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August 20, 2024
Can India play a global role as a ‘vishwaguru’? (Global Guru)
Can India play a global role as a guiding force for humanity? This reflection explores how India’s deepest spiritual wisdom offers a path beyond division, materialism, and conflict toward a more conscious, compassionate world.
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.
January 12, 2024
Yoga—a Panacea for All That Ails Our World
What if the crises facing our world—from conflict and loneliness to environmental destruction—share the same root cause? This reflection explores yoga as a path beyond separation, awakening us to the oneness that connects us to one another, the Divine, and the Earth.
June 3, 2023
From the Hollywood Mindset to the Himalayan Mindset
What happens when a life built around achievement, credentials and external success suddenly opens into something deeper? Sadhviji shares her unexpected spiritual awakening on the banks of Ganga and the Himalayan wisdom that taught her to find abundance within, trust life more deeply and discover herself through service.
January 14, 2022
8 Powerful Insights My Mom’s Stroke Has Given Me
When her mother suffered a devastating stroke, Sadhviji’s instinct was to fix what had happened. Instead, months of caregiving taught her profound lessons about acceptance, impermanence, self-compassion and discovering love and beauty even when life cannot be made the way we wish it were.
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.
March 8, 2020
Women’s Day: Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati says Jane Goodall embodies all that is right about humanity
From a childhood bedroom covered in photographs of chimpanzees to a life devoted to spiritual and environmental service, Sadhviji reflects on Jane Goodall’s lifelong influence—and the courage, compassion and deep love of nature that showed her what it means to live one’s dharma.
February 16, 2020
Spirituality is becoming you
What if the spiritual path isn’t about becoming someone better, but discovering who you already are? Drawing on nearly 25 years in India, Sadhviji explores how releasing comparison, negative thought patterns and dependence on external success can reconnect us with the wholeness, peace and divinity already within.
December 5, 2019
How Do We Build Confidence?
Why do we struggle to trust ourselves when confidence seems to come naturally to every other species? Sadhviji explores how turning away from external expectations and toward the truth of who we are can reveal a confidence rooted not in achievement, but in our inherent wholeness.