An Authentic Life v 1.2 - Universalist Radha-Krishnaism

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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