The purpose of Srimad Bhagavatam 1.16.12 was totally changed by Ramesvara and Tamal Krsna against Srila Prabhupada's instructions in a new printing of Srimad Bhagavatam in early 1978.
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They made this change without informing the devotee community so that everyone would believe that these were Srila Prabhupada's original words, which is not true, it is a big deception, a big lie.
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The purport of SB 1.16.12 was totally changed in the 1978 edition of Srimad Bhagavatam.
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Ramesvara answered my question about this change two or three years ago and told me that Srila Prabhupada authorized this change so that this purport would coincide with the Fifth Canto.
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This is a big lie because the changes introduced are totally contrary to Srila Prabhupada's teachings, even the most recent ones on July 2-3 and 5, 1977, four months before his departure.
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Naturally, Ramesvara has no documentary evidence, recording or writing, to prove such so-called authorization.
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On the other hand, in the Bhumandala discussions, July 2, 3 and 5, 1977, Srila Prabhupada repeated many times that the planet Earth is round and not flat. That is, spherical.
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Tamal Krsna said in these Bhumandala discussions that he would change the model they had made of the great flat earth so that it would be in accordance with Srila Prabhupada's explanations.
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But this was a big lie because he did not make such a reform of the model.
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On the contrary immediately after Srila Prabhupada's departure they again insisted on the idea, prejudice, of the flat earth and for this purpose they completely changed the purport of SB 1.16.12.
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They made this change without informing the community of devotees so that anyone who reads this purport believes that these are the words of Srila Prabhupada. Which is false.
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Ramesvara along with Tamal Krsna and perhaps someone else decided to completely change the purport of SB 1.16.12, without informing the devotees, with the preconceived idea of making them believe that this purport was the words of Srila Prabhupada.
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To arbitrarily change this purport against Srila Prabhupada's explanations in July 1977 is an open challenge to Srila Prabhupada's authority.It is illegal and it is a crime.
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But it is even more serious, it is an aggravating factor, because they have deliberately deceived the entire community of devotees and readers of this verse SB 1.16.12 by making these people believe that they are Srila Prabhupada's words, which is a big lie, so that the content of this purport is accepted as authority because they are Srila Prabhupada's words.
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Even today almost no one knows that this purport SB 1.16.12 was totally changed in the edition of Srimad-Bhagavatam in early 1978 and whoever reads it believes that they are Srila Prabhupada's original words.
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If we read this purport in any of the editions of Srimad Bhagavatam prior to 1978, and even in the original volume that Srila Prabhupada brought from India, we can see all the great changes made in this purport, challenging Srila Prabhupada's authority,manipulating the work of an author accepted as an authority to introduce ideas totally contrary to the author's ideas.
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It is the same crime that occurred with the manipulations of the Bhagavad-Gita over the years.
This is why Srila Prabhupada made the Bhagavad-Gita As It Is.
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It is true that they are manipulators and liars to achieve their purposes and that they do not care at all about Srila Prabhupada's instructions.
Srila Prabhupāda:
“Oh, yes. You have no right. Suppose I have written one book.
So I have got some intention.
So why should you interpret my intention with your intention?
What right you have got? You have no right.
If you want to speak something of yours, then you write another book.
Why you are taking advantage of my book and misleading others?
I want to speak to the public something, I have expressed my opinion in that way.
But because it is popular, you are taking advantage of my book and expressing your views.
How much cheating, how much cheater you are!
Therefore he is suffering, Dr. Radhakrishnan. He has lost his brain.
We went to see him, Dr. Radhakrishnan, when I was in Madras.”
(Room Conversation – April 2, 1972, Sydney Australia)
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