Garuda Dasa Glorifies Jayadvaita’s Changed and Revised Gita
Garuda Dasa (ACBSP): The only edition for the classroom:
I comment as one who has been reading the Bhagavad-gita since 1967, conducting his personal practice of bhakti since 1972, and teaching in a university setting for over eighteen years. I should also mention that I have used Srila Prabhupadas Bhagavad-gita in the classroom for well over a decade, giving reading assignments, having discussions with students, and exposing thousands of students over the years to the BBT Gita.
With all this said, I must state emphatically that the second edition of the Bhagavad-gita is the only one I can use without hesitation, without worry that critical readers in the classroom setting would point out obvious textual inconsistencies.
I would not be able to use the first edition in any serious academic fashion because of its problems, and therefore I am thankful to Jayadvaita Swami for the work he has done to make the BBT edition of the Bhagavad-gita presentable in the intellectual arena without embarrassment.
Srila Prabhupada’s presentation has an extraordinarily rich tradition to offer in the educational arena, and it would be a shame to have textual mistakes and even philosophical errors distract from this contribution.
So, again, I am grateful for the second edition. Again, I could not present the BBT Gita without it.
[Garuda Dasa (Dr. Graham M. Schweig) serves as Professor of Philosophy and Religion and Director of the Indic Studies Program at Christopher Newport University, and Visiting Associate Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Virginia. He is the author of several books, with two more forthcoming from Columbia University Press.]
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Comment by Varaha das:
Haribol. I knew Garuda prabhu back in the 76-77 in Chicago when he was going to the university there, he considered himself a scholar then and it looks like still now. I have a friend who is also friends with Garuda, and he said that Garuda was talking of writing his gita many years ago. Of course my friend asked him why??? and Garudas reply was that it would “attract people to then read Srila Prabhupadas gita”!
What a load! I saw Garudas edition of the gita in the local B&N bookstore and looked at it but don’t remember seeing in there where it said “now please when you are done reading this go and pickup a unchanged version of the Bhagavad-gita as it is by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ” Either i missed it or he must have forgot,NOT!!!
In the CC it states that a person must have higher authorization to write transcendental literature, like Krsna das Kaviraj go, remember the story???
All of these “devotees” that have a new a updated version of the gita or whatever are in total illusion and really have wasted their time and energy, they would have been better of refering people to Prabhupadas books, at least both parties would have then been benifitted.
Ys.Varaha das
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Comment by Balaram das and Mahasrnga dasa
Srila Prabhupada on his books….
Srila Prabhupada has been consistent over the years in his instructions on editing, that they should be, as he wrote in a letter to Rupanuga Prabhu in 1970: “Our editing is to correct grammatical and spelling errors only, without interpolation of style or philosophy” (Los Angeles: February 17, 1970).
Almost exactly two years later, Srila Prabhupada had his publishing contract with Macmillan Publishing Company modified under the revisions clause, no. V. to say that revisions were allowed only with the consent of the author, and he initialized this.
Even Garuda das’ group of intellectuals who were complaining to the BBT-I re changes, did not seem to GET this principle!
After contacting Garuda das, Ajit Krishna das writes…
“…Garuda Prabhu first said he more or less agreed with me (on no changes). But a few days later he wrote this:
‘I’ve looked into every one of the changes in the BGAII with the help of an extremely competent devotee. My conclusion: I can accept up to 25% of the editing, and even some of it very good. But at least 75% of the editing was totally unnecessary, even intrusive. With just the 25% of valid editing, no second edition would have been necessary.’ (Garuda Dasa, Facebook post, May 2020)
Garuda says he can accept 25% of Jayadvaita Swami’s editing. And then he wants to do some editing himself. First, we had Srila Prabhupada’s Gita, then we had Jayadvaita Swamis new edition, and now Garuda might take over Jayadvaita Swami’s role as a posthumous editor, and then we will have a third.
It should be obvious that Garuda Prabhu’s attempts will not settle the matter. Intelligent devotees are against all sorts of posthumous editing. Why? Well, first of all because of the above-mentioned reasons. But also, because no matter how well-articulated your reasons are for making a certain change you cannot get Srila Prabhupada’s approval. And that is certainly needed.
This affair can only be settled by reference to an absolute principle. We are fortunate to have this principle. It is called arsa-prayoga. It means that we cannot make any changes to the acaryas words (without explicit instructions from the acarya himself). This settles the matter. There is nothing further to discuss.
But as long as we have conditioned souls taking up roles as authorities on the editing of Srila Prabhupada’s books there will be disagreements as to what constitutes a good, or the best, editor, and what constitutes a good reason to change. One editor will reject the other editors, and new, differing editions of Srila Prabhupada’s books will be published.
