We have to practice radical non-judgement of self.
The Natural Process is a process of slowly opening. Nothing can move if it’s closed, so opening is essential. Within this opening emotions, feelings, might emerge which seem new but were in fact hidden. Receiving the effects of opening without judgement is paramount, otherwise the opening will stop and the closing will continue.
We knock on the heart until it opens enough to tell us something. Then we really listen.
Learning to accept our own heart is essential to healing. What we hear when we listen our inner voice might be familiar, and it can be surprising too. It depends how far away we’ve been from ourselves and for how long. However, we must learn to accept and listen to our own heart if we are really interested and dedicated towards our own alignment, inner peace, and contentment.
What is non-separation?
Although Sajana never felt the need to organize her teachings into any name or classification, if we were to put a title to them, it would be non-separation.
This is a reference to Sajana's initial vision and inspiration which sparked her life of service and healing. She saw all beings as Buddha after Buddha, experiencing the true lack of separation between us. Since that moment,
Separation arises from fear and insecurity, from a lack of trust in oneself, from a lack of understand of oneself.
The importance of nature.
The importance of spending time with nature cannot be over-exaggerated, why? It's because nature, and all the seen and unseen beings living there are naturally non-judgemental and non-serparating. By spending time with them, you can learn what it feels like to be in such an environment, to be with such energies. In time you can start to not only recognize environments which are non-judgemental, but also mimic and embody the energy of non-judgement yourself.
"Think of a flower. A flower puts her on best dress every moment. She shines her brightest no matter what the weather is. This is why I love to wear beautiful dresses when I go in nature, I want to make myself beautiful for them. They are always making themselves beautiful for me."
Sajana's story.
Awakening.
As a child, Sajana was known to be quiet, friendly, and naturally drawn to cleaning and caring for her space. She remembers that people would come to her with their problems, and she would listen without judgment. She had many friends at school and recalls having positive relationships with all. She describes her childhood as “basically painless,” saying, “I don’t remember even crying.” Her parents loved their children so deeply that the five siblings grew up in an atmosphere that felt unconditional and safe. They shared, cared for one another, and moved through childhood as a tight, loving unit.
When Sajana turned 17, her family began the process of arranging her marriage. After finding a suitable proposal, the marriage took place. Just three days later, she suddenly fell ill. She remembers a “sensation of being on fire.” For nearly a month, she drifted in and out of consciousness as her family sought help from medical doctors and a wide range of healers—none of whom could identify the cause or offer a cure.
Eventually, her relatives gathered for what doctors believed would be her final day. She recalls lying in a room filled with 40–50 people. She remembers a strong voice rising inside her saying, “You are not going to die!” This voice told her that her purpose was to serve others, and that she still had much karma to complete in this lifetime.
She saw a vast white light take over her vision. When she looked around the room, she could not recognize the faces of the people surrounding her. Instead, she saw Buddha after Buddha, an endless line of Buddhas in the place of each person. In that moment she understood that separation is an illusion, that every being is part of the same oneness she calls love—Universal Love. She says this love is the very essence and building block of the Universe. From that moment onward, she began serving and healing, starting with the people there in her husbands, who had come to observe her condition.
When she later returned to her maternal home, she told her siblings, “I want to meditate.” The five of them sat together on the floor of her room. None of them had ever meditated before, nor had they been taught anything about meditation. In that first meditation, she experienced a man appearing before her, smiling, and saying, “I am your guru.” She did not recognize his face at the time. Only later when he father showed her a photograph, did she realize it had been the Dalai Lama.
Other transmissions followed in the months that came. While walking across the city one day, she crossed a river. Upon crossing, she suddenly lost her ability to speak Nepali. She would speak, feeling Nepali language in her mind but it would come out sounding different. Instead, she found herself fluent in a completely unfamiliar dialect that she later learned was Sanskrit. Only later that night her Nepali returned and she was able to tell her parents what had happened.
As her story spread across Pokhara, many people came to see her, question her, or test her. Scholars arrived and were stunned by her knowledge of Hindu scriptures and rituals. Normally a person learns only the rituals tied to their caste or sect, but she was effortlessly familiar with the full range of Hindu and Buddhist rituals. She also discovered an innate understanding of a Tibetan dialect.
She recalls a family visit to a monastery. For Sajana, the moment she stepped inside, it felt like home. The atmosphere, chanting, colors of the nuns dress, smell of the incense, none of it was new to her.
All of this was happening while she was also transitioning into her husband’s household after the arranged marriage. In her caste, it is customary for the woman to move into her husband’s family home, and so her spiritual awakening unfolded at the exact same time she was learning the responsibilities of a homemaker—cooking, cleaning, and tending to her new household.
