Sister Gayatri Naraine
The Call of Our Time: Integrating Spiritual Transformation & Sustainable Development
Gayatri Naraine’s spiritual curiosity about “soul consciousness” first awakened after a visit by a Hindu nun early in the morning, followed a few hours later by a cousin’s sudden death in a road accident. It was 1975; she was 20 and living in Guyana, her birthplace in South America. At a time of grieving a young cousin’s death, as Gayatri began to take the nun’s classes, she experienced her own awakening. She saw people of different races and backgrounds concentrated on a point of light, and thought “If there is a God, this is how God will be. God will have a form that every single individual could identify with. There wouldn’t be ‘this is my God, and this your God, and this is someone else’s God’ because of the physical images.” As she deepened her study, she realized she had met this particular vision of the divine in another life and had unfinished business.
She has been pursuing that “unfinished business” ever since. For the past 50 years now, Sister Gayatri Naraine has been a student and senior teacher of the Brahma Kumaris, a global women-led spiritual movement, with over a million members across 120+ countries. A spiritual educator, writer, and speaker, she has served as the primary representative of the Brahma Kumaris (BKs) at the United Nations in New York since 1980. Curious about the deeper meanings of United Nations tenets, her work focuses on fostering upstream pathways to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through spiritual transformation.
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