My position is, therefore, that this dispute cannot be settled with reference to conditioned souls no matter how good they are at editing. It can only be settled by reference to an absolute principle – arsa-prayoga.”
Ys, Bal.
From: mahasrnga dasa <mahasrnga_dasa@yahoo.com>
Sent: Friday, 4 September 2020 11:25 AM
To: Rob Horton <bal@qld.chariot.net.au>
Subject: Re: Conversation regarding book changes
Any changes after Prabhupada;s vapu left, is offensively illegal and the fools doing it will have to pay heavily in their next lives.
Mahasrnga dasa.
On Friday, September 4, 2020, 03:20:20 AM GMT+5:30, Rob Horton <bal@qld.chariot.net.au> wrote:
From: Ranjit dasa…
“The original editor, Hayagriva Das has passed away. Really the difference is simply between a Hayagriva edit and a Jayadvaita edit. I give no credence whatsoever to the idea that any attempt was made to change the philosophy.” What a load of RUBBISH!
Hayagriva das edited Srila Prabhupada’s books WITH Srila Prabhupada, as a book editor does and the final manuscript was presented to the publishers, authorized & approved by Prabhupada, as he lectured every day from the same books.
JASadvaita & others have ‘edited’ (read changed) Prabhupada’s books AFTER His Divine Grace departed, which is illegal. That’s why BBT-I had to declare Prabhupada a ‘writer for hire’ and remove him as the ‘author’ to illegally steal the copyrights from real BBT.
Only ‘Proof-Reading’ was required for future print runs, to correct any spelling, typographical or possible grammatical errors!
Yfs, Balaram das.
Garuda’s masters at Colombia University Press (where he publishes his books) are famous for dismantling, changing, and distorting any notion of God such as removing the capital letter ‘G’ from the word itself. Colombia is ‘Semiramis’ the Whore of Babylon depicted as Britannia (UK), The statue of Liberty (USA) and is a Satanic Freemason symbol of depravity through “Illumination” of the torch bearer (which actually only brings DARKNESS! (as EVERYTHING is reversed in Illuminati symbolism).
Christopher Newport University is another Freemason sewer that Garuda “lectures” at. University Logo of 3 pyramids is more Illuminati symbolism. CNU is a branch of The College of William and Mary who’s chancellor is Robert Gates Yale (‘Skull and Bones Brotherhood of Death’) former Defense Secretary to Bush and Obama and former Director of the CIA ….ie: The people who supplied the poison to murder Srila Prabhupada!
So Garuda is immersed in this Freemason sewer or as Srila Prabhupada described it SLAUGHTER-HOUSE “EDUCATION” SYSTEM founded, financed, controlled and operated by Freemasons who’s worship and dedication is to Satan. Even the University of Virginia (which Garuda also “lectures” at was founded as an Illuminati construct by non other than Thomas Jefferson, who considered his greatest “inspiration” was Francis Bacon, a Freemason Satanist who is responsible for the writing of the King James Bible.
King James was a Freemason and also a homosexual so this KJB is a further debasement of the Christian word and meaning as is Jaiadvaita’s defamatory destruction of Srila Prabhupada’s books (history repeating itself again!). Garuda is such a foolish fellow to think that his “students” will derive any benefit from Jaiadvaita’s offensive rubbish and will be even more deluded when they graduate from the Freemason slaughterhouse, wearing their Freemason “mortar-board and skull-caps”!
Classic “bait and Switch” technique By Garuda. This comes AFTER “symposium” where he wanted Prabhupadanugas to sent tens of thousands of dollars for this horse-shit “symposium”, he must be laughing now at the stupidity of those who put their money on him!
Same deal with Jitarati “Quick everybody send a hundred buck each so we can “release the books”. I exposed this (if you recall?) now you never hear about this guy! Vanished into the framework!
I opposed this and almost immediately the books (which are not authorised version) got “RELEASED!”
This is all the doing of Zionist Jew Mafia. They are smarter than most people so they are getting away with it on a world-wide scale ……but the tide is turning folks “DO NOT TRUST THEM AS THIS WILL DISARM YOU!” Poison and Artful Trickery are their speciality. They are expert at using their intelligence by devious means.
DO NOT BE FOOLED BY THE ZIONIST JEW MAFIA!
Taken from the Poison Tapes:
4. Con:36.378: We hear the whispers,
“Jayadwaita… will you serve Srila Prabhupada poison Jayadwaita?”, then several negative responses followed by “Nette, nette.”
