Diwali is a glorious holiday. It is a holiday filled with continuous festivity, revelry and celebration. Even sworn enemies embrace, and hostilities melt as we share box after box of fresh sweets. At this sacred time, I reflect upon the words of my Guru, Pujya Swami...
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Trump administration has justified the move saying it’s to prevent ‘coercive abortion' in China. This article was published on The Huffington Post, here. Reading the news in India we see the stories regularly: Kiran, aged 25, mother of a nine-year-old daughter and seven-year-old son died just after...
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This article was published on The Huffington Post, here. This election has been, for many of us, a wake-up call. Not the joyful wake-up call of birds on your windows, entreating you to open your eyes to the sunrise over mountaintops, not the wake up of...
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This article was published on The Huffington Post, here. Twenty years ago I moved into Parmarth Niketan ashram for one week. It was the second week of my backpacking trip to India in September, 1996. I was 25 years old, and I had taken a semester...
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This article was published on The Speaking Tree, here. SADHVI BHAGAWATI SARASWATI was a participant at the Parliament of Religions, the same conference that Swami Vivekananda attended back in 1893. She filed this blog from Salt Lake City in the US. In 1893, Swami Vivekananda travelled to...
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This article was published on The Huffington Post, here. The Solitary Trek The trek up the mountain was fantastic. Clearly a less travelled path, it was nearly taken over by spring blossoms, shoulder-high grasses and bushes. Beneath the growth, the path was barely visible, a narrow dirt...
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This article was published on The Huffington Post, here. Last week, I had the joy and blessing to be part of a conference hosted at the World Bank in Washington DC on Religion and Sustainable Development. The conference was jointly sponsored by the World Bank and...
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This article was published on The Huffington Post, here. The Early Days: As our car pulled into the driveway, my dad checked the mailbox. "Did it come? Did it come?" I gasped excitedly. The year was 1986, and I had been waiting in breathless anticipation for...
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This article was published on The Huffington Post, here. In Indian culture there are so many holidays, festivals, rites and rituals around the theme of light. We light lamps in our morning puja. We light and wave the lamp of the aarti. We burn oil lamps on...
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THE GRACE OF MOTHER GANGA The cycle of life is intricately linked to water; it is even, perhaps, embedded in water. From our first nine months swimming in a womb to our ashes being immersed in a sacred river or scattered across the ocean, from the...
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