Om Swami

Mental health is a subject close to my heart. Most of us, who have never suffered and overcome mental health or looked after a serious mental health patient will never …

Less than two hours after I’d pressed publish on the last chapter, I received a call from my sister-in-law and an email from my brother, with the subject heading: “I …

2011 “She’s inhumane. How can a mother leave her children?” As I hear the words, I know this is it. This is the moment. All eyes are on me now. …

  If you haven’t read it already, Part 2 is available here     “They said I was acting mad in the street with no shoes on  … Someone called the …

  If you haven’t read it already, Part 1 is available here     In the weeks before I could arrive in Nairobi, as X’s parents were absolutely desperate to help …

As a teenage woman growing up in liberal London in the 90s, and as an avid watcher of the hit TV shows of that era like Sex and the City …

Sometime after that awful evening, Maanav was away in Germany on a business trip. I was at home with the new baby when the phone rang. It was the fraud …

I hit him. Yes. The man I loved. The father of my children. I hit him. I can’t remember why it happened. The only memory I have is this snapshot: …

Once upon a time there was a little girl 👧🏻 who loved flowers 🌷 She loved them so much that she wouldn’t pick them. Instead, she’d talk to them and …

Recently, I have been feeling cheated, taken advantage of, by someone. And if I am walking Om Swami ji’s path as His initiated disciple, and I still feel this way, …

Recently, meeting with ashram residents, Swami ji asked some of us why we were here. Some people answered that they were here to serve. Some said to walk the spiritual …

For centuries, enlightened beings have spoken about the spiritual path and its many hurdles — our thoughts, our desires, distractions, our lingering emotions of anger and covetousness, and so forth. …