This book is suf­fi­ciently impor­tant that its wide dis­sem­i­na­tion amongst devo­tees is a desider­a­tum.… old beliefs are given appar­ently rad­i­cal new inter­pre­ta­tions that widen their scope and poten­tial for mean­ing.… Subal [Steve Bohlert] has done a great ser­vice by intro­duc­ing or nam­ing the Vaish­nava con­cept of deity as panen­the­ism.… I favor rāgānugā [nat­ural devo­tion], as it seems does Subal, pre­cisely because it … is about reform­ing the id-controlled ego into a love-permeated ego.… There is no doubt that Subal’s is an impor­tant brick in the wall of reli­gious dis­course … His great con­tri­bu­tion … is that he has gone out on a limb and attempted to make a coher­ent and sys­tem­atic pre­sen­ta­tion of Radha-Krishna accord­ing to his vision. This means of course that he has set him­self up for crit­i­cism, but that kind of courage is what is needed to push the dis­course fur­ther. — Jagadananda Das/Jan Brzezin­ski, trans­la­tor and anno­ta­tor of Mys­tic Poetry: Rupa Gosvamin’s Uddhava-sandeśa & Hamsadūta.

The Place of the Hid­den Moon: Erotic Mys­ti­cism in the Vaishnava-sahajiya Cult of Ben­gal, by Edward C. Dimock, Jr.
SOME EXCERPTS AND COMMENTS
In her 1989 fore­word, Wendy Doniger says:
This is the most reli­able and indeed alto­gether the best book I know on all of the many Indo­log­i­cal sub­jects with which it deals, some of them major […]