Should we laugh or should we cry?

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> What two versions of the Gita? This is total nonsense. This is

> Prabhupada's Bhagavad Gita and Hayagriva & Jayadvaita have done some

> service correcting the english etc.

 

These are daily used expressions in ISCKON. Especially in the BBT.

"Hayagriva's edition/version" and "Jayadvaita's edition/version"

of the Bhagavad-gita. Yet everybody is perfectly clear with

that we speak about different *editorial* versions of the *same*

PRABHUPADA'S Bhagavad-gita. Or almost everybody, pardon me.

You aren't.

 

 

> They can take no credit in the writing just like a janitor

> cannot take credit for running and funding a school even though if the

> janitor doesn't do the job properly everything becomes hellish.

 

They can take credit in **editing** Prabhupada's words, in presenting

them in the manner that would be more appealing, more understandable

and easier acceptable to the general public. Some (like HH Hridayananda

Maharaja) suggest perhaps rather footnoting than editing (at least in

some instances), for the sake of acheiving the same purpose.

 

Are you really so naive to belive that HKdd was crediting these

two editors for the ***writing*** the Bhagavad-gita As It Is ???

No, I don't believe you are being naive here really. She said

she wouldn't reply to you anymore, so now you can throw on her

any nonsense that you may imagine in your mind. But then that is

perhaps also a kind of being naive, if you think it can work

just like that -- that louder you scream some nonsense on her, that

more guilty she ought to appear.

 

 

> I cannot believe that Prabhupada's Gita can be characterized in

> such a frivilous manner. It is ridiculous and offensive. Actually, it is

> beyond being just plain stupid!

 

You are simply firing up your own good self. Don't get too hot,

though. Might burn yourself.

 

 

>

> Can you imagine people in such illusion can suggest that the footnoting of

> the Gita. Should we laugh or should we cry? I think we should cry.

>

 

Good. Crying is a cheap method for relaxing oneself. Just go

ahead. However, some shrinks recommend laughing sessions as

well. Take your pick.

 

 

> Hopefully, this will be my last posting on the issue. I apologize if the

> truth hurts.

 

 

Yes, just go for a while and take a good cry for yourself. Srila

Prabhupada's books and mission will manage somehow to survive

without your postings, in the meantime. Yes, some maybe have been

hurt by your "truths", but don't bother yourself about. Come back

when refueled again. To reveal us some other "truths" that you

still got in your stock, and that might hurt others.

 

And why are you *apologizing* anyway for? It is the Truth, not

you, that may hurt, right? You don't have to apologize in the

name of the Truth (unless the Truth asks you for that favor, of

course).

 

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