An Authentic Life 1.1 for pdf - Universalist Radha-Krishnaism

When we reached Colima, Mexico, we got a
hotel room. Carolyn was sick. We went north to Sayula
and rented a house where she could recuperate. I
read the Bhagavad Gita and was impressed by how
loving Krishna seemed. By the time Carolyn recovered,
I had a bad case of Montezuma’s revenge. We
decided to go back to San Francisco in December
1966.
We rented a room in a commune on Ashbury
Street. Kris, a Haight Street shop owner, and her son
lived in the next room. Mark D’Atillo, who was later
to become Vishnujan Maharaj, his wife Jan, and their
daughter lived upstairs. The Haight was blossoming
with be-ins, acid, and hippies.
Carolyn and I studied some Eastern books like
the Bhagavad Gita while in Mexico, and their advice
was to accept the guidance of a spiritual master to
further progress. The knowledge could not be gotten
from a book alone. To attain true enlightenment one
needed a guru, a spiritual teacher.
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