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Re: Vishnua and Shiva
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Subject: Re: Vishnua and Shiva
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From: Vivek Sadananda Pai <vivek@cs.rice.edu>
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Date: 7 Dec 1995 02:29:06 GMT
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Approved: srh <srh@rbhatnagar>
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Article: 676 of soc.religion.hindu
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In article <4a2bs3$ctu@babbage.ece.uc.edu>, jai@mantra.com (Dr. Jai Maharaj) writes:
|> In the article <49ip19$6ft@babbage.ece.uc.edu>,
|> of 29 Nov 1995 23:06:17 UTC,
|> susarla.krishna@studentserver1.swmed.edu (Hari Krishna Susarla)
|> wrote:
|> > ye 'py anya-devataa-bhaktaa yajante s'raddhayaanvitaaH
|> > te 'pi maam eva kaunteya yajanty avidhi-puurvakam
|> >
|> > "Those who are devotees of other gods and who worship them with
|> > faith actually worship only Me, O son of Kunti, but they do so
|> > in a wrong way." (Gita 9.32)
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|> Is the above from the ISKCON version of our Bhagavad Geeta, with
|> words such as "other," "only" and "wrong" added?
I am not sure what is the purpose of giving multiple translations
of 9.32, especially since the Sanksrit that Krishna supplied shows
that the verse is clearly 9.23.
Anyway, as for the words "other", "only", and "wrong" being
"added", I am not aware that Krishna spoke the Bhagavad-Gita
in English to Arjuna, which would seem to be a precondition
for saying those words were "added" to something.
If you look at the transliterated Sanksrit, you'll see words
like "anya-devata," "avidhi-puurvakam," and "eva".
You might want to check to see what they mean before
jumping to (erroneous) conclusions.
-Vivek
P.S. As for "our" Bhagavad Gita, I am unaware that anyone
owns the Sanksrit to the Bhagavad Gita.
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