An Authentic Life 1.1 for pdf - Universalist Radha-Krishnaism

want to disturb the situation and go over my guru's
head, but he wanted to bestow his good will and
grace on me. He acted with utmost ethical integrity in
this matter.
He described the eleven traits to be adopted:
name, age, abode, group, service, color, dress, protection,
sustenance, attitude, and commitment. These
eleven traits depict the personal spiritual identity
through which practitioners express love to the source
of all life from which we emanate. Since love is a personal
act and a reality that lies deep within, it is nondifferent
from us. Rather than keeping it abstract,
nameless, or formless, practitioners intensify it, idealize
it, and transform their personality to thoroughly
conform with divine love. They strive for relations
with its idealized beautiful personal form--Radha-
Krishna. Abundant personal love has many attributes.
With these eleven, practitioners start the contemplative
process and build on them throughout their life.
Lalita Prasad said I could pick these attributes
myself since I’d be spontaneously attracted to my
natural position. I wanted his guidance since he was
much more familiar with these affairs than I, and he
graciously agreed.
Babaji asked Bhakta Ma to help pick a name for
me--Sudha Manjari (Sudha is nectar and a manjari is a
fragrant flower on the creeper of love). He had me
pick an age I wanted to be from ten to thirteen. I said
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