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An Authentic Life 1.1 for pdf - Universalist Radha-Krishnaism

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though I was a passenger in the back seat, he checked<br />

my ID over the radio and found there was a warrant<br />

<strong>for</strong> my arrest <strong>for</strong> an unpaid ticket from when I drove<br />

that car months earlier.<br />

I was arrested and booked. The sacred beads<br />

tied around my neck at initiation were cut off, and I<br />

was placed in a cell. I got one phone call and used it<br />

to call a devotee asking him to bring me bail money.<br />

When I got back to Prabhupad's, he was glad<br />

to see me and said the kitchen didn't work right without<br />

me. His lunch was late and the chapaties (round<br />

whole wheat flat breads) didn't come out right.<br />

When I went to court, I got a suspended sentence.<br />

Prabhupad said that was because I wore a Jagannath<br />

deity on a string around my neck.<br />

Mukunda and I<br />

arranged <strong>for</strong> Prabhupad<br />

to appear on national<br />

television on the Les<br />

Crane Show. <strong>Life</strong> magazine<br />

featured Prabhupad's<br />

picture and an accompanying<br />

story as part of an<br />

article, "The Year of the<br />

Guru." The influence of<br />

Indian gurus and their<br />

American disciples grew<br />

rapidly in 1968.<br />

Prabhupad 1968<br />

Prabhupad and I<br />

took a walk every morning.<br />

At times, he wanted me to go to San Francisco<br />

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