HH Bhaktividyā Pūrṇa Svāmī Mahārāja: [Prabhupāda] left us the books for the next 10,000 years. Not that they need to be rewritten and re-run like this and turned upside down as we think is fit. Prabhupāda said we can make commentaries, so if they want to make a commentary... This is the one thing I don't understand. You say, 'Make a commentary.' 'Oh, we are not qualified to make a commentary.' To make a long lasting comment on Prabhupāda's things, we don't feel we have the qualification. Okay, then don't say anything. 'No, no, no, no, we are going to change the words so we don't need a commentary.' It's kind-of like, that's a long lasting thing. Why do you think you have the qualifications for that? That doesn't make any sense.

So that's the thing, the normal thing is you don't touch them. Once it's done it doesn't touch. That's why some have a problem even that Jayādvaita Mahārāja went back and redid the Bhagavad-gītā. But when they were doing it, he went back to what Prabhupāda had said before. But the point is is, what Prabhupāda was saying was fine. But at the same time he went back and some words were not clear, some points were left out, sometimes you saw that points were left out in the purport because it wasn't understood by Hayagrīva. And so then he puts those in, that's fine. So like that, it doesn't matter, it's whatever is working. But at the same time is, you have to be very, very careful about this. Because that has been done, 'Okay, now we can change anything.' But then how much of the time does Prabhupāda talk about... Here. 'His desire.' You know, 'the living entity, he should do this.' Now by the modern political correctness you can't use those. Does that mean we are going to go through it and rewrite all the books?

HH BVPS Mahārāja: You know, 'them should be done do this.' Now it's okay? So it's, you can't do that. That's just the way it is. Otherwise they are going to rewrite everything? They are going to go back and rewrite Mark Twain and and Bernard Shaw and all those guys? And all the guys, so many authors in France and in Italy, and we are going to rewrite the Iliad and Odyssey? Because... What is it? I can't remember what his name was... But, you know, 'Because he identified his cisgender he saw himself like in the masculine role in that and because of that he was very much attracted to Helen, who, you know, happened to be identifying as a female, even though she was semi... He also happened to be within a feminine form, and therefore he took her off to his city of Troy...' Do we have to redo anything like this? Beowulf? You know, Grendel's mother. Grendel is a boy, like that, then his mother, and then... What's that? What if she is thinking he is the father and all that? Do you have to rewrite everything? So that's, if we do, then that's what Orwell was talking about, exactly. Is that in the name of this so-called political correct we have to rewrite everything.

So, no, this is what it is, that's the way it stays. We have to rewrite Shakespeare because the language is... His language didn't even... It's its own language, it has its own grammar and everything. He was a good writer, a good orator, but he didn't necessarily know all the grammar and all that so well. And so he does things that technically according to English grammar aren't the proper way that they would do it, or it wouldn't be how people were speaking necessarily. But it's just it's its own thing. So, yes, so then here is going to be Prabhupāda's books. If everything changes in the future... How you say? You have the Old English, Middle English and now the English, and then soon we will be speaking New English or New-new-newer English or Really-really-new English, then, yeah, then people will, 'Oh, you can read Prabhupāda's books? Wow! You are really educated!' Whatever. So the point is is, it's there. And then if you have to make a translation of it, that's another thing, but the book stays the way it is. Like you translate it into French, we don't burn all the English books. Like that. Does that make sense? We are not in the Middle East.