Why is “Sri Bhagavan uvaca” in the Bhagavad Gita translated as “The Blessed Lord”? said”

From: Raghottama Dasa
Why “Sri Bhagavan uvaca” in Bhagavad Gita is translated as “The BLESSED Lord said”
Who is Blessed?
Please help me to understand this prabhu.

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Question by Rabhotam Das In the Bhagavad Gita as it is by Shri Prabhupada why is Shri Bhagavan translated as the Blessed Lord said? Who is blessed? Answer This translation appeared in the earlier editions of the Bhagavad Gita where the editors especially His Grace Hayagriva Prabhu had to make necessary adjustments so that the Bhagavad Gita could be published by Macmillan. When Shri Prabhupada went to America he was a relatively unknown Swami and although he had published his three volumes of the Bhagavatam in India still he had the world had not yet come to know about his glory as an Acharya. So when the devotees were trying very hard to get Shri Prabhupada’s Bhagavad Gita published in America and finally when by Krishna’s inconceivable arrangement the Macmillan company agreed to publish Shri Prabhupada’s Bhagavad Gita they told that they had a standard length for all their religious classics like the Bible, the Quran and the Gita and they told that Shri Prabhupada’s Bhagavad Gita had to be cut down to that size.
So Hayagiri Prabhu had to in order to get the Bhagavad Gita published for at least the first time confirm with the guidelines of Macmillan and he had to cut down many of the purports of Shri Prabhupada and he also had to adjust the translations. So one of the earlier translations of the Bhagavad Gita into English which had gained widespread respectability the translation of the Bhagavad Gita by Dr. Radhakrishnan, the former President of India, had translated Bhagavan as the Blessed Lord and the first edition of the Gita followed that convention which had been introduced by the earlier respected translation of the Gita subsequently Shri Prabhupada felt that the word Bhagavan needed a specific and distinctive translation which could bring out its personal essence that it referred to a person and that person was not ordinary he was the greatest of all persons the greatest of all Gods and that is why Shri Prabhupada actually coined the translation of Bhagavan as the Supreme Personality of Godhead and then in the subsequent editions of the Bhagavad Gita wherever the word the Blessed Lord had been used was changed to the Supreme Personality of Godhead as was coined and desired and instructed by Shri Prabhupada so you may be having an older edition of the Bhagavad Gita and that is why you are finding the word the Blessed Lord but the latest the current editions of the Bhagavad Gita all use the word the Supreme Personality of Godhead because they can this phrase can embrace the essence of the meaning of the word Bhagavan far more accurately in the English language than the somewhat ambiguous word the Blessed Lord