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Re: ISKCON : help define these terms
In article <4htuip$9kd@babbage.ece.uc.edu>,
jai@mantra.com (Dr. Jai Maharaj) wrote:
>In the article <4h8djc$kq2@babbage.ece.uc.edu>,
>of 2 Mar 1996 02:59:56 UTC,
>Ramakrishnan Balasubramanian <rbalasub@ecn.purdue.edu> wrote:
>>...I consider many of Prabhupada's translations quite absurd....
>
>The excerpt: "Srila Prabhupada has often said that the astronauts
>have never actually visited the moon." in the book VEDIC
>COSMOGRAPHY AND ASTRONOMY by Richard L. Thompson, Bhaktivedanta
>Book Trust, 1990, page 130, and supports the above opinion of
>Ramakrishnan Balasubramanian. I urge the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust
>to take out the word "Vedic" from the title in future editions
>since doing so grossly misinforms readers about the Vedic sciences.
If you had actually read that in context, it wouldn't have sounded so absurd.
But then, since your whole purpose in life is to smear those you hate, it's
too much to expect you to be honest, isn't it?
Seriously, if there is someone who is interested in discussing this point, I
would be happy to do so over e-mail, free from the noisy and prejudiced
remarks made by certain netters in the name of Hinduism.
