An Authentic Life 1.1 for pdf - Universalist Radha-Krishnaism

invitations and did two or three programs a day. We
also visited prominent businesspersons for fundraising.
Tamal and I quickly became celebrities and
were busy from early morning to late night.
At one night program, we chanted on an outdoor
stage while the large crowd sat on rugs on the
ground. We encouraged people to get up and dance,
but security police with sticks told everyone to stay
seated and maintain order. We stopped chanting and
said we would not continue unless the people could
get up and dance. The police had to give in.
The Shankar-acharya of Puri, a powerful religious
and political leader of India, gave a series of lectures
in Hyderabad then too. He wrote a letter to the
editor of the local paper saying, "Hindus beware! CIA
agents and Christian spies. Anyone who sees their
faces will go to hell." I replied with a letter to the editor
of my own. A prominent businessman who had
followed Shankar-acharya said, "I don't know why he
is saying these things about you. He must have gone
crazy."
We had a couple of large outdoor events attended
by about eight thousand people. Sankaracharya's
henchmen came and distributed leaflets
with a similar message as his letter. When they got on
stage and tried to disrupt the program, people from
the audience dragged them off.
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