Program Overview
The Inner Victory Movement (IVM) is a transformative initiative of the Mohanji Foundation, designed to help participants apply Raja Yoga and Mohanji’s teachings in daily life through simple, consistent, and experiential practices. These testimonials present unaltered, first-hand reflections from participants across countries, cultures, and life situations, capturing the lived impact of IVM in their own words.
Michelle – USA
It’s like I’m seeing my true self for the first time. Before participating in the IVM, I carried decades’ worth of jealousy, much of it driven by comparisons. As a young girl, I had let society and the media make me feel that if I did not look a certain way, I was not beautiful. It created very low self-esteem and general depression. Being in this constant state led to eating disorders and zero confidence in myself, which led to always trying to stay in my comfort zone.
Regardless of this, I have always been a nice person, and do not want to cause harm or suffering to others. The combination of my low self-esteem with that happy facade turned me into a doormat, because I wouldn’t stick up for myself. This later led to being in a relationship where my significant other cheated on me with another woman. I had become so jealous of that woman. The energy I wasted comparing myself to her had weighed me down for years. I let my significant other make me feel I wasn’t worth anything either.
Even they would compare me to the woman as if I’d never stand up to what she was. It was hard to silence the ego. I had been getting so tired of thinking of her, and mad at myself for not standing up for myself, sick of playing it safe, sick of hating myself, sick of draining myself through emotional breakdowns when negative thoughts of any of those experiences would come up, sick of giving up on life, sick of getting suicidal, sick of feeling sick, and letting all this negativity destroy me. It all consumed me daily, even though all those traumatic situations were in the past, and the triggering people were no longer around.
I recently learned Consciousness Kriya and have been practising it as best I can. My mind is definitely my worst enemy, because I could get so easily distracted during my practices with negative thoughts, but I found some relief as I grew through the Kriya. Then someone told me about the IVM program, and how the current topic was jealousy. I immediately signed up for the group.
The exercise that seemed to open the floodgates was the one where we were asked to write in a journal all the qualities we admire in someone we think we are jealous of, and whether we want to acquire that quality. I immediately went to work on writing about “the other woman.” As I wrote, I found myself listing all the things she did that made me jealous, but as I wrote, it suddenly dawned on me that what I was writing weren’t qualities, but that her actions were manipulative, mean, selfish, controlling, and caused suffering to me and others. It opened my eyes that the very things I thought I was jealous of were horrible, and that the depressive haze I had been in had blinded me to that.
I suddenly had an appreciation for myself that I had never felt before. I didn’t want to be her. I didn’t want those traits. I wanted to be the nice, caring, and loving person I always was. I realised, yes, I am my own unique, beautiful individual. It was like the mirror with which I was looking at myself had been covered in dirt, and had suddenly been wiped clean, and that all those negative things I told myself were unfounded, and such a waste of energy. I am good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog on it, I like me! I don’t want to be anything other than me.
This realisation suddenly made Consciousness Kriya flow more easily. Since that exercise, I look in the mirror and think of three positive things and three things to be grateful for every day. It has awakened a self-love that makes me feel lighter and freer. I know Mohanji and his love are always there, but I now feel his love and my love at a deeper level. It has boosted my confidence and given me faith in my future. I can’t wait to share this love with the world. It is beautiful how such a simple practice has changed my life in the best possible ways. It’s like I’m seeing my true self for the first time.
Jayaraj – India
A daily, digestible dose of spiritual wisdom. After being introduced to the concepts of Raja Yoga during my Apprentice Acharya Training Course last year, which were explained with great clarity, I started practising them and began living Mohanji’s teachings. I found so much more meaning in my life after being exposed to these concepts during my training. However, it was not always easy, especially in the early period, and I would find myself derailed when tough life situations were thrown my way. Though I theoretically understood Raja Yoga, it was not easy to put it into practice. I could understand and explain these concepts to others, and even guide them with ease, but when it came to applying them to my own challenging personal situations, I sometimes found it daunting!
Fortunately, after a couple of months, the Inner Victory Movement Project was launched by Mohanji Foundation. This was a great blessing for me. Every day, I would get to read, understand, and reflect on a particular aspect of Raja Yoga as propounded by Mohanji. This format has been extremely useful for me, especially while practically negotiating the challenges that keep coming my way. It has been a daily, small, digestible dose of spiritual wisdom in “Baby Food” format, if I may say so!!
To cite an example, I had lost both my parents most unexpectedly over a year ago. It has been an extremely challenging time for me, on the personal front. There has been a lot of instability in my life after both my parents left me. It has been trying on many fronts. However, whenever I sat down daily to open my IVM Group WhatsApp Page, I would get such inputs that helped me get back on track. Though the instability in my external circumstances continues unabated and sometimes becomes even more daunting, I find a great calm, a great inner strength, and stability engulfing me after spending just a couple of minutes in my IVM WhatsApp Group. This has indeed been most transformative, and I am sure that, in my case, it has helped me immensely to get back on track and ask myself, “What more can I do for the world?” rather than drowning in my sorrows. Now, I find it most inspiring to spread this precious knowledge to the world, irrespective of caste, creed, religion or nationality.
