Daniel Cooper Clark is one of A.C. Bhak­tivedanta Swami’s orig­i­nal New York dis­ci­ples. We met at the 26 Sec­ond Avenue tem­ple in Jan­u­ary 1968 when I vis­ited there from my Santa Fe tem­ple. We later worked together closely at Back to God­head and the New Age Cau­cus. I sent him a pdf man­u­script of my new book […]

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.

Every­thing we do is bet­ter to do with love, no mat­ter how small, or how insignif­i­cant we think it is. We can­not mea­sure love. Lov­ing atti­tude is bet­ter than purity of any kind, no mat­ter how big the lat­ter one is. Love is a higher prin­ci­ple than purity. Purity is a seri­ous imped­i­ment and becomes a goal in itself, which is a sad truth in all spir­i­tual prac­tices today and of antiquity …