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15
2019
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Aug
12
2019
Sadhviji Delivers Keynote Address to ISTD Students, Dehradun
What a joy, on my first day back in India, to address the India Society for Training and Development (ISTD) International Conclave on Happiness and Spirituality in the Workplace. The program took place in Dehradun at Graphics Era Deemed University. I shared with the assembled students that they are the future of the nation, and the future of the world, and I encouraged them to find ways to work differently to find ways and solutions that promoted joy and happiness in the workplace. After all, if we’re going to spend...
Aug
10
2019
Sadhviji Delivers Keynote Address to ISTD Students
On Sadhviji's first day back in India, she addressed the India Society for Training and Development (ISTD) International Conclave on Happiness and Spirituality in the Workplace. The program took place in Dehradun at Graphics Era Deemed University. What a joy, on my first day back in India, to address the India Society for Training and Development (#ISTD) Int'l Conclave on #Happiness & #Spirituality in the Workplace at @GraphicEraHill1 https://t.co/QwJB7coVwK #spiritualityinbusiness #ongc #thdc #happinessvideo @finland pic.twitter.com/YUbx12vNR7— Sadhvi Bhagawati (@SadhviBhagawati) August 11, 2019 Sadhviji shared with the assembled students that they are the...
Jul
29
2019
Guru Purnima at Hindu Temple of Kentucky
On the sacred day of Guru Purnima, Pujya Swamiji Chidanand Saraswatiji and Pujya Sadhvi Bhagawatiji offered a beautiful program at the Hindu Temple in Louisville, Kentucy. This special event followed the spiritual retreat at Dale Hollow Lake State Park that had been held earlier in the week and many of those present at the retreat joined local temple members for satsang, prasad, and a delicious vegetarian meal. The temple priests welcomed Pujya Swamiji and Pujya Sadhviji with divine vedic chanting and prayers. This was followed by an inspiring talk by Sadhviji...
Jul
28
2019
Guru Purnima Retreat 2019
Over the course of three peace filled days, Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji and Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswatiji led a beautiful Guru Purnima retreat at the stately resort overlooking a gorgeous lake in the Dale Hollow State Park, Kentucky. The weekend included multiple satsangs each day that covered topics as varied as achieving conscious dharmic relations, faith versus blind faith, and dealing with stress, depression and anxiety. Participants also had many opportunities to ask questions and to have one-on-one audiences with Swamiji and Sadhviji. Each satsang began with an inspiring guided meditation led...
Jul
18
2019
Pujya Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswatiji joins World Leaders
New York City: In 2000, the late and former UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, famously stated that “if we are to capture the promises of globalization while managing its adverse effects, we must learn to govern better, and must learn how better to govern together.” With these words in mind, and in an era of weakening international cooperation and nationalist political shifts, political and religious leaders from around the world gathered in New York City on Monday to participate in the second Kofi Annan United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Faith Briefings....
Jul
18
2019
PaRD Event at the UN High Level Political Forum
Sadhviji gave the opening address at the PaRD (International Partnership for Religion and Sustainable Development) event at the UN High Level Political Forum on the role of religious actors in sustaining peace. Addresses were also given by His Eminence Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, the Archbishop of Yangon Professor Syafiq Mughni, Special Envoy of the President of the Republic of Indonesia Bishop Sunday Onuoha, Co-Chair of the Executive Committee, Interfaith Dialogue Forum for Peace Nigeria Imam Omar Layama Kobine, President of the Central African Islamic Community Dr. Olivia Wilkinson, the Director of...
Jul
16
2019
Sadhviji Speaks at the UN’s Kofi Annan Faith Briefings in New York City
It was such an honor to speak at the Kofi Annan faith briefings by the United Nations’ Advisory Council on Religion, during the High Level Political Forum, about the power of partnerships for fulfilling the Sustainable Development Goals, for bringing about peace, for the welfare and opportunities for children, for women, & for the protection of our natural environment. I was so glad to meet with Ms. Henrietta Fore, Executive Director of UNICEF with our Advisory Council co-chairs and to discuss with her about our Global Interfaith WASH Alliance’s partnership with...
Jul
11
2019