An Authentic Life 1.1 for pdf - Universalist Radha-Krishnaism

Family Man
Antima’s mother was a renowned Puerto Rican psychic.
She told me I had three spirit guides--an English
knight, a French writer, and an Indian chief. It seemed
to fit. Sucitra and I rented a small apartment near her
home.
I regularly took the subway to Manhattan and
looked for work in publishing. It was a time of adjustment
for Sucitra, Purnima and Kishangi. The kids
were raised in New Vrindaban where they were
abused and unaccustomed to anything else. They got
to play on the beach and ride bumper cars.
Our money was limited. We stayed with my
mother on Long Island. Purnima freaked her out
when he told her he would burn down the house. I
think he couldn’t believe people lived like her, although
it is just a modest tract home, after the harsh
life he lived. He had a hard time adjusting and was a
discipline problem.
I felt more at home at my mother’s than ever
before. We moved there from Brooklyn when I was
eight. Now I was thirty-four. My father died ten years
earlier. My siblings were married and lived on their
own. My relationship with my mother deepened over
the years.
Sucitra got money from her aunt in Capitola,
near Santa Cruz. We decided to live on the west coast,
so we flew there and stayed with her aunt. Sucitra
and I did a short stint as telemarketers for the San
Jose Mercury newspaper.
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