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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
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words carry within them the spirit of the Master.
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