An Authentic Life 1.1 for pdf - Universalist Radha-Krishnaism

The next morning, we went to Vrindaban by
train and horse cart. The weather was colder than
previous winters I experienced there. Heavy clouds
kept the sun from warming the day. Even the best inn
had no heat. The temperature was in the thirties and
forties Fahrenheit (in the single digits and teens Celsius).
After a few days of visiting holy places and
enduring the cold, we took a second class train to
Bombay, which has a milder climate. Tamal Krishna
and Keshava were in charge of the ISKCON temple.
They told me there was nothing for me to do there.
Business and politics were their way of life, and they
knew it wasn’t mine. However, they wanted my assistant
Jananivas who they could use.
I bought a first-class train ticket to Puri, on the
other side of the subcontinent. I stopped-over at the
Hyderabad temple briefly, and reached Puri two
weeks after my arrival in India.
Again, an elderly god-brother of Swamiji's
rented me a room at the Gaudiya Math monastery on
the beach of the Bay of Bengal. The weather was
pleasant. I spent two weeks walking on the beach,
swimming, body surfing, chanting, and visiting
places of pilgrimage associated with Krishna
Chaitanya and his associates. I enjoyed being on my
own, free of ISKCON's influence.
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