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Slow Down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you. Listen to the words of wisdom by Sadhvi Bhagwati Saraswati of Parmarth Niketan, Rishikesh talking about the importance of...
July 2020हमारे जीवन व सम्पूर्ण ब्रह्मांड की नींव का आधार है सिर्फ और सिर्फ प्रेम...
July 2020हम कैसे खुद में कॉन्फिडेंस बिल्डप कर सकते हैं?...
July 2020उस दिव्या शक्ति से जुड़कर करें जीवन के उद्देश्य की खोज...
June 2020हमारे आसपास कोई अगर ऐसी चीज करता है, जो हमें पसंद न आए. जैसे हमारे पड़ोसी रात में काफी शोर करें और उनकी वजह से हम सो न पाएं, तो ऐसी अनचाही सिचुएशन में हम कैसे खुद को कंट्रोल कर सकते हैं? क्या ऐसा...
June 2020आप क्रोध जैसी भावनाओं का अनुभव कैसे करती हैं और उसके बाद भी इतनी जिम्मेदारी के साथ कैसे रिएक्ट कर सकती हैं?...
June 2020कहा जाता है ईश्वर सिर्फ एक है, तो दुनिया में ४००० से अधिक धर्म क्यों हैं?...
June 2020करते हैं कि हम सबको भगवान् ने ही बनाया है | फिर अपनी ही इन्द्रियों को वश में करने के लिए ध्यान करना क्यों आवश्यक है | भगवान् ने ही हमें देखने के लिए आँखें, सुनने के लिए कान, स्मेल करने के लिए...
May 2020क्या निगेटिव थिंकिंग की साईकिल को ब्रेक करने के कुछ और भी तरीके है?...
May 2020This article was published on Thrive Global, here. That staying alive, staying healthy, staying inspired and connected need not be at the cost of the environment, and that we should focus on...
May 2020This article was published in The Economic Times, here. Read Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati’s article in the Sunday Economic Times regarding the lessons of Covid19 especially as they relate to...
May 2020This article was published in Elephant Journal, here. When Coronavirus first began to explode in India, I panicked for the people of the Himalayas, the villagers occupying hundreds of villages in...
May 2020मेरे मन में अक्सर कई बातों को लेकर संशय रहती है. यही नहीं एक प्रकार का डर भी मेरे भीतर व्याप्त है. ये दोनों ही बातें मेरे दिमाग को दुःख देती हैं. मैं अक्सर तनाव में रहती हूँ. मैं अपने मन-मस्तिष्क...
March 2020मुशिकलों से शुरू हुआ आध्यात्मिक जीवन देता है अपार शांति...
March 2020क्या सफलता और आध्यात्मिक विकास साथ-साथ चल सकते हैं?...
February 2020This article was published in The New Indian Express, here. No one is injecting you with misery or anger, jealousy or resentment. When you feel those emotions, it is because you have chosen...
February 2020इस्वर व उसकी चेतनियों के इशारों को समझना होगा...
February 2020ईश्वर को देखने के लिए इस्तेमाल करें अपना तीसरा नेत्र...
January 2020This article was published in Spirituality & Health, here. “Prayer is very important when we utilize it to reach God, because it connects us to Him. It’s the way of talking to God.” Prayer...
January 2020है धार्मिक आध्यात्मिक रिश्ते कैसे बना सकते है?...
January 2020तेजी से भागती जिंदगी और सूचनाओं का तीव्र प्रसार मनुष्यों को जैविक और आध्यात्मिक दोनों ही तरह से किस प्रकार नुकसान पहुंचा रहा है?...
December 2019क्या हमें ईश्वर से किसी चीज के लिए प्रार्थना करनी चाहिए या यूँ सोच लें कि जो कुछ भी हमने प्राप्त किया है, वह सब पुराने कर्मों के कारण पाया है?...
December 2019This article was published on Thrive Global, here. If God made us perfectly, why do we practise pratyahara, or the withdrawal of the senses? God gave us eyes to see, ears to hear, a nose to...
