An Authentic Life 1.1 for pdf - Universalist Radha-Krishnaism

The Delhi festival was just as large and successful
as the Bombay one. Special guests included
the mayor of New Delhi, the Minister of Defense, and
the Canadian High Commissioner. We monks formed
a circle around Swamiji and used our staffs as a barricade
to keep the throngs of people seeking blessings
from crushing or tripping him as he walked from his
car to the stage, since many people tried to touch his
feet as he walked by.
The owner of a vacant Sanskrit school in
Vrindaban offered Swamiji the use of it. It contained a
treadle operated letterpress. Swamiji wanted me to
take charge of it and look into starting a Hindi edition
of Back to Godhead magazine using the press. I was
glad to get permission to live in Vrindaban again. I
was joined by Australian and Indian disciples.
It was a stucco building. The front door opened
on a long narrow room. Then there was a courtyard
with two rooms and a veranda on one side and one
large room containing the press on the other side.
These rooms only had bamboo slat lattice work for
walls on the courtyard side. Sometimes, while we
were out, monkeys broke in and ransacked the place.
Sometimes, when we ate on the veranda, monkeys
jumped from the courtyard walls and stole food from
our plates. There was a small lockable room in the
back that served as a kitchen. It opened on another
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