An Authentic Life 1.1 for pdf - Universalist Radha-Krishnaism

“Yeah, but I couldn’t get the night off and have
to go to work.” He washed dishes at a Lahaina fish
house.
I continued to the cave where I spent the night
with about fifty men, women, and children. It’s a
primal experience living in a cave like that even if
only for a night. There was a great sunset, sunrise,
and views. Over all, it was worth it although a four
wheel drive would have been better.
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Jagat realized he could get people like Jubal to help
just for meals and let me go. My friend Jivananda,
who was initiated by Swamiji around the same time
as me, lived in Wailuku. He knew of a shack in Iao
Valley near his home that was abandoned and in disrepair.
He helped me make it livable.
We went through a graveyard to get there.
Good thing I had experience with graveyards and
thought it was great. Then we walked along an irrigation
ditch a short distance to a small shack in a mango
grove. There were also coconuts, avocados, and
breadfruit right in the area. A stream flowed further
down the hill. The shack needed work, but we
thought it was worth it.
Jivananda and his wife Bina let me stay in a
spare room. It was quite comfortable staying in their
old Japanese-Hawaiian style home. My room had a
small balcony that I sunned on in the early morning.
They also ran a secondhand store that was mostly
stocked from the dump. People threw away some
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