December 2019This article was published in Spirituality & Health, here. Dharma and Karma are interlinked concepts. Asking what’s the different between them is like asking what’s the difference between...
December 2019आपने सांसारिक जीवन का त्याग क्यों किया?...
December 2019This article was published on Thrive Global, here. When you delve deep within, you’ll find that you know what you really are: a part of the perfectness that is Creation. This is a challenge we...
December 2019हम सब इतना नकारात्मक क्यों सोचते है? हम नकारात्मक पैर्टन से कैसे बाहर निकल सकते हैं ?...
December 2019This article was published in The Speaking Tree, here. You can’t overcome anything until you actually look at what it is. You can’t overcome your fear until you know what it is you’re afraid of,...
November 2019बुरे कर्मों का नहीं, बुरी आदतों का नतीजा हो सकते हैं रोग...
November 2019Today is UNESCO’s International Day for Tolerance, a day set aside each year to affirm that tolerance is neither indulgence nor indifference. As defined by the UN Declaration, it is respect and...
November 2019हम मृत्यु से कैसे निपटिंगे? हमें उन व्यक्तियों के प्रति कैसा व्यवहार करना चाहिए, जिनकी मृत्यु हो चुकी है?...
November 2019हम सब इतना नकारात्मक क्यों सोचते हैं? हम इस नकारात्मक सोच के दायरे से कैसे बाहर निकल सकते हैं?...
November 2019This article was published in Thrive Global, here. If God made us perfectly, why do we practise pratyahara, or the withdrawal of the senses? God gave us eyes to see, ears to hear, a nose to...
November 2019हमारे बच्चे जैसे-जैसे बड़े होते है, हमें उन्हें कैसे कंट्रोल करना चाहिए? जैसे जब वे कॉलेज जाने की शुरुआत करें, तो उनपर हमारा नियंत्रण कैसा है?...
October 2019This article was published in Dainik Jagran, here. मस्तिष्क को प्रशिक्षित क्यों किया जाना चाहिए ? मस्तिष्क हमारे शरीर का बेहद अहम अंग है। बस जरूरत है इसको प्रशिक्षित कर, समझदार बनाने की। मैं...
October 2019मस्तिष्क को प्रशिक्षित क्यों किया जाना चाहिए?...
October 2019This article was published in Dainik Jagran, here. कर्म और धर्म में क्या अंतर है? दोनों कॉन्सेप्ट एक-दूसरे से बड़ी गहराई के साथ जुड़े हुए हैं। ये सवाल बिल्कुल वैसा ही है, जैसे जीवन के लिए श्वांस...
October 2019This article was published in The Speaking Tree, here. The idea is not to control or subdue the mind with a whip. The mind simply needs to be trained to work for us rather than against us. The...
October 2019This article was published in Spirituality & Health, here. There’s a beautiful story of a boat in the middle of the ocean in which three men are stranded. They draw invisible lines down the...
October 2019This article was published on The Speaking Tree, here. Prayer plays a very deep and important role in our life, but the role is not to change our external circumstances. It’s not, “Oh dear God,...
September 2019लोगों को गुरु की खोज क्यों होती है? हमारे पास गुरु क्यों होने चाहिए? हमें गुरु की जरुरत क्यों पड़ती है?...
September 2019वो लोग जो पीड़ित हैं, उनके लिए हम क्या कर सकते हैं?...
September 2019शाकाहार को वदावा देने के लिए हम क्या कर सकते है?...
September 2019ध्वनि का क्या भहत्व है?...
September 2019This article was originally published in The New Indian Express, here. The way to raise spiritual children is to help them stay connected to what they’ve come into this world with, which is the...
September 2019This article was originally published in The Speaking Tree, here. Good education is less about remembering facts and figures and more about learning to think creatively, says SADHVI BHAGAWATI...
August 2019तर्कहीन भय से हम कैसे निपट सकते है?...
August 2019इच्छाएं कहाँ से आती है, इनका जन्मा कहाँ से होता है?...
