Try to discredit the manuscripts

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QUESTION: Suppose you're a critic of the Second Edition of

Bhagavad-gita As It Is. What do you do when the original manuscripts

blow your criticisms away?

 

ANSWER: Try to discredit the manuscripts.

 

A standard routine of some critics has been to compare a passage from

the old and new editions, point out a difference, and then exclaim,

"Aha! Just see! A deviation!"

 

And when I produce the text from the original manuscripts, showing

that the new version more closely matches Srila Prabhupada's original

words, what an embarrassment!

 

So now the latest tactic: If the manuscripts discredit your arguments,

try to discredit the manuscripts.

 

Suppose the manuscripts, instead of showing what they do, showed that

my editing was actually deviant. Do you think we'd be hearing about

"so-called manuscripts" and "tattered typed pages"?

 

This, I suppose, is the type of trickery they teach you in law school.

 

Thoughtful devotees will not be fooled.

 

Hare Krsna.

 

 

 

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