An Authentic Life 1.1 for pdf - Universalist Radha-Krishnaism

After spending a couple of weeks in Amsterdam, I
took the train to Hamburg. I was greeted with surprise
at the temple because they just got the news
about events in New Vrindaban. When Krishna Das,
the temple president got back, we talked about what
happened there. We knew each other from San Francisco
and had similar outlooks about how to practice
Krishna consciousness.
I spent several days in the industrial loft that
served as temple and dormitory. I lectured with a
German translator. The loft was unheated on weekends,
and it was the middle of winter. The shower
was in an unheated basement several blocks away.
I received a letter from Prabhupad asking,
"Please stabilize this movement which I have started."
I wondered how I could do this. I was just one person
and the problems with the organization were major. I
struggled for years to keep the movement pure. It
seemed a loosing battle.
I read an essay by Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati,
Bhaktivedanta Swami’s guru. It was titled "Be Humbler
Than a Blade of Grass." In this essay, I got the
message, "The only thing I can do to stabilize this
movement is to be an example of how Krishna consciousness
should be practiced."
I went to the West Berlin temple by train. I saw
machine gun towers, barbed wire, and tanks along
the East German border. Some border guards that
came on board to check passports seemed as cold and
inhuman as Western media frequently portrayed
them. The effects of World War II were still clearly
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