Finding The Missing Piece

“Humans are designed to be self-sufficient in spirit. Due to stress,unhappiness and other such things,we confine ourselves to being less than what we are actually meant to be,” she says. Productivity,mental peace and connectivity need to be balanced out to bring about a healthy change,she says. Peace naturally follows once you know who you really are. Sunandaji gives examples from the tales of Sudama and Krishna and of King Janak to point out that financial status has nothing to do with self-sufficiency. When one is happy with what he or she has been given by the Almighty,one is self-sufficient and this completes one’s purpose of life,she explains.

Sunandaji joined her father in his research at the age of 16. “I live a nomal live. I have a daughter who is married and settled in Chennai and a son who works at the Vedanta Academy along with his wife. My family is very supportive; they know I have dedicated myself to the propagation of this knowledge,” she says.

People from around the world come to study Vedanta at the Vedanta Academy,Malavli,which was set up by Swami Parthasarathy. “Proficiency will help youngsters get a job and earn a living but they need to learn how to connect with people,” she explains. “To learn the essence of life,one needs to go back to the shastras. It’s all there in the pages of the Bhagwad Gita,” she adds. Sunandaji will be travelling with her father and a team of volunteers to Dubai,Abu Dhabi and Bengaluru before the talk in Pune.