An Authentic Life 1.1 for pdf - Universalist Radha-Krishnaism

enjoy sweet drinks, spicy pastries, milk sweets, and
other refreshments. Then, after more dancing, they
slipped home to bed before their families awoke. This
is one of the most beautiful traditional stories of
Krishna and his girlfriends.
There are many tamal trees in Seva Kunja garden.
These trees have blackish bark that is often compared
to Krishna's skin color. One especially black
tamal tree allegedly was the one Krishna clung to
when he wept in separation from Radha. Although
Krishna had many girlfriends, Radha was number
one. Unless she was present, the love sports were incomplete.
Sometimes, Radha-Krishna had a lover’s quarrel,
and she spurned him for a while. At such times,
he wept in separation from her. Once, weeping and
clutching the black tamal tree, his touch formed shalagrams,
black sacred stones. The god of love wept in
separation from his beloved. Nearby at a golden tree,
Radha experienced separation from Krishna.
The garden has a small temple, a pool that
Krishna magically made with his flute to give water
to the thirsty cowherd girls, raised platforms for them
to dance and sit on, and many rhesus monkeys. The
packed white clay ground was swept clean.
That evening, Sharma took me to some of the
5,000 temples Vrindaban is famous for. Some are quite
palatial while others are simple rooms in people’s
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