August 2019This article was published in Spirituality & Health, here. “Indian spiritual tradition teaches that it is only our ignorance that makes us identify with our physical form, that...
July 2019This article was originally published on The Speaking Tree, here. The key to making decisions is not so much about what to do, but about who I am. We have gotten brainwashed into believing that...
June 2019This article was published in iNext Live, here. वर्तमान के फैसले हमारे सबसे अच्छे भविष्य वक्ता होते हैं: साध्वी भगवती सरस्वती भविष्य वाणियों के बारे में आपका क्या विचार है… हमारे सबसे अच्छे...
June 2019आक्रामकता और आतंकवाद को लेकर ईश्वर हमसे कैसे बर्ताव की अपेक्षा करते है?...
June 2019मोक्ष (मुक्ति), प्राप्त करने की क्या आवश्यकता?...
May 2019मैं एक प्रकार की दुविधा में हूँ, क्योंकि मैं नहीं जानता कि मेरे जीवन का उद्देश्य क्या है. मुझे बताया गया है कि अगर मैं यह जान जाऊं, तो मेरे लिए ध्यान करना आसान हो जाएगा। क्या आप मुझे बता सकती है...
May 2019मैं बहुत दिनों से एक प्रकार की दुविधा में हूँ | इसका एक कारन यह है कि मैं नहीं जानता कि मेरे जीवन का उद्देश्य क्या है | मुझे बताया गया है कि अगर मैं यह जान जाऊं, तो मेरे लिए ध्यान करना आसान हो......
May 2019मैं एक आध्यात्मिक व्यक्ति हूँ, लेकिन पता नहीं क्यों मुझे अपना लक्ष्य हासिल करने में बड़ी कठिनाई महसूस हो रहा है. शायद ऐसा इसलिए भी है क्योंकि मेरा मन बार-बार भटक जाता है. कृपया बताएं कि मैं अपने...
April 2019This article was published in Life Positive Magazine. Click here to read the full magazine....
April 2019वो क्या है, जो लोगों को अपनी पूरी क्षमता से जीवन जीने से रोकता है?...
April 2019डिजिटल कम्युनिकेश आध्यात्मिक प्रगति को प्रोत्साहित करता है या फिर उसे रोकता है ?...
March 2019आत्मा क्या है? क्या शरीर ही आत्मा है? मैं कौन हूँ? मेरा परिचय क्या है? योग करते समय अक्सर मेरा ध्यान बाहरी गतिविधियों से भटक जाता है. मैं काफी थकान और कमजोरी भी महसूस करता हूँ. इसके लिए मैं क्या...
March 2019This article was originally published on The Pioneer, here. The grace of water is that it keeps flowing. Stagnant water dies quickly. The nature of live, fresh, life-giving water is its movement....
March 2019This article was originally published on The Pioneer, here. Mother Ganga irrigates not only the hearts, minds and souls of Her one billion devotees around the world. She also irrigates the farms...
March 2019मोक्ष (मुक्ति), प्राप्त करने की क्या आवश्यकता है? भगवान के अस्तित्व को न स्वीकारने में क्या कोई हानी है?...
February 2019जब भी में योग करता हूँ, तो मेरा सर चकराने लगता है और कभी-कभी चक्कर भी आते है. मुझे क्या हो रहा हो?...
February 2019This article was originally published on The Pioneer, here. The crystal-clear, blue, rushing waters of Mother Ganga cut through the foothills of the Himalayas, carving out the most sacred...
February 2019This article was originally published on The Pioneer, here. The crystal-clear, blue, rushing waters of Mother Ganga cut through the foothills of the Himalayas, carving out the most sacred...
February 2019तेजी से भागती ज़िन्दगी और सूचनाओं का तीव्र प्रसार मनुष्यों को जैविक और आध्यात्मिक दोनों ही तरह से किस प्रकार नुक्सान पहुंचा रहा है?...
February 2019This article was originally published on Thrive Global, here. Finding inner bliss is much more than what conventional norms of success mean. One of the crucial lessons that 22 years in India has...
