Should Srila Prabhupada's books be changed? The principle of arsa-prayoga and other considerations

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> Should Srila Prabhupada's books be changed? The principle

of arsa-prayoga and other considerations

 

My question to the Prabhupadaimstics: Dr. Prasada Gokhale for New

Fredericton New Brunswick. Canada. He had put many literary and

astronomical evidences showing that Lord Buddha did not lived in the

550 BC. But 1800 B. C. Jiva Goswami in his Krsna Sandharbha Anuccheda

24 wrote: "Lord Buddha appears when two thousand years of the Kali

age had passed"

Before of the misidentification between the Sandracutus mentioned by

the Greek historian Maghastenes with Chandrgupta Maurya by Sir

William Jones, even Jones like all Indian historians accept two

things: Lord Buddha was around 1000 BC and Shankara live in the 440

BC. The Rajatarangini , a history text of Kashmir by Kalhana record

how the Ashoka of the Gonanda dynasty embracing the faith of Gotama

Buddha, etc. He was a ahimsa -peaceful ruler on the conversion of

Buddhism living in 1448-1400 BC. But He was not the Maurya Ashoka,

because, Murya king is know be respectful and supportive of Brahmanas

and Sharamanas, in the Girnar rock edits and in a book from Him,

where He open with the pranams to King Prithu, Lord Rama, Yudhsitira,

etc. All vaisnavas kings from the past. So, even tough Srila

Prabhupada used the conventional dates of 500 BC of Lord Buddha and

Asoka Maurya misdientifiactions in His preaching, but His Divine

Grace wrote too: "Men with poor found of knowledge only accept the

history of the world from time of Buddha, o since 600 BC., and prior

to this period all histories mentioned in the scriptures are

calculated by them to be only imaginary stories." (SB. 1.3.41.

Purport.) Here arise other problem, how we can understand the up date

in the chronology of India history with out change Prabhupada

teachings???

 

Other point, ther is the episthemilogical problem mentioned in the

Nyaya sastras: Whe some one is looking gold; look everything with

gold. Is some body is lusty after women, he look to every lady like a

potencial prostitute. Is some body is objetive and read the book

about the proof reading in the new editions of Bhagavad-Gita and

other Prabhupada books, and checking the files in audio cassets etc,

He can found that there is no changes in the Prabhupada´s

statements. Is some body want to fight agianst to changes in the righ

way, He can wrotte to this address satchmo868, with a

Prabhupada´s initite disciple editor of one Vaisnava Journal, where

He use offensive words like Mithology to the sacred histories of the

Sastras.

Hoping in a positive answer.

Ys. Hare Krsna das

Priest of Radha Govinda Mandir ISKCON

Graduade student in the U A de C.