Open-Book Assessment (Mood & Mission) List three aspects of Srila

Prabhupada’s mood and mission, as revealed in the preface to Bhagavad-Gita,

and comment on the importance of these aspects for ISKCON.
Preface is something which display the background under which the book has
been published. In the Preface Srila Prabhupada is preparing the audience to
understand the Bhagvad Gita as it is. This preface was not there in Bhagvad Gita
originally published by Mc Millan as they wanted to restrict the size of the book to
400 pages. That book was not carrying any illustration and the explanation to
most of verses were also mission. Sill the book was accepted well in the society
and Srila Prabhupada started getting acknowledged but he was not really
satisfied. Later on when the demand for original complete version increased, the
book in the present form was published by Mc Millan.
The mood of the Srila Prabhupada can be described in following points:
1. He was feeling satisfied as he was able to present the Bhagvad Gita as it is
without any dilution. The message of Lord Krishna as conveyed to Arjuna
was presented as it is. The format of the book was  original verse, its English
transliteration, word-for-word Sanskrit-English equivalents, translations
and purports. This makes the book very authentic and scholarly and makes
the meaning self-evident. 
2. His other mood was that of gratitude towards his spiritual master and his
previous acharyas. When he used to get any complement for his
achievement, he used to tell that he doesn’t deserve any credit for the
same rather his spiritual master deserve all the credits as he could achieve
the task only at the instance of his spiritual master.
3. The other aspect his mood is that he was stern in conveying that we
should not accept the mayavadi interpretations of the vedic scriptures as
they add their own explanations based on individual interest, while he
wanted to convey the message as it is. Lord Caitanya clearly says that
anyone who tries to understand Bhagavad-gītā from the Māyāvādī point of
view will commit a great blunder. The result of such a blunder will be that
the misguided student of Bhagavad-gītā will certainly be bewildered on the
path of spiritual guidance and will not be able to go back home, back to
Godhead.
Three aspects of the Mission of Srila Parbhupada as depicted in the preface to
Bhagvad Gita are described in following points:
1. The main mission of Srila Prabhupada is to present the mission of the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna.Srila Prabhupada wanted to
present the will of Krsna and not of any materially influential person. Srila
Prabhupada in writing the book was to present this Bhagvad Gita as it is to
guide the conditioned soul to the same purpose for which Krsna descends
to this planet once in a day of Brahma, which is equivalent to 8600 million
earth years.According to him, to interpret the Bhagvad Gita without any
reference to the will of Gita is the greatest offense. In order to save oneself
from this offense, one has to understand the Lord as the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, as He was directly understood by Arjuna, Lord
Kṛṣṇa's first disciple. Such understanding of Bhagavad-gītā is really
profitable and authorized for the welfare of human society in fulfilling the
mission of life.

2. Srila Prabhupada wanted to educate the central point of Bhagvad Gita to

the humanity.  A living entity is happily the part and parcel of the Lord, and
thus his natural function is to render immediate service to the Lord. By the
spell of illusion one tries to be happy by serving his personal sense
gratification in different forms which will never make him happy. Instead of
satisfying his own personal material senses, he has to satisfy the senses of
the Lord. That is the highest perfection of life. The Lord wants this, and He
demands it. One has to understand this central point of Bhagavad-
gītā. The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is teaching the whole world this
central point, and because we are not polluting the theme of Bhagavad-
gītā  As It Is.
3. He has commented that in case even if only one person becomes pure
devotee of the lord by studying this Bhagvad Gita as it is, we shall consider
out attempt is successful.