Monday, July 18, 2016

EDITING

Editing:
On the one hand you can see their point... They are actively trying to take up the preaching. Wearing the uniform and taking positions within the institution. The 1972 Gita does have errors in it. Grammatical stuff. The other books too.
They want to approach scholars and with these typos and grammatical errors they feel uncomfortable. So they take up the task of editing. They research manuscripts and dictation tapes and whatever else there is and the more they edit the more there seems to be to edit.
They know there will be a large group of devotees who will not accept this. Who will say it is not actually Prabhupada's Gita. So what to do? They don't want to make it look like they have changed everything. They want it to look like Prabhupada's Gita. So just put His name back on it and stop printing the 1972 Gita. Let it go out of print. Older disciples will be leaving over the next few years anyway and then no one will ever know the difference.
BUT, just like everyone is not engaged in management, not everyone is preaching to scholars. The Bhagavad gita for scholars is just that, A Bhagavad Gita for Scholars. the Bhagavad gita as it is... is something else.

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