An Authentic Life 1.1 for pdf - Universalist Radha-Krishnaism

make a counter-emblem. The communists will appreciate.”
Devotee: “Sickle and tilak.”
Swamiji, “Eh?”
Devotee: “A sickle, and then a tilak.”
Swamiji: “Yes, that is good idea.”
I was there. It was no joke as some claimed! Of
course he was smiling and using his cane as a gun,
but it was just like he’d talk about starting a new
temple construction, how to sell more books, or anything
else. He he charmed us into doing things. What
kind of teacher tells jokes like that, knowing his students
cling to his every word, and that this was being
recorded. Of course, most of his disciples were yes
men who didn’t think.
As for me, I was shocked. I felt he really
crossed the line this time. Yet what could I say?
ISKCON had become a militant fundamentalist cult,
and I wasn’t alone in my suspicions--hundreds, even
thousands of people went through a similar experience
with ISKCON after me. I started looking for a
way out.
Honolulu and Fiji Temples
I left India April 26, 1974. I stopped in New York and
Los Angeles to preach and visit old friends on the
way to Honolulu. The temple was a six bedroom tract
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