An Authentic Life 1.1 for pdf - Universalist Radha-Krishnaism

wild dogs that roamed Vrindaban and attacked people
who were alone at night or in early morning. Dogs
are not often kept as pets in India, except by westernized
people like Bhaktivinode Thakur. In Vrindaban,
there were so many wild dogs that the police went
around shooting them once a year.
There were also many wild pigs rummaging
around town competing with the dogs for garbage
and stool that piled up in gutters where sewer water
ran in open streams. Men and women came daily and
swept the streets with handleless straw brooms and
metal scoops to pickup garbage and excrement. They
put it in hand carts they then dumped at a spot to be
picked up by a tractor or ox pulled trailer.
In the bazaars, shops lined the streets and were
raised a couple of feet above the cement road to avoid
flooding during monsoon season. Proprietors sat on
cushions in the open storefronts displaying their
wears and dealing with customers. Other merchants
used hand carts in the street. Most of the traffic was
pedestrians, with some bicycles, rickshaws, ox carts,
and a few cars and trucks. There were no side walks,
and the streets were about twenty feet wide. Most of
the buildings were painted, stucco brick. It felt like an
old medieval town, especially in the evening when
people lit their dry dung burners in the streets to cook
dinner, and pungent smoke filled the air.
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