Episode 15 - Making change the Vedic way with Sarah O'Brien
Introduction to the episode.
In this episode Mahasoma teachers Laura Poole and Sarah O’Brien come together to talk about Sarah’s journey into Vedic meditation. Sarah’s comes from a background in legal advocacy. After finishing her law degree, Sarah jumped straight into working in human rights and administrative law, which was what she had spent her 7 years at university hoping to do. In a pretty short period of time, she witnessed the way we currently try to make change in the world and it began to feel that for her, the legal industry wasn’t the way she could have the best impact. As Sarah went deeper into Vedic knowledge, travelled to India and really allowed herself to dream, she came to understand that teaching people new (or should we say re-enlivening old) ways of seeing the world was going to have much more of an impact than her current work.
Sarah came to understand that it is through the mind of each person that we gain our community. It is therefore vital to influence the way individuals see the world so that we as a community can be more inclusive, multi-generational, and compassionate. She now understands this is how we can create true change.
What we talk about.
How Sarah came to meditate, and what she learnt about making change, both in career and mindset
The Vedic principles of evolution, and it’s three main expressions (creation, maintenance and destruction)
How to engage with each phase of evolution
What it truly means to have and practice compassion
How true compassion often involves strong action but is ultimately a freeing experience
Our views on the misinterpretation of deeper Vedic truths in some online spaces, and how it is not the truth that is the problem, but the conclusions that we are coming to that cause these truths to be misinterpreted
How we can begin to acknowledge the filters we may use to interpret these deeper truths and how we can go about dismantling them
Why we shouldn’t get defensive when people point out to us where we need to change
Connect with Sarah.
Resources
Listen to Satsang with Mooji podcast which is all about Vedanta - the body of knowledge that teaches us we are all one thing.
Read Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on the Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation and Commentary, Chapters 1-6