An Authentic Life 1.1 for pdf - Universalist Radha-Krishnaism

Manhattan. However, she needed to stay in Santa Fe
and keep the temple open as Swamiji wanted.
Swamiji wanted me to manufacture incense by
hand using what he thought would be cheap Mexican
and/or Native American labor. I think he wasn’t
aware of the cost of labor, materials, etc., in this country,
and thought we could compete with Indian incense.
Gargamuni, more of a business person than
me, later started Spiritual Sky Incense by dipping
punks in diluted essential oils and packaging them.
They were toxic and made devotees who were around
large stocks of incense sick from the fumes.
I flew to New York and went to the temple at
26 Second Avenue, on the Lower East Side, where I
met devotees whom I heard about and/or corresponded
with. I slept on the carpeted floor of the
storefront temple with most of the male devotees. The
next day, I visited Krishna Devi's Jewish parents, and
they received me well.
When I went to my parents’ house in Lake
Ronkonkoma, Long Island, my mother was glad to
see me, but my father didn't want me to spend the
night. We never got along well. My mother told him
she would leave with me if I couldn't stay. He gave in
and let me spend the night.
I explained that Krishna is God and my beliefs
weren’t different in essence from what Christ taught.
"If Christ sits at the right hand of God, who is God?
What does God look like? He's Krishna." My fundamentalist
Christian father couldn’t accept this.
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