Bhagavad-gt As It Is By His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupda

Founder-crya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness

Chapter Five from

J. Swamis edited copy of the 1972 edition

This is a chapter from the copy of the 1972 edition of Bhagavad-gt As It Is on which Jaydvaita Swami marked the revisions for the edition of 1983.

The translations were revised separately.

This copy of the book was used only for the rest of the text.

This document is made available so that persons interested can see what revisions were made and why. It is for your personal use only.

The yellow annotations were made in 2009 and 2010

by Jaydvaita Swami and Matsya Avatra Dsa, a devotee studying Sanskrit under Gopparadhana Dsa. (Matsya Avatra was not involved in editing the book.)

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Notes for Chapter Five by Jaydvaita Swami

As with the first four chapters of Bhagavad-gt As It Is, apparently rla Prabhupda himself typed chapter five. The Bhaktivedanta Archives holds only one manuscript for the chapter. Judging from my scanned copy, the manuscript appears to be a carbon copy of an original now lost.

The first page of the chapter is marked Page 148, the last Page 169. The manuscript is complete, except that it is missing page 153, which would have begun in the midst of the purport for text 7 and ended within the purport for texts 8 and 9.

The typewritten text, though in a few places somewhat faint or smudged, is legible throughout.

Every page of the manuscript has some amount of editing, most likely done by Hayagrva Dasa. Although the editors revisions sometimes make the underlying text difficult to see, the original words are almost always able to be discerned. The editing is not thorough, but much of it seems to have been incorporated, further refined, in the published book. There is no sign of editing for Sanskrit.

This manuscript, like all the other Gt manuscripts in the Archives, was available for me to consult for the second edition.

The reverse side of the pages is informative. For seven of the pages the reverse side is blank (pages 148, 149, 152, 154, and 167 through 169). But the other pages were typed on the reverse of already printed pages (for which scanned images are included at the end of this file).

Page 150 was typed on the back of a form letter inviting people to become tentative members of ISKCON and be placed on a mailing list. The invitation bears no date. The reverse of page 151 records the minutes of the first meeting of the Trustees of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, held on August 8, 1966. So that gives the earliest date when the purport to text 3 (which appears on that page) could have been typed. Six pages were typed on the back of a press release, dated October 11, 1966 (pages 155 through 157, and 163, 165, and 166). We can assume, therefore, that text 11 (appearing on page 155) was typed after October 11.

Six pages (158 through 162, and 164) were typed on the back of fliers advertising a program to be held at Judson Hall in New York City on November 15 (1966). If we assume that Srila Prabhupada, always careful not to waste, would not have used these sheets to type on until after the program, November 15 marks the earliest possible date for text 15 (starting on page 157 and ending on 158).

From what we know of the steady pace at which Srila Prabhupada worked on the book, that his work on this chapter would have stretched out for three months seems unlikely. A more likely assumption is that he wrote the entire chapter in October and November (if not all in November itself).

Since a transcription for a dictated part of Bhagavad-gt As It Is beginning with chapter 8, text 4, is dated December 27, 1966, he must have completed chapters five through seven sometime between November 15 and late December. All this assumes that the manuscripts for these chapters are Srila Prabhupadas originals, not retyped copies. I consider this likely.

The red revisions seen in my copy of the Gt were all put there by me, but not all of them are mine. For the technical changes made to the transliterations and word meanings, and to Sanskrit in the purports, I was transferring revisions made separately by the BBTs Sanskrit editors, mainly Gopparadhana Dsa. Changes to the word meanings made purely for the sake of English, however, were mine.

At various places in the book, the composersthat is, the devotees who did the typesettingleft notes showing where they began or left off their work. Asdd stands for Aa-sakh Dev Ds (the American Aa-sakh, not the Aa-sakh from Britain), mdd stands for Mamat Dev Ds, and Duhkha for Dukhahantr Dev Ds.

Matsya Avatra Dsa, a student of Gopparadhana Prabhus, contributed the yellow sticky notes for the word-for-word meanings. Matsya Avatra teaches Sanskrit at the rmad-Bhgavata Vidypt ham (the BBTs Sanskrit school at Govardhana) and is compiling the schools textbook on rla Jva Gosvms grammar. He was not involved in editing either edition of Bhagavad-gt As It Is.

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jswamiSticky NoteOriginal manuscript: ". . .makes no inquiry about his real identity. So long he does not know his real identity he has to work for fruitive results for the matter of sense gratification and so long one is engrossed. . ."

jswamiSticky Note"Liberation of things which are related to the Supreme Personality of Godhead" was potentially confusing. And "though they are material" misconstrues the intended idea.

Original manuscript: "Renunciation of things which are related with the Supreme Personality of Godhead,as material by persons eager to achieve liberation, is called incomplete renunciation."

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jswamiSticky NoteOriginal manuscript: "and the other process is watering the root of the tree."

The 1968 Collier (abridged) edition says, "One process is to find the root of the tree, and the other to water the root."

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jswamiSticky NoteOriginal manuscript: ". . . one has to attach himself in work of Krsna consciousness."

jswamiSticky Note"However" made no sense here and was not in the original manuscript. In the 1968 Collier edition, likewise, "however" does not appear.

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jswamiSticky NoteOriginal manuscript: ". . . those whoa re engaged in Krsna consciousness activities are better than the Sannyasins engaged in simple speculation only about what is Brahman and what is not Brahman. . ."

JSwamiSticky NotePunctuation:

"One of the most frequent errors in comma usage is the placement of a comma after a coordinating conjunction [such as and]. We cannot say that the comma will always come before the conjunction and never after, but it would be a rare event, indeed, that we need to follow a coordinating conjunction with a comma. When speaking, we do sometimes pause after the little conjunction, but there is seldom a good reason to put a comma there."

