New Danish Bhagavad-gita As It Is Cover against Prabhupada's Instructions

BY: AJIT KRISHNA DASA

Oct 01, 2013 — DENMARK (SUN) — Recently the leading Danish editors (Lalitanath dasa and Jahnudvipa dasa/Jahnu dasa) working for BBT International were made aware of this quote:

Srila Prabhupada:

"And the covers, if possible, should always be the same for each respective book regardless of what language it may be printed in." (Letter to Jadurani, Bombay, January 3, 1975)

Here is the cover for Srila Prabhupada's original 1972 edition of his Bhagavad-gita As It Is:

Through their online magazine the Danish BBT(I) editors recently informed the Danish congregation that their new translation of the unauthorized BBT International 1983 Bhagavad-gita are to be published late November 2013. Despite being aware of the above desire and instruction from Srila Prabhupada the editors apparently decided to create their own, new cover – quite different from the original:

Srila Prabhupada:

"Service means you must take order from the master. That is service. Otherwise it is mental concoction. Actually, the servant requests, "How can I serve you?" So when the master orders, "You serve me like this," then you do that, that is service. And if you manufacture your service, that is not service. That is your sense gratification. Yasya prasādād bhagavat-prasādaḥ. You have to see how he is pleased. Now if he wants a glass of water and if you bring a nice glass of milk, you can say milk is better than water, you take it. That is not service. He wants water, you give him water. Don't manufacture better thing." (Lecture, Bhagavad-gita 15.15, August 5, 1976, New Mayapur (French farm)

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