I am from Germany. After high school, I wanted to see the world and did a 3-years internship with Lufthansa, German airlines. In my early 20s, I travelled widely – from Chile to Indonesia.
Thereafter, I studied psychology at Hamburg University. By the side, I had a small business which gave me the financial freedom to travel again after finishing my studies.
I had planned only a stopover in India in 1980 on my way to Australia, but stayed on, because I realized that there is profound wisdom in India, thanks to the influence of Anandamayi Ma and Devaraha Baba, whose darshan I had in the very beginning of my time in Bharat. For 20 years I lived a very simple life in spiritual India, often staying in ashrams. My last guru belonged to the tradition of Nath Panth.
I shared my insights about Indian wisdom and tradition in numerous articles for German and English magazines, two books in German language and one in English, which is titled “Thank you India – a German woman’s journey to the wisdom of yoga”. I also wrote several chapters for anthologies, including a chapter on the Yoga of the Bhagavad Gita for German psychology students.
Since the last 10 years, I have been active on social media, especially on Quora and Twitter and on my blog. My blog articles were re-published on numerous websites and in magazines.
I often compare religions, because I noticed that most Hindus are not aware of the negative aspects of the dogmas of the Abrahamic religions, which are detrimental and even dangerous for them.
However, Twitter shadow banned me and suspended me a few times, and Quora removed several of my replies which were friendly towards Hindus. When googling my name, Google shows on its first page a Times of India blog, written by a Canadian NRI, V. Raghunathan, titled, “Why Maria Wirth is wrong”. This article was written as a counter to one of my blog posts which went viral on WhatsApp, but it doesn’t even give a link to my post.
Here is my reply to his Times of India article:
https://mariawirth.com/being-politically-incorrect-does-not-mean-being-wrong-2/
I am grateful to India and want India to become again Vishwa Guru. It would be in the interest of all humanity. India has the knowledge about what is the purpose and meaning of life. Without this knowledge, life remains unfulfilled.
Maria Wirth
mariawirth12@gmail.com
link to my book: https://garudabooks.com/thank-you-india-by-maria-wirth
(Price Rs 349). It is also available on amazon.in and amazon.com