An Authentic Life 1.1 for pdf - Universalist Radha-Krishnaism

what to do. Make your home a temple.” I carry out
these last instructions still.
Alfred Ford and Swamiji were both at the
Honolulu temple. Ford sat up front on a raised seat
next to Swamiji and just a little lower, with Kirtanananda
standing in back of them. I, Sudama Maharaj,
Tarun Kanti, and some other devotees were in the
back of the room being called demons while Alfred's
praises were sung. Money trumps again. Swamiji
called us demons because we resigned from ISKCON
during morning worship one Sunday in December,
1974.
I believe my life until that point was a relearning
of what I knew and attained in my previous life.
Since then, I’ve been doing the work of this life—figuring
out how to teach natural devotion in the West
as Lalita Prasad Thakur instructed. There are no rules
and regulations for natural devotion, what to speak of
its adaptation to an indigenous western culture. To
avoid teaching a foreign religion that causes major
disruption in people’s lives, I make it easy to attain
that which was difficult and costly for me to attain.
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