Spiritual Age

I have decided that in the spir­i­tual world, my eter­nal age will be eigh­teen. When Lalita Prasad ini­ti­ated me into the eleven moods of a maid­ser­vant of Radha, he said I should pick an age between ten and thir­teen. I said thir­teen. I would have liked it to be older then, but I wasn’t about to start ask­ing for changes at that time. For over thirty years, I accepted the 13 year old age. Yet I always imag­ined myself as about 18. One of the most effec­tive tech­niques I have found for visu­al­iz­ing my spir­i­tual body is to draw it. It’s a great med­i­ta­tion. I always look 18 in the drawings.

As a sem­i­nary trained, ordained clergy per­son, I am very aware of sex­ual bound­ary issues. I am also aware of the large num­bers of chil­dren who are sex­u­ally abused. Even in India, the idea of child brides is los­ing favor, espe­cially among the more West­ern­ized classes. Since Radha and her maid­ser­vants engage in drink­ing and erotic pas­times with Krishna, I think that for West­ern­ers, it is bet­ter that the maid­ser­vants be 18, Radha 20 and Krishna 21. This main­tains the tra­di­tional age dif­fer­ences, but makes them of an age where they are bet­ter able to exhibit such pas­times. Adding five years to the ages of the con­fi­dants, etc. also adjusts things.

Lalita Prasad said I should let him know if I made any changes. I hope he has inter­net. I have made the change on my spir­i­tual dis­ci­plic suc­ces­sion sheet. Now, any­one who comes to me for the eleven moods of a maid­ser­vant will also be eigh­teen. That will be a dis­tinc­tive fea­ture of my line of suc­ces­sion. Jai Radhe!

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