LYNNE McTAGGART is one of the central authorities on the new science of consciousness, and the award-winning author of seven books, including the inte

Spirituality and Healing: The Power of Group Intention

The intention  revolution

Intention

Integrity

Explore Lynne McTaggart’s groundbreaking work on intention and its transformative power in healing.

 Unleashing our extraordinary capabilities

LETTERS TO FAMILY AND FRIENDSDAAJI shares some insights on the idea of surrender and why it is often misunderstood.Dear Daaji,The concept of surrender

Love and surrender

In this final conversation of the series, J. FREDERICK ARMENT continues to talk with CHRISTINE JONES about promoting peace in the world. They discuss 

The tipping point

Inner potential

J. FREDERICK ARMENT continues his conversation with CHRISTINE JONES about promoting peace in the world. He especially focuses on the foundation of it 

the importance of relationship, community, and love

Waveguides and community

LETTERS TO FAMILY AND FRIENDSDear Daaji,Why is it important to absorb the inner state of meditation and take it into our daily routine?Dear Satha,Navi

The benefits of a meditative mind

Still mind

LETTERS TO FAMILY AND FRIENDSDear Daaji,How can we develop unity when we experience so many difficulties working together?Dear Eva,Glad you could secu

The integrated self

J. FREDERICK ARMENT has a conversation with CHRISTINE JONES about his organization, International Cities of Peace, as well as the other ways he promot

International cities of peace

We must work at peace

BAWA JAIN, the Secretary-General for the World Council of Religious Leaders, shares his perspective on the greatest blessing, and his own grounding ph

Serve, share, sacrifice

Dear Master,What qualities allow us to go deeper into communication on various levels?Dear Chinu bhai,Everything communicates. We only need to perceiv

The ultimate communication

The kingdom of the heart

The Master Yoga exhibition, held at UNESCO House in Paris from June 14 to 21, 2024, marked the 10th anniversary of International Day of Yoga proclaime

Master Yoga 2024, UNESCO Paris

LETTERS TO FAMILY AND FRIENDSDear Dad,Please speak to us about change.Dear Sahaj and Marg,One of the things that is eternal is change. You cannot avoi

On change

SOFIA STRIL-REVER shares her experience of the Mahotsav in Kanha Shanti Vanam at the United Nations, during International Day of Conscience with Love 

Conscience with love for peace

Either forward or backward

LETTERS TO FAMILY AND FRIENDSDear Kamlesh bhai,In Heartfulness, you start with the last three steps of Ashtanga Yoga – dharana, dhyana, and samadhi. W

Why start with meditation instead of yama and niyama?

BEING AND BECOMINGDR. TONY NADER, neuroscientist, author, and leader of the Transcendental Meditation® movement, shares some insights on consciousness

The Maharishi effect

The Venerable BHIKKU SANGHASENAfounded the Mahabodhi International Meditation Centre (MIMC) in Ladakh in 1986. Since then he has worked tirelessly and

Ambassadors for compassion

Refined consciousness

On the second day of the Global Spirituality Mahotsav, DAAJI spoke about the purpose of the gathering, why there are different religious practices in 

Love for the sake of love

The arc of the moral universe

Sat, rajas, and tamas

Her Excellency, PATRICIA SCOTLAND, KC, The Rt. Honorable Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, visited Kanha Shanti Vanam in January 2024. During her

How can we give back?

Our daily lives

SAT BIR SINGH KHALSA is interviewed by VICTOR KANNAN about research and the applications of yoga in modern life. Dr. Khalsa has been an instructor of 

How yoga regenerates us

Who is a seeker?

Trust that

The nature of higher consciousness

LAURA OTIS is a Professor of English at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. She integrates scientific and literary thinking, and is especially interes

Are we taking care of each other?

Love in action

Dear Mr. Kamlesh Patel,How is it possible to gauge spiritual progress?What changes should I expect in my inner well-being as well as lifestyle?

What is spirituality?

HEATHER MASON is the Founder and Director of The Minded Institute, a professional yoga therapy training organization. She is also the recipient of fou

The world shifts when you shift

DAAJI’s latest book, Spiritual Anatomy: Meditation, Chakras, and the Journey to the Center, was released in the U.S. in October 2023, and will be rele

The secret ingredient

How much love

DAAJI explains a simple way to bring the states of consciousness received in meditation into daily life, creating a state of inner remembrance, which 

Remembrance made simple

PIERRE RAVAN is interviewed by ELIZABETH DENLEY about the launch of his new brand, Eternal Journey, starting with 3 exquisite perfumes designed to kee

Eternal journey

ROSALIND PEARMAIN explores the reasons we meditate, and how they evolve over time. As we expand our awareness, we move from the mundane to the sublime

How does meditation help?

ACHARYA SHREE VARMA comes from a lineage of Ayurvedic doctors who have been practicing for over four centuries. With a vision to share this wisdom wit

Mental well-being and Ayurveda

Treating emotional challenges

DEEPAK CHOPRA was interviewed in Kanha Shanti Vanam on July 2, 2023, by EKTA BOUDERLIQUE. After an illustrious career bridging health, science, and sp

Are we asking the right questions?

