Acharya or teacher in the history of the world. So let us, therefore, stick to Him. Let us, therefore, stick to the Prabhupada mood and be successful in our attemps. Om tat sat.
“Even Sripada Sankaracarya recommends that a little knowledge of the Bhagavad-gita and the drinking of a little quantity of Ganges water can save one from the punishment of Yamaraja.” Srila Prabhupada’s Srimad Bhagavatam 3.5.41
“Although the greatest of the impersonalists, Sripada Sankaracarya, has admitted in his Gita commentary that Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, his followers do not accept Krsna as such, for it is very difficult to know Krsna, even though one has transcendental realization of impersonal Brahman.” Srila Prabhupada’s Srimad Bhagavad-gita 7.3
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