An Authentic Life 1.1 for pdf - Universalist Radha-Krishnaism

I stayed with the devotees in their apartment
outside Amsterdam in a stark concrete building. On
Friday evenings, we went to "De Kosmos," a hashish
club and bar, to chant and lecture on Krishna consciousness
in one of their basement rooms. We also
chanted at rock concerts.
One notable concert was in the Frieseland.
Some devotees were from a British rock band called
"The World." They used a combination of electric and
traditional Indian instruments. George Harrison and
the London temple put out a couple of records of
chants that were in the British top ten at the time.
A Dutch band named Kala played an electric
Indian synthesis. They invited us to the concert and
put us up at their house. Three concerts at once took
place in three auditoriums within the same building.
Kala introduced us at the beginning of their set and
started it off with the two groups chanting together. I
led the chanting. The agreement was to open the set
with chanting, then Kala would perform, and then the
devotees would have a set.
The audience was so excited by the chanting
they wouldn't let us stop. They called for different
chants that they heard on records. I jumped off the
stage into the crowd chanting and dancing like a
madman. The rest of the group joined me. We penetrated
the drunken crowd and got them chanting and
dancing. Then I lead them out of that auditorium in a
procession through the other two and back again.
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