Sandra – South Africa
Growing up in a compassionate, expressive, artistic & funny family on Dad’s side and a more austere, conservative, ingenious, elegant and respectful family on Mum’s side, I got to choose my key ‘influencers’. It was freedom of choice I’d taken for granted previously. Having never directly experienced blatant and offensive jealousy as a child, thus any conditioned, programmed response was not there.
However, as a young adult, I often faced jealousy from the outside, directed at me. It’s funny now because at that time it appeared to be a strange, emotionally loaded reaction. I was confused, then curious about jealousy. I came to understand its deep-rooted insecurity and lack of self-love even more as I matured. The spontaneous feeling of compassion began to overflow with Mohanji’s teachings. Still does in full awareness. Before I was ignorant, but now I’m just a detached ‘watcher’ of this insane yet at times outrageously funny show I’m in!
Authenticity over Approval: Oh yes, the freedom to express is beyond precious. I’m passionate about that. To BE ME always. Just imagine the sheer magnitude of that! To be authentic in every thought, word & deed is liberating. Every time Mohanji says that, my heart flutters in response. It responds with a deep inner knowing. Almost like a purring hum. A deep vibration rooted in authenticity. It feels right. I feel a pause in the madness of life. Come to think of it, I have never felt the need to seek anyone’s approval to be my true, authentic self. To be free to express my thoughts and feelings is to BE ME!
No fear of impressing anyone. No need to prove anything. Having been born without my only sibling present for most of my life, I guess I’m used to myself. As I have matured in life, what has given me pause and still does is the weight of incoming negativity, which is always present. As a young person, the no, you can’t do this, no, you can’t do that was staggering. I didn’t fit in because following my heart meant not following rules designed to desensitise me. It would appear that I woke up in a harsh world bound by rigid rules designed to stifle my authenticity. Designed to make me a follower, not a master!
It is a harsh, unforgiving world that tells me not to BE ME. There are overwhelming rules and regulations designed to stagger, disorient, and keep one diverted from connecting with one’s inner truth (Sat), thus forbidden to be spontaneous. I live in a world that excels at limitation! I pause here to contemplate the whisper of ‘Sat Chit Ananda’. Translated as Truth, Consciousness, Bliss. Those words appeared as a whisper inside my head. Like a powerful reminder that I am greater than I believe I am. Oh, the power of being in pause mode! In Mohanji mode …
In hindsight, even as a student, I felt overwhelmed by the stifling power of imposition on my authentic mode. There are rules for everything. Still are. Rules designed to stop one from achieving mastery. A crazy world made up of limits. I wonder just where those ‘ropes of limitation’ come from? To find a safe space to be my authentic self is indeed rare. Tears well up in my eyes and overflow. So blessed. To be near Mohanji is to be in a mode of limitless possibilities. So so exciting…looks like I’ve found my safe space to be me!
When I first met Mohanji, it was like stepping into a pause in the madness. The world came to a staggering halt. Felt like stepping into a zero-energy space filled with endless possibilities. I go to my heart centre, and there is a hush in the noise around me. It’s like an ‘off button’ has been pressed. I became attuned to that resonance…hum inside me, which made me feel like a rebel, or like I was always leading a rebellion, to remain my true, authentic self. Mohanji embodies that pause. A pregnant pause filled with limitless possibilities!
Mohanji reminded me that it’s ok to be me. He freed me from the last vestiges of ‘shackles’ that bound me to limitation and the need to follow the herd mentality. Say this like this, feel like that. Do it this way. The conditioning, the limitations, and, yes, I recognised the herd mentality that made me become a loner. Mohanji taught me that it is ok to remain true to your heart. That it is ok to remain in truth. To say that it’s not ok to have rules that stagger growth and inhibit spontaneity. Right here, right now, I feel as though I’m stepping into my mastery. Free to be me at long last.
Before I felt bound, but now I remember I am free to be me.”
Madhuri A – India
Earlier, I had sudden bursts of anger. Now I witness it and don’t react impulsively. As I go through the daily quotations, reflections, polls, and actions in the IVM group, I am gradually becoming a better version of myself and gaining a deeper understanding of subtle aspects of my psyche. Earlier, I used to experience sudden bursts of anger, but now that’s fading away. Even if I get angry, I just witness it and don’t react impulsively.
When it comes to self-love and self-respect, earlier I found myself rushing through things just to fit others’ expectations, driven by fear of judgment and criticism. Now I anchor myself in self-love and self-respect. I take time for myself if I need to, without any fear of judgment, guilt, etc. This is making me feel royal and stable without being blunt or rude.
