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BBT press release The BBT is pleased to announce the release of the annotated scans for chapter eight of Bhagavad-gita As It Is. They are now online at www.BBTedit.com/changes. In this chapter, the revisions made are extensive. In fact, so much of what Srila Prabhupada originally wrote has been restored – and this so enriches the chapter – that lovers of Srila Prabhupada's words may well ask themselves, "How could we not want this in?" You'll see: extensive lost text recovered -- including significant explanations by Srila Prabhupada four instances where the old edition said … [Read more...] about “Gita changes” for chapter eight an eye-opener, now online

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.

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