Jayadvaita is heavily implicated in the poisoning of Srila Prabhupada. It is a fact that this demon Judas is poisoning Srila Prabhupada’s books. Garuda is working under the payroll of the Freemason Illuminati (founded, financed, sponsored, owned and controlled by Zionist affiliated, Freemasons) “slaughter-house education system” on behalf of mundane academic “students” who are neither devotees or disciples of Srila Prabhupada or even vegetarian!
One should see this pathetic endorsement of Jayadvaita Jew Das (aka: Jai Israel) for what it is……..
ANOTHER ZIONIST, DEMONIC ATTEMPT TO DESTROY DHARMIC PRINCIPALS!
Pamho agtacbsp,material world means envy also because unless one become envious of SRI KRSNA one can’t stay in the spiritual world anymore,we been evicted because of envy toward krsna and HIS devotees. brother and sister are also envious and just another envious person glorify another envious person,so im not surprised because many gunda criminals are in the guise of devotees while they are envious,but krsna never forget what these demons are doing to some part and parcel of HIS BODY they took over the bbt they already killed the guru now they attack the book bhagavata,anyway we are lucky because we believe to the law of karma otherwise otherwise we was doing the same mistake of this shameless donkey by attacking guru sadhu and sastra they manufactured almost everything that’s the karma of envious people because they live in the material world because of their enviousness only,we can’t engaged envy in bhakti yoga.agtacbsp ys haribol
In Kaliyuga it is for almost everybody very difficult to make a living. From the letter below we can see how Srila Prabhupada defines ” a job”.
July 8 q069 letter Subala
Regarding your arrest by the police, it was Krishna’s desire, so that it is now authoritatively admitted that we are not guilty. You can take a certified copy of the judgement. This will help not only your center, but other centers also. It will be of considerable aid in getting permission from the police. You take this copy immediately and make several photostat copies, and send to every center and one copy to me. Get mrdangas and karatalas from New York. Keep our books and magazines sufficiently, and make propaganda. You are now a veteran devotee, so you can help others and yourself nicely. Simply you have to execute the principles very rigidly and faithfully. Then everything is there, and all success is at your command. Regarding you taking a job, I hope if you properly execute your activities, you will have no lack of money. In the beginning there may be a little hardship, but everywhere it has proved successful. I have information from Brahmananda that last month they collected about $2,400. So after all, it is all Krishna’s money. When He sees us very faithful and trustworthy, He gives up His money for expenditures. Simply pray to Krishna that you may be able by His Grace to serve Him nicely. Our prayer of the mantra means addressing Radha and Krishna for being engaged in Their service. Oh Radharani! Oh Krishna! Please engage me in Your service so that I can get relief from the service of Maya.’‘ Just like a person resigns from an inferior quality of service and accepts a superior quality of service, similarly, our prayer to Krishna is to give us relief from the inferior quality of service to Maya, and to be engaged in the superior quality of service to Krishna. Service we have to render, and the whole process is to accept the superior quality of service in Krishna Consciousness. I hope this finds you in good health.
For a good paying job you need material qualifications which many devotees don’t have. Many older devotees spend their youthful days serving in ISKCON and many younger ones opt for a job from the beginning (since Iskcon was never an option for them). Many older devotees had to find karmi jobs after leaving Iskcon or if one was fortunate he could make a living selling paintings independently or is somehow able to make a living without having to work for karmis. Option 2 and 3 are obviously the more difficult ones, but you don’t have to serve karmis and spare yourself of their association.
For all “good” paying materialistic jobs one needs “good” materialistic qualifications which one gets from “good” materialistic universities. All this is fine and honorable if one stays humble and does not become puffed up thinking oneself to be the smartest. Unfortunately, mostly it’s the opposite.
All jobs are coming either from global players, financial, government and church institutions, so-called health and educational institutions, the service industry……which are all diehard, ruthless, materialistic undertakings in the mode passion and ignorance, and are all serving their own interests and agendas.
Srila Prabhupada calls it ” service to Maya”. One has to realise that that is what it is, service to Maya. If you don’t realise the difference than you are in Maya, like everyone else out there. If you think that you are actually preaching devotional service by teaching from the changed books than that is Maya. One has to be aware that one is playing with fire when you have a karmi job. Materialistic association is so contaminating that one can easily forget this reality. That is what Srila Prabhupada means by inferior service to Maya. It is inferior (even you earn a lot of money) because for the major portion of the day one is surrounded by persons who pursue materialistic ambitions for materialistic purposes of eat, drink and be merry. This contamination of materialistic association can only be counteracted by a doubled endeavour to chant the Holy Name, study Srila Prabhupada’s nectarean translations and the fervent prayers to Krsna for protection. That is the only way to stay safe, the only way to stay unharmed.
Of course one can also be in Maya while staying in the temple, enough examples of that.
