Happines is Within

Sadvhiji answers the question many Westerners ask when first visiting India, how can there be so much happiness amidst such poverty? In the West we root our identities so much in things that are not real; I am my possessions, my career, my title. In India, she says, children are taught ‘You are divine’; you are created of the Divine, by the Divine. The rest – possessions, career, title, appearance – are all just packaging.