Brahma-samhita translation and purports by Bhaktivinoda Thakura

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Dear Bhakta Ivar,

 

Please accept my best wishes. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 

It appears that Srila Prabhupada accepted the Brahma-samhita

translation to be the work of his guru maharaja. This is shown by the

following statement from a letter to his disciple Pradyumna Dasa dated

17 October 1967:

 

"Brahma Samhita is the gist of the Srimad-Bhagavatam. In the Bhagavad

gita as well as in the Srimad-Bhagavatam, Krishna is accepted as

Supreme Lord & everything about him is nicely described there,

similarly in the Brahma-Samhita everything about Krishna is perfectly

described. In the very beginning of the book, Krishna is accepted as

the Supreme Lord existing eternally in his transcendental form and is

the cause of all causes. One who reads Brahma Samhita very carefully &

scrutinizingly can understand everything of Krishna without any fault.

I recommend, therefore that all my students read Brahma Samhita very

carefully--especially because it was translated personally by my

spiritual master Srimad Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja."

 

On January 13, 1968, Srila Prabhupada again wrote to Pradyumna:

 

"Please get the copy of Sri Sri Brahma Samhita, and begin the

transliteration. I think you know the diacritical marks for

transliteration; please use them. Please send me full photostat copy

of the original Brahma Samhita. I shall begin writing my own

commentation after my Guru Maharaja."

 

Therefore I suggest we leave the BBT edition of Brahma-samhita as it

is.

 

Thank you. Hare Krsna.

 

Yours in Srila Prabhupada's service,

Jayadvaita Swami