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June 4, 2024
World Environment Day: Integrating eco-conscious choices in daily life is true dharma
What does it mean to live your spiritual values beyond the yoga mat? This reflection explores how the principles of ahimsa, compassion, and reverence for nature can transform the everyday choices we make about what we eat, wear, buy, and consume.
March 21, 2021
Let’s Do What is Right, Preserve Water
Water is life, yet the choices we make every day are contributing to its growing scarcity and pollution. Sadhviji explores how what we eat, buy and consume connects directly to the health of our planet—and how ancient spiritual principles of simplicity, nonviolence and conscious living offer a path toward protecting this precious resource.
May 12, 2020
It Took a Virus to Teach us a Simple Lesson
The pandemic brought the world to a standstill—and revealed just how quickly the planet could begin to heal when human activity slowed. Drawing on lessons from India’s lockdown, Sadhviji asks whether we can carry that awakening forward by consuming less, living more simply, protecting the natural world and remembering our fundamental interconnectedness.
October 19, 2019
Combat Climate Change 3 Times a Day
What if one of the most powerful ways to fight climate change happens three times a day? Sadhviji explores the environmental impact of what we eat and why choosing a plant-based diet can bring our everyday actions into alignment with our spiritual values.
September 28, 2019
The Purpose of Prayer
What is prayer really for if it isn’t a way to ask God for what we want? Sadhviji explores prayer as a path to connection with the Divine—one that transforms not our circumstances on command, but the mind and awareness through which we experience them.
July 12, 2012
New Vocabulary, Not New Values
Sadhviji argues that India’s younger generations do not need a new set of values, but a new vocabulary for understanding the wisdom already embedded in their spiritual and cultural traditions. Drawing on her experience of both American and Indian life, she explores how values such as generosity, contentment, vegetarianism and spiritual practice can remain deeply relevant when their purpose is explained in ways that speak to modern, questioning minds—and when adults embody those values rather than merely prescribe them.
July 7, 2012
Development – In What Direction?
Sadhviji questions whether material growth is truly progress when consumerism comes at the cost of our environment, relationships, inner peace and sacred rivers like Mother Ganga.
May 25, 2012
Peace By Peace
Sadhviji reflects on what India may lose in the pursuit of material progress, calling for a model of development that protects Mother Ganga, the environment, and the deeper values that sustain genuine wellbeing.