Jan 29, 2013 — INDIA (SUN) — Sattvic Prabhu has quoted from Srila Prabhupada's purport to Cc Madhya 7.130:
"One should not try to be an artificially advanced devotee, thinking, "I am a first-class devotee." Such thinking should be avoided. It is best not to accept any disciples."
In the present edition of the Vedabase, this has been changed to:
"One should not try to be an artificially advanced devotee, thinking "I am a first-class devotee, so it is best not to accept any disciples." Such thinking should be avoided."
This change is based on the Anubhasya, the commentary by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati, from which Srila Prabhupada was translating. Following are images of the relevant section of Anubhasya, for the benefit of those who can read Bengali.
I have seen the original transcript of Srila Prabhupada's dictation of this section of his commentary, and it is clear that the editors at that time mistakenly rendered this part as it was first published. It is unsurprising that errors like this were made in the marathon to publish eighteen books in two months. This has now been corrected. The original transcript is with the
Bhaktivedanta Archives.
I plan to gradually respond, probably starting next week, to other points made by Sattvic Prabhu.
Hare Krsna.
Dasabhasa, BVS
