Prabhupada Reading His Own Books [original pre-1977 edition]
Entering Srila Prabhupada’s quarters was always an enlightening experience. Sometimes Srila Prabhupada sat and read His books. Whenever He read it seemed as if someone else had written His books because He didn’t read with the mind of an author who might be looking for editing mistakes or grammatical errors.
He read them with the relish of a pure devotee reading the pastimes of the Supreme Lord to whom He was completely attached.
One day in Los Angeles I went into His room to perform my duties and He was sitting and reading “Bhagavad Gita As It Is”.
After I offered obeisances He looked at me and said, “If you just read this one book and understand, you will become Krishna Conscious in this very life.
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A few months later when I went into His room, He was reading “Nectar of Devotion”. He looked at me and said, “This book is so nice. Just by reading this one book you can become Krishna Conscious.”
Srila Prabhupada teaches us by example. He does everything He asks us to do. He requests us to read His book and He does, too.
– From the Srila Prabhupada Uvaca by HG Srutakirti Dasa
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Hare Krishna prabhu ji.
I purchased the following from krishnastore.com:
“Srila Prabhupada eBooks PDF Format (Original Books) Original eBooks of Srila Prabhupada for iPhone, iPad, Kindle and your computer
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada”
When I downloaded it and, just to make sure, I compared it with the original 1972 Bhagavad Gita edition and also the original Bhagavatam, I found that both differed. Not entirely, but some text. I wondered and looked at vedabase.io, which has all the changed/edited new books, and found that some, not all, words were the same in both. When comparing, I was using the downloaded pdf of the original books in this website in the “Free PDF Downloads” section, which has the scanned pdf of Srila Prabhupada’s original books you posted. I am not trying to criticize anything here, but just humbling letting you know what I saw when comparing which I think is concerning. Everything in the eBook does not seem to be completely original/unedited so please fix the eBook on the krishnastore.com website and please make sure it does not have the edited text instead of the original one.
I really appreciate you taking your time to read this reply and may Krishna always keep you blissful. Thank you, and Hare Krishna!
Parth Suthar
The ebooks are currently pre-1977, not first-edition. For first edition I suggest you read the physical books we have printed and also you can read on:
https://prabhupadabooks.com
Which is all now 100% original first-edition. We will be recreating all the ebooks also with original first edition text and all existing purchasers will get access to that version free of charge. That will happen in the next few months. I humbly request you to consider the amount of energy, effort and work that has to go into tasks like this and just be a little patient. It is in process and will be completed in the near future.
Dandavat pranams, Madhudvisa prabhu.
Hope that you are doing well.
I used to order some DVDs from you some years ago, and now want to ask you about something else:
Few devotees from Serbia have desire to print Bhagavad-gita as it is in Serbian language. Since the edited BBT version is not the option for us, we want to ask you for blessings and instruction how to realize it, and to regulate everything with you regarding copyrights as well.
First Gita in Yugoslavia was translated and printed in 1980, and it was based on unedited version, but from 1982 on, every further translation was half or fully influenced by edited version. Now local ISKCON members printed it again, so we think that it’s time to do it properly. I asked Syamarani Mataji about her opinion, and she suggested me to address you.
Thank you in advance for your kind answer.
Vaisnava sevyabhilas,
Divakar das
If you want to print print.