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Bhagavad-gtBy His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktiveda

Founder-crya of the International Society fo

Chapter Sevefrom

J. Swamis edited cof the 1972 edition

This is a chapter from the copy of the 1972 edion which Jaydvaita Swami marked the revisio

The translations were revised

This copy of the book was used only fo

This document is made available so tha

can see what revisions were made and why. It i

The yellow annotations were made in

by Jaydvaita Swami and Matsya Avatra D

under Gopparnadhana Dsa. (Matsya Avatra was

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Notes for Chapter Sevenby Jaydvaita Swami

Thischapterrepresentsaturningpointfor rlaPrabhupdaswr

gt AsItIsbecauseinthischapter,forthefirsttime, rlaPrabhimselftospeakingitintoadictatingmachineforotherstotrans

Thestartofthedictatingmachine

InaninterviewinAprilof2003,GargamuniPrabhutoldmehow

dictatingmachine.Onedayin1966Gargamuniasked rlaPrabh

todoforyou?Whatisourjob?Yourefeedingus.Youregivingu

Whatdowedoforyou?And rlaPrabhupdasimplysaid,The

spiritualmasterinhiswork.

Gargamunitoldme,Iknewhisworkwastranslating,butIdidnt

dayonthewaytoabookstore,Orientalia,ontheothersideofto

officemachinestorecaughthiseye,somethingthatlookedlikea

Gargamuniwentinandaskedthemanager,Whatisthat?

Themansaid,Itsadictaphone.

Gargamuniasked,Whousesit?

Themansaid,Doctors,lawyers...

Howaboutpeoplewhowritebooks?

Oh,yes.

Gargamuniatoncethoughtthemachinecouldbeuseful.Swm

Prabhupdausedtotypewithonlyhisindexfingers.SoGargamu

increasethetranslation!

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whichwouldhavebeenpage3(or215)isabsent.It

Thenextpage(againwerelookingatacarboncopy)bearlaPrabhupdahasfirstmarkedit215andthencross

Thiswouldsupportthenotionthatpage215wasmissing

sentence,withthelastlineofthepurporttotext11,tran

livlihoodthatisnotkama.Sincethisdoesnotmatchany

book,andsinceafullmanuscriptpageoughttohaveyiel

book,Isuspectthattheoriginalpurportwaslostand rla

Pages217and218followrightalong.Page218endsabrupurporttotext14.Inthepublishedbookthepurportfor

sentencesfromthispageandthenpicksupfromthenex

Page219,whichgivesafullpurportfortext14,appearstPrabhupdahimself,exceptthatitsheadersaysTheBha

Geetopanisad.Whysuchapageamidstthepagesoftra

thispageandthenewlyfoundpage212partofaset?Id

thispageformstherestofthepurportfortext14giveni

thepage, rlaPrabhupdagivesthetransliterationforte

Ref.BacktoGodheadTheLowestoftheMankind.This

thearticleTheLowestoftheMankindfromBacktoGo

IndiaonApril5,1956.Pages220through226arearetyp

abbreviated,somespellingsrevised,andsomeothermin

Onpage227 rlaPrabhupdaprovides,handwritten,thetext16.

Page228(whichgivesthetranslationfortext16andbegtranscribeddictation,whichcontinuesuntiltheendofth

Thepageafter233isnumbered224insteadof234.Thenumberingcontinuesaccordinglyuntilpage239,whiche

portionofthemanuscriptisatopcopy,notacarbon.P

bottomhalfofthepage,whichcompletesthepurportto

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Thismanuscript,likealltheotherGtmanuscriptsintheArchive

thesecondedition.

Chapterfive,asmynotesforthatchapterdiscuss,musthavebee

1966andmorelikelyinOctoberNovember.Andatranscriptionf

date12/27/66,tellingus rlaPrabhupdamusthavefinishedcha

havethelowerandupperlimitsforwhen rlaPrabhupdamust

assumehewrotemostorallofitinDecemberof1966.

rlaPrabhupdasrevisionsandannotationsin

Frompage214onwards,thepagenumberspennedinatthetop

Prabhupdashand.Atthetopofpage238hehaswritten7thch

correctionsorinsertions(sometimesextensive)onpages227thr

numberedpages228,234,and237.Butonotherpages,despite

in rlaPrabhupdashandappears,otherthanthepagenumber

Inthreeplaces rlaPrabhupdahasputanotedirectingthatone

theseslipsareincludedinthemanuscript.Thecontextmakescle

wouldhavegiventhetextfortheanybhilit nyamverseof

Editorsrevisionsinthemanuscript

Pages204through219bearhardlyanyeditorialmarks.Thenext

that,practicallyeverypageshowsfairlyextensiveediting,apartf

theeditingmightbeHayagrvaPrabhus,butmostofitlookstom

Goswm.Theeditingisnotthorough,butsomeofitseemstohainthepublishedbook.ThereisnosignofeditingforSanskrit.

Featuresofthetranscribeddictations

Oncetheportionofthemanuscriptbeginsthathasbeentranscri

featurescommoninsimilarmanuscriptsforlaterchapters.Forex

mishearings(AccordingtoourVedic[ratherthanAyurv profuseabbreviations(Ved.lit.,Sup.Lord,mat.desiKrishna,andK.C.)

abundanttypographicalerrors guessingaboutwhereonesentenceendsandanewone blanks left for words the transcriber couldnt make out i

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Revisionsandannotationsseeninthisfile

TheredrevisionsseeninmycopyoftheGt wereallputthereb

thetechnicalchangesmadetothetransliterationsandwordmea

wastransferringrevisionsmadeseparatelybytheBBTsSanskrit

ChangestothewordmeaningsmadepurelyforthesakeofEnglis

Atvariousplacesinthebook,thecomposersthatis,thedev

notesshowingwheretheybeganorleftofftheirwork.Asddst

AmericanAasakh,nottheAasakhfromBritain),mddstan

DuhkhaforDukhahantrDevDs.

MatsyaAvatraDsa,astudentofGopparadhanaPrabhus,co

thewordforwordmeanings.MatsyaAvatraisnowinchargeof

theBBTsSanskritschool,startedbyGopparadhanaPrabhu,a

on rlaJvaGosvmsgrammar.Hewasnotinvolvedineditinge

Viewingthisfileandgivingfeedback

Thisfileincludesattachedimagesfromtheoriginalmanuscript.T

thefileusingAdobeAcrobatReader.OtherPDFreadersmaynot

attachments.Toopenthetextofanannotation,clickonittwice.

Thoughtfulquestionsandcommentsarewelcome.Youcanwrite

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BG 07: Macmillan hard with corrs. for

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From the Second Edition

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