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principles and laws. Remember what we said about, “follow the rules and enjoy your stay.” But, how to put these laws into daily practice? How to truly live and breath yoga instead of simply following a set of rules like a robot? Let me give you three capsules – a multivitamin – you can take every day. If you take all three every day, and let them deeply saturate your being, then you will experience true health of body, mind and spirit. Then, you can say you are truly practicing yoga of that which causes anxiety; you will realize the transient nature of all your troubles. You will realize the infinite joy and boundless peace that come from God. You will learn (or perhaps you have already learned) meditation techniques. Do not worry if you can’t do it perfectly, or if it is difficult, or if you can’t remember everything. The point is to do it. Make a time that is “meditation time.” It’s okay if it’s short. Don’t worry. Just do it. Do not say, “Well, I don’t have an hour to sit so I won’t bother.” Commit 5 minutes to meditation each morning. Then you will see the magic of it. A) MEDITATION : Meditation is the best medication for all agitations. People have so many troubles today, mainly related to the stress in their lives. To address this anxiety, Then let this meditation become your life. Yes, of course, this sleeplessness, this inability to simply be content, they one should have a time set aside for meditation, and there may take pills or fill their lives with excessive material “plea- should be a quiet, serene place in which to meditate. sures”. For example, when people feel stressed they may However, even when it is not “meditation time” or even if attempt to forget about it by going to the movies, or by you are away from home, away from your “meditation getting drunk or by indulging in simple sensual pleasures. place” do not think that you cannot meditate. Take 5 Yet, these are not solutions. They do not address the un- minutes at work to simply close your eyes, watch your derlying issues. They are simply band-aids to a wound that breath, focus on the oneness of us all, and connect with runs deep below the surface. Yet, meditation will truly calm the mind, fill the heart with the divine. Eventually, the goal is to let your life become meditation. joy and bring peace to the soul; the serenity and joy last B) NO REACTION: We must learn to be calmer in our throughout the day and throughout your life. Meditation lives. We must learn to remain still and unaffected by all is not a simple diversion which works only as long as you that happens around us. We must be like the ocean. The are actively engaged in it. Meditation is not a pill which waves come and go, but the ocean stays. Even a large quickly wears off and carries unpleasant side-effects. rock, thrown from a great distance, with great force, will Rather, meditation brings you into contact with God; it only cause temporary ripples in a small area. Most of the changes the very nature of your being. It brings you back ocean will remain unaffected. Yet, we are always jumping to the world from which you come: the realm of the divine. into the ocean, right into the waves, letting them carry us. As you sit in meditation you will realize the insignificance This is our choice. We must learn, instead, to be like the DROPS DROPS OF OF OF NECTAR NECTAR NECTAR . 78 DROPS DROPS OF OF NECTAR NECTAR . 79
ocean itself, unaffected by these small, transient things. So many times we act as though we are the waves of the ocean. Up one minute, down the next, changed by every gust of wind, by every passing boat. Yet, we are not these waves. I am using the analogy of the waves of the ocean, but you must realize that the waves I am really talking about are the waves of anger, anxiety, jealousy, greed, and lust that are just as vast, just as strong and just as restless as the waves of the sea. We are not waves, pulled this way and that by every passing breeze, by the daily changes in the moon. Yet we act like that. We act as though we are light bulbs and anyone who wants to can simply switch us on or off. Isn’t it true? Can’t the slightest comment or look or action of another change our mood 180 degrees? Isn’t it so frequent that we are in a wonderful mood and someone at the grocery store is rude to us, or someone on the freeway passes in front of our car, or a friend is cold and distant? Any of these things can immediately switch our mood as though we were a light bulb. from a person have so much control over us? Are we so volatile in our emotions that others have more power over our moods than we, ourselves, do? Aren’t we more than this? Aren’t we bigger, more divine, and deeper than this? Isn’t there more to this human existence than the law of action and reaction? We must learn to keep that light switch in our own hands and to give it only to God. Otherwise we are switched on and off, on and off, all day long and the only effect is that the light bulb burns out! Let us take whatever comes as prasad, as a gift from God. Let us remain calm and steady in the face of both prosperity and misfortune. We must not lose our vital energy in this constant action and reaction to everyone around us. But how? How to remain unaffected by the waves of life? This is called spiritual practice! I always say that one of the best ways to learn “no reaction” is through silence. When we are anxious, angry, tense or frustrated, we tend to say things which we later regret; we tend to let our words fuel the reaction in our hearts. So, let us learn the power of silence. Silence on the outside will lead to silence on the inside. This is why so many saints and other spiritual people have “silence time;” it’s a time of remembering that we are more than our reactions, a time of tuning in to the Divine Insurance Company, a time of charging our inner batteries. So many times I hear people say, “Oh, I was in such a good mood, but then Robert called and told me what Julie said about me,” or “Oh, that phone call just ruined my day.” And the same works the other way. We are sad or depressed and we get a nice phone call or letter in the mail or we eat some good cookies. Then we feel better. How is that? How can one phone call, or one rude comment So, let us learn to meet life’s waves with silence — that will make “no reaction” much easier to achieve. DROPS DROPS OF OF OF NECTAR NECTAR NECTAR . 80 DROPS DROPS OF OF NECTAR NECTAR . 81
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THE DANGER OF ANGER There was once
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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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“You can not take the needle with
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crippled man, a dirty child or a cr
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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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DO YOUR DUTY There was once a horri
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THE LEAKY BUCKET In the very olden
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appear better, or we criticize thos
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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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