Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Your Divine Grace.
On this most auspicious day of Vyāsa-pūjā we celebrate your glories, personality, accomplish-
ments, and instructions (vāṇī). Through your mercy you have revealed to us your qualities that are
naturally inherent in an exalted spirit:
1. Kind to everyone, 2. Does not quarrel with anyone, 3. Fixed in the Absolute Truth, 4. Equal
to everyone, 5. Faultless, 6. Charitable, 7. Mild, 8. Clean, 9. Simple, 10. Benevolent, 11. Peace-
ful, 12. Completely attached to Kṛṣṇa, 13. Has no material hankerings, 14. Meek, 15. Steady, 16.
Self-controlled, 17. Does not eat more than required, 18. Sane, 19. Respectful, 20. Humble, 21.
Grave, 22. Compassionate, 23. Friendly, 24. Poetic, 25. Expert, 26. Silent.
Through your continued mercy, we are now able to release VedaBase 25. This update features
a significant amount of new, unique material, including 250 original Līlāmṛta interviews, which
highlight your personality and activities. This new VedaBase 25, for the first time, opens the
world to the English translations of your Hindi and Bengali instructions. 13,696 newly translated
records were added. We’d like to show some examples below of some enthralling new vāṇī:
Prabhupāda: That’s all. You simply become sorry and everything is finished. That’s all.
I do not know what to do. [break] … whatever you like. Whatever like, what can I do?
[Transl. Call that gentleman? Let me talk. You printed that in Bengali. Did you check
it with somebody, or you did it of your own?]
Bengali man: [Transl. I did of my own.]
Prabhupāda: [Transl. It won’t be accepted if you do of your own.]
Bengali man: [Transl. Whatever I understood. Did I make a mistake?]
Prabhupāda: [Transl. You don’t understand anything. You don’t understand any-
thing – that is clear from your writing. You have written with your own motive. I
named it “Māyāpura Candrodaya,” and you have separated it by saying “Māyāpura-
sthita-Candrodaya.” Why?]
Bengali man: [Transl. What I can do? Whatever I understood I wrote.]
Prabhupāda: [Transl. What right have you got to speak the way you understand?
Who has given you the right?]
Bengali man: [Transl. Please forgive my offense.]
Prabhupāda: [Transl. Forgive my offense … but you don’t understand the harm you
have done. Why you have … We gave you, “Śrīmāyāpuracandrodaya,” and you have
written Śrīmāyāpura, and explained it also that “the moon is rising in Māyāpura.” We
named the Mandir “Māyāpuracandrodaya,” and you have changed the whole mean-
ing! You don’t understand anything, and he has written all these things against our
movement.]
Bengali man: [Transl. I didn’t say anything against! Did I say anything contrary?]
Prabhupāda: [Transl. This is contrary!]
Bengali man: [Transl. How is it contrary?]
Prabhupāda: [Transl. We said, Śrīmāyāpurcandrodaya, and you have changed it to
Śrī Māyāpur separate and Candrodaya separate, as if moon rising in Māyāpura. Who
gave you this idea? “Rām is not thief,” and you change it to “Rām is thief.” We named
it “Śrīmāyāpuracandrodaya,” and you changed it to Śrī Māyāpura [space] Candrodaya,
and he explained it like that. They all address me as “Prabhupāda,” which you didn’t.
You say “Viṣṇupāda.” Who told you? They all call me Prabhupāda.]
Bengali man: Nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale –
Prabhupāda: [Transl. That’s all right. Whatever they say, whatever they call me in this
mandir you will also have to say that. Why do you say as you like? And why you write
like that about us, then? Nobody writes “Oṁ viṣṇupāda,” so why do you write?]
Bengali man: [Transl. I have some problem in my ears.]
Prabhupāda: [Transl. So twist your ears strongly. This is not good. You are writing
about us, so until it is approved by us, how can you write? That’s all I am saying. You
have done it of your own, that’s good. But the path we are following, you set it aside
and you follow your own way. That is not good. Shouldn’t you print after checking
it with us? You printed so hurriedly without any permission! Here other bābājīs write
“Nitāi gaura rādhe śyāma hare kṛṣṇa hare rāma,” but we object it. This is also same like
that. Don’t we protest? But they say, we do what we think good. They may think it
as good, but we object it. In the same way, you may think it as good, but we have
objection.
What you have done is done, but don’t do such things in future. After writing you
must check it with us whether it is right or not. That is the proper way. Just like that
vipra from Bangladesh wrote something and wanted to show it to Mahāprabhu. But
Svarūpa Dāmodara said, “No, this is useless!” Never print anything whimsically.
When we print a book, we thoroughly check it so many times before we print.]
Bengali man: [Transl. I didn’t say anything against the organization.]
Prabhupāda: [Transl. You are saying, but they are doing it. Why we don’t approve?
They are also chanting “Nitāi gaura rādhe śyāma” with devotion, but why we don’t
approve it? Don’t you know this?]
Bengali man: [Transl. I don’t have so much knowledge.]
Prabhupāda: [Transl. Don’t have knowledge – then why do you write like an igno-
rant? This is the point. You don’t have knowledge, so you have to take it from some-
one who has it. If you know that you have no knowledge, then first you have to take
the knowledge. Isn’t that right? And this was done purposefully. We joined together
“Śrīmāyāpurcandrodaya,” and why have you separated them? Not only that you have
also explained the meaning! This means you were fully aware of this! What was the
need to separate?]
Bengali man: [Transl. That’s how I understood. Māyāpur Candrodaya… like Caitanya
Candrodaya …]
Prabhupāda: [Transl. Why did you understand like that? We said,
“Māyāpurcandrodaya,” and you wrote Śrīmāyāpura Candrodaya. And why have you
explained also?]
Bengali man: [Transl. Candrodaya means Caitanya Candrodaya I thought.]
Prabhupāda: [Transl. Where is Caitanya Candrodaya?]
Bengali man: [Transl. Caitanyacandra is Caitanya Candrodaya I thought.]
Prabhupāda: [Transl. That means anything whimsical you can think, that’s all! I
thought, I thought. That will not be allowed here. I thought! Who you are! Do you
know that? This will not be allowed if you want to stay here.]
Bengali man: [Transl. I will not do it again. I apologize.]
Prabhupāda: [Transl. I thought so! Who you are! I thought like that. Who cares what
you think? Everybody thinks what I am doing is best. But we have to judge by the
result!] So what are you going to do about this finishing? Everything … [Transl. peṭāya
namaḥ? Namaḥ peṭāya. Stomachāya. Namaḥ stomachāya. Whatever comes, devour it.]
We are forever grateful and eternally indebted to Your Divine Grace. We pray to remain your eter-
nal humble servants. Thank you very much.
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