{"id":3631,"date":"2007-06-05T13:52:22","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T12:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=3631"},"modified":"2007-07-12T15:41:33","modified_gmt":"2007-07-12T14:41:33","slug":"amazing-never-before-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=3631","title":{"rendered":"Amazing! Never Before Revealed!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(A message from the BBT)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>By BBT staff<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Madhudvisa Dasa&#8211;no, not the original Prabhupada disciple, but the one who got going sometime in the 1980s&#8211;has started a new website.<\/p>\n<p>It aims at selling Bhagavad-gita As It Is with razzle-dazzle ad copy. You know the kind of thing: &#8220;10 Amazing Secrets! Never Before Revealed! Completely Risk-Free!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s trying to sell books, and that&#8217;s good. We wish him well.<\/p>\n<p>Kind of silly, though, that he thinks he needs to lie about the publishers to do it.<\/p>\n<p>You see, he thinks he has to tell his prospective customers that back in the 70s some bad guys &#8220;secretly&#8221; edited the book, hiding its meaning, so that now you can find out those amazing true secrets only in the &#8220;original edition&#8221; that he&#8217;s selling and the original publishers won&#8217;t let you have.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s an &#8220;amazing secret&#8221; right there. (That is to say, a silly little fib.)<\/p>\n<p>As most devotees know, the BBT publishes both editions of &#8220;Bhagavad-gita As It Is&#8221;&#8211;both the old one (the 1972 MacMillan edition) and the new one, the one that fixes hundreds of errors and brings the text closer to what Srila Prabhupada originally said. <\/p>\n<p>And both editions are readily had at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thekrishnastore.com\/Page.bok?template=Shops_BBT_1\">http:\/\/www.thekrishnastore.com\/Page.bok?template=Shops_BBT_1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, as we said, we wish Madhudvisa well. May he sell lots of books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bbt-logo.jpg\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\" \/><strong>By the BBT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> As most devotees know, the BBT publishes both editions of &#8220;Bhagavad-gita As It Is&#8221;&#8211;both the old one (the &#8220;planet of the trees&#8221; edition) and the new one, the one that fixes hundreds of errors and brings the text closer to what Srila Prabhupada originally said.<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}