Let us introduce ourselves
A few words about us
We are twins born and raised in India. We spend 28 years of our life in the holy land of India.
Many have asked us this question: what we both do for living?
We have a Masters and a PhD degree in Biochemistry.
Shivani: I am working as a full time Research Assistant Professor at the Northwestern University in Chicago. My research is on cancer biology and I am passionate about learning how complex and intricate human physiology is.
Shivangi: I am a Principal Scientist working for Grove Biopharma Inc, a seed-stage pharmaceutical company in the West loop of Chicago. I am discovering new molecules to cure neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinsons and Alzheimers.
As scientists, we both were always amazed by the greatest physicist, Max Planck who said: “For believers, God is in the beginning; for scientists, God is at the end“. Hence, our search for truth continued until we found our path towards grace and it is a beautiful journey so far!
How it all came to be…
Inspiration & support of parents
Embrace the Grace is a humble offering to our loving and most revered spiritual (Radhanath Swami) and biological (Anil and Neeta) parents, who have showed us the path to God and supported us in our journeys.
Radhanath Swami: Radhanath Swami is one of today’s most beloved and respected spiritual teachers. He spent his youth wandering through disparate countries and cultures yearning for an experience of truth; after finally meeting his spiritual teacher in India he has spent the last 50 years internalizing that spiritual practice and sharing it with others. He is not only a guide, but a community builder, activist, and an International and New York Times Best selling author (The Journey Home and The Journey Within). Rooted in his study of ancient India’s mystic devotional tradition, Radhanath Swami’s message is as profound as it is simple: by cultivating a rich inner life of self-awareness and a genuine practice of service, we can become instruments of compassion and agents of sustainable change in the world.
https://www.radhanathswami.com/
https://www.radhanathswami.com/books/
Radhanath Swami believes: “What you are is God’s gift to you, what you become is your gift to God”
We both had the good fortune to meet him in 2012 and our lives changed forever!
Anil and Neeta: We have the greatest fortune to be born to this beautiful couple, whose hearts are pure and selfless. They have taught us that the value of life is in relationships and not the things of this world.
Experience the heart of India with us
Inspiration and Invitation
In our 28 years of growing up in India, we never found an unhappy person in spite of poverty, struggle for existence and challenges. On the contrary, in the West, we see most people have moderately luxurious and comfortable lives; still why is it so hard to find people who are happy?
The universal truth is that we all are eternal souls searching for happiness with a strong innate desire to love and be loved. But, where and how do we find: long-lasting happiness, love that is selfless and life which is devoid of miseries?
This trip will open our eyes, broaden our perspective and help us to get answers to these timeless questions. We will be exposed to a culture that embodies “In giving we receive”.
We are inviting you on this trip to share a part of our journey with you all. This trip is a calling to re-define ourselves, re-visit our purpose and refine our mind. This pilgrimage is an opportunity for us to step outside our current context of life and experience what the other world has to offer.
We urge you to approach this journey with an open heart and an open mind, and let the grace embrace you, enlighten you, and enliven you entirely. We will return with a newer paradigm based on the principle of transforming arrogance into humility, greed into generosity, hate into love, vengeance into forgiveness, selfishness into selfless compassion”.