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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 29, 2022
Life, Death and the River of Knowing
What if our fear of death comes from forgetting who we really are? Drawing on nearly 25 years in India, Sadhviji explores how a culture that weaves death into everyday life—and a spiritual tradition rooted in the immortality of the soul—offers a radically different way to understand aging, grief, mortality and surrender.
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.
December 11, 2019
The Intertwined Nature of Dharma and Karma
How do we know what the right action is—and what makes an action right in the first place? Sadhviji explores the intertwined teachings of dharma and karma, revealing how our purpose and duty shape both the actions we take and the consequences they create.
August 31, 2019
Raise Spiritual Children
How can we raise children with spiritual values when they question traditional practices or resist rituals? Sadhviji encourages parents to move beyond “because I said so” spirituality and help children understand the deeper meaning behind conscious choices—while showing them that spirituality can be lived through compassion, equality, service, and seeing the Divine in everyone.
November 19, 2018
Is It Okay to Lie Occasionally If the Truth Hurts?
Is telling the truth always the right thing to do, even when it causes pain? Drawing on her own evolving relationship with honesty and a teaching from the Bhagavad Gita, Sadhviji explores a more nuanced standard for right speech: our words should be not only truthful, but also kind and beneficial.
October 3, 2018
What is God, and what is our relationship to that God?
What does it really mean to say that God is everywhere—and how should that change the way we live? Sadhviji explores the Sanatan Dharma teaching of one Divine reality expressed through infinite forms, and how seeing that same divinity in ourselves and others can transform our relationships, compassion and experience of separation.
September 28, 2016
6 Incredible Lessons I’ve Learned In My 20 Years In India
After two decades in India, Sadhviji reflects on six lessons that transformed how she understands a meaningful life—from discovering the difference between knowledge and wisdom and questioning Western measures of success, to living in the present, receiving love, speaking truth with kindness, and embracing Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam: the world as one family.
November 24, 2013
Know Your True Self
Suffering begins when we mistake our changing roles, achievements, emotions and physical bodies for who we truly are. Drawing on Sanatan Dharma and her Guru’s teachings, Sadhviji explores how awakening means removing the ignorance that obscures our innate divinity—and discovering a Self that is already whole, complete and overflowing.