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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 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.
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.
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 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.
February 12, 2019
Knowledge is Not Wisdom and Other Insights India Taught Me
What if everything we’ve been taught to pursue—knowledge, achievement, money, status—is not where wisdom or happiness actually comes from? Drawing on the contrast between her Stanford education and the lessons of more than two decades in India, Sadhviji explores how a meaningful life grows from inner wisdom, connection, gratitude, and discovering who we truly are.
December 20, 2018
My 22-Year-Old India Love Affair Began with Food
A trip to India that began with a love of vegetarian food became the unexpected turning point of Sadhviji’s life. She shares how a spiritual awakening on the banks of the Ganga transformed her understanding of purpose, abundance, and service—and taught her to stay open to the path life is calling her to follow.
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.