The top text 51 is from the original 1972 Gita small softcover edition (2013).
The bottom text 51 is from the CHANGED orange cover Gita currently being handed out at ISKCON temples worldwide. Note the complete change of the translation of the verse: It is practically unrecognizable !
Srila Prabhupada’s Original Gita 2.51
“The wise, engaged in devotional service, take refuge in the Lord, and free themselves from the cycle of birth and death by renouncing the fruits of action in the material world. In this way they can attain that state beyond all miseries.”
Jayadvaita’s Changed Gita 2.51
By thus engaging in devotional service to the Lord, great sages or devotees free themselves from the results of work in the material world. In this way they become free from the cycle of birth and death and attain the state beyond all miseries [by going back to Godhead].
Meee changing books? – Nooooh, I am just correcting Prabhupada’s mistakes!
Prabhupada made so many mistakes
Srila Prabhupada: “Therefore we are presenting Bhagavad Gita as it is. No change. Other they are interpreting in their own way. That is not Bhagavad-Gita. That is something else. In the words of God there is no question of changing. You cannot change. As soon as you make a change, immediately it is material; it has nothing to do with spiritual world.” – Srila Prabhupada Room Conversation on August 5, 1976.
“If you concoct, ‘I am more intelligent than my Guru,’ ‘I can make additions and alterations,’ then you are finished.” — Srila Prabhupada lecture on July 12, 1975 in Philadelphia Pa.
Srila Prabhupada Instructs Jayadvaita – who rejects the order of his guru
BY: MADHUDVISA DAS
Srila Prabhupada gives very specific instructions to Jayadvaita Swami in a letter (referenced at the end of this article) not to change his books, specifically Bhagavad-gita 12.12.
 Jayadvaita – Jay Israel Rejected Srila Prabhupada’s direct instruction to him |
Unfortunately Jayadvaita disregarded this direct order from Srila Prabhupada and with full knowledge that Srila Prabhupada specifically ordered him not to change the verse or the purport he went ahead and changed it anyway.
One devotee noticed Jayadvaita Swami’s direct disregard for this personal instruction and questioned him as to why he went against the clear and direct order of his spiritual master. (Jayadvaita’s reply is also included at the end of this article for your reference.)
In Jayadvaita’s letter he says that Srila Prabhupada’s words “makes no sense” and are “obviously erroneous” but if this is the case then he must also change the multitude of other places where Srila Prabhupada used this so-called “erroneous” phrase that “makes no sense” to him.
I am no scholar, nor have I been trained in the ever changing materialistic and mundane laws of grammar. But I have a very strong fidelity to Srila Prabhupada. So out of curiosity I looked up how many times Srila Prabhupada used the (according to Jayadvaita – “obviously erroneous “regulated principles” — a term that makes no sense — must be forever preserved, and not revised to the usual and sensible “regulative principles,”) phrase “regulated principles” and it turns out that Prabhupada used this “obviously erroneous” term on a regular basis. In his books, classes, letters and conversations, a multitude of times.
I will now list below for your reference just a very few of the many places where Srila Prabhupada very SENSIBLY used the words “regulated principles”: » more here «
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