Bhagavad-gita Revisions: 13.29, Purport ------ by Jayadvaita Swami

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Bhagavad-gita Revisions: 13.29, Purport

By Jayadvaita Swami

Posted August 6, 2003

 

All glories to

Srila Prabhupada!

13.29, purport:

 

First Edition:

 

The living entity, by accepting his material existence as just so much suffering, can become situated in his spiritual existence.

 

Second Edition:

 

The living entity, by accepting his material existence, has become situated differently than in his spiritual existence.

 

Original Manuscript:

 

The living entity by accepting his material existence as become differently situated from his spiritual existence.

 

Comment:

 

This is one of many instances in which the original editors, not understanding what Srila Prabhupada said, did the best they could: they supplied something which, even though not what he said, was reasonable and true.

 

Had I been in their shoes, I might likely have done the same thing.

 

The revised version is also reasonable and true— and has the added virtue of being what Srila Prabhupada clearly meant.

 

In the original manuscript, "as become" should have been "has become." Once you recognize that, the editorial problem solves itself.

 

This revision, hardly worth mentioning, I bring up only because it has been discovered and published on the web by a fuzzy-minded critic, who cites it as an example of my trying to make the text "more palitable [his spelling] for the public."

 

Hare Krsna.

 

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There you'll see the published versions side by side with the text of the original manuscripts. And the graphic format of the web helps you see at a glance what the revisions are and where they're coming from.

 

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