Prabhupada Pronouced
Govinda Dasi: In Los Angeles in September of 1968, we were going to record the Govinda record album with Prabhupada reading his spiritual master's preface to Brahma-samhita, "The materialistic demeanor cannot stretch to the transcendental autocrat. . ." Prabhupada asked me to type this preface and then he read it to me a couple of times to see how it sounded. He would read things to me because I knew English fairly well. I listened very carefully and there was one word? "analogously" that he pronounced "ana-lo-gously." I had never corrected Srila Prabhupada before, In fact, I loved it when he called watermelons "waterlemons." And when he called for some "antelope" I never told him, "That's called cantaloupe." I was fine with that. I had a very motherly relationship with Prabhupada and I thought whatever he said was wonderful. But because people who may not understand his accent would be hearing this album and because this recording was for posterity, I thought, "Oh, you want your guru to come with the best foot forward." I was not on an ego trip but had innocent and good intentions. I said, Srila Prabhupada, I think that word is pronounced an-al-ogously , he looked at me and said, "You pronounce it your way, and I'll pronounce it my way."
Reference: Memories Anecdotes of a Modern Day Saint - Volume 3 by Siddhanta Dasa
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