Pandu das:
There is nothing wrong with anything Srila Prabhupada wrote. His writing is perfect as it is.
[quote]mishra:- but that is not what he wanted and is clearly reflected by opinions that state that no comments should be made by anyone on his purports.ccd:
[quote]ccd:[quote]mishra:- but that is not what he wanted and is clearly reflected by opinions that state that no comments should be made by anyone on his purports.ccd:
One a number of occasions Prabhupada would correct the person reading a purport, and say it was wrong or it was a mistake. There are volumes of corrections worked out and books are already annotated (at least in folio format) and nobody every said anything. Is there a quote from him saying that his books can not be annotated or indexed or translated - which all amounts to the same thing.ccd:
Prabhu, your points on academic annotations are valid. An annotated version of the Gita showing the changes between the pre and post-78 editions would be *awesome* and a great value add in so many ways.sitapati:
However, while academic annotations are one thing, Resolution 311 is not about academia. Witness the lack of academic papers justifying, clarifying, or defending it. Resolution 311 is about using apologetic notes strategically to deal with internal cultural issues, including disengagement of the membership, and external issues, including declining recruitment and loss of prestige and influence of the organization in the host culture.sitapati:
sitapati:
The resolution is a strategic measure by a managerial body. Not a principled one by a brahmincial body.
sitapati:
If the footnoting proposed by Resolution 311 were brahminical in its nature, it would have philosophical justification around it. Instead, it has only a resolution (executive order), which has consequential justifications.
[cite] It will depend on what kind of footnotes are added. IMO Resolution 311 is the best they could do under the circumstances. Nobody in GBC has the guts to address the real issue - explaining that the statements Srila Prabhupada makes in these controversial parts are relative and to a large extent flowing from a particular cultural background.
Then new annotations/commentary is needed refuting/overruling/expanding on the previous one. This is how the many bhasyas emerged: as annotations to the unchanged eternal sastra.VEDA:
We're living a mere one generation after SP. If nothing else is done by his disciples, their disciples, etc., then after 100, 1000, what to speak of thousands of years SP books will be as hard to understand as old Bible commentaries.VEDA:
ccd:mishra:
are the law books annotated so that lay man can understand them better?
of course you go to a barrister, and people goes to devotees
"I have to agree with you if any footnotes will be of any lower then that standard it will devalue the works. "mishra:
danger danger... and all this trouble to satisfy who?
[cite]VEDA: As I said, language and cultural context changes. No book can remain eternally understandable at face value. Explanation will be always needed.
If we do only what SP instructed and nothing else, then we should e.g. stop using internet. It didn't exist (for public use) in 70', he never instructed us to use it and therefore we shouldn't.The same goes for cell phones, etc. etc. Imagine what such great innovator acaryas, masters of yukta vairagya, like SP, BSST or BVT would say to that.
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