SADHVI BHAGAWATI SARASWATI is a renowned spiritual leader, author, and motivational speaker based in Rishikesh, India. She’s the author of the bestselling memoir Hollywood to the Himalayas: A Journey of Healing and Transformation. She is International Director of Parmarth Niketan, Rishikesh, one of India’s largest spiritual institutions. She is also the Secretary-General of the Global Interfaith WASH Alliance, an international interfaith organization dedicated to clean water, sanitation, and hygiene; the president of Divine Shakti Foundation, a foundation that runs free schools, vocational training programs, and empowerment programs; and the director of the world-famous International Yoga Festival at Parmarth Niketan Ashram, Rishikesh—which has been covered in Time, CNN, The New York Times, and other prestigious publications and has been addressed by both the Prime Minister and Vice President of India. She serves on the United Nations Advisory Council on Religion and on the steering committees of the International Partnership for Religion and Sustainable Development (PaRD) and the Moral Imperative to End Extreme Poverty, a campaign by the United Nations and World Bank. She was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by U.S. President Joe Biden for her lifelong commitment to volunteer service. She was also the Managing Editor for the monumental project of the 11-volume Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Originally from Los Angeles and a graduate of Stanford University, Sadhviji has been ordained into the sacred order of Sanyas by her guru HH Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji and has been living at Parmarth Niketan Ashram for the past twenty-seven years. She oversees a variety of humanitarian projects, teaches meditation, lectures, writes, counsels individuals and families, and serves as a unique female voice of spiritual leadership throughout India and the world. www.sadhviji.org
“Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati is a great teacher of spirituality and
consciousness. Her inspiring wisdom illuminates the path to
healing, happiness, and inner peace.”
*Deepak Chopra*
“Courageous, Relatable, and Inspiring! Sadhvi’s story will touch
your heart and show you that the path to the divine is available to
everyone.”
*Prince EA*
“Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati describes in vivid and poetic prose the
journey that took her, a Stanford graduate, from a life of
privilege in America to a simple existence in an Indian ashram. She
speaks of her transformation from a disturbed adolescent to a woman
who has found spiritual enlightenment; and how she was able to
renounce the pleasures of the material world and physical desire
through the agency of an inspiring and inspired Guru, the beauty of
nature, and a sacred river. Her journey is a river of love,
compelling in its authenticity and unflinching honesty. Sadhvi
transports the reader to a world and way of thinking that most will
be unfamiliar with, and this book is a must for anyone who is
interested in exploring different paths to fulfilment and to the
Creator.”
*Dr. Jane Goodall*
“For so many of us, the road to the Divine sometimes begins with
deep trauma. And, then Grace is bestowed upon us and we blossom in
the holiness of love. Hollywood to the Himalayas is filled with
wisdom and truth about the powerful revelations that unfold on the
path to a deeper relationship to the divine. This is a beautiful
book.”
*Rev. Iyanla Vanzant, Executive Producer of Iyanla, Fix My
Life*
“This is a book in which every sentence is a reflection of love and
the wisdom of love. Sadhviji’s journey is a lucid illustration of
how her search for the Divine is taken with every step and every
breath in a world ostensibly of the mundane. She speaks of her pain
as a source of knowledge, as she shows how Divine love and light,
ever present, leads her to an academically informed, humorously
inspiring, inevitability of love as lived activism in the service
of one and all.”
*Dr. Azza Karam, Secretary General, Religions for Peace; Former
Senior Advisor, UNFPA*
“This true story shines a bright light on the path to becoming more
deeply spiritual. Sadhvi courageously shares her life lessons,
illustrating the infinite possibilities when we consciously seek
connection to the divine.”
*Jack Canfield, co-author of Chicken Soup for the Soul Series*
“This very special book chronicles a unique transformational
journey of an American woman who overcame childhood abuse and
trauma to lead a life of service as a global spiritual leader. A
beautifully written account of awakening that offers ancient wisdom
for modern-day issues. I highly recommend this!”
*Marci Shimoff, author of Happy for No Reason, Love for No Reason,
and Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul*
“In Hollywood to the Himalayas, Sadhvi unfolds deeply personal
experiences that offer the reader most important and valuable
insights on how to become resilient, self-empowered. Beyond the
lessons offered, Sadhvi’s wonderful writing style evoked a
movie-like vision in my mind; it is a compelling story that made it
hard to put this book down.”