February 2019This article was originally published on The Speaking Tree, here. We overcome the fear of loss by recognising that nothing was ours to begin with. The fear of loss is rooted upon the illusion...
February 2019आध्यात्मिक बुद्धिमत्ता की परिभाषा क्या है?...
January 2019यदि ईश्वर एक है, तो दुनिया ४००० से अधिक धर्म क्यों है...
January 2019This interview was published on The Pioneer, here. By Radhika Nagrath| Haridwar From Hollywood to the holy woods, journey of Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati is an interesting one. Raised in an...
January 2019This article was originally published on Yoga Alliance® Online Namaste’ Journal, here. The noble traditions of Yoga, Meditation and Pranayama have, over the last three decades, become a catalyst...
January 2019आध्यात्मिक जाग्रति के लक्षण क्या है?...
January 2019This article was originally published in The Pioneer, here. A sadhu sits, his lean body draped in a single, worn scrap of orangish brown cloth, swaying ever so gently in the rapture of his...
January 2019मोक्ष प्राप्त करने की हमें आवश्यकता ही क्यों है?...
January 2019This article was originally published on Thrive Global, here. ‘That true self is not new of course. But it is new to us. It is new to our experience of our selves.’ Every day is new....
January 2019क्या भगवान में विश्वास न करने से हमें कोई नुक्सान है?...
December 2018This article was originally published on Thrive Global, here. The author describes her journey from Hollywood to the holy woods. Most people go to India seeking enlightenment, or at least...
December 2018This article was originally published in The Pioneer, here. In America, one of the biggest holidays of the year is Thanksgiving. The feast is in honor of the first good harvest after the pilgrims...
November 2018This article was originally published on Thrive Global, here. The author debates what could be the best possible solution—truth at all costs or is it better to be kind and beneficial? I spent my...
November 2018This article was published in The Speaking Tree, here. First, I’m going to change the phrase to “True Self,” because if we say “Divine Self”, it implies that there is a “non-divine self,” as in...
October 2018October 4, 2018...
October 2018This article was published in The Speaking Tree, here. Many people coming from abroad think that Hinduism is a polytheistic religion. You come here and you’ve got an image of this God and that...
October 2018This article was published on The Speaking Tree, here. On the beautiful holiday of Raksha Bandhan, the holiday of love, brotherhood, sisterhood, friendship and protection, let us use this...
August 2018This article was originally published on The Speaking Tree, here. It’s time to log off, writes SADHVI BHAGAWATI SARASWATI, from Parmarth Ashram, Rishikesh, referring to our increasing dependence...
June 2018This article was originally published on The Shift Network, here. The word “sutra” literally means a thread. In English, if you fall and hurt yourself and have to get stitches, the stitches are...
June 2018The Indian sage Patanjali gave us the eight limbs of yoga, or what are called “ashtanga” yoga. They include, of course, all of that which we currently identify as yoga: the physical postures or...
May 2018This article was originally publishing on The Speaking Tree, here. ‘Clicking still-lifes of self but no life in my self,’ writes Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati from Parmarth Ashram on...
May 2018‘However, as I looked out, even though the lights were on in the hall, I could not find a pair of eyes with which to connect.’ This article was originally published on Thrive Global,...
January 2018‘That true self is not new of course. But it is new to us. It is new to our experience of our selves.’ This article was originally published on Thrive Global, here. Every day is new....
January 2018Could Meditation Help Sexual Abuse Survivors to Heal? This article was originally published on Uplift, here. Living in an ashram on the banks of the Ganges, in the foothills of the Himalayas, it...
October 2017Diwali 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...
October 2017Trump 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...
April 2017This 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...
November 2016This 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,...
September 2016This 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...
October 2015This 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,...
July 2015This 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...
July 2015This 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...
June 2015This 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....
April 2015THE 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...
April 2015This article appeared in The Huffington Post (India), here. Countless people across the world ask me : “Have you converted to Hinduism?” The question is understandable. After all,...