There are times when people try to mock, dismiss, and gaslight me; at those times, journaling and sitting with myself in nature help me connect with myself and be true to myself without proving anything in return (just being a silent observer). It has become a self-healing tool. And even I’m able to distinguish between my needs and my greed, which is making me a conscious and responsible human being.
The group energy and Mohanji’s vision of ‘humankind to kind human’ keep me motivated and inspired to reach higher frequencies, free of all negativity. I am truly enjoying this challenge and grateful to Mohanji and all the acharyas who are working hard to raise the frequency of Mother Earth.
Bharati – Netherlands
“Being me is a higher purpose than keeping superficial harmony.” For me, that uniqueness took a long time to realise. I blended in and melted into the other people around me to maintain harmony. That harmony was my main purpose. There is nothing wrong with harmony, but some of us keep it at a high price. That prize is: we give up being our unique selves. We give up being authentic. Being us. But we please others instead. Not for unconditional love’s sake but for harmony’s sake.
From being with Mohanji, I learned that, in the end, being me is a higher purpose than maintaining superficial peace. Because we lose our inner peace in the bargain. And IVM is doing just that: helping me to keep my inner peace and be more authentic and genuine. And the joy of life increases tremendously, once we not only realise but also implement this main teaching of Mohanji in an elegant way.
To please others and always be kind doesn’t mean we were really kind inside. We may hold silent grudges. This inner turbulence dissolves once we speak our truth. And try to do it while speaking without judgment, without suddenly arguing or becoming hurtful. IVM is helping to cross the bridge to reality instead of living in a dream world. And to make reality more attractive than the dream ever was. That is what happened to me, and I feel vibrantly alive! Thank you, Mohanji and thank you, team!
Malathy – India
“Pause and respond” is the most useful technique for me. The big change I see in my day-to-day life is that my awareness has improved. Frequently, I face provoking situations. Pause and respond is the most useful technique for me. Though I miss it sometimes, I am concentrating more on this as I need it more.
Before, I never thought back about situations and my reactions.
After IVM, I look back and think,
- Whether I have responded/reacted.
- What would have been best suited to the situation, and I note it down for future reference.
Participant
The penny dropped. I feel lighter. Free at last. Ouch, this really hurts. The courage to let go of my attachment to my son is hard. Really hard. It challenges my surrender and trust in my beloved Mohanji. Am I doing the right thing by holding on to my role as Mother, thereby not empowering him to reach beyond his designated safe spaces? Or is it my insecurity about the world and what I determine as safe?
This is the last line of the battle of the mind, and what Mohanji lovingly challenges me to relook at. I took a deep breath and revisited all my learnings about being a sovereign being. About understanding how our children choose us. That we do not own them. They chose us! He is his own sovereign Being.
Aha. Then the penny dropped. I let go. I surrendered all outcomes at Mohanji’s lotus feet. Feels like a weight being released. Feeling tons lighter. Free at last!
Before I was weighed down by societal standards for motherhood and my self-imposed sense of responsibility, now I am free to love him for the sake of love, deeply humbled that he chose me!
Sharlene – USA
“Every day is a new day. Start fresh.” Since joining the IVM, I seem to have more awareness of myself. This is a self-reflection that can be articulated. Journaling helps me understand myself better. It helps me improve in the areas that need more attention. One of the themes that really helped me was self-acceptance. A lot of things have been picked up by attending the weekly talks with Mohanji. His energy is so strong that it seems there’s some sort of energy transfer happening. He has spoken so beautifully on the topic that self-acceptance is self-connection. Connection with your own self is important to become who you are.
“Be You!” is my favourite two words. These two words have been sketched in my mind. He has taught us to be ourselves genuinely and authentically. Accepting myself helped me develop self-respect and self-love. While discovering myself, I started to fall in love with myself. Yes, this sounds a little silly or crazy. When you start loving yourself, you start to glow. Your positive nature comes out because you feel good and happy about yourself. Even though there is good, bad, and ugly, all of these have been accepted.
People make all sorts of comments about me, but it no longer seems to bother me. I am here for the experience—just experience it and move along—while keeping in mind that I respect myself. Moving away from those who pull me down and drain me, and avoiding negative energy, has helped me reach a level where there is no room for low self-esteem.
Every day is a new day. Start fresh! Because there is this belief: when you put your mind into it, you can do it. Knowing that Mohanji is there with me—He believes in me. He knows what’s in me to get through. Mohanji, if you are reading this, I love you so much! Nobody has ever taught me to be myself. Having you in my life has brought so much clarity. Before, I had low self-esteem. I compared myself and felt not good enough. I was always sad. But I found you to guide me. Thank you so much for your love and support!
Closing Reflection
These voices reflect the quiet yet profound impact of the Inner Victory Movement—awakening self-awareness, inner stability, compassion, and authenticity across geographies and life circumstances.
Inner victory becomes outer contribution.
Jai Mohanji 🙏
|| JAI BRAHMARISHI MOHANJI ||
Edited & Published by – Testimonials Team, 20th February 2026
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