Hare krishna :)
Many people are baffled by hearing that some books have been changed which is a offence and thus,these doubts end up in leaving Iskcon,which means leaving Prabhupada.
This happened with me also,And a Devotee of iskcon ahmedabad,who became violent by comparing the Mac millian edition and the revised and enlarged version.
Some violent people have even burnt the photos of prabhupada's disciples,which is a great vaishnava-apradha and are making foolish websites (iskcon times,book changes.com) so to make people against iskcon.
What to do?
These two answers can clear all the doubts.Further more,BBT has created a website called BBTedit.com which proves all the false claims about book changes.
Example of Change :
Bg 3.3 Translation old version:
The Blessed Lord said
Bg 3.3 Translation new version:
The Supreme Personality of Godhead said
the critic's say : (12) Just a few of Jayadvaita Swami’s little “corrections…”
Comment : how can lord be blessed? if i bless you,than you will be blessed.so who can bless krishna? such is their claim.they say NO.WHY change? i think they have lost their minds and can't think logically.
Please solve your doubts and be saved from such so-called devotees.
Hare krishna!
Replies
Hare Krsna Prabhuji,
PAMHO.
What I think both of you are doing is paying too much attention to the English. Whether Blessed Lord or Supreme Personality of Godhead, the sanskrit is Sri Bhagawan Uvaca - that has not been and cannot be changed - right? Then why get into who is right and who is wrong. We are struggling with the basics of spirituality - trying to realise that we are not body, but soul, are we in a position to judge which senior exalted devotee is right and who is wrong? Are we in ISKCON because of that?
What is our purpose of trying to understand the philosophy - so taht we can understand Krsna and develop love for Godhead. Not to become pundits who argue about each comma and semi colon - right?
Frequently it happens that when we start on the path of spirituality, we digress from our main objective and get into these bylanes (so to say). It is not a highway where we are clearly told the speed limit is so much and the destination is so many km away. Therefore, we have to be very very careful on this path and be very focused about what is our objective. We have to be vyavasayatmika buddhi - the way a businessman may be doing a lot of activities in his business, he does everything with profit motive, his single minded focus is that. Same way, we should focused on understanding the philosophy and concentrate on improving our chanting. That is why Krsna says - sa mahatma sudurlabha - a very rare soul reaches me. Most get caught up in some bylane or the other.
Nice to see you active on this site Karthik prabhu.
Haribol,
Your servant,
Rashmi
indeed prabhuji,but the above one is a example.they have made websites which shows 5000 changes which are not grammatical,so people get confused and many sincere devotees leave iskcon and say they are changing books etc.i have posted this because if any one has even a small doubt,so this doubt is a seed which can later become a tree,so better to pluck of the little plant or the seed itself before it becomes a tree.
yes prabhuji,this is becoming an international doubt! so it becomes necessary to solve it.
Hare Krsna Prabhuji,
Thanks a lot for sharing this, this doubt has been plaguing me since I personally discovered that changes were made in Srila Prabhupada's books, I also asked a lot of devotees but never got a satisfactory answer. This is a valuable reference.