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Oct 06 2019

GIWA Hosts Roundtable Consultation with the United Nations Technology Innovation Labs, Alliance India, Global Fund and United Religions Initiative

It was a great joy for our Global Interfaith WASH Alliance to host a roundtable consultation with the United Nations Technology Innovation Labs, Alliance India, Global Fund and United Religions Initiative here at Parmarth Niketan on engaging faith leaders, faith based communities and faith actors against drug and alcohol abuse, and to work to remove the stigma of addiction so that addicts can actually get access to good treatment and high standards of care. People who use drugs are not bad people, wrong people or evil people. They are looking for...

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Oct 05 2019

Pujya Swamiji & Sadhviji Presented India Today Aaj Tak Safai Giri Best Sanitation Institute Award

Pujya Swamiji and Sadhviji were presented with the India Today Aaj Tak Safai Giri Best Sanitation Institute Award by ITA's Rahul Kanwal and Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs, Hardeep Singh Puri, for the work that the Global Interfaith WASH Alliance, of which Pujya Swamiji is President and Sadhviji is Secretary-General, has done to bring faith into action for water, sanitation and hygiene, and for inspiring changes in behaviour and capacity building. ...

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Oct 03 2019

Sadhviji at World Parliament of Religion, Science and Philosophy at M I T

It was a privilege to offer my thoughts on spirituality at the World Parliament of Religion, Science and Philosophy at @MITWPUOfficial as part of #MahatmaGandhiji's 150 Birth Anniversary Celebrations. I shared that what we learne in school are magnificent tools that help us achieve so many wonderful things in the world but, ultimately, it is spirituality that actually gives our lives direction. Gyan, what we call knowledge or wisdom, is not just the accumulation of facts, but Gyan is actually deep wisdom that assimilates all of that...

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Oct 03 2019

Sadhviji speaks at the India Today Safaigiri 2019 Awards broadcast

Sadhviji provides insight into the need for a clean Maa Ganga and water conservation during a water panel at the India Today Aaj Tak Safaigiri Awards where Pujya Swamiji and she were recognized for their environmental activism and faith leadership through the Global Interfaith WASH Alliance. Pujya Swamiji and she also received an award on behalf of Global Interfaith WASH Alliance for the Best Sanitation Institute from Safai Giri...

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Oct 02 2019

Pujya Swamiji & Sadhvi Bhagawatiji Attend World Parliament

World Parliament of Science, Religion & Philosophy gathering held in Pune As part of the glorious 150th Birth Anniversary celebrations for #MahatmaGandhi ji this week, the World Peace Center (Alandi) of Maeer’s MIT, Pune, the MIT World Peace University, Pune, and MIT ADT University Vishwarajbaug joined together to organize and present the World Parliament of Science, Religion and Philosophy at Rajbaugh today, and both Pujya Swamiji and Sadhvi Bhagawatiji were warmly invited to speak and share their blessings. Highlights now online from the #WorldParliament of Science Religion and Philosophy @MITWPUOfficial& @mitadtpune where...

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Oct 02 2019

“Here Are The Best Moments Of Banega Swasth India ‘Swasthagraha’ 12-Hour Telethon”, NDTV

After leading a very successful Swachhta (Cleanliness) Initiative for over five years, in season 6, we move the conversation from Swachh to Swasth (Health). Watch Pujya Swamiji and Sadhvi Bhagawatiji take part in NDTV's Swachhta Initiative campaign! [no_button size="" style="" text="Click here to watch!" icon_pack="font_awesome" fa_icon="" icon_position="right" icon_color="" icon_background_color="" icon_background_hover_color="" link="https://www.ndtv.com/video/shows/banega-swasth-india/here-are-the-best-moments-of-banega-swasth-india-swasthagraha-12-hour-telethon-528786?fbclid=IwAR2zGCvekrPPRSuHX1Uob6Hex61ZT1Jm4wyPi14mSM_THDK8-eYn4PTud8s" target="_blank" color="#ffffff" hover_color="#ffffff" background_color="#e77506" hover_background_color="#e77506" border_color="" hover_border_color="" border_width="" font_size="" font_style="normal" font_weight="" margin="" padding="10px" border_radius=""] ...

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Oct 01 2019

Sadhviji Releases Come Home to Yourself in the Presence of Saints and Sages

During the auspicious gathering of dozens of living saints and sages - including Her guru, HH Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji and HH the Dalai Lama - for the start of month-long celebrations marking the 150th Birth Anniversary of Gandhiji, Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswatiji officially released her most recent book, Come Home to Yourself, published by Penguin and available on Amazon.in. ...

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Sep 30 2019

Peace With No Borders Madrid 2019

Today, as celebrations of #InternationalDayOfPeace culminate here at Parmarth Niketan Rishikesh, here is the video of my speech on Prayer as a Source of Peace at the Sant'Egidio forum with the theme Peace With No Borders last week in Madrid. In that panel, I shared about how #prayers bring about #peace — internally within ourselves and in our world. I also shared that in order to achieve peace, we need to realize that as we pray for peace we must know that, with God's mercy and with God's grace, we...

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Sep 30 2019

International Day of Peace 2019

On today's International Day of Peace - a day set aside each year by the @unitednations as a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, both within and among all nations and peoples - it's important to remember what peace really is and, more importantly, how we can create, maintain and expand it in the future. I spoke on this subject last year, at the "Keeping the Faith in Sustainable Peace: Women of Faith as Agents of Transformation" at the United Nations and organized by UNFPA KAICIID & European...

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Sep 30 2019

Peace With No Borders in Madrid

I just returned from Madrid, Spain where I was honored and pleased to speak at the #PeaceWithNoBorders conference, organized by the Community. I joined over 300 interfaith and civic leaders that gathered together for the cause of and in the name of Peace. I was especially grateful for the opportunity to participate in the Ecology and the Common Destiny panel, where I had to chance to be a part of a discussion with Special Advisor to the Secretary General of the United Nations, Professor Jeffrey D Sachs, Minister for the Ecological Transition...

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