A Song & A Soul

“I’ve had my own spiritual experiences in life, which led me to do ‘Soul Traveller’. The whole idea is to educate people on healing themselves naturally like our ancestors did, which we have the power to do, but that has been suppressed,” she says as the conversation now changes focus to spirituality and higher consciousness.

Still single, she probably would have settled for someone that fitted her programming and her culture as a 20- or 30-year-old. “Would he have been the right person even now?” she questions. With a deeper understanding and awareness of the self, it sometimes gets difficult to be in alignment with the same person over the years, even friends for that matter. Feeling fortunate for the friends and colleagues she has here, she adds, “It is like a family away from home.” 

Going in-depth, she explains that we have been told to get a degree, a spouse, have a family, pay the bills, and buy nice things to have a happy life. This she says is a temporary state of our existence. Whereas our real purpose is to evolve as spiritual beings, which is why meditation, holistic health, and wellbeing are so prevalent now. “Covid, I feel, is part of this grand awakening; we had to change, and Covid made us realise and appreciate our priorities and our blessings,” she says in gratitude.

Soul Traveller stories feed the mind, body, and soul intending to get people out of the materialistic realm and onto the next stage of evolvement. She points to the hugely popular episode of a pilot who has seen and communicated with UFOs for ten years of his life. “Each story is there to lift you to the next level; after all the tag line for my show is ‘Starve the Ego and Feed the Soul’,” she says categorically.

Punam would be delighted to have another platform for the show, maybe a TV channel, but that doesn’t bother her much as the Internet is anyway so powerful. Presently writing a book on her spiritual awakening, she still wants to make music (Big FM recently played one of her old tracks ZING) and is also planning a music video for it, because according to her “creativity needs to be expressed in a myriad of ways.” 

As we wrap up, she gets an inner stirring to add, “As I get older, I realise every day is a blessing. I wake up believing today is a great day, and that’s all that matters. I’ve never been someone who’s planned life; I’ve always been someone who’s felt her way through it. I don’t know if that’s a good thing, but if I’m feeling something, then I follow it because that’s the path of least resistance!”