Fortunately, she had an understanding and compassionate husband who encouraged her healing work. He supported her fully and helped create the environment where she could serve others, often serving alongside her providing support, fooding and lodging to those in intense treatment.
The Birth of Non-Separation.
Later, Sajana was taken to Kathmandu for an audience with masters in the Kagyupa lineage. There, she was tested in a multitude of ways—ritual, scripture, intuitive recognition, and the unique methods used to discern a true Rinpoche, meaning “precious reincarnated one.” After these examinations, she was formally certified as a Rinpoche by the Kagyupa priests and offered the life of a lama inside the monastery.
At that moment, however, she felt a clear resistance. Wearing the robes of any lineage, she feared, could create a sense of separation for others. Her realization of oneness was so total that she did not want even the slightest symbol to make someone feel the Divine was unreachable, hierarchical, or dependent on spiritual practice. She wanted people to know that the oneness she had experienced was already within them.
As she began to settle into her societal duties as a young woman in her caste, she simultaneously stepped into her life’s purpose of serving and healing. Lines began forming outside her door from early morning until midnight—queues that wrapped around the block. People from across the Pokhara Valley and far beyond came seeking relief from ailments, misfortune, and spiritual disturbances.
Her family remembers this period as one in which she was “consumed” by the work. Some days she was so absorbed in her queue of patients that she would go from dawn until night without a sip of water or a bite of food. She worked from a small room at the top of the house, often using fire in her rituals, breathing so much smoke that doctors warned her the exposure was equivalent to smoking four packs of cigarettes a day. They urged her to stop. She continued healing anyway, all while giving birth to three children and completing her master’s degree.
Sajana, her husband, and their extended family developed a distinctive method. They would welcome the patient to live in their home. The treatment continued quietly in the background of daily life—while Sajana met new patients and her husband taught at the university. Her siblings participated as well, each playing a role in the environment of care, cooking food for up to 50 people a day, washing dishes, washing clothes, transporting people by bike. It was the kind of care you would never be able to find in a medical facility, and on top of that not one patient was charged for their time in the house.
The illnesses they treated varied widely, extending to the most extreme cases of mental disturbance. Individuals who were on the verge of being committed to the mental hospital were instead taken in by the family. After three months, many were well enough to rejoin society, raise families, and flourish.
This home became the furnace in which her method of unconditional love formed. She created an environment where the patient was accepted exactly as they were, without shame or pressure. Sajana says she can always see the layers of disturbance or trauma in a person, and she knows—often to the day—how long it will take for them to rebuild the foundation needed to live independently again.
The rituals she performs depend entirely on the patient. She gives only what their temperament requires, not a formula or system—just what is needed for that specific human being.
Great Mother.
In 2008, a German traveler named Jörn heard about Sajana and came to visit. He quickly became a close family friend and began sharing news of her far beyond Nepal—to Europe, to America, to anyone who was ready to listen. In the years that followed, she would travel to those countries, giving talks and hosting workshops, sharing what she has seen, felt, and learned since her transformation at age 17.
Her teachings rest on a foundation of unconditional love, non-separation, and the healing power of nature. She speaks of the living essence within nature, saying that “they” are “non-judgmental, compassionate beings” who offer unconditional love to everyone. She also emphasizes the importance of karma - not in the sense of destiny, but in the sense of action, the willingness to take responsibility for one’s life. After healing countless people personally, she knows how essential it is that the person themselves engage in duties, routines, and healthy habits in order to overcome their ailments.
In 2009, she, Jörn, and her husband Shiva founded a children’s home in Pokhara. They took in 13 children from the streets and began their rehabilitation. For the first two years, Sajana let the children eat without limitation. Whatever they desired, she allowed them to have, giving them the chance to feel what an unconditional environment - and unconditional love - truly was.
Jörn founded a non-profit in Germany to support the children’s home financially, and Shiva managed everything on the ground in Pokhara: schooling, domestic training, structure, and the cultivation of a solid foundation for each child.
Over the years, the home has successfully rehabilitated 26 children. Some have married and started families. Some have relocated abroad. Some live and work in Pokhara. All of them are healthy, skilled, and multitalented - living examples of what an environment of love and discipline can shape.
Universal Love.
In 2021, Sajana and a group of close family and friends founded Universal Love as a non-profit in California. Sort of like a incorporated continuation of what Sajana has already been doing for more than 27 years, UL facilitates a variety of programs geared towards self exploration and growth through acts of service. Click the images below to explore their programming.
Contact.
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Sajana is based in Pokhara, Nepal
