By Atma Tattva Das,
When life slowed in 2020, and routines stumbled, Dr Nivedita and her husband Prathap found themselves in a rare stillness. Dr Nivedita, with a PhD from Oxford and a career in pharmaceutical manufacturing, and Prathap, working across IT and fashion supply chains, had long followed the rhythm of modern enterprise. But when COVID-19 paused everything, the couple asked a different question: “What is the purpose of life?” she remembered. “We saw people losing their lives so easily.”
That question sparked deeper exploration. They began learning the Bhagavad-gītā together and enrolled in an 18-day Tamil-language Bhagavad-gita course led by Murali Shyam Das. “Within six days… it just changed the entire perspective of our lives,” Dr Nivedita said. The change was more than academic. They committed to only eating organic food that could be offered to Krishna, pure, homemade, and free from chemicals. “For one and a half years, we didn’t eat anything outside,” she said, describing a radical reset of their habits.
A telling moment came when Prathap sampled a commercial chocolate: his mouth reacted within seconds, “It was burning…we realized how many preservatives and stabilizers we were actually consuming before,” she recalled. With her lab background, she recognized the “E-numbers I used in my lab were used as ingredients…I started asking why these chemicals were in our food.” This discovery bridged science and spirituality and became one of the seeds of their new path.
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