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Pieces Sent by Others Give, by Kahlil Gibran 280 Reasons to Give Thanks 282 What a Difference a Day Makes 284 12 Ways to Overcome Stress 286 Get a Life 287 Beauty Secrets by Audrey Hepburn 291 Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Reflections on Life 292 Paradox of Our Times 294 I’ve Learned.... 296 Without the Master, by Kabir 298 Watch and Listen Carefully 300 I am Thankful 301 How to Survive a Heart Attack Alone 303 Bill Gates’ 11 Rules for Students 304 Perfection 306 More Information About the Author 310 India Heritage Research Foundation 314 Parmarth Niketan Ashram 322 Comments from Readers on Drops of Nectar 324 . DROPS DROPS OF OF NECT NECTAR NECT AR 8 PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION It is a great joy and honor to release the third edition of Drops of Nectar on the occasion of H.H. Pujya Swamiji’s 50th birthday. When I first met Him, I asked Him His age. I did not know at the time that one should not ask this kind of question to a holy man. He, however, responded simply that He was 45. I was incredulous at how this holy saint, this clear embodiment of the divine on Earth, this timeless, ageless being could simply be “middle aged.” If He had said He was five, I would have believed Him, for His eyes dance and sparkle like a young child’s. He moves with the grace and lightness of an angelic, nimble child. Or, if He had said He was five-thousand, I also would have believed Him, for His wisdom, His depth of understanding and His omnipotence speak not of a human but of a timeless Being. Yet, forty-five was incomprehensible. To this day, nearly six years later, it is equally incomprehensible that He is fifty. His eyes dance and sparkle more vibrantly each day. His step becomes lighter, more graceful with each passing year. And yet, simultaneously, His wisdom becomes deeper, more profound, more complete, underscoring everyone’s realization that He is simply wearing the clothes of human skin, but is certainly not bound by them. In fifty years He has accomplished more than most do in many lifetimes. From nearly 10 years of intense sadhana in the forests and Himalayas as a young child, to the years DROPS DROPS OF OF NECT NECTAR NECT AR . 9
as tireless Sant Narayan Muniji who – even in His early twenties – was given the responsibility of running the largest ashram in Rishikesh, to founding and heading the first Hindu-Jain temple in America, to masterminding the monumental project of the Encyclopedia of Hinduism, to traveling as Gorbachav’s guest to the Kremlin for a 7-day global forum on Peace and the Environment, to presiding over Parmarth Niketan Ashram as president for 15 years, turning it into a world-renowned spiritual institution, to representing Hinduism at innumerable international, interfaith conferences, to running schools, free medical programs, ecological programs, and women’s vocational training programs, to giving prayers and blessings in the General Assembly of the United Nations, to meeting with former president Bill Clinton….these are merely glimpses of a life truly lived “in the service of God and humanity.” Whenever devotees, who have not seen Him sometimes in decades, come for His darshan, their comments are always the same: “He hasn’t changed at all. He looks just like he looked 30 years ago. He’s still the same, only better!” Pujya Swamiji seems unaffected by His incredible list of accomplishments and recognitions and remains a humble, pious child of God, owning nothing, draped only in saffron robes, living a life of true renunciation, offering His blessings, His love and Himself to everyone who comes into His presence. the world’s top religious, political, social and business leaders at the World Economic Forum in New York, whether eating His one begged-for meal a day out of His bare hands as a young wandering sanyasi, or eating a 20 dish meal served to Him on a silver thali in the home of aristocrats, whether sleeping in a dirt ditch between fields in the Himalayan forests or sleeping in a four post King size bed at the Waldorf Astoria, He is always mast. “Ast, Vyast, Swast and Mast…No tension, no depression. Always peaceful, always in ecstasy,” is how He describes His life. That divine ecstasy, that peace, and that stillness is something He not only embodies, but also something He exudes, something He gives out freely to all who meet Him, such that no one who encounters Him is ever the same. To capture that “touch of God” is nearly impossible in writing, for as He always says, “people need not only divine teachings, but they need the divine touch.” That “touch” is not physical, however. It does not depend upon physical contact or even physical presence. Rather, the “touch” is one in which your soul quivers in the way that a seed must as it is about to break forth through its shell and become the sprout of a large, flowering tree. The “touch” is not one of a hand to a body, but it is one of a hand to a soul. The souls, which have cried out for years and decades and lifetimes for solace, find it in His presence. “Mein mast hun, [I am in divine bliss]” has been His an- Here, in these pages, the challenge is to give not only the swer to “How are you?” for over four decades. Whether teachings, but also the “touch”. This is a task which we living in the jungles or living in a mansion, whether lectur- have realized is impossible, for words on a page cannot ing to a few dozen devotees in the cold, winter morning make a soul quiver and burst forth into light unless these prayers at Parmarth Niketan or lecturing to thousands of . DROPS DROPS OF OF NECTAR NECTAR NECTAR 10 words carry within them the spirit of the Master. . DROPS DROPS OF OF OF NECTAR NECTAR NECTAR 11
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Page 10 and 11: INTRODUCTION I have been blessed be
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MEIN TO KAB SE TERI SHARAN MEIN HUN
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should be a minute to minute, momen
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says, “Bhagwad Gita Kinchidadhita
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KUMBHA MELA - FESTIVAL OF THE NECTA
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than Jayant and they pursued him re
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mother, this means treating her wit
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However, it must be remembered that
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However, the library is silent. It
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His work is flowing through you, wh
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What do I want out of life? What is
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e to carry a gun to protect himself
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They are the chains of our attachme
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CORPORAL PUNISHMENT Corporal punish
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understand. Instead, she would simp
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There is a story that goes as follo
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Gujaratis marrying Gujaratis, Punja
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We have seen that everyone wants to
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do our sadhana, perform our duties
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THE DANGER OF ANGER There was once
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So many times in life we read spiri
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pathy and charity make us feel like
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longer coursing with high volumes o
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we really want to be healed at thei
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DIVINE ASSISTANCE There was once a
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ather than obstinately trying to be
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“You can not take the needle with
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crippled man, a dirty child or a cr
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ing job, a lucrative career — the
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as childish. Yet, those views are f
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ONLY YOU There once lived a king, b
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ing it through success, others brin
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always tell people, “Be God consc
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ished!!!” However, the saint was
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a divine, compassionate, pious, dev
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DO YOUR DUTY There was once a horri
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THE LEAKY BUCKET In the very olden
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The prose has become poetry, the st
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this re-connection to your culture
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appear better, or we criticize thos
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“I have come to take you away fro
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say, “I will not buy another jack
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SEARCHING FOR THE NEEDLE Once a wom
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He watched as the saint carefully a
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way? For how long can you move othe
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GIVE GIVE BY BY: BY : KAHLIL KAHLIL
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WHA WHAT WHA T A A DIFFERENCE DIFFE
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there with your same degree; there
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LET LETTER LET TER FR FROM FR OM GA
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Never in his life had Shaya run to
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president and spiritual head of Par
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In the midst of this ocean of desti
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Rural Development Program: We are r
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Praise for Drops of Nectar Dear Bha
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Jay Siya Ram Pujya Swamiji i hope m
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