Rishikesh
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Sep 17, 2026
Peter RussellGUEST
And so in a way, that effortlessness thing has been there r- right from the beginning.
Peter RussellGUEST
Um, I went out to India, studied with him in his ashram in Rishikesh, came back, set up a meditation center in Cambridge, wrote my first book on meditation, first two books, and it's just been there ever since.
Peter RussellGUEST
And then I've been exploring.
Peter RussellGUEST
I got, um, di- I got disenchanted and, with the TM movement, and they excommunicated me anyway, so it was just like, [laughs] it was a mutual divorce.
Swami AparajitanandaHOST
So somebody was praising Swami Sivananda.
Swami AparajitanandaHOST
At that time, Swami Sivaji Maharaj was a very famous saint in India, in the Himalayas, in Rishikesh.
Swami AparajitanandaHOST
So somebody was praising Swami Sivaji Maharaj.
Swami AparajitanandaHOST
So at that time, Gurudev was an atheist.
Ram RamachandranHOST
I know a little bit of Varanasi.
Ram RamachandranHOST
Actually speaking, I wanted to come to Varanasi, but because of some other issues, I've gone to Rishikesh.
Ram RamachandranHOST
Actually, I've come to North India only once.
Ram RamachandranHOST
I wanted to go to Varanasi to take a dip in this Ganga, but we couldn't do it.
Scott NortonHOST
What type of meditation?
Daniel HummGUEST
I went to Rishikesh and I went to the silent retreat, sex ashram in Rishikesh.
Daniel HummGUEST
And yeah, we practiced yoga every day.
Daniel HummGUEST
We meditated and then we're just silent.
JJ van der VeverHOST
In March 2013, four years before Peru, my dad dropped me off at the airport with my big backpack and Indiana Jones hat, and I boarded a plane.
JJ van der VeverHOST
I spent a month in Rishikesh and four months living with a Tibetan in McLeod Gange, a hill station in northern India that is home to the Dalai Lama's residence and the Tibetan government in exile.
JJ van der VeverHOST
Everything in India was different.
JJ van der VeverHOST
The languages I couldn't speak or read, the chaotic flow of the traffic, the dilapidated buildings, the belief in reincarnation, the indifference to my accounting qualification.
JJ van der VeverHOST
In all this novelty, India planted the seed that it might be possible to change the nature of my experience, but that I'd been looking in the wrong place.
JJ van der VeverHOST
Three moments made this clear.
JJ van der VeverHOST
The first moment was the night an Indian scholar shared a quote with me over late night tea in Rishikesh.
JJ van der VeverHOST
With a sparkle in my eye, I told him I wanted to make the world a better place.
Ram RamachandranHOST
Like in my previous video also, I said the same thing.
Ram RamachandranHOST
You know, I went to Rishikesh once.
Ram RamachandranHOST
So did you like it? Yep.
Ram RamachandranHOST
Of course.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Welcome to Ask Sadhviji.
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Coming to you from the banks of the sacred Ganga River in Rishikesh, Himalayas,
SadhvijiHOST
India.
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Together, we will explore the deep and profound questions that guide us closer to the essence of who we truly are.
Aaron PettyHOST
And, like, we've been to places that have been, like, done in this architectural, traditional way.
Aaron PettyHOST
Like, it's now abandoned, but, like, the Beatles ashram in Rishikesh, it's all done through vastu.
Aaron PettyHOST
And it's just, like, got the cleanest, quietest kind of energy.
Aaron PettyHOST
Like, all of the buildings look pleasing to the eye.
JaredHOST
I mean... it's things are changing
KevinGUEST
well you think of just the just the impact of like the Beatles going to Rishikesh
JaredHOST
yeah
KevinGUEST
just that in itself changed history like that did more than anything before it for a long time you know we're on a rocket ship
Naina BhanHOST
And I picked up shirt.
Naina BhanHOST
I said, "Surely I should have a nice shirt to see him off in." So I was wearing this striped Ralph Lauren shirt [laughs] in Rishikesh.
José CovacoGUEST
[laughs]
Sakshi ShivdasaniHOST
[laughs]
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