Tracing her path from sharp-minded scholar to seasoned devotee, Mirabai Bush shares intimate tales of her private evolution and enduring devotion to Maharaj-ji.
Take a look at Mirabai’s archived podcast sequence on the Be Right here Now Community.
On this episode, Raghu and Mirabai chat about:
- Mirabai’s leap of religion: leaving her PhD program, going to India, and turning into a devotee of Maharaj-ji
- The thriller of timing and the way a single second can quietly change the course of a life
- A silent meditation retreat that unexpectedly ready Mirabai to satisfy Maharaj-ji
- How one second with Maharaj-ji expanded Mirabai’s sense of being alive and reworked her internal world
- Surrendering management: how Maharaj-ji taught Ram Dass to launch the necessity to handle actuality
- The sacred symbolism and devotional follow of touching a guru’s toes
- The miracle of childbirth and Mirabai’s profound experiences with dwelling beginning
“I simply fell down at his toes. I by no means thought I might bow to a guru, but it surely wasn’t a choice; I used to be simply there. In these first moments, he simply expanded my sense of what it might imply to be human, to be on this planet. There’s a lot extra to it than I had thought.” –Mirabai Bush
About Mirabai Bush:
Along with being one in all Love Serve Keep in mind Basis’s revered board members, Mirabai Bush is a devotee of Neem Karoli Baba and frolicked with him in India from 1971 to 1972. Together with Ram Dass, she is the co-author of Compassion in Motion: Setting Out on the Path of Service and Strolling Every Different Dwelling. Mirabai is Senior Fellow and founding father of the Middle on Contemplative Thoughts in Society, which inspires contemplative follow and perspective in American life so as to create a extra simply, compassionate and reflective society. Mirabai has additionally labored with Google on a office course referred to as ‘Search Inside Your self’ and with the US Military on a program for chaplains and medics. She is editor of Contemplation Nation: How Historical Practices are Altering the Approach We Reside, co-author of Contemplative Practices in Increased Training: Highly effective Strategies To Rework Instructing and Studying, and creator of Working with Mindfulness. Sustain with Mirabai on her web site and don’t neglect to seize her newest ebook, Virtually Dwelling.
