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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.
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.
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 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.
April 1, 2019
Awakening on the banks of Mother Ganga
Sadhviji arrived in India with no spiritual quest—only an open heart. She recounts the extraordinary experience on the banks of Mother Ganga that shattered her ordinary sense of self, revealed the Divine in everything around her, and ultimately led her to a new life in Rishikesh.
October 31, 2015
From Prayer TO ACTION
What does it mean to put spirituality into action? Reflecting on the Parliament of the World’s Religions, Sadhviji explores a vision of faith that moves beyond personal prayer and inner peace to serving humanity—protecting clean water, addressing climate change and poverty, and recognizing the Divine in those whose lives and dignity are at risk.
June 8, 2013
Overwhelmed By Ma Ganga
Writing in the aftermath of the devastating Uttarakhand floods, Sadhviji reflects on the awe-inspiring power of Mother Ganga and the consequences of treating nature as something humanity can control, exploit, and commodify. She calls for a different vision of progress—one rooted in reverence for nature, restraint rather than unchecked consumerism, and the recognition that spirituality must shape how we build, develop, and live upon the Earth.
February 2, 2013
A Simple Matter Of Faith
Reflecting on the Kumbh Mela, Sadhviji looks beyond its extraordinary scale and infrastructure to what she sees as its true miracle: aastha, or faith. Tens of millions leave behind comfort and convenience for the sacred waters, blessings of saints, prayer and spiritual awakening, while the tradition of feeding and serving all reveals a culture in which faith naturally expresses itself through generosity and seva.
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.