EXPOSING THE BOOK CHANGES:
EXTENSIVE LIST OF MAJOR CHANGES IN
SRILA PRABHUPADA’S ORIGINAL BOOKS
Hare Krsna. It is known to many that Srila Prabhupada’s original books have undergone drastic changes. The editors have claimed that they have fixed only the grammatical errors and have kept the writings philosophically untouched, but this is not so. Therefore, the following list of book changes has been compiled to present the changes in an explicit manner for all to know. This analysis of book changes will clear the confusions and will encourage the devotees to stick to the original pre-1978 first edition books by Srila Prabhupada.
It should be noted that some of Srila Prabhupada’s books were changed even during his physical presence. Some of these are Srimad Bhagavatam [first four cantos], Isopanishad, Easy Journey To Other Planets, Teachings of Lord Caitanya. Some quotes are presented towards the end of the article which prove that even such revisions were rejected by Srila Prabhupada.
The comparisons have been done for both pre-1978 first editions and pre and post-1978 first and second editions. Hence the devotees are advised to read the first original editions of the pre-1978 books.
A Google drive of book changes articles has been compiled that consists of over 200 articles highlighting the impacts of the changes that pose as an impediment to the understanding the philosophy of Krsna consciousness. The articles can be found in the link that follows:
BOOK CHANGES ARTICLES DRIVE
Link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cyEy4E4WFpjcdEGJ67TaymZjaNeam3NG?usp=sharing
Please find the links below to see the changes for various books.
1. Bhagavad Gita changes:
Link: https://bookchanges.com/bhagavad-gita-changes-complete-list/ (1972 vs 1983 onwards)
Link: https://bookchanges.com/108-iskcon-bhagavad-gita-changes/
2. Krsna book changes:
Link: https://bookchanges.com/krsna-book-complete-list-of-changes/ (1970 vs 1996 onwards)
3. Caitanya Caritamrita changes:
Link: https://bookchanges.com/caitanya-caritamrta-changes-%e2%80%94-full-list/ (1974-75 vs 1996 onwards)
4. Perfect Questions Perfect Answers changes:
Link: https://bookchanges.com/iskcon-perfect-questions-perfect-answers-book-changes/ (1977vs 1993 onwards)
5. Teachings of Lord Caitanya changes:
Link: https://bookchanges.com/teachings-of-lord-caitanya-changed-by-bbt/
Link: https://draftable.com/compare/ddiGvgcORNHk (1968 vs 2011)
Link: https://draftable.com/compare/OAckFvkxqXOl (1968 vs 1974)
Link: https://draftable.com/compare/RzvWzUuQLrAx (1974 vs 2011)
6. Srimad Bhagavatam changes:
Link: http://www.prabhupadanugas.eu/news/books/dspobfco.html (1972-77 vs 1976 onwards)
7. The Nectar of Devotion changes:
Link: https://draftable.com/compare/VbgnFmqnPInS (1970 vs 1982 onwards)
8. Easy Journey To Other Planets changes:
Link: https://draftable.com/compare/folxIzKqerjQ (1960 vs 1977 onwards)
9. On the way to Krsna changes:
Link: https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:53834992-8735-4857-ba72-4c4f69e2f0b1 (1973 vs 1981 onwards)
10. Beyond Birth & Death changes:
Link: https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:92b46e6b-fc3b-4d22-b215-4fb9bfd58739 (1972 vs 1983 onwards)
11. Rāja-Vidyā: The King of Knowledge changes:
Link: https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:252bd5db-6c77-4390-a4ff-c0338af19e21 (1973 vs 1998 onwards)
12. The Perfection of Yoga changes:
Link: https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:f3796fde-9e74-4a15-b23f-d2dfd95192bc (1972 vs 1983 onwards)
13. Śrī Īśopaniṣad changes:
Link: https://draftable.com/compare/jUrZSmrsHrbI (1969 vs 1974 onwards)
Let us now hear what Srila Prabhupada says regarding such changes, as it is very important to follow exactly what he says.
