An Authentic Life 1.1 for pdf - Universalist Radha-Krishnaism

A wealthy contractor built a house for himself
and his family to live in--a luxurious modern home
situated in the hills overlooking Hyderabad. It could
just as well have been in the Hollywood hills. One
wall in the stairway, ten feet wide and two stories
high, was covered with natural amethyst crystal. One
day, while going down the steep driveway with his
family, the brakes on his car failed. They crashed into
a stone wall and were injured. They concluded the
house was haunted, and they shouldn’t live there.
They allowed me and several devotees to stay
there. We also felt it was haunted. I really wasn’t into
managing another temple construction. Tamal
Krishna sent Keshava, an experienced American
manager, to take over. He created dissension and tried
undermining my authority as spiritual leader of the
group.
I told him, "I don't need big houses and temples.
If you want them, you can have them. I'm going
on pilgrimage."
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By train and bus, I went to the temple of
Narasingha-dev known as Singhachalam near Visakhapatnam.
The deity presents himself in a two-armed,
threefold-bending human form with the head of a
boar and tail of a lion representing the legendary boar
and half-lion-half-man incarnations of Krishna.
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