Actually it is very simple; it does not matter what ones present situation is, one has to always pray to Krsna: PLEASE DO NOT FORGET ME, PLEASE PROTECT ME AND PLEASE LET ME BE ENGAGED IN YOUR PURE DEVOTIONAL SERVICE.
“The last temptation is the greatest treason:/ To do the right thing for the wrong reason!”.
(T.S. Elliot)
The choice is simple. Does one accept the books by the Acharya of the ISKCON Brahma Madhva Gaudiya Sampradaya and sole Diksa Guru A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada OR THE POISONER OF HIS DIVINE GRACE? That is the choice. The battle lines are there, so there is NO COMMON GROUND HERE!
Make your choice THE SPIRITUAL WORLD or HELL! There is no wiggle room for pseudo-intellectual or Masonic-academic hogwash! It is cut and dry! Black and white!
We know where these demons stand as they are “embarrassed”, yes! you heard that right “embarrassed” as Garuda Das explains:
“I would not be able to use the first edition in any serious academic fashion because of its problems, and therefore I am thankful to Jayadvaita Swami for the work he has done to make the BBT edition of the Bhagavad-gita presentable in the intellectual arena without embarrassment”.
Well this does not sound like a disciple of Srila Prabhupada! ….. He’s embarrassed! Oh dear!!!!!!!!!
NOT EMBARRASSED HOWEVER TO PRESENT THE WORK OF A POISONER OF SRILA PRABHUPADA!
NOT EMBARRASSED TO PRAISE AND GLORIFY SUCH A FOUL ENVIOUS RASCAL, THAT OVER A PERIOD OF AT LEAST 9 MONTHS ADMINISTERED LETHAL POISON TO TRY TO DESTROY THE VAPU (BODY) OF SRILA PRABHUPADA.
NOT EMBARRASSED TO GLORIFY ONE WHO HELPED POISON HIS OWN GURU!
NOT EMBARRASSED BY VALIDATING CHANGING THE ACHARYAS WORDS AGAINST THE THE ACCEPTED VAISNAVA PRINCIPALS (ARSHA PRYOGA).
NOT EMBARRASSED AT GLORIFYING ONE WHO HAS DEFIED AND CONTINUES TO DEFY HIS OWN GURU!
NOT EMBARRASSED TO GLORIFY ONE WHO WANTS TO DESTROY LORD SRI KRISHNA’S OWN VAPU AS IT WAS SPOKEN TO HIS PURE DEVOTEE HIS DIVINE GRACE A.C. BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI SRILA PRABHUPADA!
Garuda Das should be embarrassed to call himself a devotee, for praising a wretch and envious reprobate such as Jayadvaita Jew-Das who not only poisoned/s the Vapu of Srila Prabhupada but continues his serpent-like venomous assault of Srila Prabhupada’s (Lord Sri Krishna’s) Vani.
Shame on you! and all of the venomous enablers who claim ‘neutrality!’ These persons are the vilest scum!
Inverted Freemason shill, Garuda Das is doing what he does best (for his Masonic handlers) which is to glorify gang-rapists of little girls such as Jayadvaita (Jaya Israel), as Kabbalist Freemason traitors always stick together! These shills and phonies never tire of lying and cheating do they? …. it’s in their DNA since the Babylonian times when they couldn’t get enough of offering babies into the fire to appease Molloch!
As their ancestors were hammering nails into the hands and feet of Jesus Christ (for taking on the Kabbalist shekel lenders and sellers of animals, for blood sacrifices) …. they are at it again by praising those homosexuals and pedophiles who murdered the present Acharya (sent by The Lord Himself!), changing his books and gang-raping little prepubescent girls!
What is most bewildering is that this Garuda character has “disciples” (not authorized by Srila Prabhupada!) who worship the ground it walks on!
After all these years, and the events that have taken place, It is really difficult to fathom the “consciousness” of such “disciples” and the level which such ‘monumental stupidity’ can function!
Dear Vaishnava Gentlewomen and Gentlemen:
Pranamas. This Garuda Das. This post announcement reproduces a BBT Edit website post made in 2007. It was at a time when I blindly trusted Jayadvaita’s editing work. At the time, I was happy that the obvious spelling mistakes and typos were addressed. However, in 2018, I have completely rescinded that post and it has been removed from BBT Edit website because I looked into the matter more thoroughly and found that Jayadvaita and Dravida had corrupted Prabhupada’s vāni. Thus, it is misleading to post my endorsement from 2007, but if that’s what you wish to do, then bravo!
Now, if you really want to know my position, then go to the following website:
50thmac27.com
Thank you for your consideration.
Garuda Das