Gita Jayanti and Christmas Book Distribution Marathon

BY MADHUDVISA DASA

Nov 30, USA (SUN) —

Gita Jayanti and the holiday season are coming at the same time. So it is a great opportunity to give the Bhagavad-Gita to others as a gift. It is the most sublime and valuable knowledge. The perfect gift.

This is Srila Prabhupada’s original 1972 edition of “Bhagavad-Gita As It Is,” the most authorized and popular edition of Bhagavad-Gita throughout the whole world.

“And I declare that he who studies this sacred conversation worships Me by his intelligence.” BG 18:70

For more than twenty years this book was unavailable as ISKCON released a “Revised and Enlarged Edition” in 1983 and stopped printing Prabhupada’s original book.

Tattva Sandarbha – Section 3

BY SRILA JIVA GOSWAMI

All glories to Srila Rupa Gosvami and Srila Sanatana Gosvami in the land of Mathura. They have engaged me in writing this book to broadcast the essential truth about the Supreme Lord.

Sri Jiva Toshani Commentary

According to Sanskrit grammatical rules, the pronoun imam (this) is used for objects near at hand, to indicate proximity. Since the book is not done yet, use of imam “this book” in this verse may seem a defect. Baladeva Vidyabhushana comments, however, that because the book already exists within the mind of Srila Jiva Gosvami, he speaks of it as having already come into existence.