Please, could you comment on the comments on the WOD book and the author she mentioned in the group?

I am copying it here. You may delete it if it is too much of a public exposure.

ASA - It is a nice topic. We will edit it for proper consideration in this forum. We hope some devotees can comment about the scope and character of this forum also.

We look at this Blog as an open forum, like what happens after a public Sunday Festival lecture.

Everyone can hear the topics in the Sunday Festival Lecture, so they may be more discreet, not specific names etc.

Then after the lecture to 200 people, maybe 20 come up to the Vyasa asana and then discuss the topics in a more confidential, although still not formally restricted, way.

Then finally, third level, someone may ask to have a few words in private with the speaker.

It is practical because without the Festival Lecture, Asana-sanga, the private discussions have to each one review all the matter covered in the previous two levels with every Private Discussion.

That's just not practical.

With only level three we were getting 500-letters/month.

With this Blog and YouTube and ASA Carnival we get 100-letters a month. 

Their words:

I would not recommend Waves of Devotion to anyone.

First of all, the upcoming study guides from Gauranga Darshan and from the Congregational Development Ministry are far superior.

Second of all, I just would be hesitant to recommend anything done by Dh. Sw. because of his being criticized as a child abuser. I think it's just best to retire that book. That book was very useful and helpful in its own time.

HpS/ASA - I have not seem Gauranga Darshana Das study guides, so I don't know how to offer an evaluation of them. Hope our ASA is able to review all this different Vaisnava literature and put it into a useful curriculum for our members and friends.

Of course, Srila Prabhupada comments in Chapter 90 that the KRSNA book alone is sufficient to be transferred to the spiritual world. Of course, that may mean that if you take to the KRSNA book as a basis it will automatically inspire you to read other books properly.

As far as I know there was never any conclusion by the GBC about complaints of Dhanurdhara Swami's child abuse. As far as I know it was never about sexual abuse, only about disciplinary abuse during his work as Gurukula manager in Vrndavana in the 1970s and maybe 80s.

I have seen him, even currently, appreciated by managers of Tamal Krsna Swami's ashrama in Govardhana, but I wish he had not formally left the GBC administration shelter. So, far I personally think that the GBC is as good as any other aspect of our ISKCON institution, and I should work with it as Srila Prabhupada's functional material incarnation.

Beyond that I see ISKCON as a community of friends, and finally I see ISKCON as institution directly managed by my personal friend and master, Srila A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami and deal with it based upon his personal instructions and guidance.

So, I will continue to use WOD for our ASA Kartika study. Try to keep vital relations with H. H. Dandhura Swami, chose which booke to use for our December ASA/ABC studies and hope that we can help everyone advance in devotional service.

O.K.??