Through my nearly 25 years in India, I have learned that spirituality is not about becoming something or someone else. It’s about becoming YOU, the truth of who YOU are.

When I first came to India from California, after graduating from Stanford University and in the midst of my PhD degree, at the tender age of 25, I thought that in order to succeed in life, I needed to be someone different, someone better.

In the West (and now tragically in much of “modern” India) we are taught that in order to be truly successful and deeply happy, we need to be richer, more beautiful, more popular, smarter, funnier, more talented. There is a pervasive sense of lack, even amongst those of us who “have it all.”