DEVELOPING PEACE INSIDE OUTDR. RANJANI IYER, SYLVIE BERTI-ROSSI, and SHARAT HEGDE from the Peacefulness Movement explore the need for peace with globa

TAP into Peacefulness  

How character is built

THE WISDOM BRIDGE SERIESIn September 2022, DAAJI released his latest bestseller, The Wisdom Bridge, and throughout 2023 we are sharing highlights from

The art of relaxed efforts

Beautiful questions

KAJ HAMMARGREN is an athlete who turned his life around from a very dark place in his twenties to serving others and bringing joy, thanks to a spiritu

Finding purpose

Our next evolution

DAAJI speaks about the role of the heart in healing, and the important aspects of a healthy life. He explains the concept of total health and how we c

The journey of total health

HIS HOLINESS the 14th DALAI LAMA met with UNESCO Artist for Peace, Dr. GUILA CLARA KESSOUS, on May 8, 2023. Evoking her commitments to UNESCO, Dr. Kes

Yoga and mental health

LLEWELLYN VAUGHAN-LEE looks back on a life of learning about love in its many forms and faces, from the most human to the most esoteric, and what it m

Love and prayer

DAAJI explores the topic of destiny, including our own role in determining our future, as well as the roles other people, circumstances, and the envir

How to make the most of life




  EDDIE STERN
    has been practicing and studying yoga since he was fifteen, and was drawn by
    India and the yogic life. Here he explains the s

Yogic lifestyle and well-being

Truth



    
    
        This is how DR.
                ZACH BUSH deconstructs his sense of self. It could just be the medicine you need, too.
    



   

Where do people find you?

The potential within

KISHORE DEBNATH explores how science, art, and spirituality all take us beyond the physical world into subtler realms where we must understand and des

A journey beyond the concrete




  By the end of the 1960s, Westerners were traveling to India to visit
    Babuji. Among the first were a group of young Danes, who fell in love
  

Ride your own bike

Light a candle

VICTOR KANNAN explores the concept of carefreeness and what that means. He also offers us 4 simple steps to regaining lightness and carefree happiness

4 steps to becoming carefree

Being carefree


    VICTOR
            KANNAN
        explores the
            components of our mental well-being, and how the
            refinement of intellect h

The role of the intellect

It takes a village

DR. ATHENA DESPOINA POTARI shares her insights on Hellenism, the ancient civilization of the Mediterranean, the cultural cradle of Western civilizatio

The illusion of East and West


  SUBHANGEE
      GHOSH
    is a college student from Kolkata, India. She tells the inspiring story of
    her father, who overcame all obstacles of 

The most beautiful things


    DAAJI
        explores the way we learn and discover new things. He also addresses how
        modern-day research fits into this framework, and 

Why should scientists meditate?

Universal consciousness


        ROSALIND
                        PEARMAIN
                challenges our current worldview on research methodology, and the relative
        

We are all researchers


  MARGARET
      SCHENKMAN,
    ROSALIND
      PEARMAIN,
    HESTER O
      CONNOR,
    and
    KRISHNAMURTHY
      JAYANNA
    address some of the c

The conundrum of consciousness


  DAAJI share
    some simple tips on eating well for
    physical, mental, emotional, and
    spiritual health. These ideas also can solve humanity’

Celebrating food

Fragrance of food


      
        BERYL AMURUGAT FAVOUR
          is a student from Nairobi, Kenya. Her heartbreaking and at the same
          time uplifting story is 

Voice of an African child


    MADHUSUDAN
            REDDY
        shares some ideas on how to approach our goals so that they become
        more achievable. He also explains

Let success be yours

Acceptance


    DAAJI
        explores the 5Cs of the heart, and describes how a meditative practice
        can support emotional wisdom and well-being.





  

Emotional wisdom


        This article is an excerpt from
          DAAJI’s upcoming book,
          The Wisdom Bridge: Nine Principles to Live a Life that Echoes in
 

Our noble youth


    JEREMY GILLEY is
        the founder of Peace One Day. Because of his efforts, September 21 is
        an annual day of global ceasefire and non-

Inform, inspire, engage

The fruit of silence

 
        MANAV DAVE
          is looking toward a hopeful future, thanks to the inspiration and
          action of the Gen Zs, and despite the chall

Why the next generation will take us where we need to be

Nothing is so powerful as love and thought

  
        August 15, 2022, is the 75th anniversary of India’s
          freedom from British rule. While India’s freedom fighters are honored
       

The role of a great rishi and a saint in the freedom of India


  LUIGI FERRARO lives on the beautiful Isle of
    Capri in Italy’s Bay of Naples. He has been a Heartfulness yogi for over 45 years, and shares with

Heartfelt awareness


  DAAJI speaks of friendship and the important
    role it plays in our lives. He also shares a practice for removing enmity and making friends of ou

How to be a good friend


  PATRICK FLEURY
    has been on an inner journey from a young age. Looking back, after 50 years of Heartfulness practice, he shares
    the importan

Fabulous Transmission


  VIBE ERSTAD has been a Heartfulness practitioner
    for 52 years, having started in Copenhagen in 1970. The journey that has unfolded throughout t

Inner community


    Everyone is looking for guidance to navigate the uncertainty and challenges that we collectively face in
        today’s world. Sometimes the sou

Four attitudes that will transform your life forever


  By the end of the 1960s, Westerners were traveling to India
      to visit Babuji. Among the first were the Danes, who all fell in love with Babuji

50 years of breathing

Your heart will guide


    FIONA NEARY
        celebrates diversity as a way to create communities that are vibrant,
        dynamic, and interesting. She finds ways to ove

Unity in diversity


    DAAJI
        challenges us to think about how we make decisions, and shows us how a
        regular meditation practice can lead us to knowing r

Develop the habit of making great decisions

Strength lies in differences

Mental health


    DAAJI explains how caring for
        Mother Earth begins with eliminating thought
        pollution from the mind and nurturing the attitudes of

The planet was there before us and will be there after us

Thoughtful committed citizens


    This month,
        DAAJI recommends three happiness habits. He also
        shares wisdom from the Bhagavad
        Gita, and from modern writer

Create happiness now

Seek within


  A common piece of advice is, “Don’t let your happiness depend on
    others.”
    KARISHAM KARA, a college student in South Africa,
    recognizes 

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