Jayadvaita Swami
Jayadvaita Swami—editor, publisher, and teacher—is a disciple of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder-Acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. He served as an editor or assistant editor for nearly all the books of Srila Prabhupada published during Srila Prabhupada’s lifetime. He received initiation from Srila Prabhupada in 1968, at the age of nineteen. Read more…
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“Gita changes” for Chapter 4 now online - Fri, 16 Jul 2010
BBT press release
“The changes” for chapter four of Bhagavad-Gita As It Is are now online at www.BBTedit.com/changes.
You’ll see:
- Several purports where missing text has been restored. In the purport to Text 6, restored to the book are more than forty words left out when a typist skipped from one instance of “causeless mercy” to the next.
- Spelling errors corrected, both for Sanskrit (texts 5, 11, and 12) and for English (text 10).
- In the word meanings for text 31, a word meaning left out by Srila Prabhupada and replaced by the editor with a meaning that was totally wrong. Fixed for the second edition.
Also:
- In text 12 you’ll see “hrt-anjana” (“heart ointment”?) properly restored to “hrta-jnana” (“deprived of knowledge”).
- In text 10 you’ll see how “negligence of spiritual life” wrongly came to be one of the “three stages of attachment to the material world.” And you’ll see for yourself whether Srila Prabhupada meant to say that the conception of void “underlies” frustration or arises from it.
Also included is the complete manuscript page for text 34.
Check it out.
Thank you to my assistants - Wed, 23 Jun 2010
For a bit more than the past year and a half, I have had the benefit of having Brijesh Vadhvania serving as my personal assistant. He rendered a host of services—in particular, expertly managing the practical details of my life. Now he has returned home to London, where he’ll be connected with Bhaktivedanta Manor. (At the moment, he’s busy helping with the setup for this year’s annual Krishna conscious program in Glastonbury.) I thank him for his devoted personal assistance and wish him all the best in his Krishna conscious life. We plan to stay in touch.
Vyasa-puja book open for all of Srila Prabhupada’s disciples - Mon, 15 Mar 2010
from my disciple Pradyumna Dasa in the UK
Dear Maharajas, Prabhus, and Matajis,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
It’s starting this year: an annual Vyasa-puja book for Srila Prabhupada in which individual offerings from all of his disciples can be included. Though ISKCON’s official Vyasa-puja book began as just such a book, as the movement grew the book evolved in such a way that most of Srila Prabhupada’s disciples are no longer eligible to contribute.
For this new book, on the other hand, all of his disciples will be welcome to write their individual offerings.
Updated BBT style sheet - Sat, 20 Feb 2010
Newly posted online for downloading is the most recent updated version of the BBT Style Sheet (February 2010).
It offers the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust’s latest standards on such matters as spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and word choice.
This is a routine update. The download is 360 KB.
You can always find the latest version of the style sheet (and the fonts for it) on the permanent page of BBT editorial resources.
“Gita changes” for Chapter 3 now online - Sun, 14 Feb 2010
BBT Press release
The “changes” for chapter three of Bhagavad-Gita As It Is are now online at www.BBTedit.com/changes.
Perhaps the most notable feature of this chapter is that the revisions to the purports are so few. As in the rest of the book, when revisions are warranted they are made, and otherwise the text is left unchanged. In this chapter fewer revisions are needed, so fewer are made.
Still, there are several revisions worth seeing.
You’ll see:
- Four places where a typist has skipped from one occurrence of a word to the next—for example, from “teach” to “teach”—leaving out the text in between. The second edition restores the missing text.
This happens twice in the purport to text 20 and once each in the purports to texts 30 and 37.
You’ll also see:
- What Srila Prabhupada actually said about duties that “complement one’s psychophysical condition.” (purport to text 35)
The changes for the Preface, the Introduction, and the previous chapters are already online. See them all at www.BBTedit.com/changes.
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