Press kit
Pass this on
One personal message to somebody who would listen to you is worth a hundred public shares. Everything below is written to be copied and sent as it is.
The link
The SVG scales to any size without blurring — use it for a printed notice on a temple board. The PNG is for a screen or a chat.
Ways to open the conversation
Most devotees have never been told this happened. A question opens a conversation where a statement closes one — so ask, and let them look it up themselves.
- Did you know the books we read today are not the ones Śrīla Prabhupāda wrote?
- Who edited your Bhagavad-gītā? The book does not tell you.
- Śrīla Prabhupāda departed in 1977. His books went on changing.
- The Gītā on your shelf may not say what he said. Have you ever compared it with a 1972 copy?
- Thousands of changes were made to his books after his departure. Not one of them was announced.
- If a publisher rewrote any other author after his death and kept his name on the cover, it would be a scandal. Why is it not one here?
Then the link, and nothing more: restore.vedicvault.org
Ready-made messages
Send the first one to specific people, one at a time, with a line of your own at the top. That single line — “I signed this and I think you would want to” — does more than everything else on this page.
For WhatsApp or a personal message
Śrīla Prabhupāda departed in 1977. Every change made to his books since then is unauthorised, and the books still carry his name alone. A formal demand asking the directors of the BBT International to restore the 1972–1977 editions has been published, and it can be signed here: restore.vedicvault.org
For a Facebook or forum post
An author who has departed cannot approve a revision. Śrīla Prabhupāda departed in 1977. Every change to his books since was made by someone else, without the author's authorisation, and the revised editions still carry his name and his cover. A formal demand has been published, addressed to the directors of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, asking them to restore the original 1972–1977 editions as the standard texts published, translated and distributed worldwide — and to give any revised edition a distinct cover, the editor's name on it, and a published record of every change. It accuses no one, asks for no one to be removed, and asks for no edition to be destroyed. It asks only that a reader can know which text they hold. Every signature is confirmed by email, and every reply from the directors — and every silence — will be published. restore.vedicvault.org
For an email to one devotee
Hare Kṛṣṇa, Please accept my respects. All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda. A formal demand addressed to the directors of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International has been published. It asks them to restore the original 1972–1977 editions as the standard texts, and to make clear on any revised edition who edited it and what was changed. The text is two paragraphs and takes a minute to read. If you agree with it, your name would carry weight: restore.vedicvault.org Your servant,
What to say, and what not to
This is the most useful part of this page, and the easiest to get wrong.
Say only what cannot be disputed. The author departed in 1977. Changes made after that date were made by someone else. The revisions were not announced and no record of them was published. Every one of those is a fact nobody contests.
Do not accuse anyone of anything. Not of dishonesty, not of motive, not of conspiracy, not of crime. The demand deliberately names no one except its addressees, and it is far stronger for it. A single accusation attached to it in a forward gives the recipients a reason to talk about that instead of about the books.
Do not make it about persons. Not about who failed to speak, not about anyone's wealth, not about old quarrels. Every message that does turns the subject from a text into a personality, and the text is where we win.
Do not overstate the proof. The text is sealed and that can be verified. It does not prove who wrote it, and we say so on the site. If you claim more than the evidence carries, the exaggeration becomes the story.
Do not say anyone must sign. Devotees serving inside temples have real reasons to hesitate, and pressure is exactly what this demand exists to make unnecessary. Ask; never insist.
Images to post
Square, made for a phone screen and for a chat. Type set rather than drawn, so the spelling is right in both languages. Long-press or right-click to save.
Printable flyer
One A4 page: what happened, what is being asked, the link and the QR code. For a temple notice board, a book table, or to hand to somebody who does not use a phone. Open it and print at 100% with no scaling.
Open the flyer (English) Abrir la octavilla (español)
Images
The facts, for anyone writing about this
- What it is
- A formal demand addressed to the directors of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International.
- What it asks
- That the original 1972–1977 editions be restored as the standard texts published, translated and distributed worldwide; and that any revised edition carry a distinct cover, the editor's name, and a published record of every change.
- Who publishes it
- Centros de Bhakti Yoga, a registered non-profit association under Spanish law, CIF G76660679, Calle Salvia 7, Puerta B, La Camella, 38627 Tenerife, Spain. Not affiliated with the BBT, BBT International, ISKCON or its Governing Body Commission.
- Sealed
- 2 September 2026, anchored in Bitcoin through OpenTimestamps. Technical note
- Contact
- info@vedicvault.org