Ep. 634 – Almost Home with Mirabai Bush
Mindrolling with Raghu Markus
Be Here Now Network
4.7 • 542 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Tracing her path from sharp-minded scholar to seasoned devotee, Mirabai Bush shares intimate stories of her personal evolution and enduring devotion to Maharaj-ji.
Check out Mirabai's latest book, Almost Home: Dharma, Social Change, and the Power of Love
In this episode, Raghu and Mirabai chat about:
- Mirabai’s leap of faith: leaving her PhD program, going to India, and becoming a devotee of Maharaj-ji
- The mystery of timing and how a single moment can quietly change the course of a life
- A silent meditation retreat that unexpectedly prepared Mirabai to meet Maharaj-ji
- How one moment with Maharaj-ji expanded Mirabai’s sense of being alive and transformed her inner world
- Surrendering control: how Maharaj-ji taught Ram Dass to release the need to manage reality
- The sacred symbolism and devotional practice of touching a guru’s feet
- The miracle of childbirth and Mirabai’s profound experiences with home birth
Check out Mirabai’s archived podcast series on the Be Here Now Network.
About Mirabai Bush:
In addition to being one of Love Serve Remember Foundation’s respected board members, Mirabai Bush is a devotee of Neem Karoli Baba and spent time with him in India from 1971 to 1972. Along with Ram Dass, she is the co-author of Compassion in Action: Setting Out on the Path of Service and Walking Each Other Home. Mirabai is Senior Fellow and founder of the Center on Contemplative Mind in Society, which encourages contemplative practice and perspective in American life in order to create a more just, compassionate and reflective society. Mirabai has also worked with Google on a workplace course called ‘Search Inside Yourself’ and with the US Army on a program for chaplains and medics. She is editor of Contemplation Nation: How Ancient Practices are Changing the Way We Live, co-author of Contemplative Practices in Higher Education: Powerful Methods To Transform Teaching and Learning, and author of Working with Mindfulness. Keep up with Mirabai on her website and don’t forget to grab her latest book, Almost Home.
“I just fell down at his feet. I never thought I would bow to a guru, but it wasn’t a decision; I was just there. In those first moments, he just expanded my sense of what it could mean to be human, to be on this planet. There is so much more to it than I had thought.” –Mirabai Bush
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, it's Ragu, and I'm back with mind rolling and back. |
| 0:15.1 | This is going to be the most extraordinary podcast in that I know this person, Mirabai Bush for a very long time. |
| 0:28.6 | Welcome Mirabai, and many of you know her too. |
| 0:31.6 | Great to be here. Really great. |
| 0:36.6 | You know that Keith Richards quote? Great to be here. Really great. |
| 0:40.9 | You know that Keith Richards quote? |
| 0:46.1 | He was invited on a television show or something, and the host said, |
| 0:48.9 | it's so great to have you here, Keith. |
| 0:53.2 | And Keith said, yeah, it's great to be anywhere. |
| 0:58.1 | Well, thank you. |
| 1:00.1 | I'm going to use that line from now on. Yeah, me too. |
| 1:01.2 | Because it's true. |
| 1:04.2 | So Mirabai has a wonderful memoir called Almost Home, and I'm going to show it right here. |
| 1:13.6 | And it's, you know, for me, since we have known each other an awful long time. |
| 1:22.6 | And I just thought erroneously that I knew everything about you. |
| 1:32.2 | And I was shocked when I read some... |
| 1:36.3 | I didn't know everything. |
| 1:39.5 | And so it's a wonderful read. |
| 1:42.1 | It's got so much pathos as well as uh deep wisdom and just |
| 1:49.7 | fun fun exciting travels and people and so on and so forth so um but you know, I want to read something nearby that I found in the book. |
| 2:06.8 | So I had read this book last year when it came out, right? |
| 2:10.9 | It came out at the end of last year, I think. |
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