March 2015We twist and bend our bodies into the poses demonstrated by the lithe and supple instructors. We exhale and bring our forehead closer to our knees. We balance in shirsanasa — keeping the weight...
February 2015This article was published on Complete Wellbeing, here. On the spiritual path, it is tempting to assume that having a deep spiritual experience is a sign that we have made it. Sharing her own...
February 2015Published in The Speaking Tree (Times of India) 30 November, 2014...
November 2014Published in The Speaking Tree (Times of India) 23 November, 2014...
November 2014This article was published in The Pioneer, here. The lack of awareness of who we truly are and why we have come to this world leads to suffering and misery in life, writes Sadhvi Bhagawati...
November 2013This article was published in The Pioneer, here. On Vivekananda’s 150th birth anniversary, Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati tells us about the monk and his teachings Swami Vivekananda brought India’s...
August 2013This article was published in The Speaking Tree, here. THE UTTARAKHAND flood tragedy has taken the lives and livelihoods of tens of thousands of people, even as a debate rages on — is Ma Ganga’s...
June 2013The rains began as we sang the Hanuman Chalisa. Typically if it’s raining prior to the aarti, we set up under the overhead awning. However, on the 16th June, the skies were clear in the afternoon...
June 2013The Call of the Sacred Snan – Kumbha Mela Kumbha Mela is, according to spiritual history and culture, the celebration of the nectar of immortality. Tens of millions of pilgrims flock from every...
May 2013This article was also published in Organiser, here, and in The Pioneer as “Return to the roots”, here. Swami Vivekananda cast India’s cultural heritage into international spotlight...
May 2013This article was published in The Speaking Tree, here. Kumbh, the mother of all river tirthas, is a miracle of aastha and vyavastha, writes SADHVI BHAGAWATI SARASWATI Kumbh Mela epitomises both...
February 2013Published in The Speaking Tree (Times of India) 20 January, 2013...
January 2013Published in Hinduism Today January-March 2013 Click the images below to enlarge....
January 2013The term “spirituality” is used quite vaguely these days to refer to anything ranging from those who subscribe to an eclectic mix of practices, traditions and beliefs, to those who may agree with...
August 2012Published in The Speaking Tree (Times of India) 25 May, 2012...
May 2012This article was also published on The Speaking Tree, here. As his belly rises with each deep, slow breath, his frayed undershirt exposes the bare skin underneath – brown, of course, due to...
May 2012This article was also published on The Speaking Tree, here, and in The Pioneer, here. “What this country really needs,” the middle aged father from Delhi was saying in the evening satsang, “is...
February 2012Published in Tathaasthu Magazine January-February 2012 Click the images below to enlarge....
January 2012In America, one of the biggest holidays of the year is Thanksgiving. The feast is in honor of the first good harvest after the pilgrims came to the new land. In theory, this holiday is a...
November 2011Published in Organiser Magazine, Deepavali Special 30 October, 2011 Click on the images to enlarge, or read the article online here. ...
October 2011Green, crisp, tart granny-smith apples smothered in dripping, sticky honey. These are my memories of Rosh Hashanah as a child. I remember the anticipation with which I awaited the round plate...
October 2011A few years ago I was traveling from Lisbon, Portugal to Tenerife (in the Canary Islands) via Madrid. Tragically on that day a Span Air plane had crashed in the Madrid airport, killing nearly all...
September 2011This article was also published on Huffington Post as “India: Let It Consume You”, here, and in The Pioneer as “An Idea Called India”, here. “If one more person...
September 2011“So Parmarth seems to be more of a ‘city’ ashram, then, rather than a traditional ‘forest’ ashram, wouldn’t you agree?” the interviewer queries. He is a young man from Bombay doing a story on...
September 2011The telephone poles, windows of cyber cafes and restaurants, and walls of the ashrams are plastered with signs advertising every form of yoga imaginable — from the traditional, standardized...
September 2011Facebook — A useful tool for the present, but not a doorway to the past “Don’t look at the name, look at the face. You won’t recognize the name, but look deeply into the eyes. You will...
September 2011