Regarding Sri Isopanisad changes:
Yaśodā-nandana: In the Gurukula we were teaching Īśopaniṣad class to the children. So we took… [break] …Prabhupāda and the words which the recent edition of the Press is wrong. Many changes were brought. They were trying to make better English, but sometimes, to make better English, I think they were making philosophical mistakes also. There is no so much need of making so much better English. Your English is sufficient. It is very clear, very simple. We have caught over 125 changes. They’re changing so many things. We are wondering if this is necessary. I will show you today. I have kept the book.
Srila Prabhupāda: I know that these rascals are doing. What can be done? How they can be relied on? [Rascal editors conversation ,June 22,1977, Vrindavan]
Regarding Easy Journey to Other Planets changes:
Srila Prabhupāda: He cannot see mistake. He is mistake. (laughter) He should . . . that is being done by this rascal. I don’t want. And the Hayagrīva has . . . the Easy Journey, he has changed so many things. That . . . he is now bad character. You should not maintain him. [Conversation A ,MAYAPUR – February 27, 1977]
Regarding Srimad Bhagavatam changes:
“Yes, there is no need for corrections for the first and second Cantos. Whatever is there is alright. Once Pradyumna comes to join me here from India, then there will be no need for Nitai das or Jagannatha das to edit the Srimad-Bhagavatam.“ (Letter to Radhavallabha, May 4, 1976)
Important proof that the Macmillan 1972 Bhagavad Gita is the only original and authorised edition.
“Dr. Vajpeye’s review we are going to print and widely distribute, especially in Bombay and Madras, where there is so much propaganda from these bogus gurus and yogis. He has got practical experience of how they are cheating the innocent people in foreign countries and he has written; “The authorized edition of Bhagavad-gita will help to stop the terrible cheating of ‘gurus’ and ‘yogis’ who are false and unauthorized.” [Letter to: Svarupa, Ranadhira, Mayapur-3 February, 1976 Los Angeles]
“Note: Although on the whole one must get the first printings, there are the following few exceptions which were not first printings but were printed in the physical presence of Srila Prabhupada and were definitely not changed. They are:
Teachings of Lord Caitanya (1972)
Nectar of Devotion (1972)
Sri Isopanisad (1972)
Krsna Book (1974) “(Reference for the above quote: http://www.prabhupadanugas.eu/news/books/dspobfco.html)
It is hoped that this article will help the devotees to only read Srila Prabhupada’s first edition books that are unchanged.
How to identify the 1st Edition Originals?
https://sites.google.com/view/firsteditionoriginals/identify-the-original-books
To help the devotees identify the original books, a drive that contains downloadable Srila Prabhupada’s first edition original books has also been compiled. The devotees are hence requested to take the advantage of this and make the best use of it.
ORIGINAL BOOKS DRIVE
Link: https://www.prabhupada-media.net/
Link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nHm72gVwAeei95WDkSLf2aw5x-jRXDoF?usp=sharing
Link: https://www.prabhupadanugas.eu/news/?p=51876
Pamho agtacbsp,mohini ekadasi ki jay, the devotees prabhupadanugas of this parampara website is doing a great service to srila prabhupada by showing things as they are,we are very grateful to these devotees for making the world to know the reality transformed in rubbish through miserables creatures born from the refusal to serve krsna, we altogether will fight for our rights until the last breath to make srila prabhupada the jagat guru of iskcon bbt founder acharya srila prabhupada ki jay agtacbsp ys Haribol
ISKCONspiracy Envious Jayadvaita vs Srila Prabhupada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C6RUmW0YQQ
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Friday, December 18, 2020
Hari Kanta DD (Russia) Exposes Book Changes
About unnecessary additions of translators to Srimad Bhagavatam.
You know, I’m not a big supporter of Srila Prabhupada’s book distortion disputes for one simple reason: Srila Prabhupada provided this, so he repeated all the principally important moments of philosophy many times in books and lectures. Therefore, even if something has been changed somewhere, to track all such statements by Srila Prabhupada and unnoticed to change their whole business is almost impossible. This is the value of Srila Prabhupada’s repetitions, for which critics sometimes scold him.