--"The Capital Community College Guide to Grammar and Writing," http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/commas.htm. (Accessed September 22, 2009)

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JSwamiSticky NotePunctuation: As above.

JSwamiSticky NoteThe BBT standard in all later publications has been to insert a blank line to separate Sanskrit verses.

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jswamiSticky NoteOriginal manuscript: ". . . appears to be engaged in matter of senses."

jswamiSticky NoteOriginal manuscript: "Activities of the senses like seeing hearing etc and [sic] actions of the senses for receiving knowledge while going speaking evacuating etc are actions of the senses for work."

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JSwamiSticky NotePunctuation: Again, ""One of the most frequent errors in comma usage is the placement of a comma after a coordinating conjunction [such as and]."

JSwamiSticky NoteUsing a and the in reverse of the standard conventions is a characteristic of Indian English. This is a matter I corrected routinely while editing later books. Here we replaced the the with a.

JSwamiSticky NoteOriginal manuscript: "( B.G. )"

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JSwamiSticky NoteThe chapter-verse number here is wrong. In later printings it has been corrected to "1.1.9".)

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jswamiSticky NoteGrammar: A conspicuous dangling modifier.

jswamiSticky NoteOriginal manuscript: "He has no false ego that he is this material body or the body belongs to him."

JSwamiSticky NoteThe opening quotation mark (but not the closing one) appears in the original manuscript. The text translates the Sanskrit.

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jswamiSticky NotePunctuation: The comma wrongly appeared in the midst of a clause.

jswamiSticky NoteOriginal transcription: ". . . such person has no anxiety for any result."

The revised version is consistent with the next sentence.

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jswamiSticky NoteThe noun for referring to the external organs of reproduction is genitals. It is not used in the singular. The word genital exists only as an adjective.

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jswamiSticky NoteOriginal manuscript: ". . . is one of the nature of the supreme Lord distinguished from the matter whch [sic] is also another inferior nature of the Lord."

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jswamiSticky NoteText moved up from the next page.

This verse and the next are quoted by the commentator Madhusudana Sarasvati, who cites this verse as being from sruti (the Vedic hymns) but the next as being from smrti.

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Matsya Avatara dasaSticky NoteYesam is a relative pronoun.

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jswamiSticky NoteParallel structure.

jswamiSticky NoteOriginal manuscript: ". . . learn under such bonafide spiritual master what is Krsna consciousness.Such Krsna consciousness will certaily [sic] drive away all kinds of nescience. . ."

The 1968 Collier (abridged) edition says, "Therefore, one has to seek out a bona fide spiritual master and, under him, learn what Krishna consciousness is. Krishna consciousness will certainly drive away all nescience, as the sun drives away darkness.

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jswamiSticky NoteThe grammar of the original edition was ambiguous. Was it Krsna's declaration or a declaration about Krsna?

Original manuscript: "The whole Bhagavad Gita is full of this statement about Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead."

jswamiSticky NoteGita 14.27

Matsya Avatara dasaSticky NoteTat-buddhayah, tat-atmanah, tat-nisthah, tat-parayanah, and gacchanti are all plural. And that's how the original manuscript has them.

For tat-nisthah, "faith" matches the translation. ("Mind" is covered by tat-atmanah.)

Matsya Avatara dasaSticky NoteNirdhuta: In the Sanskrit and the translation the verb is past and passive.

The original manuscript says "washed."

JSwamiSticky NoteThe deletions indicated in black were not made.

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jswamiSticky NotePunctuation: The comma wrongly appeared in the midst of a clause.

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jswamiSticky NoteNo change made.

jswamiSticky NotePunctuation: The comma wrongly appeared in the midst of a clause.

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JSwamiSticky NoteIn later printings, padravinde has been corrected to pdravinde.

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jswamiSticky NotePunctuation: Comma needed with not.

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jswamiSticky NoteOriginal manuscript: "One cannot be engaged in such topmost welfare work. . ."

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Matsya Avatara dasaSticky NoteSparsan: Fixed double translation. "External" is already covered by the word bahih.

Matsya Avatara dasaSticky NoteKrtva: "Keeping" matches the translation.

Matsya Avatara dasaSticky NoteAntare: "Between the eyebrows" is the standard idiom.

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jswamiSticky NoteThe word breathing was wrongly inserted by the editor, who apparently confused pratyahara with pranayama.

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jswamiSticky NoteOriginal manuscript: "It all depends on one's practical performances duties in Krsna consciousness.Krsna consciouness [sic] helps one in every respect in the matter of controlling the senses and conquer over the influence of desire and anger."

The 1968 Collier (abridged) edition says, "Everything depends on one's own practical performance of duties in Krishna consciousness. This performance in every respect should be to control the senses and conquer the influence of desire and anger. "

But although the second edition restores lost material, clearly I misplaced "in every respect." Coming after "helps one," its placement would have been equivocal: Would the intended meaning have been "helps one in every respect" or "in every respect control the senses"? So I moved "in every respect" to a place where it has only one meaning -- but I chose the wrong place. The right way to preserve Srila Prabhupada's intended meaning would have been this: "which in every respect helps one control the senses and conquer the influence of desire and anger." This correction will be made in future printings.

jswamiSticky NoteOriginal manuscript: "And to remain in Krsna consciousness by controlling over the above-mentioned desire anger etc. one remains factually in transcendental stage or Brahmanirvanam ."

jswamiSticky NoteThe original manuscript said, "Yam Niyam Asana Pratyahara Dhyana Dharana and Pranayam samadhi." The original book followed the order of the manuscript. The revision places the items in the proper sequential order.

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