*Bruce H. Lipton, PhD, Stem Cell Biologist, Epiogenetic Science
Pioneer, and author of bestselling books such as The Biology of
Belief, Spontaneous Evolution (with Jim Bhaerman), and The
Honeymoon Effect*
“There is not one of us who hasn’t suffered. For many, it is the
suffering that gives one insight, wisdom and clarity. Sadhvi’s
journey is one such story that leads to India and her relationship
with her Guru and with the Ganga. Yet, it is much more because it
is also a story of the power of forgiveness, compassion, grace and
love to set one free. Profound, engaging and ultimately
liberating.”
*James R. Doty, MD, Professor and author of Into the Magic Shop: A
Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the
Secrets of the Heart*
“This inspiring and motivational book is a real pageturner. I
believe it’s the feminine version of the classic spiritual memoir,
Autobiography of a Yogi.”
*John Gray, author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus*
“A compelling account and an inside look at a great ashram,
offering a Western woman’s remarkable odyssey of trust in Indian
spiritual culture and her powerful healing journey.”
*Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart*
“Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati was a student at Stanford seeking
science-based solutions to her emotional wounds and childhood
trauma, hoping to heal herself and then others. On a trip to India,
in an unexpected twist of fate, she experienced a remarkable,
divine healing, on the banks of the Ganges River. For those on a
spiritual path, this book is a rare glimpse into connecting with
the divine.”
*Arielle Ford, author of The Soulmate Secret*
“While Dorothy had to go over the rainbow to discover there is no
place like home, Sadhvi found her true home on the banks of the
Ganges wrapped in the arms of the Divine. This enlightenment story
will make your heart melt and your jaw drop.”
*Justin Michael Williams, author of Stay Woke*
“Hollywood to the Himalayas is filled with soulful, deep insight
and dynamic wisdom. Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati’s honest,
courageous, powerful story and resonant words radiate healing
energy palpable to the heart and mind, borne of her authenticity
and spiritual transformation. Study this book and allow your soul
to sing.”
*Michael Bernard Beckwith, Founder and Spiritual Director, Agape
International Spiritual Center; author of Life Visioning and
Spiritual Liberation*
“Hollywood to the Himalayas is a rare, intimate glimpse into the
private, faith-filled journey one takes as they surrender all that
they thought they were, for who they truly are. Love. This powerful
book is a raw, honest, and heartfelt expression of Sadhviji’s
continued commitment to her service to humankind. It is an
inspirational offering, from her soul to ours, reflecting back to
us that the spiritual path can be tender, messy, funny, fierce,
illuminating, blissful, awkward, deeply wondrous, and both very
human AND divine. I am so grateful for her willingness to share her
personal stories about the complexities of Self-discovery, as well
as the profound teachings that she learned along the way. This book
is transformative and recommended for all on the path who seek a
relationship with the power of Source within themselves, each
other, and this world.”
*Seane Corn, author of Revolution of the Soul; Co-Founder of Off
the Mat, Into the World*
“Upon leaving Stanford and a highly privileged life in the West,
Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati, a nonseeker, found herself in India. On
the banks of the Ganges, she experienced a profound healing and
transformation from her years of suffering from sexual abuse and
eating disorders. Today, twenty-five years later, she is considered
one of the preeminent female spiritual leaders of our time. This
revealing and deeply personal story is an inspiring demonstration
of grace in action.”
*Marianne Williamson*
“What an extraordinary book! Sadviji’s writing is personal, funny,
wry, loving, earnest, self-reflective and incredibly engaging. And
her story! Wow! The journey from being in pieces to being at peace,
from being a brilliant student at Stanford to living a life of
devotion in India with her beloved teacher is a teaching for us
all. Although we may not move to India, we can move from being
hooked on our personalities to realizing what is and has always
been breathing through us, loving us, blazing us. If one person can
do and be this, so can we all. Thank you, Sadhviji, for reminding
us of what is always here, always possible. I won’t be the same
after reading your book.”
*Geneen Roth, author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller: Women,
Food, and God*
"In Hollywood to the Himalayas we join a journey of a borderless
and courageous heart that learns three treasures: becoming closer
to God everyday, serving humanity, and being happy. Sadhvi shares
lessons of compassion and letting go learned from unflinchingly
addressing abuse and suffering, lessons of extraordinary joy
resulting from blessings of love and healing, insights of wisdom
gained from modern and ancient disciplines of learning, guidance
and transmission from an authentic teacher/disciple relationship,
and inspiration to keep learning and serving. The integrity and
clarity of her account (and ascent) is powerful and may rub off on
the reader. If it does you will not be the same."
*Jonathan Granoff, President, Global Security Institute*
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