Therefore, my recipe for protecting yourself from intentional or unconscious distortion of Srila Prabhupada’s books is simple: if you doubt any statement (that it might have actually belonged to Srila Prabhupada), you need to look for the same statement anywhere else.
However, while studying Srila Prabhupada’s books, I have repeatedly noticed the unnecessary additions made in translations kind of for convenience, but which turned the meaning of the text to something else. There were details of the stories, but still…
I’ll give a couple of examples (I came across one of them today in preparation for the lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam).
The first example from my long-time study about Gargi, daughter of Garga Muni.
In the translation of the commentary to Sh B 5.1.12, for some reason, they replaced ′′ The Sage says Gargi ′′ with ′′ The Sage tells his wife “. Although Gargi was not the wife of the sage, she was Brahmacharini all her life.
Why was it so changed? In 2016, I wrote about it to the editors of BBT, the new editors seems to have already corrected this translation https://vedabase.io/ru/library/sb/5/1/12/, but the previous editions it says about the wife… (pictured).
Today’s text. Commentary on SB 3.12.28. It’s about Brahma chasing his daughter. The comment explains that he did it before he listened to Srimad Bhagawatam’s chatuh-shloku, which dissipates the illusion. Contemporary translation of the key proposal: “It happened to Brahma in one of the previous kalpas, but not after God told him the four original verses of Srimad-Bhagavatam,” because after telling Lord Brahma the “Bhagavatam”, God blessed him and promised that he wouldn’t fall into illusion in the FOLLOWING Kalpas of Lord Brahma. He will not fall and will not go astray.”
The word added by translators is highlighted in capital letters. In the English version of the word “later” no: … “because the Lord blessed Brahma, after giving him lessons on the Bhāgavatam, that he would never bewildered in any future kalpa whatsoever.”
Why is this important? In the commentary to SB 3.9.44, Vishwanatha Chakravarti Thakur writes that for the first time Brahma heard chatuh-shloku on his first birthday. And then Brahma received a chatuh-shloku on the day when he meditated (e.g. Sb 3.8-9). Therefore, the allegations that Brahma will not fall into any of the following kalpas (days of his life) are no longer correct … because it was in one of the following days that Brahma succumbed to temptation and chased his daughter.
And thus the phrase “he would never bewildered in any kalpa whatsoever” (verbatim: he would never be confused in any kalpa) should be understood as: in no kalpa in which he was receiving a chat-shloku. Because every morning, Brahma commits ascetics to gain the Vedic knowledge that he forgets overnight.
But because of one added word “follows” (kalpas), the expression gained meaning that it didn’t originally have. Well, why would you do that? Can’t you just add anything, but translate IT AS IT IS?
If I’m wrong on one of these two episodes, write boldly refutes in the comments.
Hari kanta dd
Pamho agtacbsp,Sri rukmini dvadasi ki jay, it’s the appearance day of rukmini vallabhaya dimahi tanno krsna prachodayat, as we can see more we advance in KC more Maya become strong,they are so advance… but they let Maya to catch them,so the so called spiritual advancement got spoiled by getting a problematic mind,it look easy prem puman artho mahan but the reality is different, hard work first then samadhi used to say srila prabhupada, they want samadhi without hard work and this is the nasty result they get…. agtacbsp ys Haribol
For anyone who wants, this gives Original FIRST PRINT – as authorised by Srila Prabhupada: The next printing should be again to the original way.
https://krishnastore.co.uk/srimad-bhagavatam-set-original-first-edition-30-volume-h-krishna-502.html
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Prabhupāda: So you… What you are going… It is very serious situation. You write one letter that “Why you have made so many changes?” And whom to write? Who will care? All rascals are there. Write to Satsvarūpa that “This is the position. They are doing anything and everything at their whim.” The next printing should be again to the original way.