Jayapataka said that the only difficulty was that we lacked Prabhupada's books in local languages. To rectify this he has set up a team to begin translating the English books. The translators are Subhaga dasa, Tatpur dasa and a new devotee, Kishore, a free-lance writer and former honors student from Calcutta University. Jayapataka personally reads through what they have done to make sure there are no philosophical errors.
Gargamuni said that it was difficult to get Hindi or other Indian language translations done, and Prabhupada agreed. "Impersonal idea is in everyone's head. 'God has no legs, no head.' Simply he [the translator] has got head."
Prabhupada said that even the Oriyan translation of The Topmost Yoga System done by Gaura Govinda Maharaja, which Gargamuni had brought with him, should wait for publication until someone could check that it was up to standard.
Prabhupada told Jayapataka to locate a work he had done in the late 1940s in Bengali called Bhagavaner Katha. He had written it as a series of articles for the Gaudiya newspaper, produced by the Devananda Gaudiya Matha.
Unpretentiously he said, "They were so popular that the report was that the readers of Gaudiya were only hankering after that Bhagavaner Katha. After reading that they will throw away. Other articles, they were not interested."
"So always your writing, people were attracted by," Jayapataka Swami said appreciatively.
"Yes, that is a fact," Prabhupada said modestly. "Even my teachers were attracted in school days. In my matriculation class I wrote some essay and I got out of 100, 85 marks. But the teacher came to the class, 'Who has written this?' So I stood up, and he thanked me, 'Yes, it is very nice.' He especially came to thank me for that essay."
- From "A Transcendental Diary Vol 4" by HG Hari Sauri Prabhu
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