"I was so young and charged with emotion and enthusiastic. I would go from temple to temple, I became like a madman," he says. "My guru took out this book, Tripura Rahasya,. which is Vedantic Tantric text and very non-dualistic, not very devotional at all." He recalls being told by Ramandis Rasuthi: 'You can't stop me going to Vrindavan' The pair stayed in the same ashram for two years before moving on their own.