More Complaints About Changed Books

[PADA: More people are waking up to the post-1978 GBC's agenda. And notice, more people are calling them "poisonous rogues." And that -- boys and girls -- is how they will be recorded in history. And they are already recorded that way now for many thousands of folks. 

We said that they had a malefic agenda in 1978, and most people thought we had lost our last marble for saying that at the time. However, time has proven  -- we were and are correct. We believe that the original books will survive on the basis of "supply and demand." If there is a demand, there will be a supply. So let us increase the demand and the supply will happen automatically. ys pd]

ESD: It is the original edition that Srila Prabhupada approved of and preached from. Other poisonous rogue editions conveniently emerged after he had physically departed. They are to be expected, considering the very fallen nature of the world we live in, and they are bogus. 

Claimants assert that he granted them unlimited authority to edit his books ad infinitum, and that there is a document that certifies this. There is no such legitimate document. Any so-called document is forged. There is no way Srila Prabhupada would grant such disastrous freedom to manipulate his books, and the claim that he did so is preposterous. 

At one point after being informed of the unauthorized changes being made to his books, he became very angry, and slamming his fist onto the desk he exclaimed, "They are ruining my books!"

The new, “revised” editions are anything but improvements. In the Gita alone the editor has gone grossly beyond the bounds of his authority and has changed 77% of the verses. That is 541 verses out of 700 verses have been illegitimately changed. 

For 3%, or 21 of the verses, the words were left intact, with only the spelling, punctuation, or capitalization being changed. In 74% or 520 of the verses entire words were removed, rearranged, or changed. 

What a terrible thing has been done to Srila Prabhupada’s work. For example, in the purport of 4.34 ("tad viddhi pranipatena...") of the "revised" Gita the "editor" has brazenly inserted an entire sentence of his own!: 

"Nor by the independent study of books of knowledge can one make spiritual advancement." Cleverly, this statement brings to mind the innuendo that Srila Prabhupada is not present in his books (dead), and as well serves as a legitimization of the present proliferation of bogus gurus. Aside from this, we do not need so many gurus.

“...a little learning is dangerous, especially for the Westerners. I am practically seeing that as soon as they begin to learn a little Sanskrit, immediately they feel that they have become more than their guru and then the policy is kill guru and be killed himself.” —Srila Prabhupada letter to Dixit das on September 18, 1976.