India & Indian Culture Tag

Beginning our Inner Journey

Sadhvi Bhagawatiji discusses how to begin our inner journey. We should start with an external spiritual journey, yatra, or pilgrimage that is so common in the Indian spiritual tradition. In the same way the inner journey is already on we just lose focus of it...

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WASH Program

WASH literally stands for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene.The Global Interfaith WASH Alliance (GIWA) was co-founded by Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji, who is the President of Parmarth Niketan Ashram and Founder of Ganga Action Parivar. WASH was founded to inspire the leaders of the...

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Green Crematorium

Sadhviji speaks about the last rites ceremony in Hinduism and its traditional roots. She also shares the great environmental stress that is resulting due to the practice, especially in the context of India's booming population as well as an exponentially increasing demand on distribution of...

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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....

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Essence of Purity

Sadhvi Bhagawatiji explains that in the Indian spiritual tradition, there’s not the same sense of purity vs sin that exists in Judeo-Christian-Western traditions. There is no damnation or salvation, but rather liberation – freedom from that which is blocking our innate purity. She uses the...

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