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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1977]]
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<div id="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="10" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1977 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1977 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">Hm? Why you misunderstand?... You asked me whether photograph should be given. I said, "That cannot be decided by Gopāla."... I don't think photograph is required... Introduction is there. Nothing. As it is... You can ask Dr. Premyadi to give a suitable heading... That's all.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Short Dissertations -- May 24-25, 1977, Vrndavana|Short Dissertations -- May 24-25, 1977, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Good news, Śrīla Prabhupāda.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hm.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: A translation has come from the...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hm. Very good.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: He wrote a little note. Do you want to hear it?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hm.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: "Dear Mr. Secretary, First of all I take the privileged opportunity of tendering with folded hands my most respectful praṇāma to His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swamiji Mahārāja, who was so kind to me during his stay here. Next I sincerely apologize for not being able to complete the task entrusted to me earlier, the reason being that I was taken ill for two days. Thirdly I confess that living out of touch with Hindi legal words, I could not properly reflect correct and appropriate Hindi equivalent words at some places, and therefore I have tried to explain the purport. The translation rendered and tendered..." Very nice way of speaking it.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hm. This is lawyer, judge.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: "...rendered and tendered herewith may not be treated as an authoritative, verbatim translation. There is much scope for improvement. For the present it may be used and circulated in a narrow circle."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: We don't want much improvement. Your translation is...</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Then he says...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So arrange for...</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Printing it.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: ...pamphlets for huge distribution.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: This will be made into a separate little pamphlet all about the court case.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hm.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Any photographs, perhaps, of the persons involved? Any need of that? I think we can leave it up to Gopāla. He's in charge of printing.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, not... We have said.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: We should give a little background introduction of the court case and then this translation of the final verdict of the judge.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: And "Translated by such and such judge." It will carry some weight.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: What is the name?</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Sardar Singh. Judge Sardar Singh.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: What is the spelling?</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: S-a-r-d-a-r.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Sardar.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Singh, S-i-n-g-h. He says, "I will come to Śrī Vṛndāvana by the 20th of June, and then I will be able to correct the mistakes and use proper words after seeing the dictionary. Lastly it is prayed that my name not be associated with the translation." Do we have to abide by his desire?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: If there is some official objection...</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah, he says in it that "so that the people may not make adverse comments," because it's not, you know, it's not verbatim. He's done it quite lengthy, though.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: You can write, "Translated by a qualified judge."</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: It's a wonderful court decision. He sent the original back also.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So do the needful.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: So did you say you didn't want Gopāla to translate it, Śrīla Prabhupāda? To publish it?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hm? Why you misunderstand?</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I couldn't hear. That's why I'm asking.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: You asked me whether photograph should be given. I said, "That cannot be decided by Gopāla."</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I see.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: I don't think photograph is required.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No. Simply a little introduction about what the...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Introduction is there. Nothing. As it is.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Just as it is. Okay. Little... It'll be a pamphlet for mass distribution. (pause) He did a lot of work, Śrīla Prabhupāda, twenty eight pages long, translation.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: You can ask Dr. Premyadi to give a suitable heading.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Okay. I'll let him go through it, and then he'll give a heading.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That's all. (break)</p>
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