DharmaFinder — A Simple Living & High Thinking Journey

Over seven weeks you create a set of personal working documents that stay with you after the programme ends.

Additional outputs include: Simple Living Dashboard · status-quo overview · priority overview · comparison of realistic future scenarios · goals, objectives and milestones · Not-now List · attention and review rhythm · one first real-life action from each module.

These are working tools, not promises of a perfect life. You will be able to return to them as your circumstances and understanding develop.

• You sense that something in your life needs to change but do not yet have a coherent path.
• You want to reduce unnecessary dependencies without acting impulsively or abandoning your responsibilities.
• You are willing to examine your habits, commitments, assumptions and trade-offs honestly.
• You want practical structure as well as reflection and spiritual orientation.
• You are ready to apply the work to a real area of your life—not only to think about it.
• You value guided partner and group practice alongside independent work.

• You want somebody else to prescribe the correct lifestyle for you.
• You are unwilling to examine your own choices, patterns or trade-offs.
• You want inspiration without exercises or practical application to real life.
• You expect seven weeks to solve every life domain.
• You expect one final, absolute answer to your purpose or calling.

Most courses give you more ideas. This Journey helps you work with your actual life.

You will use the Simple Living High Thinking Framework to understand your current situation, choose what matters, compare realistic options and turn a meaningful direction into a plan and first action.

The tools provide structure, but they do not make the decisions for you. The purpose is to strengthen your ability to see, choose, act, review and realign for yourself.

You can also start with the free DharmaFinder VPTI Test to discover your natural dharma path before beginning the Journey.

The Journey is built around the Simple Living High Thinking Mandala: domains of life, phases of transformation and principles that keep practical change connected to self-realisation.

The framework was first shared publicly in Bharat’s TEDx talk about leaving the hamster wheel and rebuilding life around family, nature, service and self-realisation. Watch the TEDx talk →

The seven phases are a flexible navigation and review system. Participants continue using them after the Journey ends—returning to any phase whenever life asks for more honesty.

• 1. Activation: Understand the framework, clarify your starting point and name the area of your life you are bringing to the Journey.
• 2. Orientation: Clarify your roles, nature, responsibilities, values and spiritual direction. Complete your initial SLIMM Assessment and Domain Profile.
• 3. Simplification: Identify what can be reduced, released or restructured. Build your Not-now List. Begin your Simple Living Canvas.
• 4. Preparation: Design rhythms for family, food, work, learning, health and community. Compare realistic future scenarios.
• 5. Intention: Set direction, clarify what you are moving toward and ground your motivation in values rather than reaction. Draft your Simple Living Charter.
• 6. Attention: Turn insight into experiments, accountability, reviews and next steps. Build your Simple Living Roadmap with 30/60/90-day milestones.
• 7. Devotion: Become more useful to family, society, nature and a higher purpose. Take your first real-life action. Establish your review and accountability rhythm.

Attention and Devotion are separate modules. Devotion is not fully completed in seven weeks—it is an orientation that continues beyond the Journey.

This is not about copying someone else’s lifestyle. It is about becoming responsible enough to choose what serves life in your own context.

Some people begin with decluttering. Others begin with food, homeschooling, remote work, land, community, spiritual practice, or leaving a career track that no longer feels true. The Journey can begin wherever life is asking for more honesty.