Making change the Vedic way with Sarah O'Brien

Mahasoma Podcast

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 learn Vedic meditation herself
• What she learnt about making change, both in career and mindset
• Sarah's journey of transitioning from being a lawyer to a meditation teacher
• Her passion for creating change in the world which looks a little different to how she thought it would
• The three parts of evolutionary change through the Vedic lens (creation, maintenance and destruction)
• How to engage with each phase of evolution
• The purpose and necessity of compassion
• How true compassion often involves strong action but is ultimately a freeing experience
• The misinterpretation of wisdom that leads to spiritual bypassing
• The dismantling of this misinterpretation and how to correct our vision
• Why we shouldn’t get defensive when people point out to us where we need to change
• The need for us to collectively dream a better world together

Connect with Sarah

• [e-mail]
• @sarahobrien_meditation
• Learn Vedic meditation with Sarah

Books to read

• Read Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on the Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation and Commentary, Chapters 1-6

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