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Directed by KRISHNA SHAH...
Thus the relaxed weekend this summer that I spent in Cambridge was devoted to some systematic reworking of my desensitized state. The idea of conversation, not neurotic or guilt-ridden, but curious, honest, and friendly, appealed to me. When a follower of Krishna, siting serenely in Forbes Plaza, asked my friend and me to talk, I accepted the offer willingly despite my customary estrangement from his religiosity...
...that point, a family approached and asked for tickets to a free vegetarian feast to be hosted by the Krishna community. The ascetic gave the tickets gladly, smiling at the family as it strolled away. He observed how obvious it was that he had just dealt with humans and not with beasts; they were sensitive, warm, and compassionate people. I had observed only their friendliness and their desire for free food...
With passages from Marx's early writings running perhaps pompously through my mind. Krishna's student repeated his definitions calmly and unswervingly. If people were poor or suffered segregation in this life, he told us, it only meant that in their former lives, they had not lived faithfully as loving human beings...
...people to be equal human beings. Last spring. I helped plan demonstrations with so-called radicals for whom workers were essentially an abstraction, radicals who invoked one thinker or another to justify manipulating the lives of others. It grieved me because I felt their end was good as indeed. Krishna's followers may do good work. So do the Libertanians invoke the individual as God. So do the bearers of tradition invest Harvard with that sanctity...