Okay all you folks who think of Texas in stereotypical terms. Here’s one to jangle your spurs. Southwest of Austin, on the road to Driftwood and not far from Dripping Springs, there’s this two hundred acre replica of an Indian holy district.
It’s the North American home of the Hindu sect JKP, Barsana Dham. You can almost smell the incense by clicking on the link. Unfortunately, its international leader and swami, Prakashanand Saraswati, has run afoul of the indecency-with-a-child laws, twenty counts worth. So things are not copacetic at the ashram these days. Reminds me of the Russian Orthodox sect’s similar problems down in Blanco in ’97. It’s the freedom that draws ’em, I think. And, sometimes, trips ’em up.
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