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This is How to Use Spirituality To Help You with Confidence and Self-Doubt!

Today, Jay sits down with longtime friend and Grammy-nominated devotional artist Jahnavi Harrison for a deeply personal conversation about faith, creativity, and living a life of service.

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Dec 25, 20251h 21mWatch on YouTube

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WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT

Mantra music, prayer, and service as paths to confidence growth

  1. Jahnavi explains devotional mantra music as repeated sacred sound meant to purify the heart and mind, differing from other music primarily through intention as prayer and inner connection.
  2. She shares how an unconventional childhood in a temple school—and a difficult transition into mainstream schooling—triggered anxiety, identity-splitting, and a long process of integrating who she was across environments.
  3. Her creative path became “professional” through organic steps: using violin in kirtan, touring with a mantra group, and choosing intuition over a stable magazine job despite persistent financial doubt.
  4. The conversation reframes spirituality as human and non-performative: spiritual people still experience doubt, material desires, mistakes, and even crises of faith, which can deepen authenticity rather than invalidate belief.
  5. Both emphasize practical spirituality—talking to God, experimenting with prayer styles, and asking “Am I being of service?”—as reliable anchors when feeling lost or insecure.

IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING

5 ideas

Repetition in mantra is a tool, not a flaw.

Jahnavi describes mantra like a “washing machine” for the mind—repeated sacred words are meant to clarify and purify attention, making it easier to access emotions and truths that are otherwise hard to reach.

Confidence collapses when you feel forced to live as two different people.

Her move from a temple school to a conventional school created a sense of having to “become someone else” (even down to a uniform), and integration came slowly through agency, maturity, and self-acceptance.

Purpose-led careers often grow through small, faithful decisions—not one grand leap.

Her path emerged from practical steps (playing violin in kirtan, joining a group, touring) and one pivotal intuitive choice—abandoning a predictable job path—despite ongoing doubt about stability.

You don’t need to sing loudly to benefit from sacred sound.

She normalizes discomfort around singing and offers a spectrum of participation—from quiet singing to internal chanting—where the shared experience and intention matter more than vocal “performance.”

Spirituality is not the absence of doubt; it’s the willingness to keep learning.

A core misconception she challenges is that spiritual people are perfect or have all the answers; in reality, faith can be messy and paradoxical, and certainty can be replaced by nuance without losing integrity.

WORDS WORTH SAVING

5 quotes

I was trying to erase, I was trying to erase myself in a way so that no one would have anything to say or make fun of.

— Jahnavi Harrison

When I put that uniform on, I have to become someone else.

— Jahnavi Harrison

I think a misconception is that spiritual people don't have doubts, don't have material desires, don't make mistakes.

— Jahnavi Harrison

I think I have experienced crisis of faith, which required faith to come out of.

— Jahnavi Harrison

Am I connected with service in this moment?

— Jahnavi Harrison

Read the available transcript
Devotional mantra music vs. popular music (lyrics and intention)Identity, belonging, and the “two masks” problemAnxiety, sensitivity, and adolescence in mainstream schoolTurning passion into proficiency through community and touringExperiencing the divine through sound (kirtan)Crisis of faith and rediscovering prayerService as a compass for confidence and direction

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SPEAKERS

  • Jahnavi Harrison

    guest

    Devotional mantra musician, writer, and artist; Grammy-nominated for the album "Into the Forest."

  • Jay Shetty

    host

    Host of the On Purpose podcast and author/speaker focused on mindfulness and purpose.

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