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Highest Self Podcast®

647: She Left Everything And Became A Monk In India- Here's What She Has To Share With Us with Sadhvi Saraswati

Highest Self Podcast®

Sahara Rose

Spirituality, Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness

4.86.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

I met Sadhvi Saraswati at Mindvalley in Amsterdam this summer and I knew I had to bring her on the podcast. She grew up in Hollywood, went to Stanford, was in the middle of a PhD program and then one moment on the banks of the Ganga in Rishikesh changed everything. She never went back.

 

Now she is the co-founder of the Ganga Aarti, the largest daily spiritual ritual on the sacred Ganges River, she speaks at the UN about women's rights and spirituality, and she is one of the most grounded and luminous teachers I have ever sat with.

 

This conversation went everywhere. From what Sanatana Dharma actually is and why it is for all of us, to cultural appropriation, to the very real and very personal question of how do we keep our hearts open to sacred love in a world that feels so hard to love in right now.

 

In this episode we explore:

🌺 Sadhvi's journey from Hollywood to the Himalayas and the moment on the Ganga that changed her life

✨ What Sanatana Dharma actually is and why it belongs to everyone

🙏🏽 How to engage with Indian spiritual traditions without cultural appropriation

💫 Why the goddess tradition honors every expression of the feminine from Lakshmi to Kali

🌹 The real non-negotiables when calling in a spiritually aligned partner

🔥 Why awakened women often feel unseen in love and what to do about it

💎 How to recognize spirituality in a partner even when it looks nothing like yours

 

If you have ever felt caught between the spiritual path and the love story, this episode is going to meet you exactly where you are.

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

feminine and embodiment and tantra. Where does it actually come from?

0:04.0

There's kind of every possible way of connecting with the divine under the umbrella of Sanatendarm.

0:13.0

An eternal that has to do with us recognizing and realizing that who we are is not the body, a path that takes us out of suffering into truth.

0:24.0

I've heard so many women and I had this own thought, I'm too masculine.

0:26.8

So many of us are boxed into what it means to be feminine.

0:31.1

And it's like, well, sometimes she's like Lakshmi.

0:36.7

And sometimes she's like Saraswati, and sometimes she is Makkah.

0:42.8

Personal question that I have, and I know so many listeners of the podcast do, move to the Himalayas or stay on Hinge.

0:49.2

Which one do we do?

0:50.6

I think, first of all, it's really important.

0:53.2

Spiritually powerful, embodied partnership of masculine and feminine is absolutely possible.

1:02.0

Trust flow, surrender, let go.

1:05.0

Yeah.

1:06.0

Trust flow, surrender, let go.

1:07.0

I'm the one I've been waiting for.

1:10.0

Plus, flow, surrender, let go, trust flow, surrender I've been waiting for. Close.

1:11.1

Swallow.

1:12.8

Just flow.

1:14.0

Surrender let go.

1:15.1

Trust.

1:16.3

Swin to let go.

1:18.6

I'm the one I've been waiting for.

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