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Jayadvaita Swami

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“The senses meant for work”? Check out the “Gita changes” for Chapter 5.

August 17, 2010 by Jayadvaita Swami

BBT press release "Activities such as hearing, seeing, speaking, evacuating, etc., are actions of the senses meant for work." Really? Wait a second--aren't hearing and seeing what we do with our knowledge-gathering senses, not our working ones? But the quotation comes right from Bhagavad-gita As It Is, from the purport to 5.9. So how could it be wrong? It's wrong because it's the first edition and a typist left something out. See for yourself in the annotated scans for chapter five, now online at www.BBTedit.com/changes. You'll see all the revisions done for the purports, along … [Read more...] about “The senses meant for work”? Check out the “Gita changes” for Chapter 5.

“Gita changes” for Chapter 4 now online

July 16, 2010 by Jayadvaita Swami

BBT press release “The changes” for chapter four of Bhagavad-Gita As It Is are now online at www.BBTedit.com/changes. You'll see: Several purports where missing text has been restored. In the purport to Text 6, restored to the book are more than forty words left out when a typist skipped from one instance of “causeless mercy” to the next. Spelling errors corrected, both for Sanskrit (texts 5, 11, and 12) and for English (text 10). In the word meanings for text 31, a word meaning left out by Srila Prabhupada and replaced by the editor with a meaning that was totally wrong. Fixed … [Read more...] about “Gita changes” for Chapter 4 now online

Thank you to my assistants

June 23, 2010 by Jayadvaita Swami

For a bit more than the past year and a half, I have had the benefit of having Bhakta Brijesh serving as my personal assistant. He rendered a host of services--in particular, expertly managing the practical details of my life. Now he has returned home to London, where he'll be connected with Bhaktivedanta Manor. (At the moment, he's busy helping with the setup for this year's annual Krishna conscious program in Glastonbury.) I thank him for his devoted personal assistance and wish him all the best in his Krishna conscious life. We plan to stay in touch. My thanks are also due to Jayakesava … [Read more...] about Thank you to my assistants

“Gita changes” for Chapter 3 now online

February 14, 2010 by Jayadvaita Swami

BBT Press release The "changes" for chapter three of Bhagavad-Gita As It Is are now online at www.BBTedit.com/changes. Perhaps the most notable feature of this chapter is that the revisions to the purports are so few. As in the rest of the book, when revisions are warranted they are made, and otherwise the text is left unchanged. In this chapter fewer revisions are needed, so fewer are made. Still, there are several revisions worth seeing. You'll see: Four places where a typist has skipped from one occurrence of a word to the next--for example, from "teach" to "teach"--leaving … [Read more...] about “Gita changes” for Chapter 3 now online

Online soon: “Gita changes” for chapter three

January 30, 2010 by Jayadvaita Swami

The "changes" for chapter three of Bhagavad-Gita As It Is will soon be online at www.BBTedit.com/changes. … [Read more...] about Online soon: “Gita changes” for chapter three

My personal finances, 2009

January 13, 2010 by Jayadvaita Swami

Every year I make my personal finances public. Attached is an accounting of my finances for 2009. 2009 Financial report … [Read more...] about My personal finances, 2009

“Gita changes” for Chapter 2 now online

January 13, 2010 by Jayadvaita Swami

BBT press release The "changes" for chapter two of Bhagavad-Gita As It Is are now online at www.BBTedit.com/changes. See the meaning Srila Prabhupada actually intended where the first edition said: working with the fruitive being situated in the fixed conception of the real self (text 1, purport) Neither Vedic knowledge nor modern science denies the existence of the spirit soul (text 17, purport) People will call you a coward even before your flight (text 34, purport) Restrictions are good only if one actually has a taste for Krsna consciousness (text 59, … [Read more...] about “Gita changes” for Chapter 2 now online

Online soon: “Gita changes” for chapter two

December 27, 2009 by Jayadvaita Swami

BBT press release The "changes" for chapter two of Bhagavad-Gita As It Is will soon be online at www.BBTedit.com/changes. See the meaning Srila Prabhupada actually intended where the first edition said: working with the fruitive being situated in the fixed conception of the real self (text 1, purport) Neither Vedic knowledge nor modern science denies the existence of the spirit soul (text 17, purport) People will call you a coward even before your flight (text 34, purport) Restrictions are good only if one actually has a taste for Krsna consciousness (text 59, … [Read more...] about Online soon: “Gita changes” for chapter two

Srila Prabhupada on relief work

November 9, 2009 by Jayadvaita Swami

Concerning philanthropy and relief work, I recently came upon these words from Srila Prabhupada, which I pass on without comment.   Prabhupada: So immediately, first of all, He [Krishna] chastised. Asocyan anvasocas tvam prajna-vadams ca bhasase: "Arjuna, you are talking like a learned man, but you are a fool number one." [Bg. 2.11] Gatasun agatasums ca nanusocanti panditah. That means "If you had been actually pandita, learned man, then you would not have lamented for this body." Gatasun. "The body is neither a subject matter for lamentation, either living condition or dead … [Read more...] about Srila Prabhupada on relief work

Gita changes for chapter one, now online

October 28, 2009 by Jayadvaita Swami

BBT press release Now you can see "the changes" for chapter one of Bhagavad-gita As It Is, at www.BBTedit.com/changes. You'll see the revisions Jayadvaita Swami made to the purports, in the actual book where he made them. You'll also see the revisions made to the word-for-word meanings. (The translations were done separately.) Annotations give the reasons for most of the changes (and most often also tell what Srila Prabhupada’s original manuscript said). Images show relevant portions of the manuscript itself, as well as two sample pages. See the meaning Srila Prabhupada actually … [Read more...] about Gita changes for chapter one, now online

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