Creating a self in five-year segments: Conversation in the Chai shop
She: I think at this point you should lead by going silent. You do not know what prema is and yet you promote yourself as a premik or rasik devotee. The fact is that, within the context of investigation, you are not different than your fellow senior Prabhupada's disciples: Immature and yet attempting to lead alone. Me: That is my contribution to leadership. And it is working. Someone just wrote to me: "I am definitely sympathetic to, and have respect for Jagadananda for being so brave as to instigate such hot subjects and for constantly exposing himself to the mercurial harshness of controversy." She: I am sorry but that is not bravery proper. Recklessness as a behavior should not be encouraged, no? Me: Moreover, my coming on FB shows me what "my" group of people -- those who are not afraid to be different -- is thinking, and that helps me know what needs to be said. When you first said to lead, I told you impulsively that "I lead from behind....