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thing in ourselves and in our environment to be clean and in its place. When we feel this divine touch, we don't want to collect anything-in our thought, no dark element, in our word no harshness, in our actions no callousness or negligence, and in our surrounding no disharmony."
Gurudev organized a group of willing students to help the residents clean up the accumulated garbage and debris. Within one month, the work was completed. From then on, they did not allow the area to deteriorate again.
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A Bombay life insurance executive, Mr. H. Mehta, was greatly disturbed by the wastage of food he observed at banquets, receptions, and parties he attended among affluent friends and associates. Returning home at night, he saw hungry children and their indigent parents begging or sleeping on the streets. He was moved to action. He thought he could perhaps begin by collecting leftover food and then distribute it among the poor.
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He went to Gurudev for his blessings, guidance, and assistance. Gurudev told him that his beautiful humanitarian dream would invite the right vibrations to make his plan a reality. Within a short time, Mr. Mehta found other people who were equally distressed by the situation of the street people. Together they cooperated and formed a group called Sanjivani, which means New Life.
Today Sanjivani is still Mr. Mehta's mission in life. With headquarters in his own apartment, he and his wife arise each day at 5 in the morning, and, along with several hundred volunteers or "social brothers and sisters," as he likes to call them, distribute food, blankets, medicines, and clothing to the homeless and indigent of Bombay's streets. Their support comes entirely from donations.
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"O Lord, when would that dawn rise for me that I could do something for others?" It was the vision of a child, but one day, the dream assumed shape. The child turned man and found that he was afflicted with tuberculosis, but the enthusiasm for
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