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BY: BHAKTA PHILIP
Feb 23, 2011 — USA (SUN) — Recently I found online the original copy of what Jayadvaita Swami claims to be composing his Bhagavad-Gita from. For so many years now he has refused to give all the devotees free access to these copies, but now they are free online.
It seems silly to me to hide one’s service from those one is supposedly trying to serve (but that is another topic…). Anyway when I found the PDF files of Hayagriva’s Bhagavad-Gita drafts, I just by chance (“not a blade of grass moves without the will of the supreme”) randomly opened the first file my mouse hovered over. It was chapter 8 of the Gita drafts. Right there on the top of the draft it was penned (in capitals) and signed by Hayagriva: “DO NOT COMPOSE FOR CHECKING ONLY – Hayagriva”. I looked up the word “compose” in the New Oxford American Dictionary and the definition read:
Compose: prepare (a text) for printing by manually, mechanically, or electronically setting up the letters and other characters in the order to be printed. • set up (letters and characters) in this way.
This is very interesting – the editor that Srila Prabhupada himself personally chose for this service and gave personal (unrecorded) instructions on, clearly wrote on the drafts the direct order, “DO NOT COMPOSE FOR CHECKING ONLY”, yet Jayadvaita Swami is composing, and according to him he is doing it from these drafts.
Jayadvaita Swami has deleted words in Srila Prabhupada’s Gita and added words that he has composed from his own imperfect senses. If you compare this new Jayadvaita Gita to the original drafts that Hayagriva wrote the clear instruction of “DO NOT COMPOSE” on, you can see that he is often not even making it closer to Srila Prabhupada. It is simply what Jayadvaita Swami and/or the BBTI editors like, and feel is better, according to their imperfect senses.
You can download for free all the same drafts that Jayadvaita Swami has kept hidden for so many years at BookChanges.com.
For further reading on this subject please click here.
All glories to you Bhakta Philip for publishing such a wonderful thing…we got to know more about the thing….I know many other links also prabhu ji…if you give me a chance I can share them with you.
Your Servant
PREMANJANA DASA
If you concoct, ‘I am more intelligent than my Guru,’
‘I can make additions and alterations,’ then you are finished.”
— Srila Prabhupada lecture July 12, 1975 Philadelphia Pa.