Part Two: Stanford PhD: The Instant Spiritual Awakening That Healed Her Trauma (Science Can’t Explain) & How Humanity Wakes Up | Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati

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Mayim Bialik

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Comedy

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🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 79 minutes

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What if your spiritual awakening was so powerful, you thought you were being mind controlled? In this episode of Mayim Bialik's Breakdown, Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati — global spiritual leader and bestselling author of Come Home to Yourself and Hollywood to the Himalayas — reveals the raw, unfiltered truth about the awakening that shattered her old identity and opened her to a universal realization: everything is connected through unconditional love. But it didn’t start peacefully. At first, she thought she was losing her mind. From a science-trained skeptic to a spiritual teacher living in the Himalayas, Sadhviji shares what divinity actually feels like in the body, what happens when your attachment to your identity explodes, and why her awakening was so radical it led to the end of her marriage. Sadhviji breaks down: - Her journey through disordered eating, trauma, abandonment, and codependency before awakening - Why healing childhood wounds is essential so adult triggers stop running your life - Physical process of releasing anger, pain, and stored trauma from the body - What’s really holding most of us back from spiritual experiences - How she resists physical temptations and stays grounded in spiritual discipline - Freedom that comes from “Breaking Free of the Self” - How to integrate smaller spiritual experiences (even if you haven’t had a lightning-bolt awakening) - Power of holy and sacred places for us as energetic beings - How divine intelligence in nature reveals the “unexplainable” - Why coming into everything with an open heart changes your entire reality With her background in science, Sadhviji also shares her fascinating perspective on watching quantum physics slowly catch up in attempting to explain mystical truths sages have known for millennia, and what it will actually take to spark a global spiritual awakening (hint: it’s not as impossible as we think) This isn’t just a spiritual story. It’s a blueprint for healing, awakening, and living in radical love. If you’ve ever questioned reality, longed for deeper truth, struggled with trauma, or wondered whether awakening is real, this conversation may change everything. Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati’s latest book, Come Home to Yourself: Wisdom for Life: ⁠https://www.amazon.com/Come-Home-Yourself-Essential-Questions/dp/1647223695⁠ To download the Come Home to Yourself companion workbook, visit: ⁠https://sadhviji.org/⁠ Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati’s memoir, Hollywood to the Himalayas: a Journey of Healing and Transformation: ⁠https://a.co/d/0aJRTCuE⁠ Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati’s podcast, Ask Sadhviji: ⁠https://sadhviji.org/category/audio/ask-sadhviji-podcast/⁠ Follow us on Substack for Exclusive Bonus Content: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bialikbreakdown.substack.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BialikBreakdown.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube.com/mayimbialik⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	When was the last time you had space to feel?
0:07.0	With the National Trust, you might just find life standing still under towering trees.
0:14.0	Maybe you'll find connection among the stories of the past,
0:19.0	or a moment to disconnect from it all on a mountainside.
0:24.5	Whatever you're feeling, wherever you are, with the National Trust, you can make space to feel.
0:33.7	Hi, I'm Biolik. And I'm Jonathan Cohen.
0:36.1	And welcome to part two of our conversation with
0:39.0	Sadvi Baguatu Saraswati. She is a global, spiritual leader and bestselling author, the author of
0:45.2	Come Home to Yourself, Simple Answers to Life's Essential Questions. In part one of our conversation with
0:50.5	Sadviji, we talked about Hollywood to the Himalayas, her journey from growing up in a
0:55.9	privileged home in Los Angeles and how her studies at Stanford University eventually led her
1:01.9	to what was a spontaneous spiritual awakening in the Ganga River in India, where she has stayed
1:08.7	for 30 years. We cover how that spiritual awakening impacted her experience of bulimia, addiction, and helped
1:17.8	her overcome her trauma.
1:19.8	In part two of our conversation, we're going to talk about what it really looks like to let go
1:25.1	of anger, of trauma, of resentment. We're also going to talk about what kind
1:29.8	of relationship she formed with her guru and how do you distinguish a charismatic leader from
1:35.3	a true leader? We also discuss the global spiritual awakening that is happening right now. And
1:42.3	what will it take for the world to tip towards a larger spiritual
1:47.4	awakening. We can't wait for you to hear part two of our conversation with Sadviji.
1:52.2	Break it down. Come home to yourself is sort of that next level of teaching with much more specifics.
1:59.0	What are the actual tools? What's the actual practice
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