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      CommentAuthorekendra
    • CommentTimeJun 13th 2008 edited
     
    I've already written my 2 cents over here:

    http://www.gopala.org/node/229

    This may not even be helpful but, since it seems to be the only organized effort for us to have a say in the matter, please sign this petition:

    http://www.petitiononline.com/GBCre311/petition.html

    From Prabhupāda Lilamrita:

    Śrīla Prabhupāda became very angry and denounced the "rascal Sanskrit scholars." "A little learning," he said "is dangerous. Immediately they think they have become big scholar, thinking, "I shall arrange!' And then they write all nonsense." He continued speaking about the mistake for half an hour. He was disturbed. He ordered Tamāla Kṛṣṇa to write at once to the BBT and stop these speculations by his disciples-changing his books in the name of editing The devotees were startled to see Prabhupāda so angry; he was supposed to be peacefully relishing a Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam reading here in his garden.

    Such a change was very serious, he said, because it changed the meaning. "Even if the authorized ācāryas would make a mistake," he said, "it would not be changed. This is ārṣa-prayoga. In this way the ācāryas are honored."

    By Śrīla Prabhupāda's strong reaction to this one printed mistake, he was again stressing the great importance of his books. "Whatever I have wanted to say," he explained, "I have said in my books. If I live, I will say something little more. If you want to know me, read my books."
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      CommentAuthorabhiram
    • CommentTimeJun 17th 2008 edited
     
    I have been reading the comments and they are very interesting.

    a few of them

    Deena Bandhu dasa, Vrindavan, HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
    With all due respects to the GBC, this resolution will tear apart the fabric of our Wonderful ISKCON Community. No one will ever be able to get everyone to agree on who should do the annotations nor what the content should be. If someone has a problem, then write your own commentaries and see if anyone will buy them or distribute them, but leave Srila Prabhupada's sacred books As They Are! Let the controversies play out on the internet, but don't pollute Srila Prabhupada's books!

    Howard (Hayagriva das)-A.C. Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada
    Whatever I have edited is the final word. I do not want any other editors or any other comments.

    Name: Wascally Wascal
    Address: Ivory Tower
    Guru: My mind
    Comment: I'm collecting all of the names on this petition and placing everyone here on a blacklist. See if any of you do-gooders will ever make it on the GBC after this!!!! HA!!!
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      CommentAuthorccd
    • CommentTimeJun 17th 2008
     
    abhiram:I have been reading the comments and they are very interesting. a few of them Name: Wascally Wascal Address: Ivory Tower Guru: My mind Comment: I'm collecting all of the names on this petition and placing everyone here on a blacklist. See if any of you do-gooders will ever make it on the GBC after this!!!! HA!!!
    This one is my fav. I guess it was the first one?
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      CommentAuthorPandu das
    • CommentTimeJun 18th 2008
     
    Actually, CCd, I recall you saying something similar in this forum.
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      CommentAuthorccd
    • CommentTimeJun 18th 2008 edited
     
    Pandu das:Actually, CCd, I recall you saying something similar in this forum.
    Aha, now I know why I like it:-)
    Thankful People: abhiram
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      CommentAuthorekendra
    • CommentTimeJun 19th 2008
     
    641 is a crack up.
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      CommentAuthorabhiram
    • CommentTimeJun 20th 2008
     
    641. Fred Cohen ?? I just like signing petitions. What's this one about?

    644. Avinas Chandra das Manila (Philippines) ACBSP It could be rather like that, that present ISKCON is under pressure to be taken seriously by other helpful important global orgs and all this book changes are meant to signal that present ISKCON is a fully new structured independent movement managed 100\% by intelligent leaders of Hebrew ancestry and like other global orgs, fighting additionally for the cause of Israel's global predominance. In that sense it could be understood that ISKCON leaders who are presently all proprietors of Israeli passports see themselves in that tight spot to be accepted and supported to survive as global org who's fully dependent upon cooperation with other powerful global players who are also 99.9\% mainly Israel centered. Prabhupada would have surely understood that point, that sometimes political clever moves are required to gain dominance. In fact Prabhupada mentions the importance of the ongoing globalization movement in his preface of SB. But still changing of books should be avoided.
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