Perhaps I’m a Sahajiya, a follower of the easy, natural way

I’ve been fol­low­ing this dis­cus­sion with great inter­est Gaudiya Reper­cus­sions -> Vais­nava Saha­jiya II

While I have no for­mal train­ing as a Saha­jiya, I seem to have ‘nat­u­rally’ become one. For exam­ple, being in the present: I haven’t chanted Hare Krishna men­tally through­out the day for forty years. I replaced it with Om and a sense of ‘prac­tic­ing the pres­ence of God.’ I sense the sacred in all things and live a mytho­log­i­cal life. Zen and Tao­ism taught me to be present. Chris­tian­ity taught me to be incar­nated. Sufism taught me to keep my feet on the ground and my head in the clouds.

I have long real­ized my androge­nous sex­ual nature. My wife and I used the pic­ture of inter­twined Radha Krishna on a lotus on our wed­ding invi­ta­tion and had it hang­ing in the recep­tion hall of our church. It’s hung in my home for the last 25 years. We also had a read­ing from Gita Govinda as part of the wed­ding per­formed by a UCC min­is­ter. I give a lit­tle glimpse of my ear­lier Saha­jiya nature in the first chap­ter of Saf­fron, my auto­bi­og­ra­phy in progress found on my web­site. It describes my wed­ding night with my first wife 39 years ago when A.C. Bhak­tivedanta Swami mar­ried us.

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