ONE OF THE MOST SUBLIME LYRICAL ACHIEVEMENTS IN ALL MYSTIC LITERATURE
In Praise of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami:
“A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami brings to the West a salutary reminder that our highly activistic and one-sided culture lacks the inner depth of Krishna Consciousness. Without such depth our moral and political protestations are just so much verbiage.”
Thomas Merton
“He writes from not only a scholar’s but a practitioner’s, a dedicated life-long devotee’s, point of view that is honest and very moving.”
Denise Levertov
“The HARE KRISHNA meditation led by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami transports the disciples into a state of religious ecstasy so rapturous it’s almost embarrassing to witness.”
Jane Howard       “Life”
“The task he has undertaken in translating and commenting on the Bhagavata Purana, Bhagavad Gita, and Chaitanya Charitamrita necessitates a considerable erudition. His teachings are obviously significant to many of our young people and is therefore important to all of us.”
professor Edward C. Dimock   university of chicago
“He is doing valuable work and his books are significant contributions to the salvation of human kind.”
Sri Lal Baladur Ghastri   late prime minister of India.
“I am greatly impressed by the recent surge of interest in Krishna Consciousness. A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami is due our respects and good wishes.”
professor Joseph Campbell   sarah lawrence college
“The purports or explanations of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami are transparent and exquisitely detailed expositions presented here for the first time to common public Western mind—a storehouse of old age, experience, devotion, learning, scholarship, Hindu granny wisdom sincerity, gaiety and sweet transcendental insight.”
Allen Ginsberg: