Travel Adventures of a Krishna Monk. Travel Journal#12.15: Polish Tour, Baltic Summer Festival, Ancient Trance Festival.
(Excerpt) Krishna-kripa Das: Dhirashanta Goswami asked all the devotees to put their bead bags on the table in front of him, and he inspected them, one by one, giving them a grade, mostly based on cleanliness.
Some ladies, I recall, got 10 out of 10. I was apprehensive as I knew I had not washed my bead bag for over two weeks. I had gone on the Czech Woodstock, done harinamas in Berlin and Leipzig, and gone on the Polish tour since I had washed my bead bag in Berlin.
He gave me an embarrassing 4 out of 10, and had me come up and claim my bead bag, as he had with the others. I am going to try to be much more diligent in washing my bead bag from now on.]
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