Did Prabhupada want to re-write Bhagavad Gita As It Is because he worked very fast to publish it quickly?
Thank you Hare Krishna question from Shant Kulkarni Prabhu Did Shila Prabhupada want to rewrite the Bhagavad Gita as it is and put fresh commentary in it I heard from someone that because Prabhupada wanted to publish the book quickly so he wrote it very fast and so he was so he was not able to bring out the full message answer no not exactly Shila Prabhupada wrote the Bhagavad Gita gradually not rapidly Prabhupada was writing it from a long long time in fact as far as we know Prabhupada realized organized in our Sampradaya the Bhagavad Gita had not been emphasized so much by the immediate people such as Bhaktswana Sthakur did not emphasize it so much but Prabhupada recognized that that would be a that would be a book which could convey the foundational devotional spiritual principles to everyone and he considered the Bhagavad Gita also become very important nationally and internationally so Prabhupada used the Bhagavad Gita as the foundation for his outreach his fundamental outreach and so therefore he started his plan for writing the Bhagavad Gita commentary and he wrote it over a long time what Prabhupada was in one sense in a hurry about was publishing the Bhagavad Gita not writing the Bhagavad Gita as it is he wrote it gradually and it was ready but his Bhagavad Gita was not published and that's why Shila Prabhupada was even when he used to give classes earlier in 1965-66 in America he had to use Bhagavad Gita the only published edition was Radhakrishnan's Bhagavad Gita that was prevalent so Prabhupada was using that and then he would point out some errors in translations and he would critique it and then one day Prabhupada brought his own manuscript and the devotees were curious and then he showed that this is what I have written and then Prabhupada had already published the Bhagavatam but not yet the Bhagavad Gita and then he entrusted Hayagiri Prabhu to edit it and then Brahmanand Prabhu to find a publisher and eventually Macmillan was found as the publisher, they first published an unabridged and then first abridged and then an unabridged Gita and then eventually his conference PBT published it so Prabhupada did not write the Bhagavata in a hurry he wrote it gradually organizing its importance at whatever speed was appropriate and in that sense the Bhagavad Gita is perfect however later on Prabhupada was making a list of the various books that he wanted to publish so at that time he wrote Bhagavad Gita also and he already commented on it and Prabhupada said oh but there are so many Acharyas who commented on it and you can comment on it in different ways so Prabhupada's commentary comes primarily from Baladeva Upanishad's commentary although he refers to other Acharyas also so he wanted to comment and present the other Acharyas perspectives also and this is not that he felt that the Bhagavad Gita as it is was incomplete anyway but that the Bhagavad Gita itself is so glorious that there can be so many books written even by the same Acharya commenting on it and we have Bhaktivinoda Thakur writing two books, there is Rasik Ranjan and there is Vidwat Ranjan which he wrote, Vidwat Ranjan he wrote after reading the Baladevidya Bhushan's commentary on the Bhagavad Gita, Gita Bhushan and Rasik Ranjan he wrote after reading Vishwachit Thakur's commentary that is Sararth Varshini so broadly speaking the point is not that the Bhagavad Gita as it is is inadequate and that's why Prabhupada wanted to write more no, it is perfect in giving us the fundamental message of Krishna Consciousness and giving us how to advance in our relationship with Krishna, in our understanding of the Gita at the same time, Gita being the word of God is endlessly relishable, endlessly churnable and Prabhupada wanted to churn it further and that's why he wanted to write further on the Gita not as a not as a replacement for the Bhagavad Gita as it is, not as a complement for the Bhagavad Gita as it is replacement means in place of that, complement means that is incomplete, we have completed he wanted it as a supplement to the Bhagavad Gita Hare Krishna.