BBT Sells Cases of Mac72 Gita.
Some claim that the psychogenetic fallacy is unfairly alleged to dismiss legitimate concerns about the editing that has been done to the Bhagavad Gita As It Is. Yet evidence of how some individuals have become so unreasonably frantic about the modifications made to the Gita is readily evident.
The BBT offers the Mac72 version of the Gita for sale side-by-side with the current edited version.
But sales of the Mac72 are comparatively much less and therefore cases of that edition remains in the BBT warehouse unsold. This meme captures real examples of the type of irrational, emotional propaganda that reflects the absurdly uninformed and prejudicial comments recklessly spewed by the Mac72 Legalists.
You cannot tolerate this misleading. People are innocent. It is our duty to become merciful upon them, to give them real knowledge. And these people are misleading. There must be strong protests against these rascals. Morning Walk – May 3, 1973, Los Angeles
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FOR THE RECORD:
BOTH the ORIGINAL unedited “Mac72” version and the edited “Current Academic” version of the BGAII should be published and sold by the BBT. This serves two essential purposes:
1. The “Mac72” version:
This is essential because it remains the last original unedited text that Srila Prabhupada spoke and lectured from while still in his manifest form.
This version will remain the benchmark for historians and future editors as the language evolves. Publishing the Mac72 edition of the Bhagavada Gita As It Is fulfills the in-structions not to change anything.
2. The “Current Academic”
This edition is also absolutely essential to ensure that the gen-eral public will be able to understand the essential/purpose of the Bhagavad Gita As It Is. (To restore ones lost relationship with the Supreme Personality Of Godhead Lord Sri Krishna) To ensure full transparency it would also be necessary to have a website dedicated to providing a thorough explanation for the applied edits. That may be accomplished by discrete, superscripted, foot-notations, or perhaps a side-by side page comparison.
Publishing this version of the Bhagavada Gita As It Is fulfills Srila Prabhupadas desire to make sure his books were as first class as we can possibly product them. It allows for editorial clarity as the language changes in the future, as well as a variety of market-ing tricks used by the major publishers of the classics.
“Prabhupada said that if there is one mistake in one book, then you spoil the whole book. Murder the whole book. So also besides Sanskrit errors, there have been many, many English errors also, which; are very obvious, just like these two above-mentioned errors, so Prabhupada has been emphasizing lately about the great need for making our books free from errors” – From Pradyumna dasa – SL_720919_A