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An Authentic Life 1.1 for pdf - Universalist Radha-Krishnaism

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As I regained outward consciousness, I called<br />

out, “Who’s there?” It was a woman devotee from the<br />

Philadelphia temple when I was in charge there. I<br />

married her and her husband. Now they split up and<br />

she was on Maui.<br />

I said, “What are you doing here in the middle<br />

of the night?”<br />

She replied, “I thought I’d find you up chanting.”<br />

She came in and we spent the rest of the night<br />

together in devotion.<br />

❡<br />

Many people reported seeing UFOs flying in and out<br />

of Iki Crater in the West Maui Mountains and believed<br />

there was an underground base there. Jiva and<br />

I decided to check it out. We talked with a park ranger<br />

who gave us a topographic map of the way to the crater.<br />

He advised us not to go and told us of a National<br />

Geographic expedition that was lost there many years<br />

ago.<br />

Bina drove us up the coast to the trailhead. We<br />

took light packs and barely enough supplies <strong>for</strong> a<br />

couple of days. The going was tough. At one point we<br />

crawled through a tunnel boars made through the<br />

thick foliage and hoped we wouldn’t meet a boar. In<br />

another area, we took turns falling on the ferns and<br />

flattening them so we could make a trail since we<br />

didn’t bring a machete. As we reached higher altitudes,<br />

the terrain became a peat bog. When we<br />

stopped to rest, our feet disturbed the moss and uncovered<br />

a stack of glass drinking glasses and other<br />

items that obviously were there a long time. We won-<br />

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