A Narrative of Love conversation hosted by Dr Scherto Gill
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Sister Jayanti Kirpalani explores how love, understood as an inner spiritual reality, might be integrated into everyday life, politics and education. She invites a shift in perspective: it is not the external structures of the world that are ultimately driving events, but the quality of inner being that each of us brings to our lives and work. When that inner being is grounded in love, it changes the atmosphere of any room, negotiation or institution — even when nothing is said directly.
The conversation moves through questions of how we know when we are in that spiritual flow; how to reconcile the imperative to serve with genuine self-care; how spirituality relates to structural change; and what promise inner transformation holds for the world’s most urgent crises. Sister Jayanti draws on decades of practice in the Brahma Kumaris tradition and her experience working alongside political leaders and at the United Nations, where she has witnessed how even the hardest negotiations shift when individuals bring qualities of stillness and presence.
Values, she suggests, are caught rather than taught — lived rather than transmitted through instruction. The conversation closes with a guided reflection on love.
This is one of eleven conversations in the A Narrative of Love series, hosted by Dr Scherto Gill in preparation for the 5th Spirit of Humanity Forum, June 2021. The series was sponsored by the Pureland Foundation and the Guerrand-Hermès Foundation for Peace (GHFP).